N.S. Khrushchev's visit to the UAR

United Arab Republic. Aswan. First Secretary of the CPSU Central Committee, Chairman of the USSR Council of Ministers Nikita Sergeyevich Khrushchev, President of the United Arab Republic Nasser Hussein Gamal Abdel and President of the Yemen Arab Republic Abdullah al-Salal (from left to right in the foreground) at the ceremonial blowing up of the bypass canal cofferdams during the final stage of damming the Nile River as part of the construction of the Aswan Dam. On December 27, 1958, an agreement was signed between the USSR and Egypt on the provision of a loan and on the participation of the Soviet Union in the construction of the Aswan Dam. Vasily Egorov/TASS