Celebration of the Day of the State Flag of the Russian Federation. Participants of the rally with the Russian flag in front of the Rossiya Hotel in Moscow.22.08.1999#8892640
Presentation of the book The August Putsch: Causes and Consequences by President of the Soviet Mikhail Gorbachev at a news conference for Russian and foreign journalists.12.11.1991#6377859
Remembering heroic defenders of the Russian Parliament. Memorial services in honor of Dmitry Komar, Ilya Krichevsky and Vladimir Usov, killed in a Garden Ring underpass during the abortive August 1991 coup.29.09.1991#6368254
Remembering heroic defenders of the Russian Parliament. Moscow residents walk toward a Garden Ring underpass where Dmitry Komar, Ilya Krichevsky and Vladimir Usov, killed in during the abortive August 1991 coup.29.09.1991#6368252
Remembering heroic defenders of the Russian Parliament. Moscow residents attend memorial services in honor of Dmitry Komar, Ilya Krichevsky and Vladimir Usov, killed in a Garden Ring underpass during the abortive August 1991 coup.29.09.1991#6368245
Remembering heroic defenders of the Russian Parliament. Moscow residents lay flowers at portraits of Dmitry Komar, Ilya Krichevsky and Vladimir Usov, killed in a Garden Ring underpass during the abortive August 1991 coup.29.09.1991#6368244
Lawyer Alexei Galoganov, defender of former USSR Prime Minister Valentin Pavlov on the case of the State Committee for the State of Emergency (GKChP).20.09.1991#5559780
On the set of the Soviet-American feature film Three Days in August about the August 1991 coup. Directed by Jan Jung (Denmark).20.09.1991#8232887
On the set of the Soviet-American feature film Three Days in August about the August 1991 coup. Directed by Jan Jung (Denmark).20.09.1991#8232881
News conference with lawyers on the State Committee on State of Emergency case at the Cetral House of Journalists in Moscow. from left: Yury Borovkov, Alexander Kligman, Alexei Gloganv, joiurnalist Pvel Gutiontov, Yury Ivanov and Alexander Gofshtein.20.09.1991#6365732
Alexander Obolensky, Chairman of the Commission of the Supreme Soviet (Parliament) of the RSFSR for Investigating the Causes and Circumstances of the August 1991 Coup in the Soviet Union.07.09.1991#8238542
Alexander Obolensky, Chairman of the Commission of the Supreme Soviet (Parliament) of the RSFSR for Investigating the Causes and Circumstances of the August 1991 Coup in the Soviet Union, studies documents.07.09.1991#8238538
Second right: Alexander Obolensky, Chairman of the Commission of the Supreme Soviet (Parliament) of the RSFSR for Investigating the Causes and Circumstances of the August 1991 Coup in the Soviet Union, talks to colleagues/06.09.1991#8238612
Members of the Parliamentary Commission for Investigating the Causes and Circumstances of the August Putsch in August 1991.06.09.1991#8238543
Left: Alexander Obolensky, Chairman of the Commission of the Supreme Soviet (Parliament) of the RSFSR for Investigating the Causes and Circumstances of the August 1991 Coup in the Soviet Union, at a meeting.06.09.1991#8238541
A member of the Commission of the Supreme Soviet (Parliament) of the RSFSR for Investigating the Causes and Circumstances of the August 1991 Coup in the Soviet Union confiscates materials from the archive of the Voyenizdat Military Publishers of the Soviet Defense Ministry.06.09.1991#8238540
Right: Vladimir Shcherbakov, Chairman of the USSR State Committee on Labor and Social Issues, at a meeting of the Commission of the Supreme Soviet (Parliament) of the RSFSR for Investigating the Causes and Circumstances of the August 1991 Coup in the Soviet Union.06.09.1991#8238539
Members of the Commission of the Supreme Soviet (Parliament) of the RSFSR for Investigating the Causes and Circumstances of the August 1991 Coup in the Soviet Union with materials, confiscated from the archive of the Voyenizdat Military Publishers of the Soviet Defense Ministry.06.09.1991#8238537
Vladimir Shcherbakov, Chairman of the USSR State Committee on Labor and Social Issues, at a meeting of the Commission of the Supreme Soviet (Parliament) of the RSFSR for Investigating the Causes and Circumstances of the August 1991 Coup in the Soviet Union.06.09.1991#8238536
Acting Soviet Prime Minister Vitaly Doguzhiyev at a meeting of the Commission of the Supreme Soviet (Parliament) of the RSFSR for Investigating the Causes and Circumstances of the August 1991 Coup in the Soviet Union.06.09.1991#8238535
