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: Minister of Defense of the USSR, Marshal of the Soviet Union Dmitry Fyodorovich Ustinov, 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) and First Secretary of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of Kazakhstan Dinmukhamed Akhmedovich Kunayev (in the center in the third background) in the presidium during the vote to elect Yu. V. Andropov as the 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 within the framework 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/TASS