The 6th Convention of Peoples Deputies of Russia, April 6-21, 1992, The Kremlin Palace. Gennady Burbulis, left, State Secretary of the RSFSR and First Deputy Prime Minister of Russia, and Deputy Speaker of the Supreme Council of Russia Sergei Filatov during a regular session.06.04.1992#6396235
The 6th Convention of Peoples Deputies of Russia, April 6-21, 1992, The Kremlin Palace. Deputy Executive Secretary pf the Constitutional Committee of the Supreme Council of Russia Viktor Sheinis, first left, and one of the founders of the Civil Union Nikolai Travkin, second right, during a regular session.06.04.1992#6396188
The 6th Convention of Peoples Deputies of Russia, April 6-21, 1992, The Kremlin Palace. Gennady Burbulis, left, State Secretary of the RSFSR and First Deputy Prime Minister of Russia, and Deputy Deputy Prime Minister of the Russian federation Mikhail Poltoranin during a regular session.06.04.1992#6396186
The 6th Convention of Peoples Deputies of Russia, April 6-21, 1992, The Kremlin Palace. Sazhi Umalatova, chair of the public organization Permanent Presidium of the Congress of People's Deputies of the USSR, answers journalists' questions.06.04.1992#6396184
The 6th Convention of Peoples Deputies of Russia, April 6-21, 1992, The Kremlin Palace. Religious and public activist Viktor Aksyuchits, co-chair of the Russian Christian Democratic Movement, speaks at the regular session.06.04.1992#6396183
The 6th Convention of Peoples Deputies of Russia, April 6-21, 1992, The Kremlin Palace. Gennady Burbulis, left, State Secretary of the RSFSR and First Deputy Prime Minister of Russia, and Vice President Alexander Rutskoi during a regular session.06.04.1992#6396181
The 6th Convention of Peoples Deputies of Russia, April 6-21, 1992, The Kremlin Palace. Co-chair of the National Salvation Front Sergei Baburin and Sazhi Umalatova, chair of the public organization Permanent Presidium of the Congress of People's Deputies of the USSR.06.04.1992#6397615
Supporters of the Crimean Republic Movement demand holding a Crimea independence referendum outside the Crimean Parliament in Simferopol, Ukrainian SSR.31.10.1991#8601623
Supporters of the Crimean Republic Movement demand holding a Crimea independence referendum outside the Crimean Parliament in Simferopol, Ukrainian SSR.31.10.1991#8601622
Supporters of the Crimean Republic Movement demand holding a Crimea independence referendum outside the Crimean Parliament in Simferopol, Ukrainian SSR.31.10.1991#8601621
The 5th Extraordinary Congress of USSR People's Deputies was held on September 2-5, 1991 after the defeat of the State Committee for the State of Emergency. Discussions continue unabated in the conference hall.05.09.1991#6368242
The 5th Extraordinary Congress of USSR People's Deputies was held on September 2-5, 1991 after the defeat of the State Committee for the State of Emergency. Deputies near the entrance to the Kremlin Palace of Congresses.05.09.1991#6368241
The LDPR leader Vladimir Zhirinovsky (center) in the lobby of the 5th Extraordinary Congress of the USSR People's Deputies.03.09.1991#85221
USSR President Mikhail Gorbachev speaking at the 5th Extraordinary Congress of People's Deputies of the USSR. The Exhibition Fund.02.09.1991#680506
Vadim Bakatin, chairman of the Committee for State Security of the Soviet Union, attending the 5th Extraordinary Congress of People's Deputies of the USSR. The Exhibition Fund.02.09.1991#680503
A news conference with USSR Minister of Culture Nikolai Gubenko (seventh left) and members of the Association of Art Critics of the USSR dedicated to the issues of cultural policy and the return of trophy values.01.09.1991#8280338
The council of Moscow's Oktyabrsky District (dissolved in 1991, with new districts established since then). Members of the council at its session.06.02.1991#8758631
