The XXVI Congress of the CPSU. CPSU Politburo member, Chairman of the USSR Council of Ministers Nikolai Tikhonov delivers the report Guidelines for the Economic and Social Development of the USSR between 1981 and 1985 and for the Period up to 1990. The Kremlin Palace of Congresses.27.02.1981#849291
The XXVI Congress of the CPSU. CPSU Politburo member, Chairman of the USSR Council of Ministers Nikolai Tikhonov delivers the report Guidelines for the Economic and Social Development of the USSR between 1981 and 1985 and for the Period up to 1990. The Kremlin Palace of Congresses.27.02.1981#849285
Delegates of the XXVI Congress of the CPSU: Ludmila Vasilchenko, working at the Moscow worsted mill, poet Irakli Abashidze, Honored Cultural Figure of the Georgian SSR, Hero of Socialist Labor, member of the Georgian SSR Academy of Sciences, Secretary of the USSR Writers' Union, and Yegor Drozdetsky, twice Hero of Socialist Labor, foreman at the Polosukhinskaya mine in Novokuznetsk. The Kremlin Palace of Congresses.23.02.1981#849299
Valentina Golubeva, twice Hero of Socialist Labor, USSR State Prize winner, member of the Presidium of the USSR Supreme Soviet, weaver at the Ivanovo worsted mill named after Lenin, speaks at the XXVI Congress of the CPSU. The Kremlin Palace of Congresses.23.02.1981#849298
First Secretary of the Cuban Communist Party, Chairman of the State Council and the Council of Ministers of Cuba Fidel Castro Ruz speaks at the XXVI Congress of the CPSU. The Kremlin Palace of Congresses.23.02.1981#849283
Delegates of the XXVI Congress of the CPSU (from left): People's Writer of the Kirgiz SSR, Hero of Socialist Labor Chyngyz Aitmatov, People's Writer of Belarus Ivan Shemyakin, and People's Poet of the Bashkir ASSR Mustay Karim (Mustafa Karimov) at the Kremlin Palace of Congresses.23.02.1981#849280
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.23.02.1981#849278
Chairman of the Worker's Party of Ethiopia Organizing Commission, Mengistu Haile Mariam (second left) with delegates of the XXVI Congress of the CPSU at the Kremlin Palace of Congresses.23.02.1981#849272
Participants of the XXVI Congress of the CPSU , Vietnamese Communists' delegation, headed by General Secretary of the Communist Party of Vietnam Le Duan (center) at the Kremlin Palace of Congresses.23.02.1981#849267
General Secretary of the Communist Party of the United States Gus Hall speaks at the XXVI Congress of the CPSU . The Kremlin Palace of Congresses.23.02.1981#849265
General Secretary of the Portuguese Communist Party, Alvaro Cunhal (center) with delegates of the XXVI Congress of the CPSU at the Kremlin Palace of Congresses.23.02.1981#849258
The session hall of the XXVI Congress of the CPSU at the Kremlin Palace of Congresses.23.02.1981#849256
Delegates of the XXVI Congress of the CPSU in the lobby of the Kremlin Palace of Congresses.23.02.1981#849248
CPSU Politburo members, heads of delegations of Communist, workers, and national democratic parties in the presidium of the XXVI Congress of the CPSU. The Kremlin Palace of Congresses.23.02.1981#849244
