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

USSR. Ukrainian SSR. Kyiv. 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, General Secretary of the CPSU Central Committee, Chairman of the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet of the USSR Mikhail Sergeyevich Gorbachev, member of the Politburo of the CPSU Central Committee, First Secretary of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of Ukraine Vladimir Vasilyevich Shcherbitsky (from left to right in the foreground), Chairman of the Council of Ministers of the Ukrainian SSR Vitaly Andreevich Masol and Chairman of the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet of the Ukrainian SSR Valentina Semenovna Shevchenko (from right to left in the center in the background) during a visit to the Institute of Materials Science Problems of the Academy of Sciences of the Ukrainian SSR. Yuri Lizunov, Alexander Chumichev/TASS