News of the Day No 26

Moscow city. Reception at the Central House of the Soviet Army in honor of the Day of the Air Force of the USSR, hosted by G.K. Zhukov. Present: N. A. Bulganin, V. M. Molotov, N. S. Khrushchev, G. M. Malenkov, General Twining (USA). Stay in Moscow of Shahinshah of Iran Mohammed Reza Pahlavi and Shahini Sorein; visiting a ballet performance at the Bolshoi Theater of the USSR. Scene from BV Asafiev's ballet "The Fountain of Bakhchisarai" performed by ballerina R. Struchkova. Construction of the highway Kostanay - Petropavlovsk. Asphalt laying. Meeting at the railway station in Omsk Komsomol members who arrived at the construction of the Omsk oil refinery. A parachute-fire brigade disembarking from a forestry aircraft to extinguish a fire in the forest of the Irkutsk region. Firefighters localize the fire. Traditional holiday of reindeer breeders of North Kamchatka. Reindeer sled races. Performance in Leningrad by the circus performers of the Czechoslovak Republic. China. Rafting of timber on the Taohe River. Rafters on rafts. France, Marseille. The explosion of the Badonier Palace due to the inability of its owner to pay the tax. USA. Virgin Islands. American sailors with oxygen tanks are engaged in spear fishing. A fisherman fights a shark underwater.

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