Visit of a group of young French communists to the USSR

USSR. Buryat ASSR. Translator Pavel Kartashov and members of the French Communist Party Lionel Bethune, Jean-François Aton, Jean-Paul Cazenet, Alexandre Parades, Philippe Dumont, Gerald Lefebvre and Jean-Claude Picavet (from left to right) in the village of Kichera on the Baikal-Amur Mainline during a joint Soviet-French work shift to lay the railway track at the 440th kilometer of the western section of the BAM. The visit of the group of young French communists was organized by the Committee of Youth Organizations of the USSR. Vladimir Matvievsky/TASS