The city of Moscow, the Kremlin. Joint meetings of the Council of the Union and the Council of Nationalities of the Supreme Soviet of the USSR. Presidium, deputies in the meeting room. Speakers: A. B. Aristov, P. P. Lobanov, I. V. Kapitonov, K. E. Voroshilov. Election of K. E. Voroshilov Chairman of the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet of the USSR. Appointment of NS Khrushchev as Chairman of the Council of Ministers of the USSR. Speech by NS Khrushchev (synchronously) with a report on the further development of the collective farm system and the reorganization of machine and tractor stations. Deputies speak in debate on the report of NS Khrushchev; among them - the Minister of Agriculture of the USSR V.V. Matskevich. NS Khrushchev proposes to the deputies the composition of the USSR government. The deputies vote. A. A. Gromyko's speech with the statement of the Soviet government "On the cessation of tests of atomic and hydrogen weapons." In support of the "Statement" were deputies: Pershin, Burkatskaya, IV Kurchatov.