Russia 8/91 Coup - Anadyr, Chukotka City Hall www
19-22 August 1991 Soviet coup d'état attempt against Mikhail Gorbachev

The day the red banner hammer & cycle flag of the Soviet Union was lowered for the last time and replaced with the white-blue-red Russian national flag of Tsar Peter I the Great!  

Andree Shirin, Vice Mayor - Ray Kreig - Another Municipal Staffer

Before:  Last time red banner hammer & cycle flag of the  Soviet Union was flown over the city soviet!

Two dozen permafrost scientists and engineers from Alaska, Canada and elsewhere were gathered in Anadyr, Chukotka for a Russian permafrost conference.  When Ray Kreig arrived at the hotel after a Bering Air charter flight from Nome to Providenya and then a commercial flight to Anadyr as his driver was unloading his suitcase from the jeep he said, "You folks are going to have an interesting week here.  President Gorbachev is under house arrest and a putsch is under way!"

8/17/91 - SOVIET CHUKOTKA - Newspaper of the Soviet of People's Deputies of the Chukota Soviet Autonomous Republic - Has an article (arrow) on the August 19-20, 1991 Permafrost Conference:  

Major Convention on Permafrost 
Permafrost scientists are coming to Anadyr for a conference taking place on August 19 and 20 with an agenda focused on ground ice and cryomorphogenesis. In simple words, the discussion at the conference will cover the entire complex of problems associated with permafrost science. All these problems are very important to Chukotka.

The Permafrost Laboratory in Chukotka during last several years conducted fundamental and applied studies, including engineering projects. In recognition of these works, the Scientific Council on Permafrost of the Academy of Sciences of the USSR, and the Department of Permafrost Science of Moscow State University decided to hold this conference in Chukotka. It has been a great challenge to us, especially taking to account that funding of the conference was a very problematic. We should acknowledge sponsors who made the conference happen. They are the Anadyr Power and Electricity Station, Government of Chukotka, Geotechnical Survey Services and private companies. Participants of the conference are coming from the USA, Canada, Japan and numerous soviet scientists and engineers.  The program of the conference includes scientific sessions and a field excursion to the Rogozhniy Peninsula and numerous sites where permafrost impacts are prominent.  The conference proceeding will be important to everyone who designs and builds on permafrost.  Our correspondent.  [translation by Yuri Shur]