The first congress of the People's Deputies of the USSR, Kremlin Palace of Congresses, May 25 - June 9, 1989. Mikhail Gorbachev, center, general secretary of the CPSU Central Committee and Chairman of the Supreme Council of the USSR, talks before a session with people's deputies of the USSR, sitting from left: senior investigator of priority cases of the Procurator General's Office Telman Gdlyan, first secretary of the central committee ofthe Uzbek communist party Rafik Nishanov and senior investigator of priority cases of the Procurator General's Office Nikolai Ivanov.
