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

USSR. Armenian SSR. Leninakan. Chairman of the Council of Ministers of the USSR Nikolai Ivanovich Ryzhkov, General Secretary of the CPSU Central Committee, Chairman of the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet of the USSR Mikhail Sergeyevich Gorbachev (from right to left in the foreground) and head of M.S. Gorbachev's security Vladimir Timofeevich Medvedev (from right in the background) during a meeting with city residents affected by the earthquake of December 7, 1988. Yu. Lizunov, A. Chumichev/TASS