Members of the Commission of the Supreme Soviet (Parliament) of the RSFSR for Investigating the Causes and Circumstances of the August 1991 Coup in the Soviet Union confiscate materials from the archive of the Voyenizdat Military Publishers of the Soviet Defense Ministry.06.09.1991#8238534
Members of the Commission of the Supreme Soviet (Parliament) of the RSFSR for Investigating the Causes and Circumstances of the August 1991 Coup in the Soviet Union at the archive of the Voyenizdat Military Publishers of the Soviet Defense Ministry.06.09.1991#8238533
Members of the Commission of the Supreme Soviet (Parliament) of the RSFSR for Investigating the Causes and Circumstances of the August 1991 Coup in the Soviet Union confiscate materials from the archive of the Voyenizdat Military Publishers of the Soviet Defense Ministry.06.09.1991#8238532
Fourth from left: Moscow Mayor Gavriil Popov at a press conference of the commission of the Supreme Soviet of the RSFSR to investigate the causes and circumstances of the coup d'état in the USSR in August 1991.06.09.1991#8236527
Members of the commission of the Supreme Soviet of the RSFSR to investigate the causes and circumstances of the coup d'état in the USSR in August 1991 withdraw materials from the archives of the Military Publishing House of the USSR Ministry of Defense.06.09.1991#8236526
Meeting of the commission of the Supreme Soviet of the RSFSR to investigate the causes and circumstances of the coup d'état in the USSR in August 1991.06.09.1991#8236524
Right: Vladimir Shcherbakov, Chairman of the USSR State Committee on Labor and Social Issues, at a meeting of the Commission of the Supreme Soviet (Parliament) of the RSFSR for Investigating the Causes and Circumstances of the August 1991 Coup in the Soviet Union.06.09.1991#8236519
Center: Alexander Obolensky, Chairman of the Commission of the Supreme Soviet (Parliament) of the RSFSR for Investigating the Causes and Circumstances of the August 1991 Coup in the Soviet Union, studies documents.06.09.1991#8236518
The RSFSR Supreme Soviet Commission on USSR Attempted Coup Investigation, probing the attempted coup in August 1991. Members of the commission during a meeting.06.09.1991#8285286
The Commission of the Supreme Soviet (Parliament) of the RSFSR for Investigating the Causes and Aftermath of the Abortive August 1991 Coup in the Soviet Union. Photo: Commission members confiscate materials from the archive of the Military Publishing House of the Soviet Defense Ministry.06.09.1991#8285283
The RSFSR Supreme Soviet Commission on USSR Attempted Coup Investigation, probing the attempted coup in August 1991. Moscow Mayor Gavriil Popov, fourth left, during a news conference.06.09.1991#8285280
The Commission of the Supreme Soviet (Parliament) of the RSFSR for Investigating the Causes and Aftermath of the Abortive August 1991 Coup in the Soviet Union. Right: Acting First Deputy Prime Minister of the USSR Vladimir Shcherbakov, Member of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union, at a meeting.06.09.1991#8285266
The Commission of the Supreme Soviet (Parliament) of the RSFSR for Investigating the Causes and Consequences of an Abortive Coup in the Soviet Union in August 1991. Center: People's Deputy of the USSR and Commission Chairman Alexander Obolensky studies documents.06.09.1991#8285265
Transportation of the monument to the revolutionary Felix Dzerzhinsky from Lubyanka Square to the open-air sculpture museum in Moscow (now the Muzeon art park), dismantled by order of the Moscow Soviet in August 1991 after a failed coup by members of the State Committee for the State of Emergency in order to stop the collapse of the USSR and prevent signing of the Union Treaty.03.09.1991#8591048
A monument to the leader of the USSR Joseph Stalin in the open-air sculpture museum in Moscow (now the Muzeon art park), dismantled in August 1991 after a failed coup by members of the State Committee for the State of Emergency in order to stop the collapse of the USSR and prevent the signing of the Union Treaty.03.09.1991#8591047
A monument to the revolutionary Felix Dzerzhinsky in the open-air sculpture museum in Moscow (now the Muzeon art park), dismantled in August 1991 after a failed coup by members of the State Committee for the State of Emergency in order to stop the collapse of the USSR and prevent the signing of the Union Treaty.03.09.1991#8591046
