The official visit by Mikhail Gorbachev, General Secretary of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of the USSR and Chairman of the Supreme Soviet of the USSR, to the Republic of Finland, October 25-27, 1989. President of Finland Mauno Koivisto, right, his wife Tellervo Koivisto, Mikhail Gorbachev, and his wife Raisa Gorbachyova greet Helsinki residents.