Opening ceremony of the XII World Festival of Youth and Students in Moscow

USSR. Moscow. Secretary of the CPSU Central Committee Boris Nikolaevich Ponomarev, Minister of Foreign Affairs of the USSR Eduard Amvrosievich Shevardnadze, Secretary of the CPSU Central Committee Boris Nikolaevich Yeltsin, Deputy Chairman of the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet of the USSR Vasily Vasilyevich Kuznetsov, Minister of Culture of the USSR Pyotr Nilovich Demichev, Minister of Defense of the USSR Sergei Leonidovich Sokolov and Secretary of the CPSU Central Committee Konstantin Viktorovich Rusakov (from left to right) at the opening ceremony of the XII World Festival of Youth and Students at the Grand Sports Arena of the Central Stadium named after V. I. Lenin. Vladimir Musaelyan, Eduard Pesov/TASS