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

USSR. Armenian SSR. Leninakan. General Secretary of the CPSU Central Committee, Chairman of the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet of the USSR Mikhail Sergeyevich Gorbachev, his wife Raisa Maksimovna Gorbacheva (from right to left in the center), Secretary of the CPSU Central Committee Nikolai Nikitovich Slyunkov (in the center in the background) and Chairman of the Council of Ministers of the USSR Nikolai Ivanovich Ryzhkov (second from the right) during a meeting with residents of the city affected by the earthquake on December 7, 1988. Yu. Lizunov, A. Chumichev/TASS