F. Castro's visit to the USSR

USSR. Moscow. July 4, 1972. General Secretary of the CPSU Central Committee Leonid Ilyich Brezhnev, First Secretary of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of Cuba (CPC), Prime Minister of the Revolutionary Government of the Republic of Cuba Fidel Alejandro Castro Ruz, Chairman of the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet of the USSR Nikolai Viktorovich Podgorny (left to right in the foreground), Chairman of the Council of Ministers of the USSR Alexei Nikolaevich Kosygin (left in the background), member of the Secretariat of the Central Committee of the CPC Carlos Rafael Rodriguez, member of the Politburo of the CPSU Central Committee Andrei Pavlovich Kirilenko (right to left in the background) and Deputy Chairman of the Council of Ministers of the USSR Pyotr Efimovich Shelest (right in the third background) during a reception in honor of F. Castro, organized by the CPSU Central Committee, the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet of the USSR and the Government of the USSR, in the St. George Hall of the Grand Kremlin Palace. Viktor Koshevoy, Vladimir Musaelyan/TASS