National Salvation Front (Russia)

The National Salvation Front (Russian: Фронт Национального Спасения, Front Natsional'nogo Spaseniya, ФНС, FNS) was a broad coalition of communist and ultra-nationalist movements against the liberal reforms in Russia organized 24 October 1992. The co-chairmen of the movements were Sergey Baburin, Nikolay Pavlov (both People's Union (Russia)), Gennady Zyuganov (future leader of the Communist Party of the Russian Federation), Ilya Konstantinov, Mikhail Astafyev, Valery Ivanov, Vladimir Isakov, Gennady Saenko and Albert Makashov.

20 October 1992 President Boris Yeltsin issued decree that forbade the organization but in February 1993 the Constitutional Court of the Russian Federation 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 and was again disbanded by a decree of President Yeltsin and front stopped its work.

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