Awarding of K. U. Chernenko in the Kremlin

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