Visit of N. M. Taraki to the USSR

USSR. Moscow. General Secretary of the CPSU Central Committee, Chairman of the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet of the USSR Leonid Ilyich Brezhnev, General Secretary of the Central Committee of the People's Democratic Party of Afghanistan (PDPA), Chairman of the Revolutionary Council, Prime Minister of the Democratic Republic of Afghanistan (DRA) Nur Mohammad Taraki (from right to left in the foreground), Minister of Foreign Affairs of the USSR Andrei Andreevich Gromyko (from right in the background) and member of the Politburo of the PDPA Central Committee, Secretary of the PDPA, Minister of Public Health of the DRA, Acting Minister of Planning Shah Wali (third from left in the background) during the signing ceremony of the Treaty of Friendship, Good-Neighborliness and Cooperation between the USSR and the DRA in the Vladimir Hall of the Grand Kremlin Palace. Eduard Pesov/TASS