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), member of the Politburo of the CPSU Central Committee, First Secretary of the Kyiv City Committee of the Communist Party of Ukraine Konstantin Ivanovich Masik (left, background), First Secretary of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of Ukraine Vladimir Vasilyevich Shcherbitsky (center, background), and Chairman of the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet of the Ukrainian SSR Valentina Semyonovna Shevchenko (second from right, background) during a conversation with city residents. Yuri Lizunov, Alexander Chumichev/TASS