Opening of the monument to Sh. Rustaveli in Moscow

USSR. Moscow. October 25, 1966. General Secretary of the CPSU Central Committee Leonid Ilyich Brezhnev, Chairman of the USSR Council of Ministers Alexei Nikolayevich Kosygin, poet Nikolai Semyonovich Tikhonov and Chairman of the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet of the USSR Nikolai Viktorovich Podgorny (from right to left in the foreground) during the unveiling ceremony of the monument to the 12th-century Georgian poet and thinker Shota Rustaveli on Gruzinskaya Square. The authors of the monument are sculptor M.I. Berdzenishvili and architect I.I. Loveiko. Valentin Mastyukov/TASS