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), candidate member of the Politburo of the CPSU Central Committee Dmitry Fyodorovich Ustinov, USSR Minister of Culture Pyotr Nilovich Demichev 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. For his services to the Communist Party and the Soviet state, K. U. Chernenko was awarded the title of Hero of Socialist Labor and the Order of Lenin and the Hammer and Sickle medal. Viktor Koshevoy/TASS