Members of the State Committee on the State Emergency on trial at the Russian Supreme Court. The trial took place between April 14, 1993, and May 6, 1994 (the 1991 Soviet coup d'état attempt organized to stop the dissolution of the Soviet Union and prevent the signing of the Union Agreement). The defendants, from left: Vladimir Kryuchkov, Anatoly Lukyanov, Oleg Shenin, Vyacheslav Generalov, Alexander Tizyakov, Gennady Yanayev and Yury Plekhanov.
