The 26th Congress of the CPSU. February 23 -March 3, 1981. The Kremlin Palace of Congresses. Vasily Vinogradov, left, revolutionary movement participant, member of the Russian Social Democratic Party-CPSU from 1915, Hero of Socialist Labor, and Vladimir Chicherov, head of the maintenance fitters' team at Leningrad Metal Works, Hero of Socialist Labor.01.03.1981#2985256
The 26th Congress of the CPSU. February 23 -March 3, 1981. The Kremlin Palace of Congresses. Mustai Karim, People's Poet of Bashkortostan, Hero of Socialist Labor.01.03.1981#2985255
The 26th Congress of the CPSU. February 23 -March 3, 1981. The Kremlin Palace of Congresses. Alexei Leonov, pilot-cosmonaut of the USSR, Major General of the Aviation, twice Hero of the Soviet Union.01.03.1981#2985254
The 26th Congress of the CPSU. February 23 -March 3, 1981. The Kremlin Palace of Congresses. Irakli Abashidze, chairman of the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet of the Georgian SSR, academician at the Academy of Sciences of the Georgian SSR, Hero of Socialist Labor, poet.01.03.1981#2985253
The 26th Congress of the CPSU. February 23 -March 3, 1981. The Kremlin Palace of Congresses. A delegate at the congress, People's Artist of the USSR Tahir Salakhanov.01.03.1981#2985252
The 26th Congress of the CPSU. February 23 -March 3, 1981. The Kremlin Palace of Congresses. Yury Yuzhakov, a delegate at the congress, commander of Mi-10K helicopter of the Tyumen Civil Aviation Directorate, Hero of Socialist Labor.01.03.1981#2985251
The 26th Congress of the CPSU. February 23 -March 3, 1981. The Kremlin Palace of Congresses. Sergei Gorshkov, admiral of the Fleet of the Soviet Union, commander-in-chief of the Soviet Navy, deputy defense minister of the USSR, Hero of the Soviet Union, among other delegates.01.03.1981#2985250
The 26th Congress of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union. February 23 - March 3, 1981. The Kremlin Palace of Congress. Hero of the Socialist Labor, brigadier of the cotton growers of the Kuibyshev collective farm in the Markhamatsky district of the Andizhan region, Sakhodatkhon Muidinova (Uzbek Soviet Socialist Republic)01.03.1981#2985248
The 26th Congress of the CPSU. February 23 -March 3, 1981. The Kremlin Palace of Congresses. From left: Ivan Naudenov, chairman of the regional Council of Trade Unions (the city of Saratov), Nikolai Aleksandrov, chairman of the regional Executive Committee (the city of Saratov), and Mikhail Alekseyev, Hero of Socialist Labor, editor in chief of Moskva magazine.01.03.1981#2985247
The 26th Congress of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union. February 23 - March 3, 1981. The Kremlin Palace of Congress. Worker of the Baku radio plant Rovshan Yusufova (left) and tin sealer of the Farid Fatullayev tin can plant (Azerbaijanian Soviet Socialist Republic)01.03.1981#2985246
The 26th Congress of the CPSU. February 23 -March 3, 1981. The Kremlin Palace of Congresses. Ivan Rybakov, head of lathe operators' team at Cryogenmash science production association (Moscow Region, Balashikha town), delegate at the congress.01.03.1981#2985245
The 26th Congress of the CPSU. February 23 -March 3, 1981. The Kremlin Palace of Congresses. Ivan Bagramyan, center, Marshal of the Soviet Union, twice Hero of the Soviet Union, among other delegates.01.03.1981#2985244
The 26th Congress of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union. February 23-March 3, 1981. The Kremlin Palace of Congresses. Congress delegates, from left: writer Yury Bondarev with Anatoly Sofronov, writer, journalist and editor in chief of the Ogonyok magazine.01.03.1981#2985243
The 26th Congress of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union. February 23-March 3, 1981. The Kremlin Palace of Congresses. Writer Yury Bondarev, center, with congress delegates.01.03.1981#2985240
The 26th Congress of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union. February 23-March 3, 1981. The Kremlin Palace of Congresses. Salima Lukmanova, embroiderer at the Women's Labor carpet factory in Samarkand, the Uzbek SSR.01.03.1981#2985237
The 26th Congress of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union. February 23-March 3, 1981. The Kremlin Palace of Congresses. Galina Stafeyeva, tractor team leader at the Rossiya collective farm in the Chita region.01.03.1981#2985236
The 26th Congress of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union. February 23-March 3, 1981. The Kremlin Palace of Congresses. Irina Arkhipova, People's Artist of the USSR and soloist at the State Academic Bolshoi Theater of the USSR, with delegates.01.03.1981#2985235
The 26th Congress of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union. February 23-March 3, 1981. The Kremlin Palace of Congresses. Congress delegates, from left: Lyubov Malaya, academician at the USSR Academy of Medical Sciences and head of department at the Kharkov Medical Institute, the Ukrainian SSR; Zigmas Yanushkyavichyus, academician and rector of the Kaunas Medical Institute of the Lithuanian SSR Academy of Sciences.01.03.1981#2985234
