R. Castro's visit to the USSR

USSR. Moscow. General Secretary of the CPSU Central Committee Leonid Ilyich Brezhnev, awarded the National Order of the Republic of Cuba "Playa Giron" for outstanding achievements in strengthening peace and human progress and in honor of his 70th anniversary, Second Secretary of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of Cuba, First Deputy Chairman of the State Council and the Council of Ministers of the Republic of Cuba Raul Modesto Castro Ruz (from right to left in the foreground), Secretary of the CPSU Central Committee Boris Nikolayevich Ponomarev (left in the background), Minister of Defense of the USSR Dmitry Fyodorovich Ustinov (third from left in the background), Secretary of the CPSU Central Committee Fyodor Davydovich Kulakov (second from right in the background) and Chairman of the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet of the USSR Nikolai Viktorovich Podgorny (right) during the award ceremony in the Vladimir Hall of the Grand Kremlin Palace. Eduard Pesov/TASS