XVI Congress of the Komsomol

USSR. Moscow. Heroes of the Soviet Union, veterans of the Great Patriotic War Meliton Varlamovich Kantaria, who raised the Victory Banner on the roof of the Reichstag building in Berlin to commemorate the victory of the Soviet people over Nazi Germany, (left) and former squadron commander of the 46th Taman Guards Night Light Bomber Regiment, pilot Marina Pavlovna Chechneva (third from right) during a meeting with delegates of the 16th Congress of the All-Union Leninist Communist Youth Union in the foyer of the Kremlin Palace of Congresses. Viktor Budan, Valentin Kuzmin/TASS