Friendship Bridges

General view of bridges across the Kivisillansalmi Strait near Vyborg. The USSR Commissioner for the Saimaa Canal G. Ya. Pyasetsky and the Finnish Governor of the Mikkeli Province U. Kiukas sign an agreement on the fulfillment of the conditions for the construction of bridges across the strait. A solemn meeting dedicated to the opening of regular traffic on railway and road bridges across the strait; speakers are Deputy Chairman of the Executive Committee of the Leningrad Regional Council of Working People's Deputies V. G. Sominich, engineer A. M. Ostroumov, Deputy Head of the October Railway G. I. Shebalin, Minister of Railways and Public Works of Finland L. Suonpää and others; rally participants applauded. L. Suonpää cuts the ribbon on the bridge.

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1966