News of the Day No 19

The ceremonial meeting at the Yerevan Academic Opera and Ballet Theater, dedicated to the 40th anniversary of the establishment of Soviet power in Armenia and the formation of the Communist Party of the Republic. Speakers: Y. N. Zarobyan, N. S. Khrushchev. Reception Leonid Brezhnev delegation of educators of the Republic of Cuba, headed by Minister Armado Hart Davalas. Rolling mill "2500" in the shop of the Magnitogorsk Metallurgical Plant. Rollers A. Kakutyev, Kh. Shahirov, I. Knyazev, who pledged to give in honor of the XXII Congress of the CPSU 10,000 tons of steel sheet over and above the plan. A new state farm "Shoindykulsky" being created in the Tselinny Territory. State farm director V. Rotashnyuk, chief agronomist M. Sukharevsky. Workers' living tents. Tree planting. Machine operators work in the field. Meeting of the pilot-cosmonaut of the USSR, Hero of the Soviet Union Yuri Gagarin with Moscow writers. Writers: A. Surkov, K. Fedin, A. Tvardovsky greet Yuri Gagarin, donate their books. Meeting in the Crimea in connection with the Victory Day of the former partisans operating during the war on the Crimean peninsula. Laying wreaths and flowers on the graves of the dead. Tajikistan. The movement of vehicles along the Pamir high-mountain tract, opened in the spring. Snowplows are clearing the road. Ice Capades American ice ballet dancers perform at the Luzhniki Sports Palace. Peace bike race on the route Warsaw-Berlin-Prague. Cyclists on the track. The winner of the race Yuri Melekhov on the podium.

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