E. Gierek's visit to the USSR

USSR. Moscow. General Secretary of the CPSU Central Committee Leonid Ilyich Brezhnev, head of the party-state delegation of the Polish People's Republic, First Secretary of the Polish United Workers' Party Edward Gierek (from right to left at the table), Secretary of the CPSU Central Committee Konstantin Fedorovich Katushev, USSR Minister of Culture Pyotr Nilovich Demichev, Chairman of the Council of Ministers of the RSFSR Mikhail Sergeevich Solomentsev, USSR Defense Minister Dmitry Fedorovich Ustinov, Chairman of the State Security Committee under the Council of Ministers of the USSR Yuri Vladimirovich Andropov, Deputy Chairman of the Council of Ministers of the USSR Kirill Trofimovich Mazurov, Minister of Foreign Affairs of the USSR Andrei Andreevich Gromyko, Secretaries of the CPSU Central Committee Andrei Pavlovich Kirilenko, Mikhail Andreevich Suslov, Chairman of the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet of the USSR Nikolai Viktorovich Podgorny, Chairman of the Council of Ministers of the USSR Alexey Nikolaevich Kosygin and member of the Politburo of the Central Committee of the PUWP, Chairman of the Council of Ministers of the People's Republic of Poland Pyotr Yaroshevich (from right to left in the background) in during the signing ceremony of the statement "For the further development of comprehensive cooperation between the Soviet Union and the Polish People's Republic, for strengthening the friendship of the Soviet and Polish peoples" in the Vladimir Hall of the Grand Kremlin Palace. Viktor Budan, Vladimir Musaelyan/TASS