XXIV Congress of the CPSU in Moscow

USSR. Moscow. April 1971. R. N. Plaksina, a worker at the Simferopol Leather and Footwear Factory named after F. E. Dzerzhinsky, V. P. Poddubnaya, an assembler at the Sevastopol Instrument-Making Plant "Parus", writer Chingiz Torekulovich Aitmatov, a laureate of the Lenin Prize and the USSR State Prize, and N. D. Melnikova, a machinist at one of the Kerch factories (from left to right) during a conversation during a break between sessions of the 24th Congress of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union in the Kremlin Palace of Congresses. The exact date of the photo is unknown. Valentin Mastyukov/TASS