XXV Congress of the CPSU in Moscow

February 24 – March 5, 1976. USSR. Moscow. Laureate of the Lenin and State Prizes of the USSR, full member of the Academy of Sciences of the Kirghiz SSR, People's Writer of the Kirghiz SSR Chingiz Torekulovich Aitmatov and Hero of Socialist Labor, Deputy Secretary General of the Union of Writers of the USSR, writer Konstantin Mikhailovich Simonov (left to right) during a break between sessions of the 25th Congress of the CPSU in the Kremlin Palace of Congresses. The exact date of the photo shoot has not been established. Viktor Velikzhanin, Valery Khristoforov/TASS