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

USSR. Moscow. October 22, 1969 First Deputy Chairman of the Council of Ministers of the USSR Dmitry Stepanovich Polyansky, member of the Politburo of the CPSU Central Committee, 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, General Secretary of the CPSU Central Committee Leonid Ilyich Brezhnev, USSR pilot-cosmonauts Andriyan Grigoryevich Nikolaev, Boris Valentinovich Volynov, Evgeny Vasilyevich Khrunov, Alexey Arkhipovich Leonov, Boris Borisovich Egorov (from left to right in the background) at the solemn meeting of the crew members of the Soyuz-6, Soyuz-7 and Soyuz-8 spacecraft in during the performance of the USSR National Anthem at Vnukovo Airport. Victor Budan/TASS