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Attempted coup d'etat in the USSR in 1991

USSR. Moscow. A burning infantry fighting vehicle at the site of a clash between supporters of the USSR president and a column of armored vehicles of the Taman Division on Novinsky Boulevard near the Tchaikovsky Tunnel after a state of emergency was declared in the country during an attempted coup. 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 Committee for the State of Emergency (GKChP). Sergei Mamontov/TASS
Location: USSR, Moscow
Photo: №170204
Date of shooting: 08.21.1991
Authors:
Mamontov Sergey

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