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 Sergeevich Gorbachev (in the foreground), Chairman of the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet of the Ukrainian SSR Valentina Semenovna Shevchenko, wife of M. S. Gorbachev Raisa Maksimovna, member of the Politburo of the CPSU Central Committee, First Secretary of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of Ukraine Vladimir Vasilyevich Shcherbitsky and President of the Academy of Sciences of the Ukrainian SSR, Director of the Institute of Electric Welding named after E. O. Paton of the Academy of Sciences of the Ukrainian SSR Boris Evgenievich Paton (from right to left in the background) after visiting the Institute of Materials Science of the Academy of Sciences of the Ukrainian SSR. Yuri Lizunov, Alexander Chumichev/TASS