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

USSR. Ukrainian SSR. Kiev region. Boryspil. Member of the Politburo of the CPSU Central Committee, First Secretary of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of Ukraine Vladimir Vasilyevich Shcherbitsky, General Secretary of the CPSU Central Committee, Chairman of the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet of the USSR Mikhail Sergeyevich Gorbachev, his wife Raisa Maksimovna, Chairman of the Council of Ministers of the Ukrainian SSR Vitaly Andreevich Masol, Chairman of the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet of the Ukrainian SSR Valentina Semenovna Shevchenko, V.V. Shcherbitsky's wife Rada Gavrilovna and First Secretary of the Lviv Regional Committee of the Communist Party of Ukraine Yakov Petrovich Pogrebnyak (from left to right in the foreground) during the farewell ceremony at Boryspil Airport. Yuri Lizunov, Alexander Chumichev/TASS