From left: The Soviet pilot, three-time Hero of the Soviet Union Alexander Pokryshkin (1913-1985) and the prominent Russian man of letters, poet and writer Sergei Mikhalkov (1913-2009), who headed the Union of Writers of the Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic between 1970 and 1990, before an awards ceremony in the Kremlin.
- Categories: Unrest, Conflicts & War, Arts, Culture & Entertainment
- Location: Moscow, Russia
- Event date: 25.08.1980
- Date published: 25.08.2009
- Author: Boris Kaufman
- Credit: Sputnik
- Source: Sputnik
- Original: KAUF-0161, 35 mm film
- Media: JPEG, 5315x3735px, 6.6Mb