W. Averell Harriman Touring While on 1959 Trip to the Soviet Union
Exterior view, exact location in the Soviet Union not given. W. Averell Harriman is standing on the right receiving a bouquet of flowers from an unidentified local man. Harriman's interpreter is probably on the left. 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.