The congress delegates in the Conference Room of the Grand Kremlin Palace. First secretary of the Union of Writers of the USSR AA Surkov, delivers the report. Speeches writers SV Mikhalkov, MA Sholokhov, Tvardovsky, NS Tikhonov, AE Korneychuck. Congress welcomes writers of the People's Republic, the Republic of Iraq, the Mongolian People's Republic of Korea and Democratic People's Republic of Korea. First Secretary of the CPSU Central Committee, chairman of the Council of Ministers of the USSR, Nikita Khrushchev made a speech. Writers VP Kataev, K. Simonov, foreign guests in the lobby. Friendly caricatures of writers in the newspaper of the Congress - "Looking at the person." Reception in honor of delegates to the congress in St. George's Hall in the Kremlin. Khrushchev, Anastas Mikoyan, FR Kozlov, Leonid Brezhnev, KA Furtseva and other party and government leaders talk with writers and foreign guests of the congress. Among those present at the reception writers SV Mikhalkov, Tvardovsky, L. Leonov, AE Korneichuk, BM Kerbabayev. Delegates of the congress lay wreaths to the Mausoleum of Lenin and Stalin. Writers SV Mikhalkov and AL Barto converse with the Pioneers on the Red Square. Fragments of speeches Tvardovsky III at the Writers' Congress (synchronously).