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W. Averell Harriman Seen During a Banquet While on 1959 Trip to the Soviet Union

2008-1427-11
Accession Number
2008-1427-11
1x1.5
Black & White
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NAID 350476878
Related Collection
Thayer, Charles W. Papers
Keywords
Clubs
Dinners and dining
Journalists
HST Keywords
Kazakhstan; Soviet Union
People Pictured
Harriman, W. Averell (William Averell), 1891-1986
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Description
Interior view with W. Averell Harriman seated on the right at the end of the table. He may have just been visiting a concrete plant located at Rudni (Rudnyy), Kazakhstan. Thayer's typewritten account of the trip states, "From the concrete plant we went to the Miners Club for a banquet at which the director of the mine, Sandrigaovo, was the host. The co-host was the Mayor of Rudni, Morosov." Charles W. Thayer accompanied W. Averell Harriman as a guide and confidant on the trip which took place May 12 - June 26, 1959. Harriman went as a special foreign correspondent for the North American Newspaper Alliance (NANA). Trip visits included Moscow, Leningrad, Kiev, Yalta, etc., as well as areas in Siberia and the Urals, and ended with a meeting with Nikita Khrushchev. Original 35mm negative.
Date(s)
June 1959