Opening ceremony of the XII World Festival of Youth and Students in Moscow

USSR. Moscow. Head of the Economic Department of the CPSU Central Committee Nikolai Ivanovich Ryzhkov, Chairman of the State Security Committee of the USSR Viktor Mikhailovich Chebrikov, Secretary of the CPSU Central Committee Egor Kuzmich Ligachev, Chairman of the Central Control Commission of the CPSU Central Committee Mikhail Sergeevich Solomentsev, Chairman of the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet of the USSR Andrei Andreevich Gromyko, General Secretary of the CPSU Central Committee Mikhail Sergeevich Gorbachev, Chairman of the Council of Ministers of the USSR Nikolai Aleksandrovich Tikhonov, First Secretary of the Moscow City Committee of the CPSU Viktor Vasilyevich Grishin, Deputy Chairman of the Council of Ministers of the USSR Heydar Alirza ogly Aliyev, Chairman of the Council of Ministers of the RSFSR Vitaly Ivanovich Vorotnikov, Secretary of the CPSU Central Committee Boris Nikolaevich Ponomarev, Minister of Foreign Affairs of the USSR Eduard Amvrosievich Shevardnadze, Secretary of the CPSU CC Boris Nikolaevich Yeltsin, Deputy Chairman of the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet of the USSR Vasily Vasilyevich Kuznetsov, Minister of Culture of the USSR Pyotr Nilovich Demichev, USSR Minister of Defense Sergei Leonidovich Sokolov and Secretary of the CPSU Central Committee Konstantin Viktorovich Rusakov (from left to right) at the opening ceremony of the 12th World Festival of Youth and Students at the Grand Sports Arena of the V. I. Lenin Central Stadium. Vladimir Musaelyan, Eduard Pesov/TASS