S. Smith's visit to the USSR

USSR. Moscow. Goodwill Ambassador American schoolgirl Samantha Smith, who tried on a Russian national costume, and her mother Jane Smith during a visit to the Moscow City Palace of Pioneers on Lenin Hills. Ten-year-old S. Smith arrived in the Soviet Union at the invitation of General Secretary of the CPSU Central Committee Yuri Vladimirovich Andropov, to whom she wrote a letter asking about relations between the USA and the USSR. Alexander Yakovlev, Vladimir Yatsina/TASS