The 27th Congress of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union at the Kremlin Palace of Congresses, February 25 - March 6, 1986. Vice President of the USSR Academy of Sciences, Deputy Director of the Kurchatov Nuclear Energy Institute, Hero of Socialist Labor Yevgeny Pavlovich Velikhov, left, and Chief Scientific Secretary of the Presidium of the USSR Academy of Sciences, Director of the Institute of Biochemistry and Physiology of Microorganisms of the USSR AS, Hero of Socialist Labor Georgy Konstantinovich Skryabin.