Marina Yevgenyevna Salye (Russian: ????´?? ????´?????? ?????´; 19 October 1934 – 21 March 2012) was a Russian geologist and politician, being the former deputy of the legislative assembly of Leningrad (renamed St.
Petersburg on September 6, 1991).
She was also a people's deputy in the Congress of People's Deputies of the RSFSR until September 1993, when the congress was dissolved.
Salye was one of the leaders of the radical pro-reform group called Radical Democrats.Salye was an engaging leader and accused Vladimir Putin of corruption during her tenure with the Leningrad City Council in the mid-1990s.
In March 2010 Salye signed the online anti-Putin manifesto of the Russian opposition "Putin must go".
Shortly before her death in March 2012, she had also joined the People's Freedom Party.
She claimed that the years 1990-93 Lensovet members found that Vladimir Churov, head of the Russian election committee, and Igor Artemyev, head of the Antimonopoly service, worked for the KGB.