F. Castro's visit to the USSR

USSR. Moscow. July 3, 1972. Members of the Politburo of the CPSU Central Committee: Aleksandr Nikolaevich Shelepin, Arvid Yanovich Pelshe, Andrei Pavlovich Kirilenko, Chairman of the Council of Ministers of the USSR Aleksei Nikolaevich Kosygin (from right to left in the background), Deputy Chairman of the Council of Ministers of the USSR Pyotr Efimovich Shelest (second from left in the background), member of the Secretariat of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of Cuba (CPC) Carlos Rafael Rodriguez (third from left in the background), Chairman of the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet of the USSR Nikolai Viktorovich Podgorny (fourth from left in the background) and First Secretary of the Central Committee of the CPC, Prime Minister of the Republic of Cuba Fidel Alejandro Castro Ruz (right in the foreground), speaking at a reception in honor of the CPSU Central Committee, the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet of the USSR and the Soviet government, organized by F. Castro at the Embassy of the Republic of Cuba. Viktor Koshevoy, Vladimir Musaelyan/TASS