A.N. Kosygin's visit to Iraq

USSR. Moscow. Secretary of the CPSU Central Committee Boris Nikolayevich Ponomarev, Chairman of the USSR Council of Ministers Alexei Nikolayevich Kosygin, leaving for Iraq at the official invitation of the Council of Revolutionary Command and the Government of the Republic of Iraq, Chairman of the State Security Committee under the Council of Ministers of the USSR Yuri Vladimirovich Andropov, Minister of Foreign Affairs of the USSR Andrei Andreevich Gromyko and Deputy Chairman of the Council of Ministers of the USSR Kirill Trofimovich Mazurov (from left to right in the foreground) during the farewell ceremony at Vnukovo Airport. Valentin Cheredintsev/TASS