Mikhail Gorbachev, center, President of the USSR and General Secretary of the CPSU Central Committee, Givi Gumbaridze, First Secretary of the Georgian Communist Party Central Committee, and Anatoly Lukyanov, Chairman of the Supreme Soviet of the USSR, during a break between sessions of the 28th Congress of the CPSU. The Kremlin Palace of Congresses (now the State Kremlin Palace).