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

USSR. Armenian SSR. Kirovakan. Spouse of M. S. Gorbachev Raisa Maksimovna, General Secretary of the CPSU Central Committee, Chairman of the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet of the USSR Mikhail Sergeyevich Gorbachev, First Secretary of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of Armenia Suren Gurgenovich Arutyunyan (from left to right in the foreground), head of M. S. Gorbachev’s security Vladimir Timofeevich Medvedev (second from left in the background) and Secretary of the CPSU Central Committee Nikolai Nikitovich Slyunkov (third from left in the background) during a meeting with city residents affected by the earthquake on December 7, 1988. Yu. Lizunov, A. Chumichev/TASS