M.S. Gorbachev's trip to the Ukrainian SSR

USSR. Ukrainian SSR. Kyiv. Vice-President of the Academy of Sciences of the Ukrainian SSR, Director of the Institute for Problems of Materials Science of the Academy of Sciences of the Ukrainian SSR Viktor Ivanovich Trefilov, First Secretary of the Kyiv City Committee of the Communist Party of Ukraine Konstantin Ivanovich Masik, President of the Academy of Sciences of the Ukrainian SSR, Director of the E. O. Paton Electric Welding Institute of the Academy of Sciences of the Ukrainian SSR Boris Evgenievich Paton, Chairman of the Council of Ministers of the Ukrainian SSR Vitaly Andreevich Masol, Chairman of the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet of the Ukrainian SSR Valentina Semenovna Shevchenko, member of the Politburo of the CPSU Central Committee, First Secretary of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of Ukraine Vladimir Vasilievich Shcherbitsky and General Secretary of the CPSU Central Committee, Chairman of the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet of the USSR Mikhail Sergeyevich Gorbachev (from left to right in the front row) during a visit to the Institute for Problems of Materials Science of the Academy of Sciences of the Ukrainian SSR. Yuri Lizunov, Alexander Chumichev/TASS