Meeting of the crews of the spacecraft Soyuz-6, Soyuz-7 and Soyuz-8 in Moscow

USSR. Moscow. October 22, 1969 Participants in the group flight of the spacecraft Soyuz-6, Soyuz-7 and Soyuz-8, USSR pilot-cosmonauts Vladimir Aleksandrovich Shatalov, Valery Nikolaevich Kubasov, Georgy Stepanovich Shonin, Vladislav Nikolaevich Volkov, Anatoly Vasilyevich Filipchenko, Alexey Stanislavovich Eliseev, General Secretary of the CPSU Central Committee Leonid Ilyich Brezhnev, USSR pilot-cosmonaut Viktor Vasilyevich Gorbatko, Chairman of the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet of the USSR Nikolai Viktorovich Podgorny and member of the Politburo of the CPSU Central Committee, Chairman of the Council of Ministers of the USSR Alexei Nikolaevich Kosygin (from left to right) at the welcoming ceremony at Vnukovo airport. Victor Budan/TASS