E. Honecker's visit to the USSR

USSR. Moscow Region. Twice Hero of the Soviet Union, USSR pilot-cosmonaut Vitaly Ivanovich Sevastyanov, 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, First Secretary of the Central Committee of the SED Erich Honecker, twice Hero of the Soviet Union, Assistant to the Commander-in-Chief of the USSR Air Force for the preparation and support of space flights, USSR pilot-cosmonaut Vladimir Aleksandrovich Shatalov (left to right in the center) and Hero of the Soviet Union, USSR pilot-cosmonaut Georgy Stepanovich Shonin (second from right in the foreground) in the simulator room at the Yury Gagarin Cosmonaut Training Center in Star City. Evgeny Shulepov, Anatoly Kovtun/TASS