Senators of the United States of America in the USSR (1979)

Leningrad.

Monument to Peter the Great.

Airport building.

Boeing airplane moving along the airfield.

Flags of the USA, USSR, and RSFSR on the airport building.

Delegation of US senators descending the steps of the airplane.

Meeting of the American delegation with city leaders.

Motorcade of cars passing over the bridge in Leningrad.

Building of the Leningrad City Council, red flag on the building.

Conversation in the hall at the table.

Present from the Soviet side are A.P. Shitikov, L.N. Zaykov, Yu.A. Zhukov and others.

From the American side are senators A. Ribikov, G. Belman, T. Eagleton, E. Stevenson, J. Glenn and others.

Leningrad, view of St.

Isaac's Cathedral.

Pedestrians walking.

Trams going.

Monument to Peter the Great.

View of the Neva River, marble ball (architectural element) on the embankment.

View of Smolny, monument to Lenin in front of the building.

Memorial plaque.

US Senators get acquainted with the exposition of the Lenin Museum.

The American delegation in the assembly hall of Smolny.

Foreign guests visit the Hermitage.

The museum exposition: paintings, portraits.

Chronicle of 1942-1943: The Hermitage during the war, empty picture frames hang on the walls, glass display cases without exhibits, part of the building at the entrance is destroyed.

Monument to the defenders of Leningrad.

US parliamentarians lay flowers at the monument.

Piskarevskoye Cemetery, American senators lay a wreath at the monument to those killed during the war.

Graves.

The delegation of American senators visits the memorial complex on the site of the burnt village of Khatyn.

Laying flowers at the Eternal Flame.

The delegation visits the Minsk Museum of the History of the Great Patriotic War.

Viewing the exposition, meeting with former soldiers and partisans.

The central square of Minsk, transport goes in a circle.

The Eternal Flame at the memorial stele.

US senators lay a wreath at the Eternal Flame.

Reception of the US delegation at the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet of the BSSR, conversation at the table of parliamentarians of the two countries.

A sign on the building of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of Belarus.

A conversation at the table between Pyotr Masherov and American senators.

A view of the Kremlin from above.

The Tomb of the Unknown Soldier at the Kremlin Wall.

US parliamentarians lay a wreath.

The Eternal Flame.

A chronicle of 1945: the sign "Elbe" at the bridge over the river.

Soviet and American officers shake hands.

A poster about the meeting of the allies on the Elbe.

An American cameraman films a group of soldiers and officers from the two countries.

A view of the Kremlin.

In the Supreme Soviet of the USSR, the US delegation is met by the head of the International Department of the Central Committee of the CPSU Boris Ponomarev.

A conversation at the table.

Speeches by B.N. Ponomarev and Senator Ribikov.

Present at the negotiating table are Yu.A. Zhukov and A.P. Shitikov.

A monument to Yuri Gagarin in Star City.

Chronicle of 1961: the launch of the rocket with the first cosmonaut.

Yuri Gagarin in a spacesuit.

Cosmonaut Alexei Leonov with American astronaut and senator John Glenn at the monument to Gagarin.

Chronicle of 1962: John Glenn in a spacesuit.

Leonov shows Glenn the cosmonaut museum in Star City.

Stands and photos dedicated to Gagarin.

Exhibits about the joint Soviet-American project "Soyuz - Apollo".

The spouses of American senators visit Zagorsk.

Church buildings on the territory of the Trinity Lavra of St.

Sergius.

American women talk with a priest.

Manezhnaya Square in Moscow: a panorama from above.

Fragment of the ballet "Icarus".

Senators in the hall, standing, applaud.

Ballet dancers bow on the stage of the Kremlin Palace of Congresses.

View of the Kremlin from a high point.

The American delegation is received by A.N. Kosygin, conversation at the table.

View of the Kremlin across the Moscow River.

Meeting of the delegation of US senators with L.I. Brezhnev, conversation, translator V.M. Sukhodrev is present.

Taking part in the meeting are: A.A. Gromyko, B.N. Ponomarev.

Brezhnev exchanges opinions with Gromyko.

American senators and the Soviet delegation at the negotiating table in the Kremlin.

View of the Kremlin.

The American flag at the airport.

Interview of the head of the delegation of American senators Ribikov (synchronously) before the takeoff.

Farewell at the airport, among those seeing him off are A.P. Shitikov, Yu.A. Zhukov, US Ambassador to the USSR M. Toon, handshakes.

Flags of the USA and the USSR at the airport.

The plane moves along the airfield.