On September 5, 1991, the Congress of the Soviet Union adjourned itself. Zaslavskiy, who in this season was a member of the Supreme Council, continued his parliamentary work past that date, until the Congress was finally dissolved on December 26, 1991. This marked his last day as a People's Deputy, since in the successor organisation, the Congress of People's Deputies of the Russian SFSR, Zaslavskiy did not occupy a seat. This Congress was replaced with the State Duma by referendum after Boris Yeltsin had dissolved the chamber unconstitutionally during the 1993 constitutional crisis.