Visit of the delegation of the Sino-Soviet Friendship Society to the USSR (1953)

A view of one of Moscow's high-rise buildings.

The Yaroslavsky Station building on Komsomolskaya Square.

A train arrives at the station.

Members of the Sino-Soviet Friendship Society delegation are greeted at the train carriage, flowers are presented to the Chinese guests.

Faces of the Chinese delegation members.

Professor A.I. Denisov, Chairman of the Board of the All-Union Society for Cultural Relations with Foreign Countries, delivers a welcoming speech to the Chinese guests on the platform.

The Chinese guests applaud.

The head of the Chinese delegation, Li Fuzhen, delivers a response.

The Chinese guests, holding bouquets of flowers, walk along the platform.

Members of the Chinese delegation walk to their cars.

The cars with the guests drive away from the station building.

A view of the mausoleum on Red Square.

Members of the Chinese delegation carry a wreath to the mausoleum.

Wreath-laying ceremony at the mausoleum.

The Chinese delegates bow three times.

A wreath at the wall of the mausoleum.

Members of the Chinese delegation walk through the Kremlin grounds during a tour.

The Tsar Bell on the Kremlin grounds.

Chinese delegates examine the Tsar Bell.

The Tsar Cannon on the Kremlin grounds.

Chinese delegates listen to a tour guide.

Members of the Chinese delegation enter the Grand Kremlin Palace.

Chinese guests tour the St.

George Hall.

Members of the Chinese delegation walk through the Kremlin grounds.

View of the Bolshoi Theater and Sverdlov Square (from above).

Members of the Chinese delegation listen to a tour guide on Sverdlov Square.

Faces of the Chinese guests.

The Bolshoi Theater building.

Members of the Chinese delegation walk through Sverdlov Square.

A trolleybus on its route.

The building of Moscow State University (MSU) on Lenin Hills.

Members of the Chinese delegation in front of the Moscow University building.

The MSU building.

Chinese delegates, along with Moscow schoolchildren, walk away from the MSU building after touring it.

Children shake hands with the Chinese delegates.

Delegates bid farewell to Moscow schoolchildren.

The Moscow State University building.

Members of the Chinese delegation enter a Moscow metro station for a tour.

The interior of a station's lobby.

Chinese delegates ride in a metro car.

A train at a station.

Chinese guests exit the car.

Chinese guests in the lobby of a metro station.

Delegates after exiting the metro.

A passenger train passes.