XV Congress of Trade Unions of the USSR in Moscow

USSR. Moscow. March 22, 1972. Hero of Socialist Labor, hero of the first five-year plans, miner Alexei Grigorievich Stakhanov, foreman of the integrated mechanized cotton-growing brigade of the Leningrad collective farm in the Vakhsh district of the Tajik SSR Sabogul Fatkhutdinova, chairman of the Taimyr district committee of trade unions E. Kovalenko and head of the regional department of public education of the Aktobe region of the Kazakh SSR Nietzhan Berikovich Berikov (from left to right in the foreground) in the foyer of the Kremlin Palace of Congresses during a break between sessions of the 15th Congress of Trade Unions of the USSR. Nikolai Akimov, Vasily Egorov/TASS