E. Honecker's visit to the USSR

USSR. Moscow. Secretary of the Central Committee of the Socialist Unity Party of Germany for Security Paul Ferner, Chairman of the State Council of the GDR Willi Stoph, head of the delegation of the SED Central Committee, First Secretary of the SED Central Committee Erich Honecker, First Secretary of the Moscow City Committee of the CPSU Viktor Vasilyevich Grishin (from right to left in the foreground), Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of the USSR to the GDR Pyotr Andreyevich Abrasimov and deputy head of the Personnel Department of the SED Central Committee Werner Eberlein (from left to right in the background) during the welcoming ceremony at Vnukovo Airport for the delegation of the SED Central Committee, which arrived to participate in the 25th Congress of the CPSU. Viktor Koshevoy/TASS