Extraordinary Fifth Congress of People's Deputies of the USSR in Moscow

USSR. Moscow. September 2, 1991. Chairman of the Extraordinary Fifth Congress of People's Deputies of the USSR, Chairman of the Council of the Union of the Supreme Soviet of the USSR Ivan Dmitrievich Laptev, President of the USSR Mikhail Sergeyevich Gorbachev and President of the RSFSR Boris Nikolayevich Yeltsin (from left to right in the foreground) during the work of the Congress in the Kremlin Palace of Congresses. Dmitry Sokolov/TASS