News of the Day No 16

Excursion to the V.I.Lenin Museum in Moscow. N. N. Kolesnikov, T. S. Krivov, M. F. Fofanova, who personally knew V. I. Lenin, share their memories of him. Red Square; people walking to the Lenin mausoleum. Sochi city. Nikita Khrushchev takes Prime Minister of the Government of the Kingdom of Laos Souvanna Phuma, who arrived in the USSR on an official visit. Press conference at the Moscow House of Scientists. Speakers: pilot-cosmonaut of the USSR, Hero of the Soviet Union Yuri Gagarin (synchronously), Academician AN Nesmeyanov. A. N. Nesmeyanov presents Y. Gagarin with the E. K. Tsiolkovsky Gold Medal. Construction of the Bratsk hydroelectric power station. High-altitude installers work on assembling the span of the channel part of the flyover. Turkmenistan. A flock of sheep grazes in the pasture. Sowing cotton in the fields of the collective farm "Soviet Turkmenistan". Construction of the Druzhba pipeline in the Carpathian Mountains. Pipe laying; welders work. Photo exhibition "Seven Years in Action", which opened in Moscow. A meeting of protest against the American intervention in Cuba by the workers of the Mytishchi machine-building plant; Muscovites at the building of the American Embassy; rally in support of Cuba outside the Cuban Embassy. Premiere of the documentary "The Burning Island" at the Luzhniki Sports Palace. Before the audience are: film director RL Carmen, Cuban Ambassador to the USSR Faure Chomon, Chairman of the Executive Committee of the Moscow City Council NI Bobrovnikov.

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