Meeting A.G. Nikolaev and P.R. Popovich in Moscow

USSR. Moscow. August 18, 1962. First Secretary of the CPSU Central Committee Nikita Sergeyevich Khrushchev (second from left in the background), Heroes of the Soviet Union, USSR pilot-cosmonauts Andriyan Grigorievich Nikolaev (center in the background) and Pavel Romanovich Popov (right in the background), who made the first multi-day group flight in the history of cosmonautics on the Vostok-3 and Vostok-4 spacecraft on August 11-15, 1962, member of the Politburo of the CPSU Central Committee Mikhail Andreevich Suslov (second from left in the background), First Secretary of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of Ukraine Nikolai Viktorovich Podgorny (center in the background) and Chairman of the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet of the USSR Leonid Ilyich Brezhnev (second from right in the background) during the crew meeting ceremony at Vnukovo airfield. Alexander Konkov/TASS