The First Congress of People's Deputies of the USSR (1989)

A minute of silence at the Congress in connection with the events in Tbilisi.

Gorbachev acts as the platform.

Nazarbayev speaks from the podium.

On the podium, Academician Sakharov.

Agenda - the election of the Chairman of the Supreme Soviet of the USSR.

On the podium stands writer Chingiz Aitmatov.

MP stands A.M.Obolensky on the podium.

A.Obolenskogo interview on the sidelines of PDR.

Boris Yeltsin's speech at the convention.

The ratio of voters to the congress.

On the sidelines playing Gorbachev.

Gorbachev, Lukyanov in the Presidium of the Congress.

Interview V.Koroticha on Cathedral Square.

Interview on the sidelines of the deputy CDS.

On the podium stands Lukyanov.

A. Sakharov acts.

G.Starovoytova acts.

Gorbachev speaks from a place on the podium.

Deputies in the hall.

Gorbachev drinks water from a glass.

The delegates from the miners Voroshilovgrad region.

MPs talk during a break in the meeting.

A. Sakharov sitting on the stairs in the PDR.

MP stands on the podium S.Stankevich.

MPs on the sidelines.

A.B.Sobchak acts.

MPs on the escalator PDR.

CBC building.

The Kremlin.

Rain on the pavement.

Spasskaya Tower (shot through the rain-blurred glass).

Speech by Deputy Yu.N.Afanaseva.

On the podium stands G.H.Popov.

Interview people on the street.

Meeting of the working group.

At the rally, advocates Yu.

Chernichenko writer.

Gorbachev said during a break in the meeting.

Interview on the sidelines of the deputy CDS.

Rally on Pushkin Square.

Mikhail Gorbachev and Boris Yeltsin talking to the presidium of the congress.

Gorbachev's speech at the convention.

S.Stankevicha interview on the sidelines.

Yeltsin's speech at the convention.

Muscovites attitude to Yeltsin - an interview on the street.

Yu.

Chernichenko of the floor of the Congress.

E.K.Ligacheva interview.

Poet Yevgeny Yevtushenko addresses Congress.

Interviewed on the streets of Moscow on the congress.

Speech by the deputy to the congress.

I.Rodionova speech at the convention.

Interview in the unit.

Interview firefighters.

Subsistence farming military unit, a pigsty.

A. Lukyanov speech at the convention.

CBC building.

Meeting room.

Vote.

Patriarch Alexy II votes in Congress.

Gorbachev gestures.

MPs vote: Alexy II, Mikhail Gorbachev, Boris Yeltsin.

The Bureau of the Congress.

CBC building with the flag of the USSR.

Cutting the plans of the First Congress of People's Deputies of the USSR.

Rally.

Tanks on the streets of Tbilisi.

The funeral of the victims in Tbilisi.

International conflicts.

Railway accident.

Georgian delegation withdrew.

Soviet flag on the building of PDR.