Farewell ceremony for the first President of the USSR Mikhail Gorbachev in the Column Hall of the House of Unions. Daughter of the first President of the USSR Mikhail Gorbachev, Irina Gorbacheva-Virganskaya (center), her husband, Deputy CEO of PJSC NGK Slavneft Andrei Trukhachev (second from left) and Academician of the Russian Academy of Sciences, member of the supervisory board of the Aviation Register of the Russian Federation Boris Aleshin (left) during the ceremony.

Farewell ceremony for the first President of the USSR Mikhail Gorbachev in the Hall of Columns.

Farewell ceremony for the first President of the USSR Mikhail Gorbachev in the Hall of Columns. Chairman of the Russian Bar Association Sergei Stepashin (center) during the ceremony.

Farewell ceremony for the first President of the USSR Mikhail Gorbachev in the Hall of Columns. Singer Alla Pugacheva during the ceremony.

Farewell ceremony for the first President of the USSR Mikhail Gorbachev in the Hall of Columns. Genre photography. Bouquet of red roses in a box for the ceremony.

Farewell ceremony for the first President of the USSR Mikhail Gorbachev in the Hall of Columns. Singer Alla Pugacheva during the ceremony.

Farewell ceremony for the first President of the USSR Mikhail Gorbachev in the Hall of Columns.

Farewell ceremony for the first President of the USSR Mikhail Gorbachev in the Hall of Columns. Bosco di Ciliegi store gallery manager Yekaterina Moiseyeva (right) and Bosco di Ciliegi supervisory board chairman Mikhail Kusnirovich (second right) during the ceremony.

Farewell ceremony for the first President of the USSR Mikhail Gorbachev in the Hall of Columns.

Farewell ceremony for the first President of the USSR Mikhail Gorbachev in the Hall of Columns. From left to right: Academician of the Russian Academy of Sciences, member of the Supervisory Board of the Aviation Register of the Russian Federation Boris Aleshin, Deputy CEO of PJSC NGK Slavneft Andrei Trukhachev, Deputy Prime Minister of Russia Yuri Borisov and daughter of the first President of the USSR Mikhail Gorbachev Irina Gorbacheva-Virganskaya during the ceremony.

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Farewell ceremony for the first President of the USSR Mikhail Gorbachev in the Hall of Columns. Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban (center) during the ceremony.

Farewell ceremony for the first President of the USSR Mikhail Gorbachev in the Hall of Columns. Chairman of the Moscow City Duma Alexei Shaposhnikov during the ceremony.

Farewell ceremony for the first President of the USSR Mikhail Gorbachev in the Hall of Columns. Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban (center) during the ceremony.

Farewell ceremony for the first President of the USSR Mikhail Gorbachev in the Hall of Columns. Composer Viktor Drobysh (left) and editor-in-chief of Novaya Gazeta Dmitry Muratov (right) during the ceremony.

Farewell ceremony for the first President of the USSR Mikhail Gorbachev in the Hall of Columns. Yabloko party founder and head of the party's political committee Grigory Yavlinsky (second from left) during the ceremony.

Farewell ceremony for the first President of the USSR Mikhail Gorbachev in the Hall of Columns. Yabloko party founder and head of the party's political committee Grigory Yavlinsky (left) and Novaya Gazeta editor-in-chief Dmitry Muratov (right) during the ceremony.

Farewell ceremony for the first President of the USSR Mikhail Gorbachev in the Hall of Columns.

Farewell ceremony for the first President of the USSR Mikhail Gorbachev in the Hall of Columns. Composer Viktor Drobysh during the ceremony.

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Farewell ceremony for the first President of the USSR Mikhail Gorbachev in the Hall of Columns. Russian politician Nikolai Travkin (third from left), daughter of Mikhail Gobachev Irina Gorbacheva-Virganskaya (center), her husband, Deputy CEO for Corporate Relations and General Affairs of PJSC NGK Slavneft Andrey Trukhachev (second from left) and academician of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Member of the Supervisory Board of the Aviation Register of the Russian Federation Boris Alyoshin (left) during the ceremony.

Farewell ceremony for the first President of the USSR Mikhail Gorbachev in the Hall of Columns. Archpriest Alexei Uminsky during the ceremony.

Farewell ceremony for the first President of the USSR Mikhail Gorbachev in the Hall of Columns. Genre photography. Special services officers near the building of the House of Unions during the ceremony.

