November 7, 1990 - at 11:10 a.m. the broadcast of the demonstration dedicated to the anniversary of the October Revolution from Red Square was stopped. Soviet television viewers watched a classical music concert for 15 minutes. The fact is that at 11:09 a.m. the 38-year-old mechanic of the Kolpinsky factory Alexander Shmenov, who approached the mausoleum at a distance of 47 meters, shot at the stand with a sawed-off shotgun. He aimed for Mikhail Gorbachev's head. Later, during the investigation, the shooter admits that he guessed that the Secretary General was standing on the podium wearing a bulletproof vest. Senior police sergeant Andrei Milnikov, who saw the mechanic's maneuver, hit the barrel and both bullets missed. One to the air and the other to the wall of gum. "... During the festive demonstration in Red Square in the Mastik area, shots were fired. As reported by the press service of the State Security Committee of the USSR, a resident of Leningrad was detained for firing two shots into the air from a sawed-off shotgun. There were no casualties. An investigation is underway," it was reported in the evening on the Varmia show. Shmenov spent a year in a pre-trial detention center and another four years in a mental hospital. While he was being treated, his wife left him. After leaving the hospital, Shmenov opened a repair company and even in 1999 stood for election to the State Duma (was not included in the ballot due to rejection of signatures for his appointment) Now he is a human rights activist, working for the rights of those who are treated illegally in psychiatric clinics. Milnikov received the Order of the Red Star and retired in the early 2000s. I purchased a farm in the Petushinsky district of the Vladimir region. He has 50 cows and 20 goats in the picture with the pole - Shamanov a month before the assassination attempt at the rally in the Palace Square, in the third picture - policemen and bystanders (perhaps K. third. b impersonating ordinary passers-by) stop the attacker.

November 7, 1990 - at 11:10 a.m. the broadcast of the demonstration dedicated to the anniversary of the October Revolution from Red Square was stopped. Soviet television viewers watched a classical music concert for 15 minutes. The fact is that at 11:09 a.m. the 38-year-old mechanic of the Kolpinsky factory Alexander Shmenov, who approached the mausoleum at a distance of 47 meters, shot at the stand with a sawed-off shotgun. He aimed for Mikhail Gorbachev's head. Later, during the investigation, the shooter admits that he guessed that the Secretary General was standing on the podium wearing a bulletproof vest. Senior police sergeant Andrei Milnikov, who saw the mechanic's maneuver, hit the barrel and both bullets missed. One to the air and the other to the wall of gum. "... During the festive demonstration in Red Square in the Mastik area, shots were fired. As reported by the press service of the State Security Committee of the USSR, a resident of Leningrad was detained for firing two shots into the air from a sawed-off shotgun. There were no casualties. An investigation is underway," it was reported in the evening on the Varmia show. Shmenov spent a year in a pre-trial detention center and another four years in a mental hospital. While he was being treated, his wife left him. After leaving the hospital, Shmenov opened a repair company and even in 1999 stood for election to the State Duma (was not included in the ballot due to rejection of signatures for his appointment) Now he is a human rights activist, working for the rights of those who are treated illegally in psychiatric clinics. Milnikov received the Order of the Red Star and retired in the early 2000s. I purchased a farm in the Petushinsky district of the Vladimir region. He has 50 cows and 20 goats in the picture with the pole - Shamanov a month before the assassination attempt at the rally in the Palace Square, in the third picture - policemen and bystanders (perhaps K. third. b impersonating ordinary passers-by) stop the attacker.