Friendship (1969)

House of Friendship with the Peoples of Foreign Countries – Wed, kr, Poland.

Signboard – kr.

Foreigners and Russians enter the House of Friendship.

Diplomatic cars arrive, from which diplomats from African countries exit – Wed.

Jubilee meeting in the House of Friendship dedicated to the tenth anniversary of the Soviet Association of Friendship with the Peoples of Africa.

The Presidium is at a table with the flags of the member countries of the Association.

The meeting is opened by the President of the Association, Director of the Institute of Africa Vasily Solodovnikov (synchronously) – Wed.

Participants of the jubilee meeting in the hall – general, Wed.

The building of the Institute of Africa – Wed, Poland.

Signboard: "USSR Academy of Sciences Institute of Africa" - kr.

Director of the Institute Solodovnikov talks with a group of Africans in the library – kr, Wed.

Employees are working in the reading room of the institute.

A man is reading a newspaper in a foreign language – kr.

An African and a Russian woman are at the table – kr.

Corresponding Member of the USSR Academy of Sciences Dmitry Olderogge at work in his office – cf.

Books on a revolving stand – cf.

Anniversary meeting at the House of Friendship.

Member of the Association Evgeny Pronin, a metro driver, is speaking – cf. E. Pronin and his assistant are driving a metro train – cf.

A metro train at the Sportivnaya station - cf., cf.

Employees of the Izmailovo metro station are receiving guests – students from Africa – cf., cf. E. Pronin with a group of students and metro employees.

Interview with the famous Moscow journalist Dmitry Mamleev (synchronously) – cf.

Mamleev’s book about his travels in Africa, “Borscht on the Bank of the Niger”, his hands turning the pages of the book – cf.

Member of the Board of the Association, artist Boris Preobrazhensky, makes sketches of an African standing at the stand with books – cf.

Exhibition of paintings by Africanists.

Paintings – cf., cf.

Visitors at the exhibition.

Bas-relief – kr.

Ritual masks – kr.

Africans talking with Metropolitan Nikodim and other members of the Association – kr.

Trinity Lavra of St.

Sergius in Zagorsk – cf.

Peacekeeping meeting in the Lavra, to which religious figures from abroad have been invited.

Member of the Board of the Association Metropolitan Nikodim speaks at the meeting (synchronously) – kr, wed.

Representatives of various religious cults are sitting in the hall – kr, wed, general.

Photographs depicting meetings of Soviet activists of the Association with Africans.

Photo: V.V. Nikolaeva-Tereshkova in a group of Africans – kr.

Photo: intertwined hands – kr.

Sea surf near a rocky shore – Wed.

Buildings on the Black Sea coast that house the International Youth Camp (shot through a palm tree) – Wed, kr, Poland.

Small waves in the sea – kr.

A young man and a girl in bathing suits are walking down the stairs to the beach – Wed.

Beach – general.

Young people on the beach, in the sea – Wed.

Among the young people are Africans.

Young people are dancing in the hall.

Africans are dancing with Russian girls – Wed, kr.

Young men are playing chess – Wed.

An African is playing – kr.

A girl is talking to an African – kr.

The building of the Peoples' Friendship University named after Patrice Lumumba – Wed, Poland.

Students enter the building, walk up the stairs – Wed.

Russian language lesson (simultaneously in French and Russian).

Students answer the teacher's questions – kr.

Poland (from above).

Baku street – Wed (from the top).

Another street – Wed.

The delegation of the Nigerian-Soviet Friendship and Cultural Relations Association, which arrived in Baku, walks along the streets of the city – kr., Wed.

A park with a fountain – Wed, Poland.

The delegation of the Nigerian-Soviet Friendship Association, headed by the Minister of Health and Social Welfare of the North Central State of Nigeria, Dora Miller, meets with the chairman of the presidium of the Baijan Society for Friendship and Cultural Relations with Foreign Countries, Kuliyev.

The members of the delegation examine ancient cathedrals and get acquainted with rock paintings.

Drawings on the rocks – kr.

Oil rigs in the sea – Wed, Poland, general.

The members of the delegation talk with a female craftsman on the overpass of the Oil Rocks oil field.

Female craftsman – kr.

Baku bazaar: sale of watermelons, apples, grapes – kr.

A vendor peels corn cobs and treats the delegation members.

Moscow, the Kalinin Bridge, with a high-rise building on Smolenskaya Square in the distance – Wed.

The head of the delegation, Dora Miller, shares her impressions of her trip around the country at a press conference in Moscow (simultaneously in English) – kr.

The press conference participants are listening.

Hands are writing down – kr.

The Lenin monument on the bank of the Volga in Ulyanovsk – Wed. (departure).

A city street – Wed.

Lenin’s House-Museum with a memorial plaque – Wed.

Students of the Association’s seminar looking at the Lenin Museum.

The living room: a table, an armchair, a piano – kr, panorama.

The dining room – Wed.

Lenin’s room: a bed, a table, a shelf with books, a geographic map on the wall – Wed, panorama.

Africans are watching – kr.

The Association’s Seminar classes: a man is speaking.

The seminar participants in the hall – Wed, kr.

Africans – kr.

Members of the Moscow House of Pioneers ensemble, who have come to visit the students at the seminar, are walking through the hall – cf.

African students are talking to members of the Loktev ensemble passing by – kr.

Members of the ensemble are giving flowers to the students – cf.

The dance of little Africans is performed (synchronously) – general, kr.

African students are applauding – kr.