J. Ford's visit to the USSR

USSR. Primorsky Krai. Vladivostok. President of the United States of America Gerald Rudolph Ford, Jr., General Secretary of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union Leonid Ilyich Brezhnev (from left to right in the foreground), Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of the United States to the USSR Walter John Stoessel, Jr., L. I. Brezhnev's personal interpreter Viktor Mikhailovich Sukhodrev, Secretary of State Henry Alfred Kissinger, Minister of Foreign Affairs of the USSR Andrei Andreevich Gromyko, Head of the US Department of the USSR Ministry of Foreign Affairs Georgy Markovich Kornienko, Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of the USSR to the USA Anatoly Fedorovich Dobrynin and Marshal of Aviation, Minister of Civil Aviation of the USSR Boris Pavlovich Bugayev (from left to right in the background) after the signing ceremony of the joint Soviet-American communiqué in the Negotiations House on the territory of the Okeansky military sanatorium. J. Ford arrived in the USSR after official visits to Japan and the Republic of Korea for talks with L. I. Brezhnev on limiting strategic weapons and drafting a corresponding treaty. Yuri Muravin, Vladimir Musaelyan/TASS