Attempted coup d'etat in the USSR in 1991

USSR. Moscow. The site of the death of three civilians, Dmitry Alekseevich Komar, Ilya Maratovich Krichevsky and Vladimir Aleksandrovich Usov, during a clash between the president's supporters and a column of armored vehicles near the Tchaikovsky Tunnel on the Garden Ring during an attempt by members of the State Emergency Committee to carry out a coup in the country. 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 Mikhail Sergeyevich Gorbachev from power and created the State Emergency Committee. Gennady Khamelyanin/TASS