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Attempted coup d'etat in the USSR in 1991
USSR. Moscow. Civilians on Krasnopresnenskaya Embankment near a Soviet T-72 Ural tank of one of the units that sided with the head of state during the attempt by members of the State Emergency Committee to carry out a coup in the country. 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 USSR President Mikhail Sergeyevich Gorbachev from power and created the State Emergency Committee. Vitaly Sozinov, Gennady Khamelyanin/TASS
| Location: | USSR, Moscow |
| Photo: | №160705 |
| Date of shooting: | 08.19.1991 |
| Authors: | Sozinov Vitaly Khamelyanin Gennady |