M.S. Gorabchev's visit to China

USSR. Moscow. First Secretary of the Moscow City Committee of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union Lev Nikolaevich Zaikov, Chairman of the Council of Ministers of the USSR Nikolai Ivanovich Ryzhkov, General Secretary of the CPSU Central Committee Mikhail Sergeevich Gorbachev, leaving on a visit to the People's Republic of China, Secretary of the CPSU Central Committee Yegor Kuzmich Ligachev (from left to right in the foreground), Secretary of the CPSU Central Committee Viktor Mikhailovich Chebrikov, Chairman of the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet of the RSFSR Vitaly Ivanovich Vorotnikov (from left to right in the background), M. S. Gorbachev's wife Raisa Maksimovna, USSR Foreign Minister Eduard Amvrosievich Shevardnadze (second from right in the background) and Secretary of the CPSU Central Committee Alexander Nikolaevich Yakovlev (right in the background) during the farewell ceremony at Vnukovo airport. Eduard Pesov, Valentin Sobolev/TASS