T. Zhivkov's visit to the USSR

USSR. Moscow. First Secretary of the Central Committee of the Bulgarian Communist Party, Chairman of the State Council of the People's Republic of Bulgaria Todor Zhivkov, General Secretary of the CPSU Central Committee Leonid Ilyich Brezhnev, awarded the second Gold Star of the Hero of the People's Republic of Belarus and the Order of Georgi Dimitrov for exceptional services and on the occasion of the 70th anniversary (from left to right in the foreground), Secretary of the CPSU Central Committee Boris Nikolaevich Ponomarev, Secretary of the CPSU Central Committee Fedor Davydovich Kulakov, Minister of Foreign Affairs of the USSR Andrei Andreevich Gromyko, Minister of Defense of the USSR Dmitry Fedorovich Ustinov, Chairman of the Council of Ministers of the USSR Alexey Nikolaevich Kosygin, Chairman of the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet of the USSR Nikolai Viktorovich Podgorny and Secretary of the CPSU Central Committee Mikhail Andreevich Suslov (from left to right in the background) during the award ceremony in the Vladimir Hall Grand Kremlin Palace. Eduard Pesov/TASS