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

USSR. Moscow. September 3, 1991. USSR President Mikhail Sergeyevich Gorbachev, 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 and President of the RSFSR Boris Nikolayevich Yeltsin (from right to left) in the presidium during the work of the Congress in the Kremlin Palace of Congresses. Eduard Pesov/TASS