The ceremonial meeting at the Bolshoi Theater of the USSR, devoted to the 100 th anniversary of the scientist-biologist Michurin. At the podium: NA Bulganin, Voroshilov, LM Kaganovich, Malenkov, MG Pervukhin, MZ Saburov, D. Shepilov, NI Belyaev . Performers are academics: Nesmeyanov, Bardin, Lysenko, AV Palladin, EN Pavlovsky, NV Tsitsyn. Among those present in the hall: Academician D. Skobeltsyn.