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

USSR. Ukrainian SSR. Kyiv. Chairperson of the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet of the Ukrainian SSR Valentina Semenovna Shevchenko, General Secretary of the CPSU Central Committee, Chairman of the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet of the USSR Mikhail Sergeyevich Gorbachev, Vice-President of the Academy of Sciences of the Ukrainian SSR, Director of the Institute of Materials Science of the Academy of Sciences of the Ukrainian SSR Viktor Ivanovich Trefilov (from right to left in the foreground), President of the Academy of Sciences of the Ukrainian SSR, Director of the E. O. Paton Electric Welding Institute of the Academy of Sciences of the Ukrainian SSR Boris Evgenievich Paton (on the right in the background) and member of the Politburo of the CPSU Central Committee, First Secretary of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of Ukraine Vladimir Vasilyevich Shcherbitsky (in the center in the background) during a visit to the Institute of Materials Science of the Academy of Sciences of the Ukrainian SSR. Yuri Lizunov, Alexander Chumichev/TASS