XXV Congress of the CPSU in Moscow

USSR. Moscow. First Secretary of the Moscow City Committee of the CPSU Viktor Vasilyevich Grishin, Chairman of the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet of the USSR Nikolai Viktorovich Podgorny, General Secretary of the CPSU Central Committee Leonid Ilyich Brezhnev, First Secretary of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of the Kazakh SSR Dinmukhamed Akhmedovich Kunaev, Chairman of the Council of Ministers of the USSR Alexey Nikolaevich Kosygin, Secretaries of the CPSU Central Committee Mikhail Andreevich Suslov and Andrei Pavlovich Kirilenko (from left to right in the foreground) during the opening ceremony of the 25th Congress of the CPSU at the Kremlin Palace of Congresses. Valentin Sobolev/TASS