The sixth session of the Supreme Soviet of the USSR of the ninth convocation in Moscow

USSR. Moscow. General Secretary of the CPSU Central Committee Leonid Ilyich Brezhnev, Chairman of the Council of Ministers of the USSR Alexey Nikolaevich Kosygin, Secretary of the CPSU Central Committee Mikhail Andreevich Suslov (from right to left in the second row), Chairman of the Party Control Committee under the CPSU Central Committee Arvid Yanovich Pelshe, First Secretary of the Moscow City Committee of the CPSU Viktor Vasilyevich Grishin, First Deputy Chairman of the Council of Ministers of the USSR Kirill Trofimovich Mazurov (from left to right in the third row), Head of the International Department of the CPSU Central Committee Boris Nikolaevich Ponomarev, First Secretary of the Leningrad Regional Committee of the CPSU Grigory Vasilyevich Romanov, Minister of Defense of the USSR Marshal of the Soviet Union Dmitry Fedorovich Ustinov, Chairman of the Committee on State Security under the Council of Ministers of the USSR Yuri Vladimirovich Andropov and Minister of Foreign Affairs of the USSR Andrei Andreevich Gromyko (from left to right in the fourth row) during a joint meeting of the Council of the Union and the Council of Nationalities within the framework of the sixth session of the Supreme Soviet of the USSR of the ninth convocation in the meeting hall of the Grand Kremlin Palace. Vladimir Musaelyan/TASS