E. Gierek's visit to the USSR

USSR. Moscow. Member of the Politburo of the Central Committee of the Polish United Workers' Party, Chairman of the Council of Ministers of the Polish People's Republic Piotr Yaroshevich, head of the party-state delegation of the People's Republic of Poland, First Secretary of the Central Committee of the PUWP Edward Gierek, General Secretary of the CPSU Central Committee Leonid Ilyich Brezhnev, Chairman of the Council of Ministers of the USSR Alexey Nikolaevich Kosygin, Secretary of the CPSU Central Committee Mikhail Andreevich Suslov, Minister of Foreign Affairs of the USSR Andrei Andreevich Gromyko and Secretary of the CPSU Central Committee Konstantin Fedorovich Katushev (from right to left in the foreground) during the farewell ceremony for the PPR delegation in Alma-Ata at the Vnukovo airfield. Victor Budan, Vladimir Musaelyan/TASS