Soviet leaders and people are paying their last respects to General Secretary of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union and President of the Presidium of the USSR Supreme Soviet (Parliament) Konstantin Chernenko. General Secretary of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union Mikhail Gorbachev, Chairman of the Council of Ministers (Government) of the USSR Nikolai Tikhonov and Soviet Foreign Minister Andrei Gromyko are standing at Chernenko's bier.