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

View of the foyer of the Kremlin Palace of Congresses before the start of the session of the 1st Congress of People's Deputies of the USSR in May 1989 (above).

Deputies talking to each other, faces of deputies, deputies in the foyer.

Female deputies talking.

Poet Gamzatov R.G. gives an interview, Gamzatov's face.

Esambaev M.A. talks with one of the deputies before the start of the session of the congress.

Deputies in the foyer await the start of the session of the congress.

Deputies go up the escalator to the meeting hall.

General view of the meeting hall of the 1st Congress of People's Deputies of the USSR (above).

During the break in the session, deputies decide issues with Gorbachev M.S. and Lukyanov A.I., having gathered at the presidium table and the rostrum.

Deputies vote by raising their mandates, Yavlinsky G.A. rises from his seat.

Deputies in the hall, V.F. Shumeiko is walking down the aisle.

Panorama of the foyer of the Kremlin Palace of Congresses, deputies in the foyer during a break in the session.