View of Domed Building, Taken While W. Averell Harriman and Party Were Touring the Soviet Union in 1959
Exterior view of historic site thought to have been taken while W. Averell Harriman and party were touring Samarkand, Uzbekistan. 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 negative.