Visit of N. M. Taraki to the USSR

USSR. Moscow. Secretary of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union (CPSU) Boris Nikolayevich Ponomarev (second from right), Minister of Foreign Affairs of the USSR Andrei Andreevich Gromyko (third from right), General Secretary of the CPSU Central Committee Leonid Ilyich Brezhnev (fourth from right), member of the Politburo of the CPSU Central Committee, Chairman of the Council of Ministers of the USSR Alexei Nikolayevich Kosygin (fifth from right), member of the Politburo of the Central Committee of the People's Democratic Party of Afghanistan (PDPA), Secretary of the PDPA, Minister of Public Health, Acting Minister of Planning Shah Wali (third from left), General Secretary of the PDPA Central Committee, Chairman of the Revolutionary Council, Prime Minister of the Democratic Republic of Afghanistan Nur Mohammad Taraki (fourth from left) and member of the Politburo of the PDPA Central Committee, Minister of Agriculture and Land Reform Saleh Muhammad Zerai (seventh from left) during negotiations in the Kremlin. Valentin Kuzmin, Vladimir Musaelyan/TASS