The National Salvation Front was a broad coalition of communist, socialist (Roy Medvedev

Roy Medvedev

Roy Aleksandrovich Medvedev |Georgia]]) is a Russian historian renowned as the author of the dissident history of Stalinism, Let History Judge , first published in English in 1972...

's Socialist Workers' Party) and ultra-nationalist movements against the reforms in Russia. The front was organized on 24 October 1992. The co-chairmen of the movements were Sergey Baburin

Sergey Baburin

Sergey Nikolayevich Baburin is a Russian nationalist politician and is Vice Speaker of the Russian State Duma and leader of the Party of National Revival "Narodnaya Volya". He was elected for the Rodina bloc. He is a member of the Committee on Civil, Criminal, Arbitral and Procedural Law.Baburin...

, Nikolay Pavlov (both Russian All-People's Union

Russian All-People's Union

Russian All-People's Union was a Russian nationalist political party, formed in October 1991, in 2001 it merged into Narodnaya Volya. Its leader was Sergey Baburin....

), Gennady Zyuganov

Gennady Zyuganov

Gennady Andreyevich Zyuganov is a Russian politician, First Secretary of the Communist Party of the Russian Federation , Chairman of the Union of Communist Parties - Communist Party of the Soviet Union , deputy of the State Duma , and a member of Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe...

 (future leader of the Communist Party of the Russian Federation

Communist Party of the Russian Federation

The Communist Party of the Russian Federation is a Russian political party. It is the second major political party in the Russian Federation.-History:...

), Ilya Konstantinov, Mikhail Astafyev (Constitutional Democratic Party - Party of Popular Freedom

Constitutional Democratic Party - Party of Popular Freedom

Constitutional Democratic Party – Party of Popular Freedom was a political party in the USSR and Russia...

), Valery Ivanov

Valery Ivanov

Valery Nikolayevich Ivanov was a Soviet diplomat.As First Secretary of the Soviet Embassy to Australia, he was expelled on 22 April 1983 under suspicion of being a spy after allegedly trying to recruit Australian Labor Party member David Combe....

, Vladimir Isakov

Vladimir Isakov

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, Gennady Sayenko and Albert Makashov

Albert Makashov

Colonel General Albert Mikhailovich Makashov is Russian officer and a nationalist-communist politician....

.

20 October 1992 President Boris Yeltsin

Boris Yeltsin

Boris Nikolayevich Yeltsin was the first President of the Russian Federation, serving from 1991 to 1999.Originally a supporter of Mikhail Gorbachev, Yeltsin emerged under the perestroika reforms as one of Gorbachev's most powerful political opponents. On 29 May 1990 he was elected the chairman of...

 issued decree that forbade the organization but in February 1993 the Constitutional Court of the Russian Federation

Constitutional Court of the Russian Federation

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 abolished the decree as violating the constitution. During the 1993 Russian constitutional crisis the front created militias supporting the defense of the White House, Moscow

White House, Moscow

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 and was disbanded by a decree of President Yeltsin after his decisive victory in his conflict with the parliament.

In 1994 some former members of the front created two small nationalist organizations: one led by Valeri Smirnov and one led by Ilya Konstantinov.