After session of Congress of USSR People's Deputies. In the center [left to right] are: Anatoly Lukyanov, Candidate Member of the Politburo of the Soviet Communist Party's Central Committee, Mikhail Gorbachev, General Secretary of the Soviet Communist Party's Central Committee and Chairman of the Presidium of the USSR Supreme Soviet [Parliament], and Nikolai Ryzhkov, Chairman of the USSR Council of Ministers [Government].