Volga lights № 7 Before the elections.The January chronicle. (1990)

Panorama of the square in front of the Orthodox Church in Saratov, view of the temple building.

The deacon rings the bells.

A man puts a candle in the temple.

View of one of the domes of the temple.

View of the courtyard of the Church on the feast of the Epiphany on January 19, 1990 (top).

People collect Holy water.

Parishioners at the entrance to the Church.

People stand in queues for the Holy water.

Frozen chicken trade on one of the streets.

Panorama of the queue for sausage.

Announcement of a strike of solidarity of archives across the country on January 25.

Views of the exhibition of the group of artists "Yellow mountain" in the Saratov House of youth.

Exhibits and paintings presented at the exhibition.

Residents of Saratov gather for a rally dedicated to the memory of A.D. Sakharov on Chernyshevsky square in the evening.

Clearing snow from Chernyshevsky square, participants of an unauthorized rally argue with police officers.

A poster announcing the March 4 election.

Members of the film crew in the lobby before the meeting with the voters of the candidate V. I. Vlaskin.

Members of the film crew go outside after the announcement of the cancellation of the meeting.

Loading equipment in a minibus.

Vlaskin gives interviews in the Studio, talks about the lack of processes of democratization and perestroika in Saratov, about the reasons that prompted him to join the election campaign, about the support of the democratic wing of the CPSU (synchronously).

Turn on the street of Saratov.

People on city streets.

The country goes to work in the national Institute "Practiceparameters".

Vlaskin holds a meeting with the heads of departments of the Institute.

Production process for the production of construction parts for rural construction in the workshops of the industrial enterprise of the Institute.

Panorama of ready-made block houses in the warehouse.

View of the assembled block house.

Panorama of a part of the village from block houses.

Vlaskin leaves the podium at the end of his speech during a meeting with voters.

Vlaskin speaks from the rostrum to the voters, talks about the economic situation in the country, the violation of the law on property by the authorities, the weakness of the national currency and the economic crisis, and the anti-national nature of the economic laws adopted (synchronously).

Panorama of spontaneous street trade on one of the streets of Saratov.

Vlaskin answers questions from voters about alternative elections, about electing decent people to government bodies, and about his political orientation (synchronously).

Photos of rallies.

Text of a newspaper article with Vlaskin's program.

A caricature of the restructuring.

Texts of newspaper publications about protest actions in the Union republics of the USSR.

Pay phones with severed tubes on the wall of one of the buildings.

Queues at grocery stores in Saratov.

Exhibits of the group of artists "Yellow mountain".

People queue for Holy water during the feast of the Epiphany.

One of the exhibits of the exhibition.