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

USSR. Armenian SSR. Leninakan. General Secretary of the CPSU Central Committee, Chairman of the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet of the USSR Mikhail Sergeyevich Gorbachev (center left), First Secretary of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of Armenia Suren Gurgenovich Arutyunyan (second from left in the foreground), Secretary of the CPSU Central Committee Nikolai Nikitovich Slyunkov (second from left in the third ground), Chairman of the Council of Ministers of the USSR Nikolai Ivanovich Ryzhkov (fourth from left in the third ground) and head of M. S. Gorbachev's security Vladimir Timofeevich Medvedev (third from left in the fourth ground) during a meeting with city residents affected by the earthquake on December 7, 1988. Yu. Lizunov, A. Chumichev/TASS