News of the Day No 35

Press conference at the Academy of Sciences of the USSR, dedicated to the launch into space of the second spacecraft-satellite with animals and its return to earth. Speakers: Academician A.V. Topchiev, Professor A.A. Lebedinsky. The leaders of the Communist Party and the Soviet government: Leonid Brezhnev, A. Mikoyan, M. Suslov, P. N. Pospelov visiting the All-Russian Exhibition of Folk Arts and Crafts in the Central Exhibition Hall in the Manezh. Exhibits of the exhibition. Construction of the Moscow ring road. The machine places concrete, the concrete is covered with a bitumen emulsion. Completed section of the road. Trucks are going by. Moscow city. Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of the Netherlands to the USSR Henry A. Helb presents his credentials in the Kremlin to Chairman of the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet of the USSR Leonid Brezhnev. Inauguration of the Bukhtarma hydroelectric power station (HPP) on the Irtysh River. Secretary of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of Kazakhstan GA Kozlov cuts the ribbon, opening the hydroelectric power station. Remote Control. Bukhtarma hydroelectric power station in operation. Meeting at the forecourt of Moscow, participants in the decade of Ossetian art and literature. Speakers: artist N. P. Okhlopkov, Ossetian writer G. Kh. Kaitukov. Nikolaev city. Construction of a new ocean-going ship - the Sovetskaya Rossiya whaling base at the Nikolaev shipyard. Installation of the main part of the ship's hull. Harvesting corn on the collective farm fields of the village of Samag, Echmiadzin region of Armenia. Processing of corn for livestock feed. Climbing a group of climbers from Kabardino-Balkaria to the top of Mount Elbrus. Climbers are installing a sculptural portrait of V.I.Lenin on the top of Elbrus. The city of Yaroslavl on the day of the celebration of the 950th anniversary of the city. Streets of the city, a monastery, a theater, a monument to N.A.Nekrasov. A square filled with people. Dancing on the stage. Festively dressed residents of Yaroslavl are dancing. Volga river.

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