IV Congress of People's Deputies of the USSR in Moscow

December 17-27, 1990. USSR. Moscow. Laureate of the State Prizes of the USSR and the RSFSR, Hero of Socialist Labor, People's Deputy of the USSR, Deputy of the Supreme Soviet of the USSR, writer, playwright Viktor Petrovich Astafyev and laureate of the State Prize of the USSR and the Stalin Prize of the second degree, Hero of Socialist Labor, Soviet philologist, culturologist, art critic, Doctor of Philosophy, Chairman of the Board of the Soviet Culture Fund, Academician of the USSR Academy of Sciences Dmitry Sergeyevich Likhachev (left to right) on their way to a meeting of the IV Congress of People's Deputies of the USSR. The exact date of the photo is unknown. Vladimir Medvedev/TASS