Celebrating May 9 in Moscow

USSR. Moscow. Chief of the General Staff of the USSR Armed Forces, First Deputy Minister of Defense of the USSR, Marshal of the Soviet Union Sergei Fyodorovich Akhromeyev, Minister of Defense of the USSR, Marshal of the Soviet Union Sergei Leonidovich Sokolov, General Secretary of the CPSU Central Committee Mikhail Sergeyevich Gorbachev, Chairman of the Council of Ministers of the USSR Nikolai Aleksandrovich Tikhonov, First Deputy Chairman of the Council of Ministers of the USSR, Minister of Foreign Affairs Andrei Andreevich Gromyko (from left to right) on the tribune of the Lenin Mausoleum during the military parade on Red Square to mark the 40th anniversary of the victory of the Soviet people in the Great Patriotic War. Vladimir Musaelyan, Eduard Pesov/TASS