Consequences of the attempted coup d'etat in the USSR in 1991

USSR. Moscow. Barricades near the House of Soviets of the RSFSR on Krasnopresnenskaya Embankment, built by supporters of USSR President Mikhail Sergeyevich Gorbachev and RSFSR President Boris Nikolayevich Yeltsin to protect the building during the attempted coup d'état by members of the State Emergency Committee (SEC) headed by USSR Vice President Gennady Ivanovich Yanayev. Valery Khristoforov/TASS