News of the Day No 9

Moscow city. Solemn plenum of the Central Committee of the Komsomol, dedicated to the awarding of the Komsomol the Order of Lenin. KE Voroshilov presents the award. A. Shelepin is speaking. Pioneers greet the Komsomol members. First All-Union Congress of Artists in the Grand Kremlin Palace. Artists KF Yuon, BV Ioganson, secretary of the CPSU Central Committee DT Shepilov are speaking. Construction of the Druzhba railway line, which runs from Kazakhstan to the Chinese border. Members of the locomotive brigade of the Darnitsa depot in Ukraine V. Zarya, V. Pogorelov, K. Sachenko at work. Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of Great Britain to the USSR P. Riley presents his credentials to Yu. I. Paleckis in the Kremlin. Former first ambassador of Afghanistan to the USSR Yaftali talks about his meetings with V. I. Lenin and about the signing of the Treaty of Friendship between Afghanistan and Soviet Russia. Far East. Meeting of veterans of battles near Volochaevka station during the Civil War. Laying a wreath at the grave of the fallen heroes. Speech at a rally by the former commander of the partisan detachment I. N. Semikorovkin. Exhibits of the Azerbaijan Museum named after Nizami, among them woodcarving by master A.G. Babayev. Schoolgirl from Sochi Natasha Pugacheva, invited to study in India, in a school of folk dance, dancing Indian dance. Performance of the State Symphony Orchestra of the Czech Philharmonic under the direction of K. Shein during a tour in Moscow. Opening of the World and European Ice Hockey Championship at the Sports Palace at the Central Lenin Stadium. Creation of national teams of Austria, East Germany, Poland, USSR, Japan. Moments of the game between the teams Sweden and Czechoslovakia.

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