II International Tchaikovsky Competition

USSR. Moscow. May 7, 1962. Chairman of the competition's organizing committee, composer Dmitry Dmitrievich Shostakovich (left) and Soviet cellist Natalya Nikolaevna Shakhovskaya, who won first place in the International Tchaikovsky Competition, during the awards ceremony in the Great Hall of the Moscow Conservatory. Alexander Konkov/TASS