Awarding of L.I. Brezhnev 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, awarded the Order of Victory, Secretary of the CPSU Central Committee Mikhail Andreevich Suslov (from right to left in the foreground), Chairman of the State Security Committee under the Council of Ministers of the USSR Yuri Vladimirovich Andropov, Secretary of the CPSU Central Committee Andrei Pavlovich Kirilenko, Chairman of the Council of Ministers of the USSR Alexey Nikolaevich Kosygin, First Secretary of the Moscow City Committee of the CPSU Viktor Vasilyevich Grishin, Minister of Defense of the USSR, Marshal of the Soviet Union Dmitry Fedorovich Ustinov, First Deputy Chairman of the Council of Ministers of the USSR Kirill Trofimovich Mazurov, First Deputy Chairman of the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet of the USSR Vasily Vasilyevich Kuznetsov, Secretaries of the CPSU Central Committee Mikhail Vasilyevich Zimyanin and Yakov Petrovich Ryabov (from right to left in the background) during the award ceremony in the Vladimir Hall of the Grand Kremlin Palace. Eduard Pesov/TASS