Third Congress of USSR Writers A Tvardovskys Speech at the III All-Union Congress of Writers

Congress delegates in the conference room of the Grand Kremlin Palace. First Secretary of the Board of the Union of Writers of the USSR AA Surkov makes a report Speeches by writers S. V. Mikhalkov, M. A. Sholokhov, A. T. Tvardovsky, N. S. Tikhonov, A. E. Korneichuk. The congress is welcomed by writers from the People's Republic of China, the Iraqi Republic, the Mongolian People's Republic and the Democratic People's Republic of Korea. First Secretary of the CPSU Central Committee, Chairman of the Council of Ministers of the USSR NS Khrushchev delivers a speech. Writers V. P. Kataev, K. M. Simonov, foreign guests on the sidelines. Friendly caricatures of the writers in the newspaper of the congress - "Looking at the faces". Reception in honor of the delegates of the Congress in the St. George Hall of the Kremlin. NS Khrushchev, AI Mikoyan, FR Kozlov, LI Brezhnev, KA Furtseva and other leaders of the party and government talk with writers and foreign guests of the congress. Among those present at the reception are writers S. V. Mikhalkov, A. T. Tvardovsky, L. M. Leonov, A. E. Korneichuk, B. M. Kerbabaev. Congress delegates lay wreaths at the Mausoleum of V. I. Lenin and I. V. Stalin. Writers S. V. Mikhalkov and A. L. Barto talk with pioneers on Red Square. Fragments from the speech of A. T. Tvardovsky at the III Congress of Writers (synchronously).

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1959