Visit of N. M. Taraki to the USSR

USSR. Moscow. Member of the Politburo of the People's Democratic Party of Afghanistan (PDPA), Secretary of the PDPA Central Committee, Deputy Prime Minister, Minister of Foreign Affairs Hafizullah Amin, Secretary of the CPSU Central Committee Boris Nikolayevich Ponomarev, USSR Minister of Foreign Affairs Andrei Andreevich Gromyko, General Secretary of the PDPA Central Committee, Chairman of the Revolutionary Council, Prime Minister of the Democratic Republic of Afghanistan Nur Mohammad Taraki, General Secretary of the CPSU Central Committee Leonid Ilyich Brezhnev, Member of the Politburo of the CPSU Central Committee, Chairman of the USSR Council of Ministers Alexei Nikolayevich Kosygin, Member of the Politburo of the PDPA Central Committee, Minister of Higher Education M. Suma and Member of the Politburo of the PDPA Central Committee, Secretary of the PDPA, Minister of Public Health, Acting Minister of Planning Shah Wali (from left to right in the foreground) before the start of negotiations in the Kremlin. Valentin Kuzmin, Vladimir Musaelyan/TASS