Events of September-October 1993 in Moscow (1993)

Panorama of the opposition rally in September 1993 in Moscow.

Khasbulatov R.I. comes out onto the balcony of the White House, the rally participants greet him.

Khasbulatov, holding a microphone, speaks at the opposition rally (synchronously), view of part of the rally.

Panorama of the rally (from above), Khasbulatov finishes his speech, leaves.

Views of the opposition rally near the White House in Moscow in late September - early October 1993, the rally participants are holding red banners and the USSR naval flag, the speaker's speech is heard off-screen (synchronously).

A demonstration of supporters of the Supreme Soviet moves along a Moscow street, the police are keeping order.

The demonstrators walk, locking elbows with each other.

A demonstration of supporters of the Supreme Soviet moves past the Manezh, as they go, a speech by one of the people's deputies is heard (synchronously).

General view of Manezh Square, a column of demonstrators moves along the square.

People stand at the entrance to the Lenin Museum and call for support for the Supreme Soviet (synchronously).

Vice President Rutskoy A.V. gives an interview to representatives of foreign media during a press conference in the White House (synchronously).

Journalists examine one of the White House's gun rooms, empty boxes, a safe and a cabinet with cartridges, telescopic rubber truncheons hang on the wall, Rutskoy gives a commentary off-camera (synchronously).

Posters with images of small arms parts.

Police officers play backgammon.

Rutskoy talks about the absence of weapons depots and special equipment in the White House and the accounting of available weapons (synchronously).

Police officers bring a gun box, open it, Rutskoy shows the machine guns lying there.

A meeting in the White House, a deputy speaks from the rostrum, speaking into a megaphone (synchronously), Khasbulatov sits in the presidium, there is a burning candle nearby.

The deputies listen to the speaker.

Chairman of the Council of Nationalities Abdulatipov R.G. listens to the speaker, faces of the deputies.

Khasbulatov makes a remark, the deputy continues to speak (synchronously), banners of the republics of the Russian Federation on the wall.

Faces of the deputies in the hall.

The deputy, having finished his speech, leaves the rostrum, Khasbulatov makes a report on the developing situation in Moscow (synchronously).

The deputies listen to the speech of the deputy Sokolov V.S. (synchronously), panorama of the hall, the voices of Sokolov and Khasbulatov are heard off-screen, the deputies are voting.

A burning candle in front of one of the deputies.

General view of the presidium of the meeting, the deputy speaks from the rostrum with a proposal for bills (synchronously).

The deputies in the hall are talking among themselves, general view of the presidium and the meeting hall.

Views of Moscow streets adjacent to the White House, people with flags are standing on the Gorbaty Bridge.

Police officers on the street in the rain before the funeral of their comrades.

A civil funeral service for the deceased police officers.

Crying relatives of the deceased, a funeral march is playing.

The deceased police officer in a coffin.

An honor guard at the coffin.

The wife and children of the deceased at the coffin.

People walk past the coffin, an honor guard stands.

Faces of the daughter and widow.

Relatives and friends at the coffin.

Soldiers of the Internal Troops and police officers walk past the coffin.

People carry improvised materials for building a barricade in the area of the White House.

Building a barricade from garbage bins and reinforcement bars.

People stand at the fence.

People in the interior of the White House, talking to each other, sleeping.

Khasbulatov in a bulletproof vest under his jacket enters the meeting room, they applaud him, Khasbulatov shakes hands with the deputies.

Khasbulatov announces the beginning of another meeting, answers questions from journalists, talks about the current situation (synchronously).

Khasbulatov, sitting in the presidium, speaks about measures to protect people in the White House (synchronously).

Khasbulatov answers journalists' questions (synchronously), faces of deputies.

A police unit with shields and rubber truncheons passes along the street.

Defenders of the White House form up on the street in the rain.

Views of streets and barricades in the area of the White House.

Soldiers of the Internal Troops and police push back the crowd, clashes between rally participants and police.

A police cordon moves through the park.

View of part of the square near Moscow City Hall (from above).

General Makashov A.M. gives orders through a megaphone (synchronously).

Rally participants with a red banner.

Makashov enters the city hall building.

Rutskoy gives an interview (synchronously).

Deputies enter the meeting hall.

General view of the meeting hall.

Faces of deputies, candles are burning.

Khasbulatov and other deputies during the meeting.

A one-legged invalid carries a red flag.

People block traffic in the center of Moscow, cars turn around.

