The First Congress of People's Deputies of the USSR in Moscow

USSR. Moscow. May 29, 1989. People's Deputy of the USSR from the Omsk and Tyumen regions Alexei Ivanovich Kazannik (right), who gave up his representation in the Council of Nationalities of the Supreme Soviet of the USSR to People's Deputy of the USSR Boris Nikolayevich Yeltsin, accepts approving greetings from colleagues during a session of the First Congress of People's Deputies of the USSR in the Kremlin Palace of Congresses. Oleg Ivanov/TASS