H. Assad's visit to the USSR

USSR. Moscow. Chairman of the Council of Ministers of the USSR Alexei Nikolaevich Kosygin, General Secretary of the Arab Socialist Revival Party, President of the Syrian Arab Republic Hafez al-Assad, who arrived in the Soviet Union at the invitation of the CPSU Central Committee, the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet of the USSR and the Council of Ministers of the USSR, General Secretary of the CPSU Central Committee, Chairman of the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet of the USSR Leonid Ilyich Brezhnev and Minister of Defense of the USSR, Marshal of the Soviet Union Dmitry Fyodorovich Ustinov (from left to right in the foreground) during the welcoming ceremony at Vnukovo Airport. Eduard Pesov/TASS