on February 23-March 3, 1981, the Kremlin Palace of Congresses, now the State Kremlin Palace, hosted the 26th Congress of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union.25.03.1981#8318238
The delegation of the Communist Party of Cuba, who took part in the XXVI Congress of the CPSU, during a trip to Odessa (Ukrainian SSR). Center: Fidel Castro, First Secretary of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of Cuba, Chair of the Council of State of Cuba, Chairman of the Council of Ministers of Cuba, and members of the Cuban delegation during a visit to the Museum of Partisan Glory in the village of Nerubayskoye near Odessa.05.03.1981#8337495
The delegation of the Communist Party of Cuba, who took part in the XXVI Congress of the CPSU, during a trip to Odessa (Ukrainian SSR). Second left: Fidel Castro, First Secretary of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of Cuba, Chair of the Council of State of Cuba, Chair of the Council of Ministers of Cuba, and members of the Cuban delegation at a meeting with residents of the city at the Odessa Opera and Ballet Theater.05.03.1981#8337493
A delegation of the Communist Party of Czechoslovakia, which took part in the 26th Congress of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union, during its visit to Riga, Latvian SSR. General Secretary of the Communist Party of Czechoslovakia Gustav Husak, left, makes a speech at a meeting for friendship at the Cultural Center of VEF Production Association.05.03.1981#8337492
A delegation of the Hungarian Socialist Workers' Party, which took part in the 26th Congress of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union, during its visit to the Byelorussian SSR. Members of the delegation, headed by Chairman of the Council of Ministers of the People's Republic of Hungary Gyorgy Lazar, center, are seen in a production facility of Minsk Tractor Plant.05.03.1981#8337491
The delegation of the Communist Party of Cuba, who took part in the XXVI Congress of the CPSU, during a trip to Odessa (Ukrainian SSR). First Secretary of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of Cuba, Chairman of the Council of State of Cuba, Chairman of the Council of Ministers of Cuba Fidel Castro (center) during a meeting of Soviet-Cuban friendship in the seaport of Ilyichevsk (now Chernomorsk), Odessa Region.05.03.1981#8337488
The delegation of the Communist Party of Cuba, who took part in the XXVI Congress of the CPSU, during a trip to Odessa (Ukrainian SSR). First Secretary of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of Cuba, Chairman of the Council of State of Cuba, Chairman of the Council of Ministers of Cuba Fidel Castro lays a wreath at the monument for Fighters Died Fighting for Soviet Power in Odessa.05.03.1981#8337487
Foreign delegations, guests of the XXVI Congress of the CPSU, during a visit to Leningrad. Members of the delegation of the Communist Party of Bolivia laid flowers at the Piskarevsky Memorial Cemetery.05.03.1981#8337486
Foreign delegations, guests of the XXVI Congress of the CPSU, during a visit to Leningrad. Members of the delegation of the People's Party of Panama at the Piskarevsky Memorial Cemetery. In the background: the sculpture Motherland (created by Vera Isayeva and R. Taurit).05.03.1981#8337485
Foreign delegations, guests of the XXVI Congress of the CPSU, during a visit to Leningrad. Members of the delegation of the party New Movement JUEL (Grenada's Marxist Party) lay flowers at the Piskarevsky Memorial Cemetery.05.03.1981#8337484
Members of foreign delegations, which took part in the 26th Congress the Communist Party of the Soviet Union, during their trip to Kiev, Ukrainian SSR. Saifuddin Ahmed Manik, member of the central committee of the Communist Party of Bangladesh, addresses Kiev's party activists.05.03.1981#8336493
Members of foreign delegations, which took part in the 26th Congress the Communist Party of the Soviet Union, during their trip to Kiev, Ukrainian SSR. A.R.Nungu, member of the central committee of the Tanzanian Revolutionary Party, addresses Kiev's party activists.05.03.1981#8336489
26th Congress of the CPSU. February 23 - March 3, 1981. A delegation from the Polish United Workers' Party taking part in the26th Congress of the CPSU, visits the Lenin House-Museum in Gorki Leninskiye (now Gorki Leninskiye State Historical Museum-Reserve). Laying flowers at the sculpture The Funeral of the Leader. Sculptor Sergei Merkulov.05.03.1981#8173775
