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

USSR. Moscow. 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, crew commander, twice Hero of the Soviet Union, USSR pilot-cosmonaut Valery Fyodorovich Bykovsky and Hero of the Soviet Union, cosmonaut-researcher from the German Democratic Republic Sigmund Werner Paul Jahn, Secretary of the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet of the USSR Mikhail Porfiryevich Georgadze and GDR Ambassador to the USSR Harry Ott (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. Jahn were awarded the Order of Lenin for their participation in the visiting 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