Awarding of L.I. Brezhnev in the Kremlin

USSR. Moscow. Secretary of the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet of the USSR Mikhail Porfiryevich Georgadze, Secretary of the CPSU Central Committee Mikhail Andreevich Suslov, General Secretary of the CPSU Central Committee, Chairman of the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet of the USSR Leonid Ilyich Brezhnev (from left to right in the foreground), awarded the highest military order "Victory", Secretaries of the CPSU Central Committee Yakov Petrovich Ryabov and Mikhail Vasilyevich Zimyanin, First Deputy Chairman of the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet of the USSR Vasily Vasilyevich Kuznetsov, First Deputy Chairman of the Council of Ministers of the USSR Kirill Trofimovich Mazurov, Minister of Defense of the USSR, Marshal of the Soviet Union Dmitry Fedorovich Ustinov, First Secretary of the Moscow City Committee of the CPSU Viktor Vasilyevich Grishin, Chairman of the Council of Ministers of the USSR Alexey Nikolaevich Kosygin, Secretary of the CPSU Central Committee Andrey Pavlovich Kirilenko, Chairman of the State Security Committee under the Council of Ministers of the USSR Yuri Vladimirovich Andropov, First Secretary of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of Kazakhstan Dinmukhamed Akhmedovich Kunayev, Secretaries of the CPSU Central Committee Fyodor Davydovich Kulakov and Boris Nikolayevich Ponomarev (from left to right in the background) during the award ceremony in the Vladimir Hall of the Grand Kremlin Palace. Vladimir Musaelyan/TASS