Celebrating May 9 in Moscow

USSR. Moscow. Chief of the Main Personnel Directorate of the USSR Ministry of Defense, Deputy Minister of Defense of the USSR for Personnel Ivan Nikolaevich Shkadov, Chief of Civil Defense of the USSR, Deputy Minister of Defense of the USSR Aleksandr Terentievich Altunin, Deputy Minister of Defense of the USSR, Chief of Logistics of the USSR Armed Forces, General of the Army Semyon Konstantinovich Kurkotkin, Chief of the Main Political Directorate of the Soviet Army and Navy, General of the Army Aleksei Alekseevich Epishev, Marshals of the Soviet Union Commander-in-Chief of the Joint Armed Forces of the Warsaw Pact Member States, First Deputy Minister of Defense of the USSR Viktor Ivanovich Kulikov, Minister of Defense of the USSR Dmitry Fedorovich Ustinov, Chief of the General Staff of the USSR Armed Forces, First Deputy Minister of Defense of the USSR Nikolai Vasilyevich Ogarkov, Commander-in-Chief of the Ground Forces, Deputy Minister of Defense of the USSR, General of the Army Vasily Ivanovich Petrov, Commander-in-Chief of the Navy, Deputy Minister of Defense of the USSR, Admiral of the Fleet of the Soviet Union Sergei Georgievich Gorshkov, Commander-in-Chief of the USSR Air Defense Forces, Marshal of Aviation Alexander Ivanovich Koldunov and Chief Marshal of Aviation Pavel Stepanovich Kutakhov (from right to left) at the wreath-laying ceremony at the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier in the Alexander Garden during the celebration of the 37th anniversary of the Soviet people's victory over Nazi Germany in the Great Patriotic War. Vasily Yegorov/TASS