Tanks ride in the stream of cars along the Garden Ring.
Key words
GKChP, Putsch
Calendar: 08/19/1991
Locations: Moscow
Drive in the car along Leninsky Prospekt to the Garden Ring.
Inspector GAI indicates the road.
A radio announcer in the car talks about an emergency.
The tanks are at the entrance to the Gorky Park.
Passage in the car past the tanks standing near the APN building.
The soldiers are sitting on the armor of tanks and armored personnel carriers.
Citizens communicate with tankmen.
Key words
GKCHP,
Putsch
Calendar: 08/19/1991
Locations: Moscow
The correspondent interviews the tank man.
Residents of Moscow are talking about the current situation, the emergency situation and Yeltsin's call for a strike.
Tankmen answer the questions of the journalist.
Muscovites want near the tanks.
A woman speaks of an emergency.
People near the armored personnel carrier read out Yeltsin's call for a strike.
Key words
GKChP, Putsch
Calendar: 08/19/1991
Columns of Muscovites with the flags of Russia are moving along the New Arbat.
Demonstrators chant Yeltsin, carry posters "No to Fascism" and "Down with the junta".
Demonstrators on the armor of tanks at the White House.
A crowd of people is standing on the porch of the Government House.
Key words
GKChP, Putsch
Calendar: 08/19/1991
Locations: Moscow
The balcony of the Government House.
Evtushenko Yevgeny reads his poems to the defenders of the White House and delivers a speech.
People applaud.
Key words
GKChP, Putsch
Personnel:
Evtushenko Evgeny Alexandrovich is a Russian Soviet poet.
Calendar: 08/21/1991
Locations: Moscow
The demonstrators are chanting, "Russia is alive."
The general plan for the crowd of people and the Government House.
A group of young people with the Russian flag next to the monument to participants in the battles on Krasnaya Presnya.
Children on the armor of tanks.
People walk near tanks.
Packages of milk, bread, canned food on the armor of tanks.
People give out leaflets.
Sergey Stepanov speaks in a megaphone and answers questions of the journalist.
Officer Ivanov Alexander talks about the mood in the military units during the coup.
Key words
GKChP, Putsch
Personnel:
Stepanov Sergey Borisovich - the organizer of protection of the House of the Government of the Russian Federation, major. Ivanov Alexander is a senior lieutenant.
Calendar: 08.20.1991
Locations: Moscow
People walk near a tank standing in front of the Government House.
Flowers stick out from the trunk of the tank.
Children on the armor of the tank.
Key words
GKChP, Putsch
Calendar: 08.20.1991
Locations: Moscow