Attempted coup d'etat in the USSR in 1991

August 23-31, 1991. USSR. Buryat SSR. Ulan-Ude. City residents looking at the installation of their plaques of former Soviet institutions and political posters on Soviet Square after the failure of the attempt by the State Committee for the State of Emergency in the USSR (GKChP) to carry out a coup in the country. In order to prevent the signing of the Union Treaty, which was supposed to replace the USSR with a new federation of sovereign states, representatives of the highest Soviet leadership, headed by the Vice President of the USSR Gennady Ivanovich Yanayev, removed the President of the USSR from power and declared a state of emergency in the country. The exact date of the photo is unknown. Vladimir Matvievsky/TASS