Awarding of cosmonauts V.F. Bykovsky and Z. Yen in the Kremlin

USSR. Moscow. Secretary of the CPSU Central Committee Konstantin Ustinovich Chernenko, USSR Minister of Foreign Affairs Andrei Andreevich Gromyko, USSR pilot-cosmonaut, twice Hero of the Soviet Union Alexei Arkhipovich Leonov, General Secretary of the CPSU Central Committee Leonid Ilyich Brezhnev, members of the crew of the Soyuz-31 launch vehicle and the Soyuz-29 landing vehicle: twice Hero of the Soviet Union, USSR pilot-cosmonaut, crew commander Valery Fedorovich Bykovsky and Hero of the Soviet Union, East German cosmonaut-researcher Sigmund Werner Paul Jähn (from left to right in the foreground) after the cosmonaut award ceremony in the Catherine Hall of the Grand Kremlin Palace. V.F. Bykovsky and Z. Yen were awarded the Order of Lenin for their expedition to the Salyut-6 orbital station as part of the international Intercosmos program from August 26 to September 3, 1978. Vladimir Musaelyan, Albert Pushkarev/TASS