News of the Day No 28

Celebrating the Day of the Air Force of the USSR at the Tushino airfield. The planes demonstrate aerobatics in the air. Parachutists descend onto the airfield. Among those present at the holiday Nikita Khrushchev and other leaders of the Soviet government and the Communist Party, foreign guests. Stay in Moscow, President of the Republic of Ghana Kwame Nkrumah; visit to Leonid Brezhnev, Nikita Khrushchev in the Kremlin. Moscow city. Opening of the Second Moscow International Film Festival at the Sports Palace. Film director S. Bondarchuk and Vietnamese actress Nchok Lan raise the festival flag. Representatives of Soviet and foreign cinema are present: S. Gerasimov, E. Bystritskaya, Evgeny and Tatiana Samoilov, Gina Lollobrigida, Yoris Ivens. Speakers: S. Yutkevich, E. A. Furtseva, Arthur Watkins. Cinema "Russia"; meeting of spectators with delegates and guests of the festival. The oldest figure of the Socialist Party of Belgium Camille Huysmans hands over 13 originals of Lenin's letters to the staff of the Institute of Marxism-Leninism under the Central Committee of the CPSU. Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of the United Arab Republic to the USSR Mohammed Murad Galeb presents his credentials to Leonid Brezhnev. Transportation of limestone in trolleys by cable car from the Kharangon gorge (Uzbekistan) to the Stalinabad cement plant. Workshop of the plant. Meeting at the collective farm "Russia" Cuban youths who arrived in the Stavropol region to study at schools of agricultural mechanization. Harvesting grain in the field of the Kuban collective farm "Iskra" and the simultaneous sowing of corn to obtain green mass (stubble sowing). International motorcycle races "Pribaltika", held along the ring track of the Riga Culture and Recreation Park. Motorcycle racers at a distance. Racer Pylaev at the finish line. Stay of the first pilot-cosmonaut of the USSR Yuri Gagarin in London. Yuri Gagarin's press conference in one of the halls of the Soviet Industrial Exhibition. Yuri Gagarin was awarded the Gold Medal of the British Society for Interplanetary Communications.

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