Attempted coup d'etat in the USSR in 1991

September 1-16, 1991. USSR. Kursk. Picketers at the building of the City Council of Workers' Deputies on Red Square, demanding the resignation of the Chairman of the Regional Council Alexander Ivanovich Seleznev and the Chairman of the City Council Nikolai Vasilyevich Golovin, during a session of the regional and city councils. Thanks to the demands, A. I. Seleznev and N. V. Golovin were dismissed from their positions for their lack of principles and support for members of the State Committee for the State of Emergency in the USSR (GKChP), who were attempting to carry out a coup d'etat. The exact date of the photo is unknown. Oleg Sizov/TASS