Soviet-American experiment on implantation of artificial heart in Moscow

March 11-12, 1976. USSR. Moscow. American specialists physiologist, professor John Shimoski (left in the foreground), engineer William Obanon and surgeon of the Baylor College of Medicine George Noon (left to right in the background) during a press conference before a joint Soviet-American experiment on implanting artificial hearts made in the USSR and the USA, which will be conducted at the Institute of Organ and Tissue Transplantation of the USSR Academy of Medical Sciences. Pyotr Nosov, Albert Pushkarev/TASS