XVI Congress of the Komsomol in Moscow

USSR. Moscow. Chairman of the Council of Ministers of the USSR Alexey Nikolaevich Kosygin, Secretaries of the CPSU Central Committee Mikhail Andreevich Suslov and Andrei Pavlovich Kirilenko, Chairman of the Party Control Committee under the CPSU Central Committee Arvid Yanovich Pelshe, First Deputy Chairman of the Council of Ministers of the USSR Kirill Trofimovich Mazurov, First Deputy Chairman of the Council of Ministers of the USSR Dmitry Stepanovich Polyansky, Chairman of the All-Union Central Council of Trade Unions Alexander Nikolaevich Shelepin (from left to right in the foreground), Hero of the Soviet Union, USSR pilot-cosmonaut Alexey Arkhipovich Leonov, First Secretary of the Moscow City Committee of the CPSU Viktor Vasilyevich Grishin, Secretary of the CPSU Central Committee Pyotr Nilovich Demichev, Chairman of the KGB of the USSR Yuri Vladimirovich Andropov, Secretary of the CPSU Central Committee, Head of the International Department of the CPSU Central Committee Boris Nikolaevich Ponamarev, secretaries of the CPSU Central Committee Fedor Davydovich Kulakov, Ivan Vasilyevich Kapitonov, Mikhail Sergeevich Solomentsev, and Konstantin Fyodorovich Katushev (from left to right in the background) in the presidium at the opening ceremony of the 16th Congress of the All-Union Leninist Communist Youth Union in the Kremlin Palace of Congresses. Vasily Egorov, Valentin Sobolev/TASS