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

USSR. Moscow. May 29, 1989. First Deputy Chairman of the State Construction Committee of the USSR, People's Deputy of the USSR Boris Nikolayevich Yeltsin (center, foreground), accepting congratulations in connection with the approval of the protocol of the counting commission for elections to the Council of Nationalities of the Supreme Soviet of the USSR taking into account the changes in the RSFSR, according to which B.N. Yeltsin became a member of the Council of Nationalities of the Supreme Soviet of the USSR, at the entrance to the Kremlin Palace of Congresses during the work of the first Congress of People's Deputies of the USSR. Boris Kavashkin/TASS