The 26th Congress of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union, Kremlin Palace of Congresses (now State Kremlin Palace), February 23 - March 3, 1981. Fidel Castro Ruz, First Secretary of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of Cuba, President of the Council of State and President of the Council of Ministers of Cuba, who arrived as head of the Cuban Communist Party's delegation to take part in the 26th Congress of the Communist Party of the USSR, visits the city of Odessa during his trip to the Ukrainian SSR.04.03.1981#8173773
Karen Demirchyan, a delegate of the 26th conference of the Soviet Communist Party, First Secretary of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of the Armenian SSR, answers questions from Soviet and foreign journalists.01.03.1981#8514357
The 26th Congress of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union. Moscow. February 23 - March 3, 1981. The Kremlin Palace of Congresses. Grigory Gorban, steel melter at Azovstal (the Ukrainian SSR), two times Hero of Socialist Labor, second left.01.03.1981#3041319
The 26th Congress of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union. Moscow. February 23 - March 3, 1981. The Kremlin Palace of Congresses. Grigory Gorban, steel melter at Azovstal (the Ukrainian SSR), two times Hero of Socialist Labor.01.03.1981#3041318
The 26th Congress of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union. Moscow. February 23 - March 3, 1981. The Kremlin Palace of Congresses. Boris Paton, President of the Ukrainian Academy of Sciences, Director of the Paton Electric Welding Institute, two times Hero of Socialist Labor.01.03.1981#3041317
The 26th Congress of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union. Moscow. February 23 - March 3, 1981. The Kremlin Palace of Congresses. Boris Paton, President of the Ukrainian Academy of Sciences, Director of the Paton Electric Welding Institute, two times Hero of Socialist Labor.01.03.1981#3041316
The 26th Congress of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union. Moscow. 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#3041314
The 26th Congress of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union. Moscow. February 23 - March 3, 1981. The Kremlin Palace of Congresses. Ivan Golubyatnikov, a coal hewer at the coal mine named after K.A. Rumyantsev at Artemugol association (the Ukrainian SSR).01.03.1981#3041313
The 26th Congress of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union. Moscow. February 23 - March 3, 1981. The Kremlin Palace of Congresses. Writer Yury Bondarev, the Lenin Prize laureate, the RSFSR and the USSR State Prize laureate.01.03.1981#3041312
The 26th Congress of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union. Moscow. February 23 - March 3, 1981. The Kremlin Palace of Congresses. Marshal of the Soviet Union, twice Hero of the Soviet Union Vasily Chuikov.01.03.1981#3041311
The 26th Congress of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union. Moscow. February 23 - March 3, 1981. The Kremlin Palace of Congresses. Writer and poet Nikolai Gribachev, the USSR State Prize laureate, the Lenin Prize laureate, Hero of Socialist Labor, Editor in Chief of "Sovetsky Soyuz" (the Soviet Union) magazine.01.03.1981#3041310
The 26th Congress of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union. Moscow. February 23 - March 3, 1981. USSR pilot-cosmonaut, two-time Hero of the Soviet Union Pyotr Klimchuk.01.03.1981#3041309
The 26th Congress of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union. Moscow. February 23 - March 3, 1981. The Kremlin Palace of Congresses. Lidiya Vasilchenko, a worker at the Donetsk worsted spinning mill.01.03.1981#3041308
The 26th Congress of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union. Moscow. February 23 - March 3, 1981. The Kremlin Palace of Congresses. Writer Mikhail Alexeyev, Maxim Gorky RSFSR State Prize laureate, Hero of Socialist Labor, Chief Editor of the magazine "Moskva" ("Moscow").01.03.1981#3041307
The 26th Congress of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union. Moscow. February 23 - March 3, 1981. The Kremlin Palace of Congresses. Iraida Kryshen, operator at Moscow Machine-Building Plant.01.03.1981#3041306
