Anniversary of N.S. Khrushchev

USSR. Moscow. April 17, 1964. First Secretary of the CPSU Central Committee Nikita Sergeyevich Khrushchev (second from left), awarded the Order of Lenin and the title Hero of the Soviet Union, during the award ceremony on the occasion of his 70th birthday. Chairman of the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet of the USSR Leonid Ilyich Brezhnev (left), First Secretary of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of Belarus Kirill Trofimovich Mazurov and Soviet political figures Vasily Pavlovich Mzhavanadze and Andrei Pavlovich Kirilenko (from left to right in the background) during N.S. Khrushchev's speech in the St. George Hall of the Grand Kremlin Palace. Valentin Sobolev/TASS