The council of Moscow's Oktyabrsky District (dissolved in 1991, with new districts established since then). Deputy V. Ginzburg receives visitors.06.02.1991#8758632
A meeting of the third session of the RSFSR Supreme Council held on January 21, 1991 at the RSFSR House of Council (today House of Government of the Russian Federation). Center: Chair of the RSFSR Supreme Council Boris Yeltsin and First Deputy of the Chair of the RSFSR Supreme Council Ruslan Khasbulatov (second on the right) during the meeting.21.01.1991#6687065
A meeting of the third session of the RSFSR Supreme Council held on January 21, 1991 at the RSFSR House of Council (today House of Government of the Russian Federation). Chair of the RSFSR Supreme Council Boris Yeltsin is seen speaking.21.01.1991#6687433
A meeting of the third session of the RSFSR Supreme Council held on January 21, 1991 at the RSFSR House of Council (today House of Government of the Russian Federation). Journalists covering the congress.21.01.1991#6687431
A meeting of the third session of the RSFSR Supreme Council held on January 21, 1991 at the RSFSR House of Council (today House of Government of the Russian Federation). Center: Gleb Yakunin, co-chair of the Democratic Russia Coordination Council, in the meeting hall.21.01.1991#6687430
A meeting of the third session of the RSFSR Supreme Council held on January 21, 1991 at the RSFSR House of Council (today House of Government of the Russian Federation). Leader of the Otchizna parliamentary faction, Lieutenant General Boris Tarasov, is seen speaking.21.01.1991#6687428
Army General Konstantin Kobets, left, Chair of the State Committee of the RSFSR on Defense and Security.01.01.1991#8146561
Left to right: the USSR People's Deputy and the Leningrad City Council chairman Anatoly Sobchak, the USSR Prime Minister Valentin Pavlov and chairman of the Slovakia government Vladimir Mecar before the start of talks.01.01.1991#83376
Chair of the Supreme Soviet of the RSFSR Boris Yeltsin speaking at a session of the Supreme Soviet of Yakutia (now the State Assembly (Il Tumen) during his visit to the Yakut Autonomous Soviet Socialist Republic.24.12.1990#6616386
The 4th Congress of People's Deputies of the USSR at the Kremlin Palace of Congresses (currently State Kremlin Palace), December 17-27, 1990. From left: Painter Andrei Mylnikov, People's Artists of teh USSR Mikhail U kyanov and Kirill Lavrov during an intermission.17.12.1990#8142730
The 4th Congress of People's Deputies of the USSR at the Kremlin Palace of Congresses (now State Kremlin Palace), December 17-27, 1990. Chairman of the All-Union Central Council of Trade Unions Gennady Yanayev makes a speech.17.12.1990#8141234
Moscow. Participants in the 4th Congress of USSR People's Deputies honored the memory of Andrei Sakharov, a member of the Soviet Academy of Sciences, in Vostryakovskoye Cemetery.17.12.1990#8140440
Artyom Tarasov, Vice President of the Union of USSR Cooperative Associations, Director General of the Istok Foreign Trade Association, in his office in Moscow.17.12.1990#8342597
The fourth USSR People's Deputies Congress. December 17-27, 1990. The Kremlin Congress Palace. Left, in presidium: President of the USSR Mikhail Gorbachyov, above, and the Chairman of the RSFSR Supreme Council Boris Yeltsin, right.17.12.1990#3244114
The fourth USSR People's Deputies Congress. December 17-27. The Kremlin Congress Palace. USSR People's Deputy and the Chair of the RSFSR Supreme Council Boris Yeltsin gives an interview.17.12.1990#3244113
The fourth session of the USSR Supreme Soviet of the twelfth convocation. Chairman of the Moscow Soviet Gavriil Popov and Chairman of the Supreme Soviet of Russia Boris Yeltsin in the session hall.16.11.1990#3033961
From left: Chairman of Moscow City Council of People's Deputies Gavriil Popov and Chairman of the Supreme Soviet of the RSFSR Boris Yeltsin at the session of the Supreme Soviet of the USSR, November 16-17, 1990.16.11.1990#8338871
