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Attempted coup d'etat in the USSR in 1991
USSR. Moscow. Supporters of USSR President Mikhail Sergeyevich Gorbachev and RSFSR President Boris Nikolayevich Yeltsin clash with a column of infantry fighting vehicles of the Taman Division near the Tchaikovsky Tunnel on the Garden Ring after a state of emergency was declared in the country. In order to prevent the signing of the Union Treaty, which was to replace the USSR with a new federation of sovereign states, representatives of the highest Soviet leadership, led by USSR Vice President Gennady Ivanovich Yanayev, removed the USSR President from power and declared a state of emergency in the country. Andrei Solovyov/TASS
| Location: | USSR, Moscow |
| Photo: | №165326 |
| Date of shooting: | 08.20.1991 |
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