Celebration of the 70th anniversary of L.I. Brezhnev in the Kremlin

USSR. Moscow. December 19, 1976. First Secretary of the Central Committee of the Polish United Workers' Party Edward Gierek, Chairman of the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet of the USSR Nikolai Viktorovich Podgorny, General Secretary of the CPSU Central Committee Leonid Ilyich Brezhnev, who was awarded the Honorary Weapon with a gold image of the State Emblem of the USSR for outstanding services in strengthening the defense capability and improving the armed forces and on the occasion of his seventieth birthday, Chairman of the Council of Ministers of the USSR Alexei Nikolayevich Kosygin (from left to right in the foreground) and First Deputy Chairman of the Council of Ministers of the USSR Nikolai Alexandrovich Tikhonov (in the center in the background) during the award ceremony in the Vladimir Hall of the Grand Kremlin Palace. Eduard Pesov/TASS