VIII Congress of the SED in Berlin

German Democratic Republic. Berlin. June 17, 1971. Head of the CPSU delegation, General Secretary of the CPSU Central Committee Leonid Ilyich Brezhnev (foreground), First Secretary of the Krasnodar Regional Committee of the CPSU Grigory Sergeyevich Zolotukhin, First Secretary of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of the Azerbaijan SSR Heydar Alirza oglu Aliyev (from right to left in the background) and Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of the USSR to the GDR Pyotr Andreyevich Abrasimov (background on the right) during an inspection of an art exhibition dedicated to the VIII Congress of the Socialist Unity Party of Germany. Vladimir Musaelyan/TASS