At the Third All-Union Congress of Soviet Writers (1959.05)

Covers of publications of works by Soviet writers and poets.

Participants of the 3rd All-Union Congress of Soviet Writers walk through the Kremlin grounds to the congress session on May 18, 1959. A. T. Tvardovsky walks accompanied by one of the delegates.

Congress delegates converse on the Kremlin grounds.

Young Pioneers on Red Square tie a red tie on a congress participant.

Writers and poets greet each other and converse, among them A. T. Tvardovsky.

Congress participants enter the building of the Supreme Soviet of the USSR. The faces of the delegates conversing, among them the writer N. Tikhonov.

Writer A. Surkov speaks from the podium; views of the congress meeting hall.

Ignatov N.G., Suslov M.A., Furtseva E.A., Mikoyan A.I., Khrushchev N.S., Kuusinen O.V., Brezhnev L.I. in the seats for honored guests during the session.

Surkov continues his speech, the congress participants applaud.

Views of the congress meeting hall, the faces of the delegates.

The design of visual propaganda during the break of the congress meeting.

During the break of the meeting, the delegates examine stands with caricatures, exhibited in the St.

George Hall of the Grand Kremlin Palace, friendly caricatures of the writers M.A. Sholokhov, K. Simonov and other writers and poets.

Congress participants talking during the break of the meeting.

Guests from India in the St.

George Hall during the break.

Congress delegates talking with foreign guests.

An artist makes sketches of the delegates talking.

Faces of writers from Asian and African countries during the next meeting.