October revolt in Moscow

Russia. Moscow. Officers of a special unit of the Ministry of Internal Affairs, who sided with the head of the Russian state and government, during the control of the approaches to the House of Soviets of the Russian Federation from the Krasnopresnenskaya Embankment during the storming of the building by government troops during the escalation of the conflict between the Supreme Soviet of the Russian Federation and Russian President Boris Nikolayevich Yeltsin. Valery Khristoforov/TASS