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The year marked perestroika and the last days of the USSR, giving the world a brand new country. The Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic turned into the Russian Federation and got its first president, Boris Yeltsin.
Boris Yeltsin gives an interview
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A line to a food store in Moscow
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A woman at a rally near Lenin mausoleum. The poster says ‘Ilyich [Lenin], we are with you!’
TV director and camerawoman Marina Goldovskaya filming on the streets
Meeting next to the White House in Moscow against the reactionary Soviet coup d'état attempt, the so-called ‘August Coup’
One of the first LGBT meeting marking World AIDS Day
Barricades in Moscow during the ‘August Coup’
A cult TV show ‘Field of Wonders’ is still on air. Its first host Vladislav Listyev was killed later in the 1990s
A hospital patient with Lenin’s portrait as a tattoo
Festivities on Red Square
Orthodox Patriarch Alexei II in the Trinity Lavra of St. Sergius
Airborne troops
‘Oka’ produced by the KAMAZ car plant
A day in the life of an Arkhangelsk Region citizen
A heavy metal rock festival near Moscow
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A Siberian beauty contest
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‘Just married’ on Red Square
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A folk dance festival
Harvesting
A demolished monument to KGB founder, Felix Dzerzhinsky
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The St. Trinity Seraphim-Diveyevsky Monastery
Zubovsky Square in Moscow
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A sanatorium in Crimea
A street musician in Moscow
Strolling around St. Petersburg
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Young rockers in front of Lenin’s monument
American artist Peter Max paints on Red Square
Restoration of the royal furniture in Gatchina Palace near Leningrad
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Orthodox Easter
Happy New 1991 year!
A pet market
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Women selling souvenirs
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