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

USSR. Armenian SSR. Leninakan. First Secretary of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of Armenia Suren Gurgenovich Arutyunyan, wife of M. S. Gorbachev Raisa Maksimovna (from left to right in the foreground), Secretary of the Central Committee of the CPSU Nikolai Nikitovich Slyunkov and General Secretary of the Central Committee of the CPSU, Chairman of the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet of the USSR Mikhail Sergeyevich Gorbachev (from left to right in the background) during a meeting with residents of the city affected by the earthquake of December 7, 1988. Yu. Lizunov, A. Chumichev/TASS