Awarding of K. U. Chernenko

USSR. Moscow. Member of the Politburo of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union, Chairman of the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet of the USSR Nikolai Viktorovich Podgorny, Secretary of the CPSU Central Committee Konstantin Ustinovich Chernenko, General Secretary of the CPSU Central Committee Leonid Ilyich Brezhnev (from left to right in the foreground), First Deputy Chairman of the Council of Ministers of the USSR, member of the Politburo of the CPSU Central Committee Kirill Trofimovich Mazurov, Minister of Culture of the USSR Pyotr Nilovich Demichev, member of the Politburo of the CPSU Central Committee, First Secretary of the Moscow City Committee of the CPSU Viktor Vasilyevich Grishin and member of the Politburo and Secretary of the CPSU Central Committee Mikhail Andreevich Suslov (from left to right in the background) during the award ceremony. K. U. Chernenko was awarded the title of Hero of Socialist Labor for his services to the Communist Party and the Soviet state, and was presented with the Order of Lenin and the Hammer and Sickle medal. Viktor Koshevoy/TASS