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

USSR. Ukrainian SSR. Kyiv. General Secretary of the CPSU Central Committee, Chairman of the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet of the USSR Mikhail Sergeyevich Gorbachev (third from right), member of the Politburo of the CPSU Central Committee and First Secretary of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of Ukraine Vladimir Vasilyevich Shcherbitsky (right), head of the propaganda department of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of Ukraine Leonid Makarovich Kravchuk (right at the table) and writer Alexander Terentievich Gonchar (third from left) during a meeting of the head of the Soviet state and the leadership of the Ukrainian SSR with writers of Ukraine in the building of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of Ukraine. Yuri Lizunov, Alexander Chumichev/TASS