Preparation for a joint space flight under the Soyuz-Apollo program

July 1975. USSR. Kazakh SSR. Kyzylorda region. Baikonur. The crew of the Soyuz-19 spacecraft, flight engineer Valery Nikolaevich Kubasov and commander Alexei Arkhipovich Leonov (from left to right) during a meeting with a group of testers and personnel preparing the rocket and space system for flight at the Baikonur cosmodrome to participate in a joint experimental manned flight with the American Apollo spacecraft. The exact date of the photo is unknown. Nikolai Akimov/TASS