State Delegation of the Republic of Nicaragua to the USSR (1982)

Moscow.

The Kremlin, Red Square.

One of the avenues of Moscow.

Flags of the USSR and Nicaragua.

At Sheremetyevo Airport, the delegation of the Republic of Nicaragua is met by the leaders of the party and government of the USSR, and workers of the capital.

The plane taxis.

The members of the Nicaraguan delegation descend the steps of the plane: member of the National Leadership of the Sandinista National Liberation Front, coordinator of the Governing Council of the Government of National Reconstruction of Nicaragua, Comandante of the Revolution Daniel Ortega Saavedra (heading the delegation), member of the National Leadership of the Sandinista National Liberation Front, Minister of Planning of the Republic of Nicaragua Henry Ruiz, Minister of Foreign Affairs of Nicaragua Miguel D'Escoto, Minister of Health Lea Guido.

The members of the Nicaraguan delegation are greeted by Chairman of the Council of Ministers of the USSR N.A. Tikhonov, Minister of Foreign Affairs of the USSR A.A. Gromyko, Secretaries of the CPSU Central Committee K.U. Chernenko and B.N. The national anthems of the Republic of Nicaragua and the USSR are performed. N.A. Tikhonov and D. Ortega inspect the formation of Soviet soldiers.

The guests are greeted by Nicaraguan students studying at Moscow universities.

Cars drive through the streets of Moscow accompanied by an honorary escort of motorcyclists.

Muscovites greet the guests on the streets.

The building of the Supreme Soviet of the USSR in the Kremlin.

Soviet-Nicaraguan negotiations.

From the Soviet side, the negotiations are conducted by the General Secretary of the CPSU Central Committee, Chairman of the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet of the USSR L.I. Brezhnev, N.A. Tikhonov, A.A. Gromyko, B.N. From the Nicaraguan side - Daniel Ortega, Henry Ruiz, Rene Nunez, Miguel D'Escoto.

Guests from Nicaragua lay wreaths at the Lenin Mausoleum and the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier near the Kremlin Wall.

The Eternal Flame burns.

Helmet on the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier. D. Ortega and other members of the delegation are standing.

Nicaraguan guests inspecting the Kremlin.

Members of the delegation in the meeting room of the Supreme Soviet of the USSR, in V.I. Lenin’s office in the Kremlin.

The table at which V.I. Lenin worked.

Kalininsky Prospekt.

The building of the Bolshoi Theater, Sverdlov Square.

High-ranking Nicaraguan guests in the metro, inspecting the Mayakovskaya station; in a metro train car.

Guests from Nicaragua at the USSR Exhibition of Achievements of the National Economy – in the Space pavilion.

A model of a rocket, a spacecraft.

Members of the Nicaraguan delegation walk along the territory of the Exhibition of Achievements of the National Economy.

Nicaraguan guests in the cabin of an airplane.

A porthole, an airplane wing.

Leningrad, Nevsky Prospekt.

Neva.

The flag on the Smolny building.

The monument to V.I. Lenin.

The Nicaraguan delegation lays flowers at the monument.

In Smolny, the state delegation of the Republic of Nicaragua is received by member of the Politburo of the Central Committee of the CPSU, First Secretary of the Leningrad Regional Party Committee G.V. Romanov.

Members of the Nicaraguan delegation in the historic Assembly Hall of Smolny (where Soviet power was proclaimed at the Second All-Russian Congress of Soviets in 1917).

Commemorative plaque.

Portrait of V.I. Lenin.

Nicaraguan guests enter V.I. Lenin’s office in Smolny and examine the exhibits of the memorial museum. “Decree on Peace”, “Decree on Land”.

The state delegation of the Republic of Nicaragua on the legendary cruiser Aurora.

Memorial to the Defenders of Leningrad.

Sculptural group.

Members of the delegation and G.V. Romanov lay flowers at the monument.

Motherland Monument at the Piskarevskoye Memorial Cemetery.

Nicaraguan comrades lay a wreath at the monument.

Newsreel: Landscape of Nicaragua.

Nicaraguans killed by Somoza’s punitive forces lie there.

Dictator of Nicaragua A. Somoza.

Exercises in the Somoza army.

A woman is crying.

A building riddled with bullets.

Killed in the house.

The head of the delegation D. Ortega at the Motherland monument at the Piskarevskoye Cemetery.

People are walking along Nevsky Prospect.

Monument to Peter I. The Hermitage building.

Members of the delegation in one of the halls of the Hermitage - looking and listening to the guide.

Paintings in the hall.

Airplane wing.

Tbilisi (removed from the plane).

Cars with Nicaraguan guests are driving along the street of Tbilisi.

The distinguished guests are received by a candidate for membership in the Politburo of the CPSU Central Committee, First Secretary of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of Georgia E.A. Shevardnadze.

Negotiations.

Members of the delegation inspect the city, visit the Georgian Agricultural Institute.

Girls in national costumes applaud.

Female students present flowers to the guests.

Nicaraguan comrades in the pavilion of the Exhibition of Achievements of National Economy of the Georgian SSR. Guests examine agricultural products presented at the exhibition.

The Nicaraguan delegation at the Tbilisi Palace of Pioneers.

Pioneers perform a Georgian dance.

Guests applaud.

One of the streets of Tbilisi.

Members of the Nicaraguan delegation at the monument to soldiers who died fighting the fascist invaders.

Laying wreaths at the monument, flowers at the monument.

Participants in the demonstration dedicated to Victory Day (May 9) pass by.

Pioneers and Nicaraguan guests pass by the stands.

Pioneers present flowers to E.A. Shevardnadze and D. Ortega.

Newsreel from 1979: Celebration of the victory of the Nicaraguan revolution.

People gathered for a rally in Managua chant.

Guests from Nicaragua greet war veterans.

The veterans, E.A. Shevardnadze, D. Ortega and others applaud.

Before flying home, D. Ortega gives an interview to a Soviet correspondent.

Ceremonial negotiations of the Nicaraguan delegation at the Vnukovo airport in the capital.

Flags of the USSR and Nicaragua.

Members of the Nicaraguan delegation are seen off by N.A. Tikhonov, A.A. Gromyko, K.U. Chernenko and others.

The plane taxis away.