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View Taken on Volga River During W. Averell Harriman's 1959 Trip to the Soviet Union

View is believed to have been taken on a canal of the Volga River and is leading to a lock. The Averell Harriman party had left Stalingrad earlier in the day to start the Volga River tour. Charles W. Thayer accompanied 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. There is an original 35mm negative.