The official visit by Federal Chancellor of the Federal Republic of Germany Helmut Kohl to the USSR, October 24-27, 1988. From left: Minister of Defense of the Federal Republic of Germany Rupert Scholz, Foreign Minister of the Federal Republic of Germany Hans-Dietrich Genscher, Foreign Minister of the USSR Eduard Shevardnadze, and Minister of Defense of the USSR Dmitry Yazov sign the Soviet-German Governmental Agreement on the Prevention of Incidents On and Over the High Seas. 3rd row, from left: Helmut Kohl, General Secretary of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of the USSR and Chairman of the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet of the USSR, Mikhail Gorbachev, Chairman of the Council of Ministers of the USSR Nikolai Ryzhkov, and Secretary of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of the USSR and Member of Politburo of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of the USSR, Alexander Yakovlev.
- Categories: Human Interest, Unrest, Conflicts & War, Economy, Business & Finance, Politics
- Location: Moscow, Russia
- Event date: 25.10.1988
- Date published: 20.06.2021
- Author: Yuryi Abramochkin
- Credit: Sputnik
- Original: 88-15023, 35 mm film
- Media: JPEG, 4709x3543px, 11.2Mb