Meeting P.R. Popovich and A.G. Nikolaev in Moscow

USSR. Moscow. August 18, 1962. First Secretary of the CPSU Central Committee Nikita Khrushchev, USSR pilot-cosmonauts Andriyan Grigorievich Nikolaev and Pavel Romanovich Popovich (from left to right in the foreground) during the ceremonial meeting of the cosmonauts at Vnukovo Airport. On August 12-15, 1962, A.G. Nikolaev and P.R. Popovich made the world's first group flight of two manned spacecraft, Vostok-3 and Vostok-4. Alexander Konkov/TASS