‘We understood that the system was dead’: Photographer Artem Chernov looks back on the events of the 1991 August coup attempt

In the early 1990s, Artem Chernov was studying physics at Moscow State University and simultaneously taking photography courses at the Union of Journalists of the USSR. When a coup attempt began in Moscow on August 19, 1991, Chernov packed his bag with his camera and film and headed to the White House. Years later, the photographer compiled his snapshots of these events into a book titled, "Three Days at the End of the History Textbook. August 1991." To mark the thirtieth anniversary of the attempted August Coup, Meduza's photo editors selected the most important photographs from Artem Chernov's book and asked the photographer to tell the stories behind them. Original Article: https://meduza.io/en/feature/2021/08/19/we-understood-that-the-system-was-dead