Opening of the International Festival of Youth and Students in Moscow (1957)

Trucks drive along Moscow's main street.

Young people are sitting in the backs of the trucks.

The trucks are carrying delegations of young people from around the world.

Crowds of people greet the visitors along the sidewalks.

The streets are decorated with festival symbols.

The hands of Muscovites greeting them reach out to the guests.

Muscovites stand on the sidewalks and on the roofs of buses.

Delegates in national costumes wave flowers and flags.

Muscovites watch the procession from rooftops and balconies and greet the guests.

An aerial view of the truck procession.

A sea of ​​people on the streets of Moscow.

A view from the balcony of a building on Novinsky Boulevard of the procession and the high-rise building on Kudrinskaya Square.

Luzhniki Stadium.

The parade of festival delegations.

A general view of the stadium.