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

USSR. Moscow. US President Richard Nixon (foreground), personal interpreter of General Secretary of the CPSU Central Committee Leonid Brezhnev Viktor Mikhailovich Sukhodrev, US Ambassador to the USSR Walter Stoessel, US Secretary of State Henry Kissinger, Special Assistant to the US President Alexander Meigs Haig Jr., Chairman of the Council of Ministers of the USSR Alexei Nikolayevich Kosygin (left to right, background), head of the Agricultural Department of the CPSU Central Committee Fyodor Davydovich Kulakov, Deputy Chairman of the Council of Ministers of the USSR, Chairman of the USSR State Planning Committee Nikolai Konstantinovich Baibakov and senior official of the US National Security Council Helmut Sonnenfeldt (right to left, 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