Inauguration of the President of the RSFSR B.N. Yeltsin

USSR. Moscow. Mufti, Chairman of the Spiritual Administration of Muslims of the European Part of the USSR and Siberia Talgat Safich Tadzetdinov, Patriarch of Moscow and All Rus' Alexy II (Alexei Mikhailovich Ridiger), President of the RSFSR Boris Nikolayevich Yeltsin, accepting congratulations on taking office (from left to right in the background) and Secretary of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of the RSFSR Gennady Andreyevich Zyuganov (second from left in the third background) at a meeting of the Congress of People's Deputies of the RSFSR in the Kremlin Palace of Congresses. Yuri Lizunov, Alexander Chumichev/TASS