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), L. I. Brezhnev's personal interpreter Viktor Mikhailovich Sukhodrev (left), USSR Minister of Foreign Affairs Andrei Andreevich Gromyko, Chairman of the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet of the USSR Nikolai Viktorovich Podgorny, head of the Agricultural Department of the CPSU Central Committee Fyodor Davydovich Kulakov, Chairman of the Council of Ministers of the USSR Alexei Nikolayevich Kosygin, senior official at the US National Security Council Helmut Sonnenfeldt and Special Assistant to the US President Alexander Meigs Haig Jr. (from right to left in the background) after signing 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