Joint meeting of the Council of the Union and the Council of Nationalities of the Supreme Soviet of the USSR

USSR. Moscow. Chairman of the Council of Ministers of the Latvian SSR Vilis Tenisovich Latsis, member of the CPSU Central Committee Mikhail Vasilyevich Zimyanin, deputy Tamara Mikhailovna Matiashvili, First Secretary of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of the Azerbaijan SSR Mir Teymur Yakubov, Chairman of the Council of Nationalities of the Supreme Soviet of the USSR Zhumabai Shayakhmetovich Shayakhmetov, Chairman of the Council of the Union of the Supreme Soviet of the USSR Mikhail Alekseevich Yasnov, First Secretary of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of Uzbekistan Amin Irmatovich Niyazov, First Secretary of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of Ukraine Alexey Illarionovich Kirichenko, Minister of Culture of the RSFSR Tatyana Mikhailovna Zueva (from left to right in the foreground), Minister of Foreign Affairs of the USSR Vyacheslav Mikhailovich Molotov, Chairman of the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet of the USSR Kliment Efremovich Voroshilov, Chairman of the Council Ministers of the USSR Georgy Maximilianovich Malenkov, First Secretary of the CPSU Central Committee Nikita Sergeevich Khrushchev, First Deputy Chairman of the Council of Ministers of the USSR Lazar Moiseevich Kaganovich (from right to left in the background), Minister of Defense of the USSR Nikolai Aleksandrovich Bulganin and Minister of Internal and External Trade of the USSR Anastas Ivanovich Mikoyan (from right to left in the background) at the Joint Session of the Council of the Union and the Council of Nationalities of the Supreme Soviet of the USSR of the third convocation in the Grand Kremlin Palace. Vasily Yegorov, Vladimir Savostyanov/TASS