Awarding of L.I. Brezhnev in the Kremlin

USSR. Moscow. December 19, 1976. Secretary of the CPSU Central Committee Mikhail Andreevich Suslov, Chairman of the Council of Ministers of the USSR Alexei Nikolaevich Kosygin, General Secretary of the CPSU Central Committee of the USSR Leonid Ilyich Brezhnev, awarded the Order of Lenin and the second Gold Star medal of the Hero of the Soviet Union on the occasion of his seventieth birthday, Chairman of the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet of the USSR Nikolai Viktorovich Podgorny (from right to left in the foreground) during the award ceremony in the Vladimir Hall of the Grand Kremlin Palace. Eduard Pesov/TASS