Celebrating Cosmonautics Day in Moscow

USSR. Moscow. April 12, 1967. Chairman of the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet of the USSR Nikolai Viktorovich Podgorny (fourth from left in the foreground), General Secretary of the CPSU Central Committee Leonid Ilyich Brezhnev (fifth from left in the foreground), Secretary of the CPSU Central Committee Mikhail Andreevich Suslov (sixth from left in the foreground), Chairman of the Council of Ministers of the USSR Alexei Nikolaevich Kosygin (seventh from left in the foreground), Heroes of the Soviet Union, USSR pilot-cosmonauts Andriyan Grigorievich Nikolaev, Pavel Romanovich Popovich, Valentina Vladimirovna Nikolaeva-Tereshkova and Yuri Alekseyevich Gagarin (from right to left in the foreground) during a ceremonial meeting dedicated to Cosmonautics Day, in the Kremlin Palace of Congresses. Viktor Koshevoy, Sergei Preobrazhensky/TASS