Fifth Extraordinary Congress of People's Deputies of the USSR in the Kremlin Palace of Congresses (now the State Kremlin Palace), September 2-5, 1991. Colonel-General Konstantin Kobets, appointed as Minister of Defense of the RSFSR, temporarily established on August 20, 1991, until the constitutional bodies of state power and administration of the USSR are fully restored.02.09.1991#8599767
Fifth Extraordinary Congress of People's Deputies of the USSR in the Kremlin Palace of Congresses (now the State Kremlin Palace), September 2-5, 1991.02.09.1991#8599766
Fifth Extraordinary Congress of People's Deputies of the USSR in the Kremlin Palace of Congresses (now the State Kremlin Palace), September 2-5, 1991. Sergei Baburin, chairman of the subcommittee on Soviets of People's Deputies and Local Self-Government of the RSFSR Supreme Soviet Committee on Legislation, during an interview with journalists between sessions.02.09.1991#8599765
Viktor Alksnis, Deputy of the Supreme Soviet of the Latvian SSR, at the 5th Extraordinary Session of the Supreme Soviet of the USSR, August 26-31, 1991.28.08.1991#6361784
Anatoly Lukyanov, Chairman of the Supreme Soviet of the USSR, at the 5th Extraordinary Session of the Supreme Soviet of the USSR, August 26-31, 1991.28.08.1991#6361782
An extraordinary session of the Supreme Soviet (Parliament) of the USSR, convened after an abortive coup by members of the State Committee for the State of Emergency. The coup's perpetrators tried to stop the breakup of the Soviet Union and to prevent the signing of the Union Treaty. Center: Alexander Yakovlev, Member of the Soviet Presidential Council, takes partr in the session.26.08.1991#8595570
Moscow, August 1991. Funeral of Government House defenders Dmitry Komar, Ilya Krichevsky and Vladimir Usov who were killed on the eve of August 20-21, 1991 during a coup. A funeral procession on Kalinina Prospekt (Novy Arbat Street).24.08.1991#3181831
Moscow, August 1991. Funeral of Government House defenders Dmitry Komar, Ilya Krichevsky and Vladimir Usov who were killed on the eve of August 20-21, 1991 during a coup. A mourning rally on Manezhnaya Square.24.08.1991#3181830
Moscow, August 1991. Funeral of Government House defenders Dmitry Komar, Ilya Krichevsky and Vladimir Usov who were killed on the eve of August 20-21, 1991 during a coup. A mourning rally on Manezhnaya Square.24.08.1991#3181827
Moscow, August 1991. Funeral of Government House defenders Dmitry Komar, Ilya Krichevsky and Vladimir Usov who were killed on the eve of August 20-21, 1991 during a coup. A funeral procession on Kalinina Prospekt (Novy Arbat Street).24.08.1991#3181823
Moscow, August 1991. Funeral of Government House defenders Dmitry Komar, Ilya Krichevsky and Vladimir Usov who were killed on the eve of August 20-21, 1991 during a coup. A funeral procession on Kalinina Prospekt (Novy Arbat Street).24.08.1991#3181819
Moscow. August 19-31, 1991. The First Congress of Compatriots involved about 700 compatriots from non-Soviet foreign countries. In this photo, the delegates are visiting the Presentation of the Virgin Optina Hermitage Monastery near Kozelsk in the Kaluga Region.24.08.1991#8595741
Events in Moscow, August 19-22, 1991. On the night of August 23 the Moscow Council ordered to dismantle the monument to Felix Dzerzhinsky near the KGB building on Lubyanskaya Square with a crowd watching.23.08.1991#3181806
Events in Moscow, August 19-22, 1991. On the night of August 23 the Moscow Council ordered to dismantle the monument to Felix Dzerzhinsky near the KGB building on Lubyanskaya Square with a crowd watching.23.08.1991#3181805
Moscow. August 19-31, 1991. The First Congress of Compatriots involved about 700 compatriots from non-Soviet foreign countries. In this photo, the delegates are standing near military equipment, abandoned not far from Red Square after an abortive by members of the State Committee for the State of Emergency . The coup's perpetrators tried to stop the breakup of the Soviet Union and to prevent the signing of the Union Treaty.23.08.1991#8595742
Moscow. August 19-31, 1991. The First Congress of Compatriots involved about 700 compatriots from non-Soviet foreign countries. In this photo, the delegates are watching the Grand Prince performance near the Dormition of the Holy Virgin Church at Krutitsa Town Residence. The performance narrates the events of 1210 during the reign of Prince Vsevolod III Big Nest.23.08.1991#8595740
Moscow events, August 19-22, 1991. Monument to Felix Dzerzhinsky near the KGB building. USSR, August 22, 1991.22.08.1991#3181810
Moscow events, August 19-22, 1991. Monument to Felix Dzerzhinsky near the KGB building. USSR, August 22, 1991.22.08.1991#3181808