M.S. Gorbachev's trip to the Armenian SSR

USSR. Armenian SSR. Leninakan. General Secretary of the CPSU Central Committee, Chairman of the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet of the USSR Mikhail Sergeyevich Gorbachev (center, background), his wife Raisa Maksimovna Gorbacheva (second from left, foreground), First Secretary of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of Armenia Suren Gurgenovich Arutyunyan (left, foreground) and Secretary of the CPSU Central Committee Nikolai Nikitovich Slyunkov (left, background) during a meeting with city residents affected by the earthquake on December 7, 1988. Yu. Lizunov, A. Chumichev/TASS