F. Castro's visit to the USSR

USSR. Moscow. June 27, 1972 Chairman of the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet of the USSR Nikolai Viktorovich Podgorny, First Secretary of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of Cuba, Prime Minister of the Revolutionary Government of the Republic of Cuba Fidel Alejandro Castro Rus, awarded the Order of Lenin (from left to right), Chairman of the Council of Ministers of the USSR Alexei Nikolaevich Kosygin, General Secretary of the CPSU Central Committee Leonid Ilyich Brezhnev, members Politburo of the CPSU Central Committee Mikhail Andreevich Suslov and Andrei Pavlovich Kirilenko, First Deputy Chairman of the Council of Ministers of the USSR Dmitry Stepanovich Polyansky, Head of the International Department of the CPSU Central Committee Boris Nikolaevich Ponomarev, Deputy Chairman of the Council of Ministers of the USSR Pyotr Efimovich Shelest and Secretary of the CPSU Central Committee Konstantin Fedorovich Katushev (from right to left in the foreground) in during the award ceremony in the Kremlin. Victor Koshevoy, Vladimir Musaelyan/TASS