Presentation of state awards in the Kremlin

USSR. Moscow. Academician of the USSR Academy of Sciences, Director of the Main Botanical Garden of the USSR Academy of Sciences Nikolai Vasilyevich Tsitsin, General Secretary of the CPSU Central Committee, Chairman of the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet of the USSR Leonid Ilyich Brezhnev, Soviet chess player Anatoly Evgenievich Karpov, urologist, doctor of medical sciences, professor, Hero of Socialist Labor Aram Yakovlevich Abramyan, First Deputy Chairman of the USSR State Security Committee Semyon Kuzmich Tsvigun (from left to right in the foreground), Deputy Chairman of the USSR State Security Committee Vadim Aleksandrovich Matrosov, Chairman of the Council of the Union of the Supreme Soviet of the USSR Aleksei Pavlovich Shitikov, Secretary of the CPSU Central Committee Mikhail Sergeyevich Gorbachev, candidate member of the Politburo of the CPSU Central Committee, First Secretary of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of the Georgian SSR Eduard Amvrosievich Shevardnadze, First Deputy Chairman of the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet of the USSR Vasily Vasilyevich Kuznetsov and Secretary of the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet of the USSR Mikhail Porfiryevich Georgadze (from left to right in the background) after the ceremony of presenting state awards in the Kremlin. Vladimir Musaelyan/TASS