Attempted coup d'etat in the USSR in 1991

USSR. Moscow. A supporter of USSR President Mikhail Sergeyevich Gorbachev and RSFSR President Boris Nikolayevich Yeltsin, a voluntary defender of the House of Soviets of the RSFSR after the announcement of a state of emergency in the country, during lunch at the barricade on the Kalinin Bridge. 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 USSR Vice President Gennady Ivanovich Yanayev, removed the president of the USSR from power and declared a state of emergency in the country. Oleg Buldakov/TASS