N.V. Podgorny's visit to Afghanistan

USSR. Moscow. Chairman of the Council of Ministers of the RSFSR Mikhail Sergeyevich Solomentsev, Chairman of the USSR State Security Committee under the Council of Ministers of the USSR Yuri Vladimirovich Andropov, Chairman of the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet of the USSR Nikolai Viktorovich Podgorny, heading to Afghanistan, and Minister of Foreign Affairs Andrei Andreevich Gromyko (left to right in the foreground) during the farewell ceremony at Vnukovo airport. Valentin Mastyukov/TASS