The eighth session of the Supreme Soviet of the USSR of the tenth convocation in Moscow

USSR. Moscow. Deputies of the Supreme Soviet of the USSR of the tenth convocation: Chairman of the Council of Ministers of the USSR Nikolai Aleksandrovich Tikhonov, General Secretary of the CPSU Central Committee, Chairman of the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet of the USSR Yuri Vladimirovich Andropov (from left to right in the background), First Secretary of the Moscow City Committee of the CPSU Viktor Vasilyevich Grishin, First Secretary of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of Kazakhstan Dinmukhamed Akhmedovich Kunayev, First Secretary of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of Ukraine Vladimir Vasilyevich Shcherbitsky (from left to right in the background) and Secretary of the CPSU Central Committee Boris Nikolayevich Ponomarev (in the background) in the presidium during the congratulations of Yu. V. Andropov on his election as Chairman of the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet of the USSR at a joint meeting of the Council of the Union and the Council of Nationalities as part of the eighth session of the Supreme Soviet of the USSR of the tenth convocation in the meeting hall of the Grand Kremlin Palace. Vladimir Musaelyan, Eduard Pesov/TASS