1962 Press Photo Alexei Kirilenko and other top Soviet in party shift

Alexei P. Kirilenko, left, was elevated to the party presidium, a high post in world communism, and Ivan Spiridonov, right, was dropped from his post as one of the secretaries of the party's central committee in changes announced today in Moscow.

Photo is dated 1962.

Photo measures 8 x 10.25 inches.