Visit of N. M. Taraki to the USSR

USSR. Moscow. Member of the Politburo of the PDPA Central Committee, Secretary of the PDPA, Minister of Public Health of the Democratic Republic of Afghanistan (DRA), Acting Minister of Planning Shah Wali, General Secretary of the CPSU Central Committee Leonid Ilyich Brezhnev, General Secretary of the PDPA Central Committee, Chairman of the Revolutionary Council, Prime Minister of the DRA Nur Mohammad Taraki, member of the Politburo of the CPSU Central Committee, Chairman of the Council of Ministers of the USSR Alexei Nikolaevich Kosygin, Minister of Foreign Affairs of the USSR Andrei Andreevich Gromyko, Member of the Politburo of the PDPA, Secretary of the PDPA Central Committee, Deputy Prime Minister, Minister of Foreign Affairs of the DRA Hafizullah Amin, candidate member of the Politburo of the CPSU Central Committee, First Deputy Chairman of the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet of the USSR Vasily Vasilyevich Kuznetsov (from left to right in the foreground) and member of the Politburo of the PDPA Central Committee, Minister of Agriculture and Land Reform Saleh Muhammad Zerai (third from right in the second (plane) during the welcoming ceremony for the Afghan delegation at the Vnukovo-2 airfield. Eduard Pesov/TASS