M.S. Gorbachev's trip to the Armenian SSR

USSR. Armenian SSR. Spitak. M. S. Gorbachev's wife Raisa Maksimovna Gorbacheva, General Secretary of the CPSU Central Committee, Chairman of the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet of the USSR Mikhail Sergeevich Gorbachev, Chairman of the Council of Ministers of the USSR Nikolai Ivanovich Ryzhkov (from left to right) and a French rescuer (second from right) participating in the search and rescue operation after earthquake on December 7, 1988, during the meeting. Yu. Lizunov, A. Chumichev/TASS