The 1991 coup, filmed on the streets of Moscow (1991)

Tanks drive in the flow of cars along the Garden Ring.

Driving in a car along Leninsky Prospekt to the Garden Ring.

A traffic police inspector shows the way.

The announcer on the radio in the car says about the state of emergency.

Tanks are parked at the entrance to Gorky Park.

Driving in a car past tanks parked at the APN building.

Soldiers are sitting on the armor of tanks and armored personnel carriers.

Citizens are talking to tankers.

The reporter interviews a tank driver.

Residents of Moscow are told about the current situation, the state of emergency and Yeltsin's call for a strike.

The tank drivers answer the journalist's questions.

Muscovites want to be near the tanks.

A woman talks about the state of emergency.

People near an armored personnel carrier read out Yeltsin's call for a strike.

Columns of Muscovites with Russian flags walk along Novy Arbat.

Demonstrators chant Yeltsin, carry posters "No to Fascism" and "Down with the Junta".

Demonstrators on the armor of tanks near the "White House".

A crowd of people stands on the porch of the House of the Government of the Russian Federation.

Balcony of the House of the Government of the Russian Federation.

Yevgeny Yevtushenko reads his poems to the defenders of the "White House" and makes a speech.

People applaud.

Demonstrators chant, "Russia is alive." General shot of a crowd of people and the Russian Government House.

A group of young people with the Russian flag next to a monument to the participants of the battles on Krasnaya Presnya.

Children on the armor of tanks.

People walk near the tanks.

Packages of milk, bread, canned goods on the armor of tanks.

People hand out leaflets.

Stepanov Sergey speaks into a megaphone and answers questions from a journalist.

Officer Ivanov Alexander talks about the mood in military units during the putsch.

People walk near a tank standing against the backdrop of the Government House.

Flowers stick out of the tank's barrel.

Children on the tank's armor.