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W. Averell Harriman With Group During Russian Trip

Exterior view of a group of men standing with W. Averell Harriman located in the center of the front row. Taken on Harriman's 1959 trip to Russia and the Soviet Union, location not given and others in view unidentified. 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.