Working visit of F. Mitterrand to the USSR

USSR. Moscow. USSR Foreign Minister Eduard Amvrosievich Shevardnadze, wife of the President of France Daniele Mitterrand, President of France François Mitterrand, departing for the Baikonur Cosmodrome as part of his working visit to the USSR, and First Deputy Chairman of the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet of the USSR Anatoly Ivanovich Lukyanov (left to right, foreground) during a farewell ceremony at Vnukovo Airport. After a week's delay, the Soyuz TM-7 manned spacecraft was launched from the Baikonur Cosmodrome on November 26, 1988, with French cosmonaut-researcher Jean-Loup Chretien on board to allow François Mitterrand to be present at the launch. Valery Zufarov/TASS