Awarding of A.S. Ivanchenkov and V.V. Kovalenok in the Kremlin

USSR. Moscow. USSR pilot-cosmonaut Aleksandr Sergeyevich Ivanchenkov, General Secretary of the CPSU Central Committee and Chairman of the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet of the USSR Leonid Ilyich Brezhnev, USSR pilot-cosmonaut Vladimir Vasilyevich Kovalenok (from left to right in the foreground), First Deputy Chairman of the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet of the USSR Vasily Vasilyevich Kuznetsov, Secretary of the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet of the USSR Mikhail Porfiryevich Georgadze and Secretary of the CPSU Central Committee and Head of the Defense Department of the CPSU Central Committee Yakov Petrovich Ryabov (from left to right in the background) in the Kremlin after the ceremony of presenting the Order of Lenin and the Gold Star medal of Hero of the Soviet Union to A.S. Ivanchenkov and V.V. Kovalenok for the successful completion of the flight on the Soyuz-29 spacecraft. Vladimir Musaelyan/TASS