Extraordinary session of the Supreme Council of the RSFSR

USSR. Moscow. President of the RSFSR Boris Nikolayevich Yeltsin during a speech at an emergency session of the Supreme Soviet of the RSFSR, convened in connection with the removal from power of the current president of the country Mikhail Sergeyevich Gorbachev and the creation of the State Committee for the State of Emergency. 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 from power and created the State Emergency Committee. Alexander Chumichev/TASS