E. Honecker's visit to the USSR

USSR. Moscow. Secretary of the CPSU Central Committee Boris Nikolayevich Ponomarev, Minister of Foreign Affairs of the USSR Andrei Andreevich Gromyko, General Secretary of the Central Committee of the Socialist Unity Party of Germany, Chairman of the State Council of the GDR Erich Honecker, General Secretary of the CPSU Central Committee Leonid Ilyich Brezhnev, awarded the star of the Hero of the German Democratic Republic and the Order "Great Star of Friendship of Peoples" on the occasion of his seventieth birthday, Chairman of the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet of the USSR Nikolai Viktorovich Podgorny, Chairman of the Council of Ministers of the USSR Alexei Nikolayevich Kosygin, Secretary of the CPSU Central Committee Andrei Pavlovich Kirilenko, Chairman of the Party Control Committee under the CPSU Central Committee Arvid Yanovich Pelshe, Chairman of the KGB under the Council of Ministers of the USSR Yuri Vladimirovich Andropov, First Secretary of the Moscow City Committee of the CPSU Viktor Vasilyevich Grishin, Secretary of the CPSU Central Committee Konstantin Ustinovich Chernenko, Minister of Culture of the USSR Pyotr Nilovich Demichev and Secretary of the CPSU Central Committee Mikhail Vasilyevich Zimyanin (from left to right in the foreground) during the award ceremony in the Vladimir Hall of the Grand Kremlin Palace. Eduard Pesov/TASS