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

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