Moscow. House of Unions. The opening of the Hall of Columns III-th Congress of Artists. Among those present at the presidium of the Party and government leaders: Brezhnev, Kosygin, GI Voronov, Dmitry Ustinov, folk artists of the USSR: EF Belashova, NV Tomsk, M . K. Anikushin. Among the speakers at the congress: EF Belashova, A. Plastov, MK Anikushin, foreign guests, representing the art of foreign countries: Vido Geza (Romania), Istvan March (Hungary), Wlodzimierz Buczek (Poland) and others. Vice-Chairman of the Presidium of the USSR Supreme MA Yasnov attaches the Order of Lenin to the flag of the Union of Artists of the USSR.