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Soviet General Secretary Mikhail Gorbachev, PM Nikolai Ryzhkov

Soviet General Secretary Mikhail Gorbachev, left, background, and Premier Nikolai Ryzhkov, right, background, at the 28th Congress of the Communist Party.

10.07.1990#549995

Gennady Yanayev, Chairman of All-Union Central Council of Trade Unions

Gennady Yanayev, a Soviet statesman, Communist Party and political activist and Chairman of the All-Union Central Council of Trade Unions.

20.04.1990#6644487

Global Forum on Human Survival

On January 15-19, 1990, Moscow was the venue for the Global Forum on Human Survival. Photo: Mikhail Gorbachev, General Secretary of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union and Speaker of the Supreme Soviet (Parliament) of the USSR, speaks at the forum.

11.01.1990#8352765

Secretary of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union Andrei Girenko.

02.10.1989#8449866

Secretary of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union Andrei Girenko.

02.10.1989#8449865

Secretary of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union Andrei Girenko.

02.10.1989#8449864

Secretary of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union Gumer Usmanov.

02.10.1989#8449863

Secretary of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union Andrei Girenko.

02.10.1989#8449862

Arab delegation's visit to USSR

A visit by a Arab delegation to the USSR. First Deputy Chairman of the Presidium of Supreme Soviet of the USSR, Pyotr Demichev, 5th right, during the meeting with members of the committee on inter-Arab and international affairs of the People's Assembly of the Syrian Arab Republic.

15.06.1988#6551267

Arab delegation's visit to USSR

A visit by a Arab delegation to the USSR. First deputy Chairman of the Presidium of Supreme Soviet of the USSR, Pyotr Demichev, 4th right, during the talks with members of the committee on inter-Arab and international affairs of the People's Assembly of the Syrian Arab Republic, led by N. Dwaidari, right.

15.06.1988#6551266

Days of GDR Culture in USSR

The Days of GDR Culture in the USSR marking the 35th anniversary of establishing the German Democratic Republic. Soviet Minister of Culture Pyotr Demichev, standing left, welcomes a GDR delegation at the State Academic Bolshoi Theater of the USSR, now Russia.

10.10.1984#6001047

Alma-Ata Cotton Integrated Works

The Kazakh SSR. D. Dzhilkibayeva, Secretary of the Communist Party Committee of the Alma-Ata Cotton Integrated Works, second right, and weaver and Hero of Socialist Labor Lidia Kochetova, second right, with the enterprise's weavers.

01.07.1983#8141033

Alma-Ata Cotton Integrated Works

The Kazakh SSR. D. Dzhilkibayeva, Secretary of the Communist Party Committee of the Alma-Ata Cotton Integrated Works.

01.07.1983#8141025

Tengiz Menteshashvili, First Secretary of the Tbilisi City Committee of the Communist Party of Georgia

Georgian SSR. Tengiz Menteshashvili, First Secretary of the Tbilisi City Committee of the Communist Party of Georgia.

21.04.1982#6677561

UN Secretary-General Kurt Waldheim visits USSR

A visit by United Nations representatives to the USSR. UN Secretary-General Kurt Waldheim, 2nd left, General Secretary of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of the USSR Leonid Brezhnev, center, and Foreign Minister of the USSR Andrei Gromyko, right, before the talks.

14.05.1981#5964849

UN Secretary-General Kurt Waldheim visits USSR

A visit by United Nations representatives to the USSR. From right: UN Secretary-General Kurt Waldheim and First Secretary of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of the Ukrainian USSR Vladimir Shcherbitsky.

14.05.1981#5964847

Olympic Village for 1980 Summer Olympic Games.

Second right: Le Duan, Secretary-General of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of the Socialist Republic of Vietnam, and Ignaty Novikov, Deputy Chair of the USSR Council of Ministers and Chair of the USSR State Committee on Construction, Chair of the Organizing Committee of the 1980 Olympic Games in Moscow, third right, visit the shopping mall in the Olympic Village.

08.07.1980#8200203

6th African, Asian and Latin America Film Festival

Uzbek SSR. 6th African, Asian and Latin America Film Festival (Tashkent, May 20-30, 1980), themed "For peace, social progress and freedom of the peoples". Opening ceremony at the Palace of Arts (now Navoi Panoramic Cinema). First Secretary of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of the Uzbek SSR Sharaf Rashidov speaking at the ceremony.

20.05.1980#8186716

7th Extraordinary Session of Supreme Soviet of USSR

The 7th Extraordinary Session of Supreme Soviet of the USSR, 9th Convocation, October 4-7, 1977. General Secretary of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of the USSR Leonid Brezhnev speaks with the proposal to adopt the new Constitution of the USSR.

04.10.1977#6523892

Babken Sarkisov, President of Presidium of Supreme Soviet of Armenian SSR

The Armenian SSR. Babken Sarkisov, President of the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet (Parliament) of the Armenian SSR, in his office.

