Awarding of cosmonauts V.F. Bykovsky and Z. Yen in the Kremlin

USSR. Moscow. Secretary of the CPSU Central Committee Konstantin Ustinovich Chernenko, Minister of Foreign Affairs of the USSR Andrei Andreevich Gromyko, twice Hero of the Soviet Union, USSR pilot-cosmonaut Alexei Arkhipovich Leonov, General Secretary of the CPSU Central Committee Leonid Ilyich Brezhnev, members of the crew of the Soyuz-31 launch vehicle and the Soyuz-29 landing vehicle, twice Hero of the Soviet Union, USSR pilot-cosmonaut, crew commander Valery Fedorovich Bykovsky and Hero of the Soviet Union, East German cosmonaut-researcher Sigmund Werner Paul Jahn, Secretary of the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet of the USSR Mikhail Porfiryevich Georgadze and Ambassador of the German Democratic Republic to the USSR Harry Ott (from left to right, foreground) after the award ceremony for the cosmonauts in the Catherine Hall of the Grand Kremlin Palace. V.F. Bykovsky and Z. Yen were awarded the Order of Lenin for their expedition to the Salyut-6 orbital station as part of the international Intercosmos program from August 26 to September 3, 1978. Vladimir Musaelyan, Albert Pushkarev/TASS