The Parliamentary Delegation of Great Britain in the USSR. (1977)

Documentary №7938, 2 parts, duration: 0:19:17, black-white
Production: CSDF (RCSDF)
Availability:Film hasn't been digitized
Director:Spryshkova M.
Camera operators:Artseulov O., Voinov O.
Text authors:Surkova S.

Annotation:

About the visit of the Parliamentary Delegation of Great Britain to the Soviet Union their tour to Armenia and Leningrad.

Historical background:

April 19, 1977 at the invitation of the Supreme Soviet of the Soviet Union arrives British parliamentary delegation headed by the chairman of the faction of the Labor Party and the House of Commons Kledvinom Hughes.

Temporary description:

Chairman of the Supreme Soviet of the USSR AP Shitikov meets in the airport Sheremetievsky British parliamentary delegation, headed by K. Hughes. The guests visiting the Grand Kremlin Palace. The delegation lay wreaths to the Lenin Mausoleum and the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier. Members of the delegation at a reception in Moscow Soviet. The streets of Moscow. The delegation of the Moscow State University and VDNH. Reception of the Patriarch Pimen. Kremlin. The Bolshoi Theater. Interview with Minister of Culture and VI Popov. The streets of Yerevan. The delegation at a reception at the chairman of the Presidium of the Supreme Council of Armenia, Boris E. Sarkisov. The delegation of the shops of the Electrical Works. Lenin. Monument "Mother Armenia". The meeting with the Catholicos of All Armenians Vazgen I. In Leningrad. Peter and Paul Fortress. The monument to Peter I. "Aurora". Smolny. Palace Square. The delegation at a reception at the first deputy chairman of the executive committee of the Leningrad City Council Filonov. The laying of a wreath at the monument "Mother Motherland" at Piskarevsky. Meeting with Chairman of the Council of Nationalities of the Supreme Soviet of the USSR VP Ruben.

Reel №1

A solemn meeting of the delegation at the airport, atmosphere - the chairman of the USSR Supreme Soviet of the USSR AP Shitikov, the Supreme Soviet of the USSR AV Goldobenko, VN Uvachan and others, the British Ambassador to the Soviet Union, Sir Howard Smith.

Tower - MS.

The building of the Grand Kremlin Palace - LS., MS., Departure.

AP Shitikov receives British delegation composed of K. Hughes, Robert Boskavena, Bishop AM Stokvuda, George Rodgers, Brian Magee, Robert Hicks, Richard Luce, Lord Dramalbina.

Members of the delegation visiting the Grand Kremlin Palace, St George's Hall - Various.

Conference Room of the Supreme Soviet of the USSR, the Soviet Union flag in the hall - different.

AP Shitikov and parliament of England in the hall.

A study VI Lenin in the Kremlin - different.

Monument VI Lenin in the Kremlin - LS.

Red Square Mausoleum Lenin - MS., Run over, members of the delegation are the Mausoleum - MS., PNRM.

Flowers and the Eternal Flame at the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier - different.

British MPs, led by K. Hughes lay a wreath at the grave.

Report on the Moscow Triumphal Arch, downtown - different.

Soviet area - LS.

The building of the Moscow City Council - LS.

Members of the delegation at a reception in England at the Moscow City Council Vice-chairman of the Moscow City Council Yushin.

Streets in the new district of Moscow - LS., MS. (With motion).

Kalinin Prospect - MS. (With motion).

The building of the city hospital - MS., PNRM.

Members of the British delegation visiting classrooms.

Construction site cancer center - LS., PNRM.

University building in the Lenin Hills - LS., MS.

University Rector Academician Khokhlov takes British parliamentarians.

Guests at the observation deck.

General view of Moscow - LS., PNRM.

Pavilion "Space" at ENEA: exhibits pavilion - lunar rover, space station "Salyut", etc.

Gorky Street - MS.

Size of the 50th anniversary of the October Revolution (Manezh) - LS.

Lord bishop Stokvud at the reception of the Patriarch of Moscow and All Russia Pimen.

Icons - CU.

Kremlin: Spasskaya tower, churches - MS., Hitting, LS.

The building of the Museum of Fine Arts Pushkin - LS.

Bolshoi Theatre - LS., MS.

Deputy Minister of Culture of the USSR AI Popov takes the British delegation to the Soviet Ministry of Culture.

The building of the Kremlin Palace of Congresses, the auditorium - LS., PNRM.

Guests from England in the hall.

Performs folk dance "Caucasus" (synchronous) - MS.

Reel №2

Flying aircraft - MS.

Members of the British delegation in the cabin, accompanied by members of the Supreme Soviet of the USSR AV Goldobenko and VN Uvachana.

City Yerevan - LS. (Top point).

Report on the streets and squares - Various.

The Supreme Council of the Armenian Soviet Socialist Republic - LS.

Chairman of the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet of Armenia BE Sarkisov takes British parliamentarians.

Monument VI Lenin at the Armenian Electrical Engineering Plant named after Lenin - CU.

English guests attending the plant, visiting shops.

Working in the shop - MS., PNRM.; Machinery - CU.

Industrial landscape - LS., MS.

Framing plans: quarry, cement plant, conveyor, radio.

Wine cellar: barrels, racks of bottles - different.

Hands unfold bottle packaging: the inscription on the bottle "in 1847» - CU.

British MPs visited the Lenin State Farm, talk with the chairman of the collective farm, visiting the greenhouse, taste the wines.

Tomatoes - CU., PNRM.

Cucumbers - CU.

Table with a bottle of wine - MS.

Boulevards with fountains in Yerevan - LS., CU.

Monument "Mother Armenia" in the park Antamak - CU., Departure.

Pioneers at the foot of the monument - LS., MS.; Talk with British guests, boy ties a pioneer tie K. Hughes - CU.

British MPs at a reception at the Catholicos of All Armenians Vazgen I.

Armenian alphabet, inlaid with precious stones - CU.

Sculpture in front of stacks Research Institute of Manuscripts "Matenadaran" - different.

The exhibits of the museum: old books and manuscripts - CU.

Guests from England visiting the exhibits of the museum.

Peter and Paul Fortress in Leningrad - LS.

Decembrists Square, monument to Peter I - LS., CU.

St.

Isaac's Cathedral - MS., PNRM., Departure.

Kazan Cathedral - MS., PNRM.

Report on the streets.

Cruiser "Aurora» - LS., CU. (Top point).

Smolny, a monument to VI Lenin in front of the - MS., CU.

Palace Square - LS.

Atlanta in front of the Hermitage - MS.

The sculptures in the Gallery of the Hermitage - MS.

The pictures in the halls - CU.

The building of the Leningrad City Council - MS.

Members of the British delegation at a reception at the First Deputy Chairman of the Executive Committee of the Leningrad City Council MD Filonov.

Eternal flame at Piskarevsky, monument "Motherland» - MS.

The head of the British delegation K. Hughes lays a wreath at the monument.

Victory Memorial in Victory Square Obelisk with a sculpture of "Winners", sculptural group "The blockade» - CU., MS.

K. Hughes laying flowers to the monument.

The inscription on the monument "feat thy Leningrad» - MS., PNRM.

Moscow, The Grand Kremlin Palace - MS., PNRM., Hitting.

Chairman of the Council of Nationalities of the Supreme Soviet of the USSR VP Ruben receives a delegation of British parliamentarians.

Soviet-British negotiations.

Solemn British delegation at the airport.

Among the mourners - VP Ruben and VN Uvachan.

Plane takes off - LS., PNRM.

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