News of the Day No 18

Stay in Azerbaijan NS Khrushchev on the occasion of the celebration of the 40th anniversary of the formation of the Communist Party of Azerbaijan and the establishment of Soviet power in the Republic. Speech by NS Khrushchev at the solemn meeting of the Supreme Soviet and the Central Committee of the Party of Azerbaijan. V. Yu. Akhundov, First Secretary of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of the Republic, makes a report. Construction of the Bratsk hydroelectric power station. Aggregates. Concrete laying. An anti-government demonstration by South Korean workers demanding the abolition of rigged elections on March 15, 1960. The police beat the demonstrators. A rally of solidarity with the people of South Korea taking place in Pyongyang. Speakers are speaking. Moscow city. International competitions in artistic gymnastics, held at the Sports Palace. The exercises are performed by gymnasts: T. Lyukhina, Eva Bosakova (Czechoslovakia), Polina Astakhova, Yuri Titov. Yu. Titov and P. Astakhova - winners in the individual championship of the competition. Snowstorm in the north of Sakhalin Island, near the town of Okha. Railroad tracks covered with snow. The snowplow clears the way. Fishermen of the "Tikhy Don" collective farm are fishing in the spring season. The caught sturgeon fish. Circus performance in Moscow: gymnasts Zapashny, acrobats Solokhin perform; Alexander and Tamara Buslaevs perform with trained lions.

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