H. Assad's visit to the USSR

USSR. Moscow. General Secretary of the CPSU Central Committee, Chairman of the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet of the USSR Leonid Ilyich Brezhnev and General Secretary of the Arab Socialist Revival Party, President of the Syrian Arab Republic Hafez al-Assad (left to right in the foreground), who arrived in the Soviet Union at the invitation of the CPSU Central Committee, the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet of the USSR and the Council of Ministers of the USSR, during the welcoming ceremony at Vnukovo Airport. Albert Pushkarev/TASS