For the Soviet Union No 7

Meeting in Moscow cosmonauts V. V. Tereshkova and V. F. Bykovsky. Aircraft in the air. The cosmonauts descend the ladder, walk along the path, climb the podium, hug NS Khrushchev, with their cosmonaut friends, ride in a car. Muscovites are greeting cosmonauts. Red Square. All six first cosmonauts are on the podium of the Mausoleum. V. V. Tereshkova, N. S. Khrushchev, V. F. Bykovsky on the podium. On the territory of the Kremlin are the delegates of the World Congress of Women, which took place these days in Moscow. Hall of the Kremlin Palace of Congresses. Cosmonauts V. V. Tereshkova and V. F. Bykovsky embrace Eugenie Cotton. Presidium. The delegates welcomed the astronauts. V. Tereshkova is speaking. Bureaukan Observatory in Armenia. Astrophysicists at work: observe through a unique telescope made by Soviet craftsmen; take pictures, receive radio signals, decode records. Mountain landscape of the Tien Shan in Kyrgyzstan. Horses are grazing. The herder is galloping. Horses at a watering hole. A woman pours mare's milk from a bucket - kumis. Issyk-Kul lake. Blooming poppies. A special resort is the kumys therapy center. Vacationers drink kumis. The Northern Dvina River (filmed from the plane). Forest (shooting from an airplane). Lumberjacks are working, trees are falling. River rafting. Log sorters. The machines collect the logs into bundles, that is, rafts. Rafts float along the river. Loading timber in the Arkhangelsk port on foreign ships. Pamir mountains. Valley. Sheep are walking along the sands, a turtle is crawling. Hydroelectric power plant. The Tajik Sea is an artificial reservoir. Exterior and interiors of sanatoriums and rest houses. Bathing. The steamer is sailing.

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1963