E. Honecker's visit to the USSR

USSR. Moscow. First Secretary of the Moscow City Committee of the CPSU Viktor Vasilyevich Grishin, General Secretary of the Central Committee of the Socialist Unity Party of Germany Erich Honecker, who arrived at the official invitation of the CPSU Central Committee to participate in the 25th Congress of the CPSU, Deputy Head of the Personnel Department of the SED Central Committee Werner Eberlein (from right to left in the foreground), Assistant to the General Secretary of the CPSU Central Committee Leonid Ilyich Brezhnev Konstantin Viktorovich Rusakov, Secretary of the CPSU Central Committee Konstantin Fedorovich Katushev, First Deputy Chairman of the Council of Ministers of the USSR Nikolai Aleksandrovich Tikhonov and Chairman of the State Council of the GDR Willi Stoph (from right to left in the background) during the welcoming ceremony at Vnukovo Airport. Viktor Koshevoy/TASS