E. Honecker's visit to the USSR

USSR. Moscow Region. Hero of the Soviet Union, USSR pilot-cosmonaut Georgy Stepanovich Shonin (third from right in the foreground), twice Hero of the Soviet Union, Assistant to the Commander-in-Chief of the USSR Air Force for the preparation and support of space flights, USSR pilot-cosmonaut Vladimir Aleksandrovich Shatalov (fifth from right in the foreground), First Secretary of the Central Committee of the Socialist Unity Party of Germany Erich Honecker (center in the foreground), Secretary of the SED Central Committee for Security Paul Ferner (second from left in the foreground), Chairman of the State Council of the German Democratic Republic Willi Stoph (third from left in the foreground) and twice Hero of the Soviet Union, Head of the Yury Gagarin Cosmonaut Training Center, USSR pilot-cosmonaut Georgy Timofeevich Beregovoy (fourth from left in the foreground) in the simulator room of the Yury Gagarin Cosmonaut Training Center in Star City. Evgeny Shulepov, Anatoly Kovtun/TASS