Awarding of L.I. Brezhnev with the second Gold Star of the Hero of the Czechoslovak Socialist Republic and the Order of Klement Gottwald in the Kremlin

USSR. Moscow. Chairman of the Council of Ministers of the USSR Alexei Nikolaevich Kosygin, Chairman of the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet of the USSR Nikolai Viktorovich Podgorny, Secretaries of the CPSU Central Committee Mikhail Andreevich Suslov, Andrei Pavlovich Kirilenko, First Secretary of the Moscow City Committee of the CPSU Viktor Vasilyevich Grishin (from left to right in the foreground), Secretary of the CPSU Central Committee Konstantin Fedorovich Katushev, Chairman of the State Security Committee under the Council of Ministers of the USSR Yuri Vladimirovich Andropov, Chairman of the Party Control Committee under the CPSU Central Committee Arvid Janovich Pelše and Chairman of the Council of Ministers of the RSFSR Mikhail Sergeyevich Solomentsev (from right to left in the background) during the ceremony of awarding General Secretary of the CPSU Central Committee Leonid Ilyich Brezhnev the second Gold Star of the Hero of the Czechoslovak Socialist Republic and the Order of Klement Gottwald in the Vladimir Hall of the Grand Kremlin Palace. Valentin Mastyukov, Vladimir Musaelyan/TASS