Delegates of the XXVI Congress of the CPSU (from left): Hero of Socialist Labor poet and writer Grigol Abashidze; Honored Cultural Figure of the Georgian SSR, Hero of Socialist Labor, member the Georgian SSR Academy of Sciences, Secretary of the USSR Writers' Union, poet Irakli Abashidze; and Hero of Socialist Labor, poet Alexei Surkov at the Kremlin Palace of Congresses.
