XXX session of the Council for Mutual Economic Assistance in Berlin

German Democratic Republic. Berlin. Minister of Chemical Industry Leonid Arkadyevich Kostandov, Minister of Foreign Trade Nikolai Semyonovich Patolichev, Deputy Chairman of the USSR Council of Ministers, Chairman of the USSR State Planning Committee Nikolai Konstantinovich Baibakov, Secretary of the CPSU Central Committee Konstantin Fedorovich Katushev, head of the Soviet delegation Chairman of the USSR Council of Ministers Alexei Nikolayevich Kosygin, Deputy Chairman of the USSR Council of Ministers and Permanent Representative of the USSR to the Council for Mutual Economic Assistance Mikhail Avksentievich Lesechko and Minister of Ferrous Metallurgy of the USSR Ivan Pavlovich Kazanets (from left to right) at the XXX session of the Council for Mutual Economic Assistance. Valentin Sobolev/TASS