VI International Tchaikovsky Competition in Moscow

July 1-3, 1978. USSR. Moscow. Soviet opera singers, soloists of the State Academic Bolshoi Theater of the USSR Nikita Leonidovich Storozhev, who won second prize in the Solo Singing nomination (left), Lyudmila Stepanovna Shemchuk, who won first prize in the Solo Singing specialty, and American opera singer Edmund Toliver, who received a diploma and a prize for the best performance of the mandatory work of the Soviet composer Dmitry Dmitrievich Shostakovich "Separation", (center) near the building of the P.I. Tchaikovsky Concert Hall on Mayakovsky Square during the VI International Tchaikovsky Competition. Alexander Konkov, Valentin Kuzmin/TASS