The 26th Congress of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union. February 23 - March 3, 1981. The Kremlin Palace of Congresses. Venezuelan Communist Party General Secretary Jesus Faria, second right, with Mikhail Ulyanov, congress delegate and People's Artist of the USSR.01.03.1981#2979432
The 26th Congress of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union. February 23 - March 3, 1981. The Kremlin Palace of Congresses. From left: Farman Salmanov, head of Glavtyumengeologiya, Hero of Socialist Labor, doctor of Geological Mineralogical Sciences, with People's Artist of the USSR Mikhail Ulyanov.01.03.1981#2979431
The 26th Congress of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union. February 23 - March 3, 1981. The Kremlin Palace of Congresses. Gennady Bashtanyuk, congress delegate, candidate to the membership in the CPSU Central Committee and mechanical technician at KAMAZ truck manufacturer, Tatar ASSR.01.03.1981#2979430
The 26th Congress of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union. February 23 - March 3, 1981. The Kremlin Palace of Congresses. Bakhargul Kuliyeva, congress delegate and milker at the Nine Ashkhabad Commissars state farm, Tajik SSR.01.03.1981#2979427
The 26th Congress of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union. February 23 - March 3, 1981. A break between sessions.01.03.1981#2979426
The 26th Congress of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union. February 23 - March 3, 1981. The Kremlin Palace of Congresses. Lyudmila Voinich, congress delegate and installation fitter at the Minsk Computing Machine Factory, Belorussian SSR.01.03.1981#2979425
The 26th Congress of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union. February 23 - March 3, 1981. The Kremlin Palace of Congresses. Academician Anatoly Alexandrov, second right, president of the USSR Academy of Sciences, with congress delegates from Moldavia.01.03.1981#2979409
The 26th Congress of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union. February 23 - March 3, 1981. Delegates.01.03.1981#2979408
The 26th Congress of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union. February 23 - March 3, 1981. The Kremlin Palace of Congresses. Congress delegates V.A. Penkos, tractor team leader from the Zaporozhye region, Ukrainian SSR, and N.V. Pereverzeva, combine driver from the Put Lenina collective farm, Peschano-Kumsky district, Rostov region.01.03.1981#2979407
The 26th Congress of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union. February 23 - March 3, 1981. The Kremlin Palace of Congresses. Delegates from the Belorussian SSR: L.I. Vyshinskaya, worker at the Kommunarka confectionery factory; Lyudmila Voinich, installation fitter at the Minsk Computing Machine Factory; T. I. Buslo, senior seller at the Stolychny supermarket.01.03.1981#2979406
The 26th Congress of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union. February 23 - March 3, 1981. The Kremlin Palace of Congresses. Heydar Aliyev, first secretary of the Communist Party of the Azerbaijan SSR and candidate to the Politburo of the Communist Party of the USSR, with congress delegates.01.03.1981#2979405
The 26th Congress of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union. February 23 - March 3, 1981. The Kremlin Palace of Congresses. Chilean Communist Party General Secretary Luis Corvalan.01.03.1981#2979404
The 26th Congress of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union. February 23 - March 3, 1981. The Kremlin Palace of Congresses. Inna Dukhovnikova, a congress delegate and worker at the Shchuchinskaya poultry farm, Kokchetavskaya region, Kazakh SSR).01.03.1981#2979403
The 26th Congress of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union. February 23 - March 3, 1981. The Kremlin Palace of Congresses. Soodat Muetdinova, congress delegate and leader of a cotton-growing team at the Kuibyshev Collective Farm, Andizhanskaya region, Marmakhatsky district, Uzbek SSR.01.03.1981#2979402
The 26th Congress of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union. February 23 - March 3, 1981. The Kremlin Palace of Congresses. Gennady Sizov, chairman of the CPSU Central Auditing Commission, with congress delegates.01.03.1981#2979400
The 26th Congress of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union. February 23 - March 3, 1981. The Kremlin Palace of Congresses. Terenty Maltsev, congress delegate, twice Hero of Socialist Labor, honorary academician of the Lenin All-Union Academy of Agricultural Sciences and an agronomist at the Zavety Ilyicha collective farm, the Kurgan region.01.03.1981#2979399
