Parliamentarians of Ceylon in the Soviet Union

Chairman of the Council of Nationalities of the Supreme Soviet of the USSR Ya. V. Peive, other officials greet the members of the parliamentary delegation of Ceylon who have arrived in Moscow at the Sheremetyevo airfield; talk with the head of the delegation, Mr. Pelpola, other members of the delegation at a reception in the Kremlin. The Ceylon delegation visits the sights of Leningrad during an excursion trip to the city. Sightseeing objects: Peter and Paul Fortress; a monument to Peter I ("The Bronze Horseman"), a monument to V. I. Lenin at the Smolny Palace; Hermitage (sculptures, paintings, other exhibits in the halls of the museum). Members of the Ceylon delegation watching a pioneer concert in the hall of the Leningrad Palace of Pioneers, watching the May Day demonstration of workers from the rostrum of Red Square. First Secretary of the CPSU Central Committee NS Khrushchev, other representatives of the Soviet leadership are watching from the rostrum for the performance of athletes on Red Square. Excursion trip of the delegation to Volgograd. View of the streets of Volgograd. Members of the Ceylon delegation lay a wreath at the monument to the defenders of the city during the Great Patriotic War of 1941-1945 in the city square; visiting the dam, the machine room of the Volga hydroelectric power station named after the XXII Congress of the CPSU. Members of the delegation talk with employees of the state farm "Ukraine" during an excursion trip to Kharkov; visiting the state farm cowshed; talking with workers in the shop of the Kharkov Tractor Plant. Type of the finished product of the plant. Guests on excursions in the Caucasus: inspect horses at the hippodrome in Pyatigorsk, drink water from a narzan spring in Kislovodsk, talk with vacationers at a resort in Kislovodsk. Excursion trip of the Ceylon delegation to Alma-Ata. View of the city streets. The guests talk with members of the Supreme Soviet of the Kazakh SSR, watch a performance in the hall of the Abai State Opera and Ballet Theater. Members of the delegation take a tour of Moscow after returning to the city. Excursion objects: Museum-apartment of V. I. Lenin in the Kremlin; Lenin's Mausoleum, VDNKh (pavilion "Science"), assembly and other workshops of the Moscow plant of small cars; streets of Moscow; metro stations. Members of the delegation talk with the vice-rector of Moscow State University Ivanov during a visit to the university. The guests talk with the Chairman of the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet Leonid Brezhnev at a reception in the Kremlin; watching a performance of Ukrainian ballet on ice at the Luzhniki Sports Palace. Ya. V. Peive, secretary of the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet of the USSR MP Georgadze, other officials seeing off members of the parliamentary delegation of Ceylon at the airport.

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1962