R. Nixon's visit to the USSR

USSR. Moscow. US Secretary of State and National Security Advisor to the President Henry Alfred Kissinger, USSR Minister of Foreign Affairs Andrei Andreevich Gromyko (left to right, center), L. I. Brezhnev's personal interpreter Viktor Mikhailovich Sukhodrev, US President's Special Assistant Alexander Meigs Haig, Jr., US Ambassador to the USSR Walter John Stoessel, Jr., General Secretary of the CPSU Central Committee Leonid Ilyich Brezhnev, US President Richard Milhous Nixon, Chairman of the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet of the USSR Nikolai Viktorovich Podgorny, Chairman of the Council of Ministers of the USSR Alexei Nikolayevich Kosygin and Secretary of the CPSU Central Committee Andrei Pavlovich Kirilenko (left to right, background) during the signing ceremony of the agreement between the USSR and the USA on cooperation in scientific research and the development of an artificial heart in the Kremlin. Vladimir Musaelyan, Valentin Sobolev/TASS