M.S. Gorbachev's trip to the Latvian SSR

USSR. Moscow. General Secretary of the CPSU Central Committee Mikhail Sergeevich Gorbachev, (right), his wife Raisa Maksimovna and the head of his security Vladimir Timofeevich Medvedev (left), heading to the Latvian SSR, during the solemn farewell ceremony at the Vnukovo airfield. Victor Budan, Valentin Kuzmin/TASS