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

USSR. Moscow. September 2, 1991. President of the RSFSR Boris Nikolayevich Yeltsin, President of the USSR Mikhail Sergeyevich Gorbachev and People's Deputy of the USSR from the city of Orel Vladimir Ivanovich Samarin (left to right in the foreground) during the opening of the Extraordinary Fifth Congress of People's Deputies of the USSR in the Kremlin Palace of Congresses. Dmitry Sokolov/TASS