Guest from Switzerland (1986)

Switzerland.

People at typewriters in the Swiss press center.

Correspondents at their desks.

Streets of Geneva.

Photo: city in Switzerland.

The house where V.I. Lenin lived.

November 1985. Soviet-American summit in Geneva.

General Secretary of the CPSU Central Committee M.S. Gorbachev and USSR Foreign Minister E.A. Shevardnadze at negotiations.

US President R. Reagan.

Negotiations.

Street of Geneva.

USSR. Moscow.

Kalininsky Prospekt.

Building of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs.

Negotiations between Foreign Minister E.A. Shevardnadze and the head of the federal department, Swiss Foreign Minister Pierre Aubert, who arrived in the USSR on an official visit.

Swiss Ambassador to the USSR Karl Fritschi takes part in the negotiations.

Kremlin.

Square; fountain.

Children at the fountain.

Passers-by.

Flowers.

Buildings of the 18th century Kuskovo palace and park ensemble.

Bas-relief of the palace.

Mrs.

Anne-Lise Aubert leaving the palace.

The palace building.

Mrs.

Aubert entering the hall.

Paintings and exhibits of the museum.

Mrs.

Aubert and her entourage are photographed.

Palace buildings.

Airplane wing.

Mr.

Aubert and members of the delegation on the plane.

Leningrad, monument to Peter I. Leningrad City Council building.

First Deputy Chairman of the Executive Committee, Comrade Labetsky, meets and talks with the Swiss delegation.

View of St.

Isaac's Cathedral.

Arch; Palace Square.

City street.

Anichkov Bridge.

New building in Leningrad.

The Hermitage building.

The delegation entering the hall.

Paintings in the Hermitage.

Members of the Swiss delegation; Mr. and Mrs.

Aubert.

Hermitage hall.

Summer Garden.

Garden sculptures.

Members of the Swiss delegation walking through the garden.

Fragment of the fence.

Museum building in Pushkin (former Tsarskoye Selo).

Staircase.

Monument to A.S. Pushkin.

Museum hall.

Mr. and Mrs.

Ober in the hall.

Interior.

Exhibits.

Members of the delegation walk through the museum hall in Pushkin; through the park.

Embankment.

Eternal flame at the memorial "900 days and nights of the siege".

Memorial. P. Ober lays flowers at the memorial.

Members of the delegation are standing.

Young Pioneers lay flowers at the monument.

Girl.

Flowers; memorial.

Eternal flame.

Newsreel 1941-1944: Street of besieged Leningrad.

A house is collapsing.

Cars with soldiers are driving down the street.

A burning house.

Firefighters are putting it out.

A gun is firing.

Explosion.

Piskarevskoye Cemetery.

Monument to the Motherland.

A wreath is laid at the monument on behalf of the Swiss delegation. P. Ober adjusts the ribbons of the wreath.

The delegation at the memorial.

Grave.

Members of the Swiss Parliament are walking through Piskarevskoye Cemetery.

Eternal flame (at Piskarevskoye Cemetery).

Tomb of the Unknown Soldier in Moscow.

Eternal flame at the grave.

Laying of a wreath on behalf of the Swiss delegation. P. Ober adjusts ribbons.

Helmet, Eternal Flame.

Moscow, Kremlin.

Chairman of the Council of Ministers of the USSR N. I. Ryzhkov meets with P. Ober, they talk.

First Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs of the USSR Comrade Kovalev takes part in the conversation.

Building of the Bolshoi Theater.

Chandelier.

Box, guests.

Hall of the Bolshoi Theater.

Scene from Gavrilin's ballet "Anyuta".

Cars drive up to the building of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Minister of Foreign Affairs of the USSR E. A. Shevardnadze comes out.

Swiss flag on the car. E. A. Shevardnadze meets with Federal Councilor of Switzerland P. Ober; conducts negotiations. P. Ober and E. A. Shevardnadze sign an intergovernmental agreement on tax issues; exchange folders.

Photographers and cameramen take pictures.

In the press center of the USSR Ministry of Foreign Affairs P. Ober meets with journalists; answers questions.

A photojournalist takes pictures.

Building of Sheremetyevo Airport.

Soviet and Swiss flags.

Soviet representatives see off guests from Switzerland.

Moscow, Kremlin.