18.04.1976#6567047

25th Congress of Communist Party of USSR

The 25th Congress of the Communist Party of the USSR, February 24-March 5, 1976. General Secretary of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of the USSR Leonid Brezhnev makes a report.

24.02.1976#5701158

General Secretary of CPSU Central Committee Leonid Brezhnev

General Secretary of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union Leonid Brezhnev, third left, meets with voters at the Kremlin Palace of Congresses.

19.07.1974#5951038

Delegates of 24th Congress of CPSU

The 24th Congress of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union. General Secretary of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union Leonid Brezhnev makes a report.

09.04.1971#5614975

Cuban delegation visits USSR

A visit by a Cuban delegation, led by Minister of Health Jose Ramon Machado Ventura, to the USSR. Visiting Lenin Mausoleum on Red Square.

01.11.1967#5714645

Cuban delegation visits USSR

A visit by a Cuban delegation, led by Minister of Health Jose Ramon Machado Ventura, center, to the USSR. Visiting the Cosmos pavilion at the Exhibition of National Economy Achievements of the USSR.

01.11.1967#5715434

Cuban delegation visits USSR

A visit by a Cuban delegation, led by Minister of Health Jose Ramon Machado Ventura, right, to the USSR. Visiting Moscow's Moskvitch economy car plant.

01.11.1967#5715433

Chairman of Council of Ministers of Belarusian SSR Tikhon Kiselyov

Chairman of the Council of Ministers of the Belarusian SSR Tikhon Kiselyov (1917-1983).

01.11.1965#5700333

Soviet politician Leonid Brezhnev

Leonid Brezhnev, First Secretary of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of the USSR and Hero of Socialist Labor.

01.11.1964#6105071

Nikita Khrushchev's Gold Star Medal

President of the Presidium of the USSR Supreme Soviet (Parliament) Leonid Brezhnev congratulates First Secretary of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union Nikita Khrushchev on receiving the title of Hero of the Soviet Union and awards him the Order of Lenin and the Gold Star Medal for outstanding achievements before the Communist Party and the Soviet state.

16.04.1964#6147181

Opening of 13th Congress of Trade Unions of USSR

The opening of the 13th Congress of Trade Unions of the USSR. Address by Secretary of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union (CPSU) Pyotr Demichev.

28.10.1963#5584756

President of Federal People's Republic of Yugoslavia Josip Broz Tito visits USSR

A visit by President of the Federal People's Republic of Yugoslavia Josip Broz Tito to the USSR. Yugoslavian guests in Kiev. Josip Broz Tito, left, and First Secretary of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of the Ukrainian SSR Nikolai Podgorny, right.

04.12.1962#6164943

Soviet statesman Nikita Khrushchev

Nikita Khrushchev (1st row, 2nd right), apprentice mechanic at the Bosse Machine-Building Ironworks, 1909-1912.

01.08.1962#5697221

Soviet statesman Nikita Khrushchev

Center: Nikita Khrushchev, instructor of the political department of the 9th Kuban Army, 1920.

01.08.1962#5697220

5th World Trade Union Congress

The 5th World Trade Union Congress. Chairman of the All-Union Central Soviet of Trade Unions Viktor Grishin greets the congress delegates at the Kremlin Palace of Congresses (now the State Kremlin Palace).

04.12.1961#5741764

Sixth Session of USSR Supreme Soviet of Fourth Convocation

The Sixth Session of the USSR Supreme Soviet (Parliament) of the Fourth Convocation (February 5-12, 1957). From left: Deputies of the USSR Supreme Soviet - First Secretary of the Moscow Regional Committee of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union Ivan Kapitonov, Chairman of the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet of the Uzbek SSR Sharaf Rashidov and Chairman of Zvezda Vostoka (Eastern Star) Collective Farm Khamrakul Tursunkulov - in between meetings.

05.02.1957#5966350

Members of All-Union Communist Party Central Committee's Political Bureau

Members of the USSR All-Union Communist Party Central Committee's Political Bureau (bolsheviks), from right: Mikhail Kalinin, Joseph Stalin, Vyacheslav Molotov, Lazar Kaganovich in the Kremlin.

07.11.1938#5480051

First convocation of USSR Supreme Council

Session of the USSR Supreme Council, first convocation. From right: Joseph Stalin, Secretary General of the All-Union Communist Party Central Committee's Political Bureau (bolsheviks), and members of the Political Bureau, Kliment Voroshilov, Mikhail Kalinin, Vyacheslav Molotov among the members of the USSR Supreme Council.

19.01.1938#5480055

First convocation of USSR Supreme Council

Session of the USSR Supreme Council, first convocation. Joseph Stalin, Secretary General of the All-Union Communist Party Central Committee's Political Bureau (bolsheviks), second right, and members of the Political Bureau, Vyacheslav Molotov, Kliment Voroshilov, Lazar Kaganovich and Andrei Andreyev, left to right, among the members of the USSR Supreme Council.

19.01.1938#5480050