Visit of the Soviet delegation to the GDR

USSR. Moscow. First Deputy Chairman of the USSR Council of Ministers Nikolai Aleksandrovich Tikhonov, Chairman of the State Security Committee under the USSR Council of Ministers Yuri Vladimirovich Andropov, Chairman of the USSR Council of Ministers Alexei Nikolaevich Kosygin, USSR Minister of Foreign Affairs Andrei Andreevich Gromyko, Deputy Chairmen of the USSR Council of Ministers Leonid Vasilyevich Smirnov, Veniamin Emmanuilovich Dymshits and Secretary of the CPSU Central Committee Konstantin Fedorovich Katushev (from left to right in the foreground) during the welcoming ceremony at Vnukovo Airport upon their return from Berlin after participating in the XXX session of the Council for Mutual Economic Assistance. Alexander Konkov/TASS