The 26th Congress of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union. February 23 - March 3, 1981. The Kremlin Palace of Congresses. Viktor Ambartsumyan, president of the Academy of Sciences of the Armenian SSR and academician of the Academy of Sciences of the USSR, with Karen Demirchyan, first secretary of the Communist Party of the Armenian SSR.01.03.1981#2979398
The 26th Congress of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union. February 23 - March 3, 1981. The Kremlin Palace of Congresses. Oleg Makarov, center, Soviet pilot and cosmonaut, twice Hero of the Soviet Union, during a break between session.01.03.1981#2979397
Álvaro Cunhal, general secretary of the Portuguese Communist Party, during a news conference at the press center of the 26th Congress of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union.01.03.1981#2979396
The 26th Congress of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union. February 23 - March 3, 1981. The Kremlin Palace of Congresses. Standing in the center: Bulgarian Communist Party General Secretary Todor Zhivkov. Right: Boris Yeltsin, First Secretary of the Sverdlovsk Regional Committee of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union.01.03.1981#2979393
The 26th Congress of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union. February 23 - March 3, 1981. The Kremlin Palace of Congresses. János Kádár, center, general secretary of the Hungarian Socialist Workers' Party, with congress delegates.01.03.1981#2979391
The 26th Congress of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union. February 23 - March 3, 1981. The Kremlin Palace of Congresses.01.03.1981#2979389
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: Irina Rodnina, multiple-time figure skating champion of the USSR, Europe, the world and the Olympics, and People Artist of the USSR Vija Artmane.01.03.1981#2979384
Oles (Oleksandr) Honchar, a Ukrainian writer and delegate to the 26th Congress, during a news conference at the press center of the 26th Congress of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union.01.03.1981#2979383
Oles (Oleksandr) Honchar, a Ukrainian writer and delegate to the 26th Congress, during a news conference at the press center of the 26th Congress of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union.01.03.1981#2979382
The 26th Congress of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union. February 23 - March 3, 1981. The Kremlin Palace of Congresses. Chingiz Aitmatov, People's Writer of the Kirghiz SSR, winner of the Lenin Prize and State Prize of the USSR.01.03.1981#2979381
The 26th Congress of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union. February 23 - March 3, 1981. The Kremlin Palace of Congresses. Congress delegates L. Filatova, spinner at the 50th Anniversary of the USSR Production Complex, Shakhty, Ukrainian SSR, and Z. Yeremenko, polisher at Rostselmash factory, Rostov-on-Don.01.03.1981#2979376
The 26th Congress of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union. February 23 - March 3, 1981. The Kremlin Palace of Congress. Head of the Trudovskaya mine section of the Donetskugol production unit, two-time Hero of the Socialist Labor Ivan Strelchenko (Ukrainian Soviet Socialist Republic)01.03.1981#2985262
The 26th Congress of the CPSU. February 23 -March 3, 1981. The Kremlin Palace of Congresses. Sergei Gerasimov, People's Artist of the USSR, Hero of Socialist Labor, film director, among other delegates.01.03.1981#2985261
The 26th Congress of the CPSU. February 23 -March 3, 1981. The Kremlin Palace of Congresses. First Secretary of the Communist Party of the Georgian SSR Eduard Shevardnadze with members of the Georgian delegation.01.03.1981#2985259
The 26th Congress of the CPSU. February 23 -March 3, 1981. The Kremlin Palace of Congresses. People's Artist of the USSR, Hero of Socialist Labor, Director of the State Academic Maly Theatre of the USSR Mikhail Tsaryov among other delegates.01.03.1981#2985258
The 26th Congress of the CPSU. February 23 -March 3, 1981. The Kremlin Palace of Congresses. Andriyan Nikolayev, pilot-cosmonaut of the USSR, Major General of the Aviation, twice Hero of the Soviet Union.01.03.1981#2985257
