Farewell to L.I. Brezhnev

USSR. Moscow. November 12, 1982. First Secretary of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of Georgia Eduard Amvrosievich Shevardnadze, First Secretary of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of the Azerbaijan SSR Heydar Alievich Aliyev, Acting Chairman of the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet of the USSR Vasily Vasilyevich Kuznetsov, Secretary of the CPSU Central Committee Boris Nikolayevich Ponomarev, First Secretary of the Leningrad Regional Committee of the CPSU Grigory Vasilyevich Romanov, USSR Minister of Foreign Affairs Andrei Andreevich Gromyko and First Secretary of the Moscow City Committee of the CPSU Viktor Vasilyevich Grishin (from left to right in the foreground) during the farewell ceremony for General Secretary of the CPSU Central Committee, Chairman of the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet of the USSR Leonid Ilyich Brezhnev in the Column Hall of the House of Unions. Vladimir Musaelyan, Eduard Pesov/TASS