W. Averell Harriman Touring a Plant While on 1959 Trip to the Soviet Union
Exterior view with W. Averell Harriman standing on the left in hat with a group of unidentified men. His translator may be standing next to him. He may have been visiting a concrete plant located at Rudni (Rudnyy), Kazakhstan, at the time. 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).