Visit of M.S. Gorbachev to the Uzbek SSR

USSR. Uzbek SSR. Tashkent. General Secretary of the CPSU Central Committee Mikhail Sergeyevich Gorbachev (left, foreground) and USSR Minister of Foreign Affairs Eduard Amvrosievich Shevardnadze (center, background) during a welcoming ceremony at the airfield. M.S. Gorbachev arrived to meet with the President of Afghanistan, General Secretary of the Central Committee of the People's Democratic Party of Afghanistan Mohammad Najibullah. Yuri Lizunov, Alexander Chumichev/TASS