Visit of N. M. Taraki to the USSR

USSR. Moscow. USSR Foreign Minister Andrei Andreevich Gromyko, member of the Politburo of the CPSU Central Committee, Chairman of the USSR Council of Ministers Alexei Nikolayevich Kosygin, General Secretary of the Central Committee of the People's Democratic Party of Afghanistan (PDPA), Chairman of the Revolutionary Council, Prime Minister of the Democratic Republic of Afghanistan (DRA) Nur Mohammad Taraki, General Secretary of the CPSU Central Committee, Chairman of the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet of the USSR Leonid Ilyich Brezhnev, member of the Politburo of the PDPA Central Committee, secretary of the PDPA, Minister of Public Health of the Democratic Republic of Afghanistan, acting Minister of Planning Shah Wali, DRA Ambassador to the USSR Raz Muhammad Paktin (from right to left in the foreground) and member of the Politburo of the PDPA Central Committee, Minister of Agriculture and Land Reform Saleh Muhammad Zerai (second from right in the background) during the welcoming ceremony for the Afghan delegation at Vnukovo-2 airfield. Valentin Kuzmin, Vladimir Musaelyan/TASS