People make barriers from tree trunks and scrap metal.

The police begin to push back the protesters.

A heavy wheeled tractor with a trailer breaks through the barrier made by the protesters, people argue with the police.

Traffic is restored, the police dismantle the remains of the barrier.

A traffic police officer clears the way for a trolleybus, dismantling the remains of the barrier, people protest on the side of the road.

Police officers with shields and helmets get out of a van.

A woman with an icon in her hand.

Patriarch Alexy II with metropolitans in the Kremlin during a meeting with Yeltsin B.N., Yeltsin greets the patriarch, invites him to sit down.

The patriarch talks with Yeltsin (synchronously).

View of the Ivan the Great Bell Tower in the Kremlin.

View of part of the Supreme Council meeting room, deputies meeting by candlelight, burning candle.

Faces of deputies, deputies discuss current issues among themselves, work with documents.

Panorama of the meeting room, deputies at work.

Deputies tell each other the latest news, read newspapers.

Khasbulatov speaks, sitting in the presidium of the meeting (synchronously).

Candle in a glass, panorama of the meeting room, deputies listen to Khasbulatov, read leaflets.

Burning candle, view of part of the room.

Rutskoy in the White House with a machine gun on his shoulder gives an interview, answers journalists' questions (synchronously).

Armored personnel carriers on the streets of Moscow, police officers and officers of the Internal Troops coordinate actions before the storming of the White House.

One of the armored personnel carriers begins moving towards the White House.

Armored personnel carriers in positions around the White House.

A police officer stands at the fence and shows journalists the bypass routes, the face of a police officer.

OMON officers find out from the guards about the detour routes, the guards open the way.

A police officer goes to the armored personnel carrier to coordinate actions with the unit of the Internal Troops.

A police officer at the post near the fence.

Servicemen of the Internal Troops stand near the armored personnel carrier and discuss further actions.

Servicemen of the Internal Troops sit on the armored personnel carrier, the armored personnel carrier drives away.

OMON fighters patrol the night streets of Moscow.

Armored vehicles of the Internal Troops on the streets of Moscow at night.

Policemen with shields and batons walk along the street.

A meeting of deputies, among those present is the Deputy Chairman of the Government of the Russian Federation Shakhrai S. M. General view of the meeting hall.

Glazyev S. Yu. among the participants of the meeting.

The presidium of the meeting, in the presidium are sitting Shumeiko V. F., Ilyumzhinov K. N. Units of the Moscow police in front of the White House.

General view of the White House, there are fire trucks around it.

A view of part of a barbed wire fence.

Armored personnel carriers on one of the streets.

Police officers in bulletproof vests and helmets form a cordon.

Police officers talk to passers-by.

Armored personnel carriers stand near the barriers blocking the street.

A view of part of the road blocked by tanker trucks.

Wire fences around the White House.

An Internal Troops truck near the Moscow City Hall, the driver in the truck's cabin.

Police officers stand by the buses in reserve.

A view of part of a Moscow street, a bus passes, an Internal Troops truck reverses.

The truck turns, a fence is erected behind it.

Police posts stand near the fences on the streets adjacent to the White House.

Police officers in helmets walk along the concrete fence.

Barriers on Moscow streets erected by the police.

Police officers let people through who present documents.

The police and Internal Troops implement the pass system during the blockade of the White House.

Police officers wearing helmets and carrying shields pass by and enter the fence.

Clergyman Father Feofan speaks from the podium in the White House with a request to send authorized representatives for negotiations in the St.

Daniel Monastery (synchronously), Khasbulatov clarifies the details and puts the issue to a vote, thanks Father Feofan (synchronously).

General view of the Patriarch’s residence in the St.

Daniel Monastery.

Views of the monastery.

Participants in the negotiations and clergy enter the residence.

Cossacks from the monastery guard patrol the territory of the St.

Daniel Monastery.

Arrival of Yu. M. Luzhkov for the negotiations.

Father Feofan meets the participants in the negotiations at the entrance to the Patriarch’s residence.

General view of the negotiating room in the Patriarch’s residence, Alexy II, Metropolitan Juvenaly, R. G. Abdulatipov during the negotiations. E. S. Stroyev, Yu. M. Luzhkov at the negotiating table.

Alexy II, Metropolitan Juvenaly, Luzhkov, Stroyev and others at the negotiating table in the St.

Daniel Monastery.

Faces of the negotiating participants.

