TASS News Agency in Moscow

USSR. Moscow. City residents at a photo display of the Telegraph Agency of the Soviet Union on the facade of the TASS building on Herzen Street, dedicated to the events of the attempted coup d'état on August 19-21, 1991. 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 the Vice President of the USSR Gennady Ivanovich Yanayev, removed the President of the USSR from power and created the State Committee for the State of Emergency (GKChP). Valery Khristoforov/TASS