Boris Nikolaevich Yeltsin (1990-1992)

Night.

A policeman at the gates of the Spasskaya Tower.

Day.

Cathedral Square.

A sign with an arrow pointing towards the meeting hall.

Deputies are walking.

Boris Yeltsin is heading to the Supreme Soviet of the USSR (sign).

He enters the building.

Yeltsin and Sobchak in the corridors before the meeting.

Meeting of the Supreme Soviet.

Boris Yeltsin on the rostrum (synchronously).

Voting.

Deputies press buttons on the remote control.

Corridors.

People's Deputy of the RSFSR Alexander Rutskoy speaks after the meeting.

He calls for honesty and decency.

From the rostrum of the congress, Alexander Rutskoy speaks about powers.

The deputies applaud.

On the rostrum of the Congress, a deputy calls for the need to come to an agreement with the miners.

The anthem is playing.

Boris Yeltsin, Svetlana Goryacheva, Ruslan Khasbulatov in the presidium.

Rally at the White House.

Boris Yeltsin leaves the building.

He is greeted with applause and given flowers.

Airplane Takeoff.

Boris Yeltsin meets with military and border guards.

Boris Yeltsin bathes in a thermal spring.

Vorkuta.

Miners' cemetery.

Inscription on one of the grave monuments: "Eternal memory to those killed in the 1953 strike." Monument "To the victims of political repression." Address plans of surface structures of coal mines.

Machinery working underground.

Boris Yeltsin in a mine.

Talking to miners.

Collection of signatures for the nomination of Yeltsin as a candidate for President of Russia.

Boris Yeltsin walks down the street surrounded by townspeople.

Yeltsin gets acquainted with folk crafts.

Boris Yeltsin is accompanied by Aman Tuleyev.

Boris Yeltsin and Valentin Pavlov during the Easter service at the Yelokhovsky Cathedral in Moscow.

Boris Yeltsin in his office.

At his desk.

Receiving a foreign delegation.

Conducting negotiations.

Boris Yeltsin talks to people.

He is greeted with applause.

Women cross themselves.

Yeltsin gets into his car and drives away.

Yeltsin flies with other passengers on the plane.

During the flight, he continues to work on papers.

Interview with Klavdiya Vasilyevna Yeltsin (before marriage - Starygina), mother of Boris Yeltsin.

Talks about her son's work, about his independent choice of his path in childhood.

Reveals biography facts.

Announcement of the election of Boris Yeltsin as Chairman of the Supreme Soviet.

Yeltsin walks to the podium.

The deputies greet him with a prolonged ovation.

Yeltsin comes out to the journalists.

Answers questions.

Talks about privileges and that he does not intend to exchange his Moskvich for a government ZIL.

Boris Yeltsin, Aleksandr Rutskoi, Ruslan Khasbulatov and others attend the military parade in the Aleksandrovsky Garden near the Kremlin walls.

Aleksandr Korzhakov gets into a ZIL car with Boris Yeltsin.

The presidential escort of several cars drives away.

Svetlana Goryacheva walks through the conference room, goes up to the podium, and sits next to Boris Yeltsin.

Marju Lauristin gives a speech.

Members of the Estonian delegation give flowers to Boris Nikolayevich.

Excerpt from Lauristin's interview.