View of one of the Moscow streets, police cordon along the street, people standing on the sidewalk.

Trolleybus with a punctured tire.

Evacuation of a damaged trolleybus, police in the cordon.

Trolleybuses blocking the street.

A meeting of deputies in one of the rooms of the White House, faces of the deputies.

Khasbulatov speaks at the meeting (synchronously), Rutskoy's face, Rutskoy rubs his eyes with his fingers.

The face of one of the deputies, general view of the meeting hall, deputies voting.

Rutskoy listens to the speeches of the meeting participants.

Khasbulatov makes notes in documents, listens to the deputy speaking, Khasbulatov's face.

Rutskoy's face.

Khasbulatov and Rutskoy during the meeting, one of the deputies hands Khasbulatov a document.

General view of the conference hall, distribution of the draft resolution to be adopted to the deputies.

General Achalov V.A. speaks from the rostrum (synchronously).

The deputies leave the room after the end of the conference.

General view of the conference hall of the Supreme Council of the Russian Federation, Khasbulatov speaks, sitting in the presidium (synchronously).

A deputy speaks from the rostrum (synchronously).

Rutskoy listens to the deputy speaking.

General view of the conference hall.

Baburin S.N. speaks from the rostrum (synchronously).

Yeltsin B.N. gives an interview to foreign journalists (synchronously), after the interview Yeltsin leaves accompanied by security.

Yeltsin, accompanied by security, walks around the cordon around the White House, talks to police officers and officers of the Internal Troops (synchronously), general view of the White House.

Yeltsin and his entourage walk to their cars, Yeltsin gets into the car and drives away.

Police officers with shields and special equipment pass by, people whistle after them.

People in the street shout insults at the passing police officers (synchronously).

Panorama of part of one of the city quarters, people gather for a rally, are outraged by the actions of the authorities (synchronously).

A speaker speaks at a rally on the square of the Belorussky railway station, people chant slogans (synchronously), faces of the rally participants.

General view of the rally near the Belorussky railway station, the speaker continues his speech (synchronously).

People at the edge of the square listen to the speaker, the police monitor order.

General view of the rally in the area of the White House.

Views of barricades, fires are burning, people walk between the barricades on scattered garbage.

Police in the center of Moscow.

People chant slogans.

Police cordon on a Moscow street.

People on the barricades knock on the iron with pipe cuttings.

View of one of the barricades.

Police and riot police officers with shields stand opposite the barricade.

People dismantle protective construction fencing to erect a barricade, throw pieces of wood and pallets into the fires.

TV journalists and reporters sleep on the floor and on chairs in the White House, paintings on the walls, faces of the sleeping.

An internal patrol of the White House volunteer guards walks along the corridor.

Khasbulatov speaks at a meeting (synchronously).

A unit of volunteer defenders of the White House passes by.

General view of one barricade on the Humpbacked Bridge with a tricolor Romanov flag, trucks of the Internal Troops are parked in front of the barricade.

Trucks drive past the barricade, general view of the barricade.

A man stands by a wooden cross with icons, crosses himself.

Views of the territory inside the barricade, tents.

People are on duty at the barricade.

A man prays at the cross, kneeling, gets up.

Women pray at the cross.

Police and internal troops units pass in front of the barricade on the Humpbacked Bridge.

A platoon of volunteer defenders of the White House marches down the street under the command of a Cossack officer.

A banner with the inscription "CPSU" hanging between the trees.

People pray at the cross, a woman passes by with a bucket in her hand, the guards at one of the entrances to the White House let her in.

A platoon of White House defenders passes by.

People warm themselves by the fire.

Deputies during another meeting in the White House.

Among them are Baburin and Abdulatipov.

General view of the hall, Baburin's face.

One of the deputies speaks (synchronously), general view of the meeting.

View of the electronic voting board with the date "October 2, 1993".

Metropolitan Kirill at the meeting.

Khasbulatov opens the next meeting of people's deputies and gives the floor to Metropolitan Kirill (synchronously).

Metropolitan Kirill comes to the podium, begins to speak (synchronously).

Rutskoy reads documents during the speech of Metropolitan Kirill.

General view of part of the rally in support of the Supreme Council.

The speaker speaks at the rally (synchronously), general view of the rally.

The police stand in the cordon and monitor order during the rally.

People argue with the police officers (synchronously).

The police at the building of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Russian Federation.

People argue with the police officers standing in the cordon.