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

USSR. Ukrainian SSR. Kyiv. Member of the Politburo of the CPSU Central Committee, First Secretary of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of Ukraine Vladimir Vasilyevich Shcherbitsky, General Secretary of the CPSU Central Committee, Chairman of the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet of the USSR Mikhail Sergeyevich Gorbachev (in the center, from left to right), Chairman of the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet of the Ukrainian SSR Valentina Semenovna Shevchenko, M.S. Gorbachev's wife Raisa Maksimovna, Chairman of the Council of Ministers of the Ukrainian SSR Vitaly Andreevich Masol and First Secretary of the Kyiv City Committee of the Communist Party of Ukraine Konstantin Ivanovich Masik (from left to right in the background) during the wreath-laying ceremony at the monument to V.I. Lenin on Taras Shevchenko Boulevard. Yuri Lizunov, Alexander Chumichev/TASS