Founding Congress of the Communist Party of the RSFSR (1990)

The Kremlin Palace of Congresses, hall.

Congress delegates take printed materials. M.S. Gorbachev, President of the USSR, General Secretary of the CPSU Central Committee, and members of the presidium: A.I. Lukyanov, I.S. Silaev, N.I. Ryzhkov enter.

The host of the congress reads out the results of the voting: Ivan Kuzmich Polozkov has been elected First Secretary of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of the RSFSR. Applause.

Polozkov is sitting in the hall.

Noise in the hall.

Polozkov comes to the podium. I.K. Polozkov speaks from the podium (synchronously).

Gorbachev congratulates Polozkov.

Polozkov takes his place in the presidium.

The deputies crowd around Polozkov.

There is noise and movement in the hall.

Groups of deputies.