Signing of the cooperation agreement between the USSR and the USA in Moscow

USSR. Moscow. General Secretary of the CPSU Central Committee Leonid Ilyich Brezhnev, US President Richard Nixon (from right to left in the foreground), Special Assistant to the US President Alexander Meigs Haig Jr., Chairman of the USSR Council of Ministers Alexei Nikolayevich Kosygin, Chairman of the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet of the USSR Nikolai Viktorovich Podgorny, Minister of Foreign Affairs of the USSR Andrei Andreevich Gromyko (from left to right in the background), Senior Official of the US National Security Council Helmut Sonnenfeldt, Deputy Chairman of the USSR Council of Ministers, Chairman of the USSR State Planning Committee Nikolai Konstantinovich Baibakov and Head of the Agricultural Department of the CPSU Central Committee Fyodor Davydovich Kulakov (from left to right in the third background) during the signing of the long-term Agreement between the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics and the United States of America on Assistance to Economic, Industrial and Technical Cooperation. Vladimir Musaelyan/TASS