IV Congress of Composers of the USSR

USSR. Moscow. December 16, 1968. Composer Dmitry Dmitrievich Shostakovich during a speech at the opening of the Fourth Congress of Composers of the USSR in the Column Hall of the House of Unions. Present at the event were General Secretary of the CPSU Central Committee Leonid Ilyich Brezhnev, member of the Politburo of the CPSU Central Committee, Chairman of the Council of Ministers of the USSR Alexei Nikolaevich Kosygin, composer Tikhon Nikolaevich Khrennikov (from left to right in the foreground), First Secretary of the Moscow City Committee of the CPSU Viktor Vasilyevich Grishin (left in the background), Secretary of the CPSU Central Committee Mikhail Sergeyevich Solomentsev (center in the background) and member of the Politburo of the CPSU Central Committee, Chairman of the Party Control Committee under the CPSU Central Committee Arvid Yanovich Pelshe (right in the background). Vladimir Savostyanov, Alexander Konkov/TASS