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 (right) during a conversation with participants of the plenum of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of Ukraine, which considered the issue of satisfying the request of Vladimir Vasilyevich 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 the Second Secretary of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of Ukraine Vladimir Antonovich Ivashko to this post. Yuri Lizunov/TASS