Awarding of the laureates of the USSR State Prize 1976 in the Senate Palace of the Kremlin

USSR. Moscow. Writer Mikhail Nikolaevich Alekseev, People's Poet of the Kalmyk ASSR David Nikitich Kugultinov, Honored Artist of the Georgian SSR Merab Isidorovich Berdzenishvili, People's Artist of the Kyrgyz SSR ballerina Aisulu Asanbekovna Tokombaeva, artist Stasis Krasauskas, People's Artist of the RSFSR, composer Andrei Yakovlevich Eshpay (from left to right) after the ceremony presentation of diplomas and signs to laureates of the USSR State Prize in the field of literature, art and architecture in the Sverdlovsk Hall of the Senate Palace of the Kremlin. Vasily Egorov/TASS