Friendship train from France (1983)

From 5 to 23 July 1983, a delegation of French activists of the General Confederation of Labour visited the Soviet Union.

They had come at the invitation of the All-Union Central Council of Trade Unions to learn about the work of the USSR trade unions.

France.

Paris: flowers, the Eiffel Tower.

Notre Dame Cathedral (shot from across the Seine).

A meeting of French trade union activists in the Paris suburb of Montreuil, at the Centre of the General Confederation of Labour.

Those present at the meeting, buildings of the Centre of the General Confederation of Labour.

Landscapes of the suburbs of Paris (shot from a moving train).

Moscow.

Guests from France walk along the platform of the Belorussky Station.

Muscovites greet the guests.

Moscow, Gorky Street.

A dinner in honour of the French guests.

Chairman of the All-Union Central Council of Trade Unions Stepan Alekseevich Shalaev delivers a welcoming speech.

The head of the French delegation, Secretary of the General Confederation of Labour of France Andre de Luche, presents S.A. A memorable gift to Shalaev, a crystal vase.

The All-Union Central Council of Trade Unions building.

A meeting of trade union activists from France and Moscow at the All-Union Central Council of Trade Unions.

Presidium.

Speakers: Secretary of the All-Union Central Council of Trade Unions Alexander Mikhailovich Subbotin; members of the French delegation: metalwork assembler Robert Sauven, electrical engineering teacher Michel Cardan.

Assembly shop of the Lenin Komsomol Moscow Automobile Plant.

Workers at the conveyor.

Conversation between AZLK workers and workers from France.

Shop of the Moscow Automatic Lines Plant.

A plant employee watches the machines at work.

Conversation between members of the French delegation and plant workers.

The French delegation places a basket of flowers at the memorial plaque in honor of the French pilots of the Normandie-Niemen air regiment who fought together with Soviet soldiers and died in the fight against the German invaders.

Memorial plaque with an inscription.

Newsreel from 1941-1945: French pilots of the Normandie-Niemen squadron standing;

a pilot (French) putting on a helmet in the cockpit;

French and Soviet pilots at the airfield;

planes in the air Newsreel from 1982: the first French cosmonaut Jean-Loup Chretien;

participants in the Soviet-French space flight: USSR pilot-cosmonauts V.A. Dzhanibekov, A.S. Ivanchenkov;

French cosmonaut Jean-Loup Chretien Acquaintance of the French guests with the capital;

looking at a map of Moscow;

on the rowing canal in Krylatskoye.

Leningrad.

Facade of the Moscow railway station.

Speech by Secretary of the All-Union Communist Party of France, head of the delegation Andre de Luche at a meeting of Soviet-French friendship.

Leningrad.

Smolny building.

Monument to V.I. Lenin.

Assembly Hall of Smolny.

Members of the French delegation visit V.I. Lenin's office in Smolny.

Painting "V.I. Lenin in his office in Smolny". "Decree on Peace".

Members of the French delegation talk with workers of the sewing association "Zarya" in the workshop.

A seamstress-motorist speaks.

Demonstration of models of the sewing association "Zarya".

The French guests applaud.

A girl demonstrates a dress.

General plans of Leningrad (shot from a moving bus).

St.

Isaac's Cathedral (shot from a moving bus).

Dome of the cathedral.

Peter and Paul Fortress.

Monument to Peter I. A member of the French delegation films the sights of Leningrad with a movie camera.

Palace Square.

Full-scale plans of the Palace in Peterhof.

French guests examine the Peterhof fountains.

The Samson Fountain.

Piskarevskoye Cemetery in Leningrad.

Byelorussian SSR. French guests visit the Khatyn memorial complex.

Monument of Sorrow and Anger.

Minsk – general plans of the city.

New buildings.

Fountain.

Passers-by on the streets of Minsk.

Uzbek SSR. French guests examine the sights of Samarkand.

Mosque.

Ukraine.

Odessa airport.

Greeting the French guests with bread and salt.

The building of the Odessa Opera and Ballet Theater.

Potemkin Stairs.

Odessa port.

Monument dedicated to the heroic feat of the rebellious sailors of 1905: Battleship Potemkin.

Guests from France lay flowers on the grave of the French revolutionary Jeanne Laborbe.

Monument on the grave.

Towers of the Moscow Kremlin.

Lenin's Mausoleum on Red Square.

The French delegation lays a wreath at the Lenin Mausoleum.

Celebration of the national holiday of the French Republic, Bastille Day.

Those present chant.

A man pours champagne.

The French guests dance.

Interview with Catherine Robin.

The Tomb of the Unknown Soldier near the Kremlin Wall.

Eternal Flame.

The laying of a wreath at the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier by members of the French delegation.

Flags of the USSR and France.

A rally on the occasion of the departure of the French guests.

Speaking at the rally: Moscow builder Konstantin Slonov; Marie Davenne; Micheline Davenne.

Those present chant and applaud.

The French guests in a train carriage.