News of the Day No 21

Receiving Nikita Khrushchev in the Kremlin, Prime Minister of the Somali Republic Abdirashid Ali Shermark, who arrived in the USSR on an official visit. Soviet-Somali talks; A.I. Mikoyan is present. Shop of the Moscow carburetor plant. Workers A. Fedorov, L. Smirnov talk (synchronously) about personal labor obligations in honor of the XXII Congress of the CPSU. Spring sowing in the fields of the Armavirsky state farm in the Tselinny Territory. Romania, Bucharest. Presentation of the Gold Medal and the Diploma of the laureate of the International Lenin Prize "For Strengthening Peace Among Nations" to the Romanian writer and public figure Mikhail Sadovian. Leonid I. Brezhnev presents N. G. Ignatov with the Hammer and Sickle medal of the Hero of Socialist Labor in connection with the 60th anniversary of his birth and for services to the Communist Party and the Soviet state. Secret ballot on the occasion of the election of a new president of the USSR Academy of Sciences. MV Keldysh is congratulated on his election as President of the USSR Academy of Sciences. Italian Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary to the USSR Carlo Alberto Straneo presents his credentials to Leonid Brezhnev. Leonid Brezhnev and Carlo Alberto Straneo deliver speeches. Caucasus. Kabardino-Balkaria. A helicopter that delivered tourists to the site. Tourists walk along the trails, along the bridge to the mountain lake, Chegem waterfall. The second traditional song festival held in Moscow. Performances on Sverdlov Square by the choir and orchestra of the Bolshoi Theater of the USSR; the finale of the opera "Ivan Susanin" by M. Glinka is being performed. Uzbekistan. Transportation of sheep from the Fergana Valley to high-altitude pastures. Sheep jump out of the plane after landing; sheep in the pasture. Stay in Bulgaria, pilot-cosmonaut of the USSR, Hero of the Soviet Union Yuri Gagarin. Yuri A. Gagarin and T. Zhivkov passing by car through the streets of Sofia.

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