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

USSR. Ukrainian SSR. Kyiv. General Secretary of the CPSU Central Committee, Chairman of the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet of the USSR Mikhail Sergeyevich Gorbachev (center, foreground) and former member of the Politburo of the CPSU Central Committee, former First Secretary of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of Ukraine Vladimir Vasilyevich Shcherbitsky (center, background) during a conversation with participants of the plenum of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of Ukraine. The plenum of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of Ukraine considered the issue of satisfying the request of V.V. Shcherbitsky to resign from the post of First Secretary of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of Ukraine in connection with his retirement and the appointment of Second Secretary of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of Ukraine Vladimir Antonovich Ivashko to this post. Yuri Lizunov/TASS