IV All-Union Competition of Conductors in Moscow

USSR. Moscow. December 1976. Chairman of the jury, People's Artist of the USSR, conductor, composer Otar Vasilyevich Taktakishvili, his deputy, opera conductor Valery Mikhailovich Kurzhiyamsky, chief conductor of the Bolshoi Theater of the USSR, People's Artist of the RSFSR Yuri Ivanovich Simonov and People's Artist of the Lithuanian SSR Juozas Domarkas (from left to right) during the audition of participants of the IV All-Union Conducting Competition in the Great Hall of the Moscow Conservatory. The exact date of the photo is unknown. Alexander Konkov/TASS