Marina Yevgenyevna Salye (19 October 1934 – 21 March 2012) was a Russian geologist and a former deputy of the legislative assembly of Leningrad. 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.

In 1992, Marina Salye headed a special commission in St.Petersburg, which found that, on the basis of documents signed by Vladimir Putin, then chairman of the city's Foreign Relations Committee, the city had exported rare earth metals, oil products and other raw materials for over 100 million dollars. These were barter contracts. In return, the city, where there were food shortages, should have received deliveries of foodstuffs. But the foodstuffs never materialised. When the city council, on the recommendation of the special commission, passed a resolution to sack Putin, St Petersburg’s mayor refused to do so. Instead, he promoted him to be his deputy, and no investigation was carried out.

After Putin was elected president in 2000, Sal'ye dropped out of public life and moved to a remote village, saying she felt threatened by his power. But she took with her copies of all the documents collected by the special commission that substantiated their recommendation to remove Putin. She maintained her silence throughout Putin's first two terms as president. In 2010, however, she began giving interviews again. In March 2010 Salye signed the online anti-Putin manifesto of the Russian opposition "Putin must go." Shortly before her death, she had also joined the People's Freedom Party. Marina Sal'ye died of a heart attack in Ozero, Russia on March 21, 2012, two weeks after Putin was elected to his 3rd presidential term.

Scanned pages of Sal'ye's documents were published on Facebook  by friends of Marina Salye. We have consolidated these pages into documents and provide links to each of them below. All documents are in Russian and have been given a title in English that reflects the contents. We have uploaded these documents in order to prevent them from disappearing from the internet.

• A.A. Sobchak to M.E. Sal'ye on Ensuring the Needs of the St. Petersburg Region
• A.G. Anikin to A.N. Belyaev on Concluded Agreements
• A.G. Vasileyev to A.V. Kozlov on Licenses Issued by KVS St. Petersburg City Hall
• A.N. Belyaev to A.G. Anikin on Requesting Bank Certificates for Providing Relating to Food Security
• A.N. Belyaev to V.B. Bobkov and V.G. Stepanov on Decisions Regarding Food Licenses
• A.N. Belyaev to V.V. Putin on Licenses, Food, and Contracts in Accordance with the Law on Local Medical Admin. in the RSFSR
• A.N. Belyaev to V.V. Putin, Doc. 300010
• Agreement G.1 on Foreign Relations Committee City Hall and International Commerce Center
• Agreement No. 3-92 on Barter Operations to Provide Food for St. Petersburg
• Agreement No. 4-92 on Barter Operations to Provide Food for St. Petersburg
• Agreement No. 5-92 on Barter Operations to Provide Food for St. Petersburg
• Agreement No. 6-92 Application 24 On Barter Operations to Provide Food for St. Petersburg
• Agreement No. 7-92 on Barter Operations to Provide Food for St. Petersburg
• Agreement No. 8-92 Application 26 on Barter Operations to Provide Food for St. Petersburg
• Agreement No. 9-92 on Barter Operations to Provide Food for St. Petersburg
• Agreement No. 10-92 on Barter Operations to Provide Food for St. Petersburg
• Agreement No. 11-92 on Barter Operations to Provide Food for St. Petersburg
• Agreement No. 19-92 between Tamigo and the Committee on Foreign Economic Relations of St. Petersburg
• Agreement on Barter of Supplies
• B. Bobkov to V.G. Stepanov on Allocation of Resources According to Decisions by Prime Minister E.T. Gaidar
• Brief List of Export Contracts and Commentary
• Committee on the Economic Connection with the Mayor of St. Petersburg and V.V. Putin
• Committee on the Operational Management of the Economy of the USSR Bylaw from Sept 10 to the Mayor of St. Petersburg
• Common Violations in the Completing Licenses no. 1-18
• Conclusion on the Effectiveness of the Licensing for Barter Transactions
• Correspondence between A.A. Sobchak and E.T. Gaidar on the Government and Food Acquisition
• Correspondence between A.P. Pakhonov and P.O. Aven on NorthWest Region and Committee on Foreign Economic Relations of St. Petersburg
• Correspondence between V.V. Putin, V.G. Stepanov, and A.G. Vasileyev on allowing the clearance of food from abroad into the Russian Federation
• Correspondence between VV Putin and AG Anikin On the Issuance of Licenses for Barter Operations to Ensure Food
• Decision- On the Advisability of the Dismissal of the Mayor of St. Petersburg A.A. Sobchak
• E.E. Gaidar to A.S. Kruglov on Announcement of RF Government Decree on Licenses and Quotas on Exports and Imports of Goods in the Territory of the RF in 1992
• Expert Evaluation of the Effectiveness of Barter Transactions Concluded by the Committee for External Relations of St. Petersburg
• F. Shkrudnev to V.V. Putin on Conclusions on Economic Relations
• I see Russia June 22- Sep 5 1994
• M.E. Sal'ye to A.A. Sobchak on the Result of Work Done for the Implementation of Licenses
• Miscellaneous Documents (these appear to be applications for permits and/or licenses of some sort)
• N.D. Dudin to I.I. Kravchenko on Delayed Handling of Queries Posed by Sal'e and Others
• N.D. Dudin to M.E. Sal'ye on the Latter's Appeal for Administrative Responsibility
• On the Status of the Authorization of Russia's IBEC in St. Petersburg
• Protocol on the Cooperation Between the Mayor of St. Petersburg and Minister of Foreign Economic Relations of the Russian Federation
• Report of the Working Group of Deputies
• Respected Vyacheslav 1992
• Review Analysis of Agreement 1, 3-9,11 on Barter Operations to Provide Food for St. Petersburg
• Saving Lieutenant Colonel Putin
• V.G. Stepanov to A.N. Belyaev on the Releasing of Goods Using Original Licenses
• V.V. Putin and Import-Export Contracts Between Parties of the RF
• V.V. Putin on Deputy V.D. Aleksandrov
• V.V. Putin to A.N. Belyaev on the Status of Licenses Under the Provision of Food to the St. Petersburg
• V.V. Putin to P.O. Aven on Purchasing Food from Abroad

* Accessible versions of all documents available upon request