2nd Congress of People's Deputies of the USSR. Kremlin Palace of Congresses (now State Kremlin Palace), December 12 - December 24, 1989. Electronic vote counting system.24.12.1989#8253831
The second Congress of USSR People's Deputies (December 12-24, 1989). General Secretary of the USSR Communist Party Central Committee, Chairman of the Supreme Soviet of the USSR Mikhail Gorbachev with the delegates of the congress during a break between sessions. Kremlin Palace of Congresses (now the State Kremlin Palace).22.12.1989#6633993
The 2nd Congress of USSR People's Deputies (December 12-24, 1989). Mikhail Gorbachev, General Secretary of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union, speaks.22.12.1989#6645384
During a meeting held as part of the Second congress of USSR People's Deputies (December 12-24, 1989). Due to the upcoming elections of people's deputies in the republics and regions, the deputies adopted the Law On Amendments and Additions to the Constitution (Basic Law) of the USSR on the Electoral System (Law No. 963-I of December 20, 1989). A question from the audience during a heated discussion.20.12.1989#6624522
During a meeting held as part of the Second congress of USSR People's Deputies (December 12-24, 1989). Due to the upcoming elections of people's deputies in the republics and regions, the deputies adopted the Law On Amendments and Additions to the Constitution (Basic Law) of the USSR on the Electoral System (Law No. 963-I of December 20, 1989). RSFSR People's Deputy Mikhail Bocharov is seen speaking.20.12.1989#6624520
During a meeting held as part of the Second congress of USSR People's Deputies (December 12-24, 1989). Due to the upcoming elections of people's deputies in the republics and regions, the deputies adopted the Law On Amendments and Additions to the Constitution (Basic Law) of the USSR on the Electoral System (Law No. 963-I of December 20, 1989). Line to the microphone during a heated discussion.20.12.1989#6624519
The second Congress of USSR People's Deputies (December 12-24, 1989), where the radical minority headed by Boris Yeltsin after the death of Andrei Sakharov demanded the abolition of Article 6 of the USSR Constitution, which stated that "the USSR Communist Party is the leading and guiding force" in the state. In turn, the conservative majority pointed to the destabilizing disintegration processes in the USSR and, consequently, the need to strengthen the powers of the center (the Soyuz group). Center: Vadim Medvedev, Soviet scientist and economist, Ph.D. in Economics, member of the USSR Communist Party Executive Committee Politburo, Kremlin Palace of Congresses (now the State Kremlin Palace).20.12.1989#6633994
The second Congress of USSR People's Deputies (December 12-24, 1989), where the radical minority headed by Boris Yeltsin after the death of Andrei Sakharov demanded the abolition of Article 6 of the USSR Constitution, which stated that "the USSR Communist Party is the leading and guiding force" in the state. In turn, the conservative majority pointed to the destabilizing disintegration processes in the USSR and, consequently, the need to strengthen the powers of the center (the Soyuz group). The deputy asks a question from the floor during the discussion. Kremlin Palace of Congresses (now the State Kremlin Palace).20.12.1989#6633990
The 2nd Congress of USSR People's Deputies (December 12-24, 1989). The delegates discussed the abolition of the Soviet Constitution's Article 6 on the guiding role of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union. Nikolai Travkin, a member of the Coordinating Council of the Inter-Regional Deputies Group of the Congress of USSR People's Deputies.20.12.1989#6645391
The 2nd Congress of People's Deputies of the USSR, Kremlin Palace of Congresses (now State Kremlin Palace), December 12-24, 1989. A break in the sessions. Left: Gavriil Popov, congress deputy and Chairman of the Moscow City Council of People's Deputies.20.12.1989#6644484
The 2nd Congress of People's Deputies of the USSR, Kremlin Palace of Congresses (now State Kremlin Palace), December 12-24, 1989. Deputies during a break in the sessions.20.12.1989#6644480
The 2nd Congress of People's Deputies of the USSR, Kremlin Palace of Congresses (now State Kremlin Palace), December 12-24, 1989. Marju Lauristin, congress deputy from the Estonian SSR and professor at the University of Tartu.20.12.1989#6644478
The 2nd Congress of USSR People's Deputies (December 12-24, 1989). The delegates discussed the abolition of the Soviet Constitution's Article 6 on the guiding role of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union. People's Deputy Gennady Filshin, DSc (Economics), speaks. Background left: Mikhail Gorbachev, General Secretary of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union. Far right: Anatoly Lukyanov, First Deputy Speaker of the USSR Supreme Soviet (Parliament).15.12.1989#6645393
The 2nd Congress of USSR People's Deputies (December 12-24, 1989). Alexander Yakovlev, Member of the Politburo of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union, Secretary of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union and one of the main architects of the perestroika drive, speaks.12.12.1989#6645383
General Secretary of the CPSU Central Committee, Chairman of the USSR Supreme Council, Mikhail Gorbachev, right, and head of the International Department of the CPSU Central Committee, Valentin Falin, left, at the II Congress of USSR People's Deputies. The Kremlin Palace of Congresses.12.12.1989#854848
Leo Tolstoy`s estate Khamovniki in Moscow where the writer`s family lived for 19 years: from October 1882 to May 1901.01.07.1978#786559
Quiver. Archaeological excavations in vicinity of Teishebaini town-fortress, a major center of Urartu state in early 7th - late 6th centuries BC. Fortress ruins are on Kamir-Blur hill in Yereval outskirts. Armenia.01.07.1954#724774
