Signing of a program of cultural and scientific cooperation between the USSR and Afghanistan

USSR. Moscow. Member of the Politburo of the Central Committee of the People's Democratic Party of Afghanistan, Minister of Information and Culture of the Democratic Republic of Afghanistan M. H. Barek Shafi'i (second from left in the foreground) and director of the Znanie publishing house Viktor Konstantinovich Belyakov (second from right in the background) during the signing ceremony of the program of cultural and scientific cooperation between the USSR and the DRA, designed for 1978-1979. Valentin Kuzmin/TASS