Farewell ceremony for the first President of the USSR Mikhail Gorbachev in the Hall of Columns. A boy with a book about Mikhail Gorbachev and a police officer outside the Country That Doesn't Exist restaurant.

Farewell ceremony for the first President of the USSR Mikhail Gorbachev in the Hall of Columns. A boy with a book about Mikhail Gorbachev outside the Country That Doesn't Exist restaurant.

Farewell ceremony for the first President of the USSR Mikhail Gorbachev in the Hall of Columns. Genre photography. A queue of people wishing to say goodbye to the first President of the USSR Mikhail Gorbachev at the building of the House of Unions.

Farewell ceremony for the first President of the USSR Mikhail Gorbachev in the Hall of Columns. A boy with a book about Mikhail Gorbachev and a police officer outside the Country That Doesn't Exist restaurant.

Farewell ceremony for the first President of the USSR Mikhail Gorbachev in the Hall of Columns.

Farewell ceremony for the first President of the USSR Mikhail Gorbachev in the Hall of Columns. Special services officers near the House of the Unions during the ceremony. Genre photography. The car of US Ambassador to Russia John Sullivan near the House of the Unions.

Farewell ceremony for the first President of the USSR Mikhail Gorbachev in the Hall of Columns. Security officers in camouflage near the House of the Unions during the ceremony.

Farewell ceremony for the first President of the USSR Mikhail Gorbachev in the Hall of Columns. Security officers in camouflage near the House of the Unions during the ceremony.

Farewell ceremony for the first President of the USSR Mikhail Gorbachev in the Hall of Columns. US Ambassador to Russia John Sullivan (second from right) and British Ambassador to Russia Deborah Bronnert (third from left) during the ceremony.

Farewell ceremony for the first President of the USSR Mikhail Gorbachev in the Hall of Columns. Company of the Guard of Honor near the House of the Unions.

Farewell ceremony for the first President of the USSR Mikhail Gorbachev in the Hall of Columns. US Ambassador to Russia John Sullivan (right) during the ceremony.

Farewell ceremony for the first President of the USSR Mikhail Gorbachev in the Hall of Columns. US Ambassador to Russia John Sullivan (center) during the ceremony.

Farewell ceremony for the first President of the USSR Mikhail Gorbachev in the Hall of Columns. An employee in a portrait after the end of the ceremony.

Farewell ceremony for the first President of the USSR Mikhail Gorbachev in the Hall of Columns. Musicians of the military band after the ceremony.

Farewell ceremony for the first President of the USSR Mikhail Gorbachev in the Hall of Columns. Novaya Gazeta editor-in-chief Dmitry Muratov (center) during the removal of wreaths after the ceremony.

Farewell ceremony for the first President of the USSR Mikhail Gorbachev in the Hall of Columns. Soldiers during the removal of the coffin after the end of the ceremony.

Farewell ceremony for the first President of the USSR Mikhail Gorbachev in the Hall of Columns. Soldiers of the Guard of Honor after the ceremony.

Farewell ceremony for the first President of the USSR Mikhail Gorbachev in the Hall of Columns. Special police transport near the building of the State Duma of Russia.

Farewell ceremony for the first President of the USSR Mikhail Gorbachev in the Hall of Columns. A column of police officers in front of the building of the State Academic Bolshoi Theater (SABT).

Farewell ceremony for the first President of the USSR Mikhail Gorbachev in the Hall of Columns. A column of police officers after the ceremony.

Farewell ceremony for the first President of the USSR Mikhail Gorbachev in the Hall of Columns. An employee with a portrait after the end of the ceremony.

Farewell ceremony for the first President of the USSR Mikhail Gorbachev in the Hall of Columns. Head of the department of international relations and contacts with the press "Gorbachev Fund", Soviet and Russian translator, who worked with Mikhail Gorbachev for a long time, international journalist Pavel Palazhchenko during the ceremony.

Farewell ceremony for the first President of the USSR Mikhail Gorbachev in the Hall of Columns. TV presenter Vladimir Pozner (left) and his wife Nadezhda Solovieva (right), chairman of the board of Sav Entertainment, at the ceremony.

Farewell ceremony for the first President of the USSR Mikhail Gorbachev in the Hall of Columns. Soldiers of the Guard of Honor during the formation after the end of the ceremony.

Farewell ceremony for the first President of the USSR Mikhail Gorbachev in the Column Hall of the House of Unions.