People's Deputy of the USSR Oleg Kalugin, center, at an exhibition of Kuban artists.10.11.1990#5639479
A building in Moscow where Andrei Sakharov, Soviet theoretical physicist, member of the USSR Academy of Science, Nobel Peace Prize winner, lived and died.01.11.1990#8338868
October 20-21, 1990. The constituent congress of Democratic Russia movement at the Rossiya movie theater in Moscow. Photo: Major General Oleg Kalugin (Reserve) from the State Security Committee (KGB) of the USSR attends the congress.20.10.1990#6688594
October 20-21, 1990. The constituent congress of Democratic Russia movement at the Rossiya movie theater in Moscow. Photo: The mother of a Soviet soldier who was killed in Armenia due to the brutal hazing of young recruits protests against the awarding of the Nobel Peace Prize to Mikhail Gorbachev.20.10.1990#6688592
October 20-21, 1990. The constituent congress of Democratic Russia movement at the Rossiya movie theater in Moscow. Photo: People picket the Rossiya movie theater.20.10.1990#6688585
General Secretary of the CPSU Central Committee and President of USSR Supreme Soviet Mikhail Gorbachev (right) during a break between sessions. 2nd Congress of the USSR People's Deputies. Kremlin Palace of Congresses.01.10.1990#825189
People's Deputy of the USSR, head of department at the Institute of Economics and Organisation of Industrial Production Gennady Filshi at the 2nd session of the USSR SUpreme Soviet.Kremlin Palace of Congresses.01.10.1990#825188
Zory Balayan, Soviet Armenian author and publicist, journalist and People's Deputy of the USSR representing the Nagorno-Karabakh Autonomous Region, on hunger strike in protest against abolishing people's power in Nagorno-Karabakh.19.09.1990#8373047
Chairman of the Russian Supreme Council Boris Yeltsin during the second session of the Russian Supreme Council's 12th convocation on September 3-December 27, 1990.03.09.1990#3246335
Russian Supreme Council's 12th convocation. September 3 - December 27, 1990. Chairman of the RSFSR Supreme Council Boris Yeltsin and priest Gleb Yakunin, right.03.09.1990#3244106
A rally in Krasnodar marking the victory of former KGB Major General Oleg Kalugin in the USSR people's deputy elections.02.09.1990#8358737
Deputies of the 28th Congress of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union, which took place at the Kremlin Palace of Congresses (now State Kremlin Palace) on July 2-13, 1990, after the congress sessions.13.07.1990#8318881
28th Congress of the CPSU (July 2-13, 1990, the Kremlin Palace of Congresses). Anatoly Sobchak, Chairman of the Leningrad City Council of People's Deputies, answers journalists' questions.11.07.1990#8289315
Timuraz Avaliani, First Secretary of the Kiselyovsk City Committee of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union in the Kemerovo Region addresses delegates of the 28th CPSU Congress from the rostrum.09.07.1990#8339372
Congress delegate, Chairman of the Russian Supreme Council Boris Yeltsin speaks during the 28th USSR Communist Party Congress on July 2-13, 1990.04.07.1990#3244105
The 28th Congress of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union. July 2-13, 1990. Delegate of the Congress and Chair of the RSFSR Supreme Council Boris Yeltsin, left, in the congress hall.02.07.1990#3245514
Congress delegate, Chairman of the Russian Supreme Council Boris Yeltsin goes to the 28th USSR Communist Party Congress on July 2-13, 1990.01.07.1990#3246328
The USSR People's Deputy Academician Alexei Yemelyanov of the All-Union Academy of Agricultural Sciences at the 28th CPSU congress.01.07.1990#85261
The USSR People's Deputy Academician Alexei Yemelyanov of the All-Union Academy of Agricultural Sciences at the 28th CPSU congress.01.07.1990#85260
