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

July 1975. USSR. 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 team of testers and launchers preparing the rocket-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, Albert Pushkarev/TASS