All-Union referendum on the preservation of the USSR

USSR. Moscow. General Secretary of the CPSU Central Committee, President of the USSR Mikhail Sergeyevich Gorbachev (foreground), director of the All-Union State Television and Radio Broadcasting Company Kaleria Venediktovna Kislova, chairman of the All-Union State Television and Radio Broadcasting Company Leonid Petrovich Kravchenko, head of the press service of the President of the USSR Vitaly Nikitich Ignatenko (from right to left in the background), head of the security service of the KGB of the USSR, Lieutenant General Yuri Sergeyevich Plekhanov (left in the background) and Doctor of Law, Corresponding Member of the USSR Academy of Sciences, Advisor to the President of the USSR Georgy Khosroevich Shakhnazarov (center in the background) in the Kremlin during a speech on USSR Central Television by Chairman of the Supreme Soviet of the RSFSR Boris Nikolayevich Yeltsin on the day of the all-Union referendum on the preservation of the USSR and the need to introduce the post of President of the RSFSR. Vladimir Musaelyan/TASS