Funeral of L.I. Brezhnev

USSR. Moscow. Acting Chairman of the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet of the USSR Vasily Vasilyevich Kuznetsov, Minister of Foreign Affairs of the USSR Andrei Andreevich Gromyko, Chairman of the Council of Ministers of the USSR Nikolai Aleksandrovich Tikhonov, General Secretary of the CPSU Central Committee Yuri Vladimirovich Andropov, Federal President of the Federal Republic of Germany Karl Carstens and Vice-Chancellor and Minister of Foreign Affairs of the FRG Hans-Dietrich Genscher (from left to right in the foreground), expressing condolences in connection with the death of General Secretary of the CPSU Central Committee, Chairman of the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet of the USSR Leonid Ilyich Brezhnev, during a meeting in the Kremlin. Viktor Koshevoy/TASS