



General Secretary of the CPSU Central Committee K. U. Chernenko reads the decree on awarding the Minister of Foreign Affairs A. A. Gromyko with the Order of Lenin (the moment of presentation of the award is not shown). A. A. Gromyko delivers a response speech.
Members of the Politburo of the CPSU Central Committee congratulate A. A. Gromyko on the award.
Present are G. A. Aliyev, V. I. Vorotnikov, M. S. Gorbachev, G. V. Romanov, M. S. Sonoshentsev, N. A. Tikhonov, P. N. Demichev, V. I. Dolgikh, V. V. Kuznetsov, B. N. Ponomarev, V. M. Chebrikov, M. V. Zimyanin, I. V. Kapitonov, E. K. Ligachev, N. I. Ryzhkov, A. F. Vatchenko.
Gromyko A.A. - Soviet diplomat
statesman
Minister of Foreign Affairs of the USSR (1957-1985)
Chairman of the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet of the USSR (1985-1988)
Doctor of Economics. Chernenko K.U. -- statesman and political figure
General Secretary of the Central Committee of the CPSU
Chairman of the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet of the USSR. Aliev G.A. -- state
party and political figure
1st Deputy Chairman of the Council of Ministers of the USSR
President of Azerbaijan (1993-2003). Vorotnikov V.I. -- party and state figure
Chairman of the Council of Ministers of the RSFSR
Hero of Socialist Labor. Gorbachev M.S. -- state
political and public figure
the last General Secretary of the CPSU Central Committee
the last Chairman of the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet of the USSR
First Chairman of the Supreme Soviet of the USSR
the only President of the USSR. Tikhonov N.A. -- Soviet statesman and party figure
Chairman of the Council of Ministers of the USSR
Doctor of Technical Sciences
Twice Hero of Socialist Labor. Demichev P.N. -- state and party figure
Minister of Culture of the USSR
1st Deputy Chairman of the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet of the USSR. Kuznetsov V.V. -- Soviet political and state figure
1st Deputy Chairman of the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet of the USSR
Twice Hero of Socialist Labor. Ponomarev B.N. -- party activist
Academician of the USSR Academy of Sciences
Hero of Socialist Labor. Chebrikov V.M. -- state and party figure
Chairman of the KGB of the USSR
General of the Army
Hero of Socialist Labor. Zimyanin M.V. -- Soviet party activist
Hero of Socialist Labor
Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of the USSR. Ligachev E.K. -- statesman and political figure
Secretary of the Central Committee of the CPSU
Honorary Citizen of Tomsk Region. Ryzhkov N.I. -- state and party figure
Chairman of the Council of Ministers of the USSR. Vatchenko A.F. -- Ukrainian party and state figure
Chairman of the Presidium of the Supreme Council of the Ukrainian SSR (1976-1984)
Hero of Socialist Labor.
1984
Moscow