Meeting of the crews of the spacecraft Soyuz-6, Soyuz-7 and Soyuz-8 in Moscow

USSR. Moscow. October 22, 1969 General Secretary of the CPSU Central Committee Leonid Ilyich Brezhnev, Chairman of the Council of Ministers of the USSR Alexey Nikolaevich Kosygin, Chairman of the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet of the USSR Nikolai Viktorovich Podgorny, participants in the group flight of the Soyuz-6, Soyuz-7 and Soyuz-8 spacecraft Vladimir Aleksandrovich Shatalov, Georgy Stepanovich Shonin and Victor Vasilyevich Gorbatko (from left to right in the foreground), USSR pilot-cosmonauts Valery Nikolaevich Kubasov (center in the background) and Anatoly Vasilyevich Filipchenko (center from left in the third plan) at the welcoming ceremony at Vnukovo airport. Valentin Khukhlaev/TASS