Joint meeting of the two houses of the USSR Supreme Council of the 8th convocation. First session (July 14-15, 1970). Front row, from right: Leonid Brezhnev, Secretary General of the Communist Party Central Committee, Alexei Kosygin, Chairman of the USSR Council of Ministers, Nikolai Podgorny, Chairman of the USSR Supreme Council Presidium, and Mikhail Suslov, member of the Communist Party Central Committee's Political Bureau.
