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

USSR. Lithuanian SSR. Šiauliai. First Secretary of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of the Lithuanian SSR Algirdas Mykolas Brazauskas (left, foreground) and General Secretary of the CPSU Central Committee Mikhail Sergeyevich Gorbachev (center, background) during a meeting with city residents. Accompanying M. S. Gorbachev was the head of his security Vladimir Timofeevich Medvedev (center, background). Vladimir Zavyalov, Yuri Lizunov/TASS