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Interior view of an open atrium area believed to be an assembly hall or theater area located in Russia. Back of photograph contains Russian text. May have been a place visited by W. Averell Harriman during his 1959 trip to the Soviet Union. 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.