1971 Press Photo Leonid Brezhnev shoulders ashes of deceased cosmonaut, Moscow

Leonid Brezhnev shoulders ashes of deceased cosmonaut, Moscow. Soviet Communist Party leader Leonid Brezhnev, right foreground, helps shoulder platform carrying urn of ashes of one of the Soyuz II cosmonauts who died in their spacecraft, during funeral services Friday in Moscow. The three cosmonauts died at the controls of their ship just before completing an epic space voyage. They were laid to rest in the kremlin Wall, the nation's traditional burial place for fallen heroes.

Photo is dated 1971.

Photo measures 10.25 x 8.25 inches.