M.S. Gorbachev's trip to the Ukrainian SSR

USSR. Ukrainian SSR. Kyiv. Member of the Politburo of the CPSU Central Committee, First Secretary of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of Ukraine Vladimir Vasilyevich Shcherbitsky, General Secretary of the CPSU Central Committee, Chairman of the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet of the USSR Mikhail Sergeyevich Gorbachev and writer Oles Gonchar (Alexander Terentievich Gonchar) (left to right, center) during a meeting of the head of the Soviet state with writers of the Ukrainian SSR in the building of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of Ukraine. Yuri Lizunov, Alexander Chumichev/TASS