E. Gierek's visit to the USSR

USSR. Moscow. Chairman of the Council of Ministers of the USSR Alexei Nikolaevich Kosygin, General Secretary of the CPSU Central Committee Leonid Ilyich Brezhnev, head of the party-state delegation of the Polish People's Republic, First Secretary of the Central Committee of the Polish United Workers' Party Edward Gierek and member of the Politburo of the Central Committee of the PUWP, Chairman of the Council of Ministers of the PPR Pyotr Yaroshevich (from left to right in the foreground) during the farewell ceremony for the PPR delegation in Almaty at Vnukovo airfield. Victor Budan, Vladimir Musaelyan/TASS