The 26th Congress of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union. February 23-March 3, 1981. The Kremlin Palace of Congresses. Lyubov Malaya, congress delegate, academician at the USSR Academy of Medical Sciences and head of department at the Kharkov Medical Institute, the Ukrainian SSR.01.03.1981#2985233
The 26th Congress of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union. February 23-March 3, 1981. The Kremlin Palace of Congresses. Delegates from Lithuania, from left: Yanina Litsinskaya, cutter at the Elles leather factory in the city of Šiauliai; Yanina Urbonene, carder at the Kaunas balked yarn factory; Valeriya Askamitauskene, weaver at the Dorbe wool factory in the city of Kaunas.01.03.1981#2985232
The 26th Congress of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union. February 23 - March 3, 1981. The Kremlin Palace of Congress. Delegate Yelena Perelygina, binder of intergrated circuits of the Elektrosignal plant (Russian Federative Soviet Socialist Republic, Voronezh)01.03.1981#2985231
The 26th Congress of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union. February 23-March 3, 1981. Karen Demirchyan, congress delegate and first secretary of the Communist Party of the Armenian SSR, during a news conference at the press center of the 26th Congress of the CPSU.01.03.1981#2985223
The 26th Congress of the CPSU. February 23 -March 3, 1981. The Kremlin Palace of Congresses. Pilot-cosmonaut of the USSR, twice Hero of the Soviet Union Vladimir Aksyonov.01.03.1981#2985260
A delegation of the Socialist Unity Party of Germany, which took part in the 26th Congress of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union, attends the All-Union Arts Exhibition "We Are Building Communism" at Manege Central Exhibition Hall.28.02.1981#8334892
The 26th Congress of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union. February 23 - March 3, 1981. The Kremlin Palace of Congresses. On the podium: German Communist Party Chairman Herbert Mies (FRG).28.02.1981#2979386
A member of the Kustanai regional committee of the Communist Party of Kazakhstan, a winder of the Kustanai Worsted Cloth Combine Altyn Kaliyeva during the 26th CPSU Congress, which was held in Moscow from February 23 to March 3, 1981. The Kremlin Palace of Congresses (now the State Kremlin Palace).27.02.1981#5865051
The XXVI Congress of the USSR Communist Party. Members of the delegation of the Communist Party of Great Britain on the sidelines of the Congress among the delegates.27.02.1981#8336487
The 26th Congress of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union. Augusts Voss, First Secretary of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of Latvia, makes a speech.27.02.1981#8336481
The 26th Congress of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union. Kaysone Phomvihane, General Secretary of the Central Committee of the Lao People's Revolutionary Party and Chairman of the Council of Ministers of the Lao People's Democratic Republic, makes a speech.27.02.1981#8336480
The 26th Congress of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union. Janos Kadar, General Secretary of the Hungarian Socialist Workers' Party, makes a speech.27.02.1981#8336476
The 26th Congress of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union. Dusan Dragosavac, Secretary of Presidium of the League of Communists of Yugoslavia, makes a speech.27.02.1981#8336475
The 26th Congress of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union. Gustav Husak, General Secretary of the Communist Party of Czechoslovakia and President of the Czechoslovak Socialist Republic, makes a speech.27.02.1981#8336473
The 26th Congress of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union. Babrak Karmal, General Secretary of the People's Democratic Party of Afghanistan, Chairman of the Revolutionary Council and Prime Minister of the Democratic Republic of Afghanistan, makes a speech.27.02.1981#8336472
The press center of the XXVI Congress of the CPSU. Secretary of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of Vietnam Xuan Thuy answers questions from reporters.26.02.1981#8336492
The press center of the 26th Congress of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union. Xuan Thuy, Secretary of the Communist Party of Vietnam, speaks to journalists.26.02.1981#8336484
The 26th Congress of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union. Kamshat Donenbayeva, congress delegate, Hero of Socialist Labor and tractor driver at the Kharkovsky state farm in the Kostanai Region of the Kazakh SSR, makes a speech.26.02.1981#8336478
The 26th Congress of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union. Nicolae Ceausescu, General Secretary of the Romanian Communist Party and President of the Socialist Republic of Romania, makes a speech.26.02.1981#8336474
The 26th Congress of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union. Correspondents for the American news agency United Press International (UPI) at the congress' press center.26.02.1981#8335580
The XXVI Congress of the USSR Communist Party. Eduard Shevardnadze, First Secretary of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of Georgia, is speaking.26.02.1981#8335576
