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Vasily Mozgovoy, the leader of a team of coal miners at one of the mines of the "Kalininugol" Trust, a Hero of Socialist Labor and a Deputy to USSR Supreme Soviet, and Khaled Bagdash, the General Secretary of the Central Committee of the Syrian Communist Party, in the foyer of the Kremlin Palace of Congresses, Moscow, during a solemn meeting of the CPSU Central Committee, the USSR Supreme Soviet and the RSFSR Supreme Soviet dedicated to the 50th anniversary of the formation of the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics. December 1972. (KEYSTONE/SPUTNIK/Vladimir Akimov)