E. Honecker's visit to the USSR

USSR. Moscow Region. Hero of the Soviet Union, USSR pilot-cosmonaut Georgy Stepanovich Shonin (third from right in the foreground), twice Hero of the Soviet Union, assistant to the Commander-in-Chief of the USSR Air Force for preparation and support of space flights, USSR pilot-cosmonaut Vladimir Aleksandrovich Shatalov (fifth from right in the foreground), Secretary of the Central Committee of the Socialist Unity Party of Germany for Security Paul Ferner, Chairman of the State Council of the German Democratic Republic Willi Stoph, twice Hero of the Soviet Union, head of the Yury Gagarin Cosmonaut Training Center, USSR pilot-cosmonaut Georgy Timofeevich Beregovoy and First Secretary of the SED Central Committee Erich Honecker (in the center, left to right in the foreground) in the simulator room of the Yury Gagarin Cosmonaut Training Center in Star City. Yevgeny Shulepov, Anatoly Kovtun/TASS