H. Assad's visit to the USSR

USSR. Moscow. USSR Foreign Minister Andrei Andreevich Gromyko, Chairman of the USSR Council of Ministers Alexei Nikolaevich Kosygin, General Secretary of the CPSU Central Committee, Chairman of the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet of the USSR Leonid Ilyich Brezhnev, General Secretary of the Arab Socialist Revival Party, President of the Syrian Arab Republic Hafez al-Assad (from right to left in the foreground) and USSR Defense Minister, Marshal of the Soviet Union Dmitry Fyodorovich Ustinov (second from left in the background) before the start of negotiations in the Kremlin. Eduard Pesov/TASS