Extraordinary eighth session of the Supreme Soviet of the RSFSR of the eleventh convocation

USSR. Moscow. Chairman of the Council of Ministers of the USSR Nikolai Ivanovich Ryzhkov, General Secretary of the CPSU Central Committee Mikhail Sergeyevich Gorbachev (from left to right in the second row), member of the Politburo of the CPSU Central Committee, Minister of Foreign Affairs of the USSR Eduard Amvrosievich Shevardnadze, member of the Politburo of the CPSU Central Committee, Secretary of the CPSU Central Committee for Legal Policy Viktor Mikhailovich Chebrikov, member of the Politburo of the CPSU Central Committee, Chairman of the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet of the RSFSR Vitaly Ivanovich Vorotnikov, member of the Politburo of the CPSU Central Committee, Secretary of the CPSU Central Committee, First Secretary of the Moscow City Committee of the CPSU Lev Nikolaevich Zaikov (from left to right in the third row), member of the Politburo of the CPSU Central Committee, Secretary of the CPSU Central Committee for Agriculture Viktor Petrovich Nikonov, member of the Politburo of the CPSU Central Committee, Secretary of the CPSU Central Committee Vadim Andreevich Medvedev, member Politburo of the CPSU Central Committee, Secretary of the CPSU Central Committee Alexander Nikolaevich Yakovlev and member of the Politburo of the CPSU Central Committee, Secretary of the CPSU Central Committee for Economics Nikolai Nikitovich Slyunkov (from left to right in the fourth row) during the vote at the meeting of the extraordinary eighth session of the Supreme Soviet of the RSFSR of the eleventh convocation in the meeting hall of the Grand Kremlin Palace. Vladimir Musaelyan/TASS