The 26th Congress of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union. February 23 - March 3, 1981. The Kremlin Palace of Congresses. Fidel Castro Ruz, first secretary of the Cuban Communist Party, chairman of the State Council and the Council of Ministers of the Republic of Cuba.26.02.1981#2979377
The 26th Congress of the CPSU. February 23 -March 3, 1981. The Kremlin Palace of Congresses. Gury Marchuk, deputy chairman of the USSR Council of Ministers, chairman of the USSR State Committee on Science and Technology, at a news conference in the press center of the 26th Congress of the CPSU.26.02.1981#2985249
The 26th Congress of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union. February 23-March 3, 1981. The Kremlin Palace of Congresses. On the podium: Fidel Castro Ruz, first secretary of the Central Committee of the Cuban Communist Party, chairman of the State Council and Council of Ministers of the Republic of Cuba.26.02.1981#2985229
Press Center of the 26th Congress of the USSR Communist Party. Journalists constantly monitor information by TASS.25.02.1981#8336483
The 26th Congress of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union. Babrak Karmal, General Secretary of the People's Democratic Party of Afghanistan, Chairman of the Revolutionary Council and Prime Minister of the Democratic Republic of Afghanistan, is greeted by members of the congress presidium.25.02.1981#8336482
The 26th Congress of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union. Yumjaagiin Tsedenbal, General Secretary of the Mongolian People's Revolutionary Party and Chairman of the Presidium of the People's Great Khural of the Mongolian People's Republic, makes a speech.25.02.1981#8335583
The 26th Congress of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union. Todor Zhivkov, General Secretary of the Central Committee of the Bulgarian Communist Party and Chairman of the State Council of the People's Republic of Bulgaria, makes a speech.25.02.1981#8335581
The XXVI Congress of the USSR Communist Party. Center: a guest of the congress is the Deputy Secretary General of the National Command of the Arab Socialist Party Baas Abdullah Ali-Ahmar.25.02.1981#8335578
The XXVI Congress of the USSR Communist Party. A guest of the congress is Romain Vilon Ghezo, head of the delegation of the People's Revolution Party of Benin, which proclaimed the Marxist-Leninist ideology and a course towards a socialist orientation.25.02.1981#8335577
The XXVI Congress of the USSR Communist Party. Secretary General of the Portuguese Communist Party Alvaro Cunhal among the congress delegates.25.02.1981#8335575
The XXVI Congress of the USSR Communist Party. Laying wreaths at the Lenin Mausoleum by foreign party delegations. Laying a wreath by the delegation of the Italian Communist Party.25.02.1981#8335574
The XXVI Congress of the USSR Communist Party. Delegates on the sidelines of the congress.25.02.1981#8335573
The XXVI Congress of the USSR Communist Party. Foreign party delegations laying wreaths at the Lenin Mausoleum. The delegation of the Communist Party of Spain lays a wreath.25.02.1981#8335571
Guest from the socialist state of Poland, First Secretary of the Polish United Workers' Party Stanislaw Kania, makes a speech at the 26th Congress of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union.25.02.1981#8335567
The 26th Congress of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union, Kremlin Palace of Congresses (now State Kremlin Palace), February 23 - March 3, 1981. Members of the delegation of the Italian Communist Party lay a wreath at Lenin's Mausoleum during the wreath-laying ceremony attended by foreign party delegations.25.02.1981#8173774
The 26th Congress of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union, Kremlin Palace of Congresses (now State Kremlin Palace), February 23 - March 3, 1981. Members of the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet of the USSR and heads of delegations of communist, labor and national democratic parties are seen in the presidium of the 26th Congress of the Soviet Communist Party.25.02.1981#8173770
The 26th Congress of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union, Kremlin Palace of Congresses (now State Kremlin Palace), February 23 - March 3, 1981. Members of the delegation of the Spanish Communist Party lay a wreath at Lenin's Mausoleum during the wreath-laying ceremony attended by foreign party delegations.25.02.1981#8173769
The 26th Congress of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union. February 23-March 3, 1981. The Kremlin Palace of Congresses. A break between sessions.25.02.1981#2985228
The 26th Congress of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union. February 23-March 3, 1981. The Kremlin Palace of Congresses. A break between sessions.25.02.1981#2985227
The 26th Congress of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union. February 23-March 3, 1981. Khalid Bakdash, general secretary of the Syrian Communist Party, during a news conference at the press center of the 26th Congress of the CPSU.25.02.1981#2985224
