Soviet-American experiment on implantation of artificial heart in Moscow

March 11-12, 1976. USSR. Moscow. American surgeon George Noon (right) of Baylor College of Medicine during an operation as part of a joint Soviet-American experiment on implanting artificial hearts made in the USA and the USSR at the Institute of Organ and Tissue Transplantation of the USSR Academy of Medical Sciences. The exact date of the photo is unknown. Pyotr Nosov, Albert Pushkarev/TASS