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

USSR. Moscow. May 26, 1989. People's Deputies of the USSR: First Deputy Chairman of the State Construction Committee of the USSR Boris Nikolayevich Yeltsin (second from left) and Director of the All-Union Center for the Rehabilitation of Patients with Spinal Cord Injuries and Consequences of Cerebral Palsy, Honored Artist of the RSFSR, People's Deputy of the USSR Valentin Ivanovich Dikul (second from right) during the receipt of ballots for the secret ballot for the elections to the Council of the Union and the Council of Nationalities of the Supreme Soviet of the USSR at the First Congress of People's Deputies of the USSR in the Kremlin Palace of Congresses. Valery Khristoforov/TASS