Awarding of L.I. Brezhnev in the Kremlin

USSR. Moscow. Assistant for International Affairs to the General Secretary of the CPSU Central Committee Andrei Mikhailovich Aleksandrov-Agentov, Deputy Chairman of the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet of the USSR Mahmadullo Kholovich Kholov, Chairman of the Council of the Union of the Supreme Soviet of the USSR Alexey Pavlovich Shitikov, Minister of Defense of the USSR, Marshal of the Soviet Union Dmitry Fedorovich Ustinov, Chairman of the State Security Committee of the USSR Yuri Vladimirovich Andropov, Minister of Foreign Affairs of the USSR Andrei Andreevich Gromyko, Secretary of the CPSU Central Committee, Head of the General Department of the CPSU Central Committee Konstantin Ustinovich Chernenko, 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, Chairman of the Council of Ministers of the USSR Alexey Nikolaevich Kosygin, Secretary of the CPSU Central Committee Andrei Pavlovich Kirilenko, First Secretary of the Moscow City Committee of the CPSU Viktor Vasilyevich Grishin, Secretary of the CPSU Central Committee Mikhail Vasilyevich Zimyanin and Secretary of the CPSU Central Committee, Head of the Defense Department of the CPSU Central Committee Yakov Petrovich Ryabov (left to right in the foreground) in the Kremlin after the ceremony of presenting the Order of Lenin and the Gold Star medal of Hero of the Soviet Union to L.I. Brezhnev for outstanding services to the party, the state and in connection with his birthday. Eduard Pesov/TASS