Around the USSR №124-1975 Friendship forum (1975)

Meeting at the airfield of delegates and guests of the 3rd All-Union Conference of the Union of Soviet Societies for Friendship and Cultural Relations with Foreign Countries.

Among those arriving are Tsola Dragoicheva, Chairperson of the All-People's Committee of Bulgarian-Soviet Friendship, Shashi Bhushan, Vice-President of the Indian-Soviet Cultural Society, and Lothar Bolz, President of the German-Soviet Friendship Society.

Registration of conference delegates is pending.

Among the delegates chatting in the corridors are N.V. Popova, cosmonaut G.S. Titov, test pilot V.K. Kokkinaki, People's Artist of the USSR Yu.A. Zavadskiy, poet A.A. Surkov, Hero of Socialist Labor P.A. Malinina, and others.

The conference is opened by Chairperson of the Presidium of the Union of Soviet Friendship Societies N.V. Popova.

Secretary of the CPSU Central Committee B.N. Ponomarev reads out the greetings of the Central Committee of the CPSU (synchronously) – general, categorical.

Listeners, applauders – various. N.V. Popova delivers a report (synchronously) – categorical.

Soviet delegates, the Minister of the USSR Navy, and the Chairman of the Board of the USSR-Japan Society Timofey Guzhenko speak at the conference.

Speakers at the conference: Chairman of the Executive Committee of the Leningrad City Council, Chairman of the Presidium of the Association for Relations between Soviet and Foreign Cities Vasily Kazakov, student from Volgograd Galina Sycheva, People's Artist of the USSR Oleg Efremov.

Speakers at the conference include foreign guests: Nguyen Van Kinh from Vietnam, Shashi Bhushah from India, Holland Roberts from the USA, Pierre Pouyade from France.

Conference participants and foreign guests get acquainted with the life of educational institutions and enterprises of the capital participating in the work of the Union of Friendship Societies.

Concert in the Column Hall of the House of Unions for delegates and guests of the conference: fragment from the ballet, folk dance (synchronously).

Press conference of Soviet and foreign journalists dedicated to the results of the forum.

Speakers: N.V. Popova, Secretary General of the Finland – Soviet Union Society Kristina Porkkala (synchronously), Academician N.N. Blokhin (synchronously), guests from Ecuador Elias Gallegos Aida (synchronously).

The conference participants vote for the resolution and for the new composition of the Council of the Union of Soviet Friendship Societies – cf.

For fruitful work in developing and strengthening friendship and cooperation between the Soviet people and the peoples of foreign countries, the Union of Soviet Friendship Societies is awarded the Order of Friendship of Peoples, the order is pinned to the banner – cf., kr. N.V. Popova speaks with words of gratitude.

The conference participants stand and applaud.