Awarding of L.I. Brezhnev in the Kremlin

USSR. Moscow. Member of the Politburo of the CPSU Central Committee, Secretary of the CPSU Central Committee Mikhail Andreevich Suslov, General Secretary of the CPSU Central Committee, Chairman of the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet of the USSR Leonid Ilyich Brezhnev (from left to right in the foreground), Secretary of the CPSU Central Committee, Head of the General Department of the CPSU Central Committee Konstantin Ustinovich Chernenko, First Deputy Chairman of the Council of Ministers of the USSR Nikolai Aleksandrovich Tikhonov and First Deputy Chairman of the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet of the USSR Vasily Vasilyevich Kuznetsov (from left to right in the background) at the ceremony of presenting the Order of Lenin and the third Gold Star medal of Hero of the Soviet Union to L.I. Brezhnev in the Kremlin. Eduard Pesov/TASS