Signing of the cooperation agreement between the USSR and the USA in Moscow

USSR. Moscow. General Secretary of the CPSU Central Committee Leonid Ilyich Brezhnev (foreground, left), Chairman of the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet of the USSR Nikolai Viktorovich Podgorny, Minister of Foreign Affairs of the USSR Andrei Andreevich Gromyko, Chairman of the All-Union Central Council of Trade Unions Aleksandr Nikolaevich Shelepin, candidate member of the Politburo of the CPSU Central Committee, Secretary of the CPSU Central Committee Dmitry Fyodorovich Ustinov, head of the International Department of the CPSU Central Committee Boris Nikolayevich Ponomarev, Minister of Culture of the USSR Ekaterina Alekseyevna Furtseva (left to right, background) and head of the Agricultural Department of the CPSU Central Committee Fyodor Davydovich Kulakov (left, third background) during the signing of the long-term Agreement between the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics and the United States of America on the promotion of economic, industrial and technical cooperation. Vladimir Musaelyan/TASS