Special Issue Election of the President of the USSR at the 3rd Extraordinary Congress of People's Deputies of the USSR. Moscow city. Kremlin Palace of Congresses. Congress delegates in the meeting room, podium, sidelines. Voting (secret). Speech by Mikhail Gorbachev (synchronously). Among those present: S. Stankevich, A. Lukyanov, Metropolitan Pitirim, V. Dikul, V. I. Vorotnikov, N. Ryzhkov, V. Bakatin, E. Pamfilova.