J. Ford's visit to the USSR

USSR. Primorsky Krai. Vladivostok. President of the United States of America Gerald Rudolph Ford, Jr., and General Secretary of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union Leonid Ilyich Brezhnev (from left to right in the foreground), US Secretary of State Henry Alfred Kissinger, Minister of Foreign Affairs of the USSR Andrei Andreyevich Gromyko, Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of the USSR to the USA Anatoly Fyodorovich Dobrynin (from left to right in the background) and personal interpreter of L. I. Brezhnev Viktor Mikhailovich Sukhodrev (second from left in the background) during the signing ceremony of the joint Soviet-American communiqué. J. Ford arrived in the USSR after official visits to Japan and the Republic of Korea for talks with L. I. Brezhnev on the limitation of strategic weapons and the drafting of a corresponding treaty. Yuri Muravin, Vladimir Musaelyan/TASS