L.I. Brezhnev's trip to the Altai region

USSR. Altai Krai. September 1972. General Secretary of the CPSU Central Committee Leonid Ilyich Brezhnev and head of the selection center of the Altai Research Institute of Agriculture, candidate of agricultural sciences F.P. Shevchenko (from right to left in the foreground) during an inspection of a new high-yield wheat variety bred by the institute's staff. Assistant to the General Secretary of the CPSU Central Committee for Domestic Policy and Agriculture Viktor Andreevich Golikov, First Secretary of the Altai Krai Committee of the CPSU Aleksandr Vasilyevich Georgiev and Chairman of the Executive Committee of the Krai Council of Workers' Deputies Ivan Ilyich Molchaninov (from right to left in the background). The exact date of the photo is unknown. Evgeny Logvinov, Vladimir Musaelyan/TASS