Participants in the congress hall of the Grand Kremlin Palace on the first meeting. In government lodges: Voroshilov, Khrushchev, Anastas Mikoyan, Mikhail Suslov, AI Kirichenko, FR Kozlov, OV Kuusinen, NM Shvernik, EI Furtseva and others. At the podium: writers KA Fedin, L. Sobolev, SP Shchipachev, Tvardovsky, AA Surkov and others. Conducts meeting KA Fedin. Election of the Secretariat of the Congress, the credentials and editorial commissions. N. Tikhonov forward a proposal to elect the Honorary Presidium of the Congress Presidium of the CPSU Central Committee. Secretary of the CPSU Central Committee PN Pospelov read out a greeting to the Congress of the Politburo of the RSFSR. The report advocates the chairman of the organizing committee of the Union of Writers of the RSFSR L. Sobolev (synchronously extracts from the report).