E. Honecker's visit to the USSR

USSR. Moscow region. Twice Heroes of the Soviet Union, USSR pilot-cosmonauts Pyotr Ilyich Klimuk, Anatoly Vasilyevich Filipchenko, Alexei Arkhipovich Leonov, Hero of the Soviet Union, USSR pilot-cosmonaut Georgy Stepanovich Shonin (from left to right in the foreground), twice Hero of the Soviet Union, assistant to the Commander-in-Chief of the USSR Air Force for the preparation and support of space flights, USSR pilot-cosmonaut Vladimir Aleksandrovich Shatalov (on the right in the background), Secretary of the Central Committee of the Socialist Unity Party of Germany for security Paul Ferner (third from the right in the background), Chairman of the State Council of the German Democratic Republic Willi Stoph (fourth from the right in the background), Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of the USSR to the GDR Pyotr Andreevich Abrasimov (second from the left in the background), twice Hero of the Soviet Union, head of the Yury Gagarin Cosmonaut Training Center, USSR pilot-cosmonaut Georgy Timofeevich Beregovoy and First Secretary of the SED Central Committee Erich Honecker (right to left in the third plane) in the simulator room of the Yuri Gagarin Cosmonaut Training Center in Star City. Yevgeny Shulepov, Anatoly Kovtun/TASS