Awarding of K. U. Chernenko in the Kremlin

USSR. Moscow. Secretary of the CPSU Central Committee Boris Nikolaevich Ponomarev, Chairman of the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet of the USSR Nikolai Viktorovich Podgorny, Secretary of the CPSU Central Committee Konstantin Ustinovich Chernenko, awarded the Order of Lenin and the Hammer and Sickle gold medal, and General Secretary of the CPSU Central Committee Leonid Ilyich Brezhnev (from left to right in the foreground) during the award ceremony in the Kremlin. Victor Koshevoy/TASS