Attempted coup d'etat in the USSR in 1991

USSR. Moscow. Member of the State Committee for the State of Emergency in the USSR, Vice-President of the USSR, Acting President of the USSR Gennady Ivanovich Yanayev during a press conference in the press center of the USSR Ministry of Foreign Affairs after the announcement of the introduction of a state of emergency 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 State Committee on the State of Emergency removed USSR President Mikhail Sergeyevich Gorbachev from power and introduced a state of emergency in the country. Vladimir Musaelyan, Alexander Chumichev/TASS