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W. Averell Harriman While on His 1959 Tour of the Soviet Union

Interior view with W. Averell Harriman seen on the left in a white coat standing among a group of children seated at tables. He may be visiting a children's hospital while he was touring in Stalinabad, Tajikistan. 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.

W. Averell Harriman During 1959 Tour of the Soviet Union

Interior view with W. Averell Harriman seen on the left in a white coat standing among a group of children seated at tables. He may be visiting a children's hospital while he was touring in Stalinabad, Tajikistan. 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.

W. Averell Harriman Visiting Yalta During Russian Trip

Exterior view with W. Averell Harriman and Yalta sanitarium director, Dr. Ostrovski, on steps with sanitarium in background. Charles W. Thayer accompanied W. Averell Harriman as a guide and confidant on the trip which took place May 12 - June 26, 1959. Mr. 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.

W. Averell Harriman and Wife Marie in Yalta

Exterior view with W. Averell Harriman standing next to his wife Marie in a garden area. Believed to have been taken while at Yalta during their 1959 Russian trip with the palace/sanitarium in the background. 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.

Dining Area in Palace/Sanitarium in Yalta

Interior view of dining area taken during W. Averell Harriman's 1959 Russian trip. Identified by Thayer in his typewritten account of the trip as "the Conference Hall of the Yalta Conference, now a gleaming white dining room." 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).