Conductor Yu.Kh. Temirkanov and composer A.P. Petrov

March 1983. USSR. Leningrad. People's Artist of the USSR, laureate of the USSR State Prize, artistic director and chief conductor of the Leningrad Order of Lenin and Order of the October Revolution Academic Opera and Ballet Theatre named after S. M. Kirov Yuri Khatuevich Temirkanov and People's Artist of the USSR, laureate of two USSR State Prizes, composer Andrei Pavlovich Petrov (left to right) during a rehearsal of the opera "Mayakovsky Begins" at the S. M. Kirov Theatre. The exact date of the photo shoot has not been established. Yuri Belinsky/TASS