The city of Yoshkar-Ola. Meeting of the extraordinary tenth session of the Supreme Soviet of the Mari ASSR of the ninth convocation; the meeting was opened by the chairman of the Supreme Soviet of the Mari ASSR P. Ye. Korotkov (synchronously); First Secretary of the Mari Regional Party Committee V.P. Nikonov makes a report "On the draft Constitution (Basic Law) of the Mari Autonomous Soviet Socialist Republic and the results of its nationwide discussion."