Presentation of state awards in the Kremlin

USSR. Moscow. General Secretary of the CPSU Central Committee, Chairman of the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet of the USSR Leonid Ilyich Brezhnev, Academician of the USSR Academy of Sciences, Director of the Main Botanical Garden of the USSR Academy of Sciences Nikolai Vasilyevich Tsitsin (from right to left in the foreground), Chairman of the Union Council of the Supreme Soviet of the USSR Alexey Pavlovich Shitikov, Secretary of the CPSU Central Committee Mikhail Sergeevich Gorbachev, candidate member of the Politburo of the CPSU Central Committee, First Secretary of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of the Georgian SSR Eduard Amvrosievich Shevardnadze, First Deputy Chairman of the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet of the USSR Vasily Vasilyevich Kuznetsov and Secretary of the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet of the USSR Mikhail Porfirievich Georgadze (from left to right in the background) after the ceremony of awarding state awards in the Kremlin. Eduard Pesov/TASS