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

USSR. Moscow. May 25, 1989. People's Deputies of the USSR: USSR pilot-cosmonaut, twice Hero of the Soviet Union Alexei Stanislavovich Eliseev, First Deputy Chairman of the USSR State Construction Committee Boris Nikolayevich Yeltsin, Doctor of Economics, Professor, Academician of the All-Union Academy of Agricultural Sciences Alexei Mikhailovich Yemelyanov (from left to right in the foreground) and Candidate of Technical Sciences, research fellow at the Moscow Textile Institute Ilya Iosifovich Zaslavsky (from left in the background) during the opening of the First Congress of People's Deputies of the USSR in the meeting hall of the Kremlin Palace of Congresses. Valentin Sobolev/TASS