Attempted coup d'etat in the USSR in 1991

USSR. Moscow. Delivery of bread from city residents and private entrepreneurs to supporters of the president defending the House of Soviets of the RSFSR on Krasnopresnenskaya Embankment during an attempt by members of the State Committee for the State of Emergency in the USSR (GKChP) 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 Vice President of the USSR Gennady Ivanovich Yanayev, removed USSR President Mikhail Sergeyevich Gorbachev from power and declared a state of emergency in the country. Andrei Solovyov/TASS