Presentation of state awards in the Kremlin

USSR. Moscow. General Secretary of the CPSU Central Committee, Chairman of the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet of the USSR Leonid Ilyich Brezhnev (foreground), pilot-cosmonaut of the Czechoslovak Socialist Republic Vladimir Remek, pilot-cosmonaut of the USSR, twice Hero of the Soviet Union Oleg Grigorievich Makarov, pilot-cosmonaut of the USSR, twice Hero of the Soviet Union Georgy Mikhailovich Grechko, pilot-cosmonaut of the USSR Aleksei Aleksandrovich Gubarev (from left to right, background), pilot-cosmonaut of the USSR Vladimir Aleksandrovich Dzhanibekov, pilot-cosmonaut of the USSR Georgy Timofeevich Beregovoy and Secretary of the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet of the USSR Mikhail Porfiryevich Georgadze (from left to right, third background) during the ceremony of signing by L.I. Brezhnev of his book "On the Lenin Course" for A.A. Gubarev and V. Remek, awarded the Gold Star medal of the Hero of the Soviet Union for the successful implementation of space flight on the orbital research complex Salyut-6 - Soyuz. Eduard Pesov/TASS