The eighth session of the Supreme Soviet of the USSR of the tenth convocation in Moscow

USSR. Moscow. Deputies of the Supreme Soviet of the USSR of the tenth convocation General Secretary of the CPSU Central Committee Yuri Vladimirovich Andropov (in the background), First Secretary of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of Ukraine Vladimir Vasilyevich Shcherbitsky (in the third background) and First Deputy Chairman of the Council of Ministers of the USSR Heydar Alievich Aliyev (in the fourth background) in the presidium during a joint meeting of the Council of the Union and the Council of Nationalities at the eighth session of the Supreme Soviet of the USSR of the tenth convocation in the meeting hall of the Grand Kremlin Palace. Vladimir Musaelyan, Eduard Pesov/TASS