M.S. Gorbachev's trip to the Ukrainian SSR

USSR. Ukrainian SSR. Lvov. Member of the Politburo of the CPSU Central Committee, First Secretary of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of Ukraine Vladimir Vasilyevich Shcherbitsky (second from left in the foreground), Chairman of the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet of the Ukrainian SSR Valentina Semyonovna Shevchenko (left in the background), General Secretary of the CPSU Central Committee, Chairman of the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet of the USSR Mikhail Sergeyevich Gorbachev, his wife Raisa Maksimovna, First Secretary of the Lvov Regional Committee of the Communist Party of Ukraine Yakov Petrovich Pogrebnyak (in the center, from left to right) and the head of M.S. Gorbachev's security Vladimir Timofeevich Medvedev (second from right in the background) during a meeting with city residents on V.I. Lenin Square. Vladimir Zavyalov/TASS