Attempted coup d'etat in the USSR in 1991

USSR. Moscow. President of the RSFSR Boris Nikolayevich Yeltsin (second from left in the foreground), head of B. N. Yeltsin's security Aleksandr Vasilyevich Korzhakov (third from left in the foreground), KGB officer, B. N. Yeltsin's security guard Viktor Vasilyevich Zolotov (in the center), officer of the security department of the president of the RSFSR Aleksei Berezkin (third from left in the background), legal consultant of B. N. Yeltsin Lev Korneshov (right in the foreground), chairman of the Committee of the Supreme Soviet of the RSFSR on information Vyacheslav Ivanovich Bragin (right in the background) and people's deputy of the RSFSR Viktor Pimenovich Mironov (second from right in the background) on a tank standing near the House of Soviets of the RSFSR on Krasnopresnenskaya Embankment, during B. N. Yeltsin's address to the people after the announcement of the introduction of a state of emergency in the country. Valentin Kuzmin, Aleksandr Chumichev/TASS