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W. Averell Harriman Visiting With Local Women While on His 1959 Tour of the Soviet Union

Exterior view with diplomat W. Averell Harriman seated on the right, talking with a group of native women and a child. They appear to be seated in a garden area. Exact location not identified. 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.

W. Averell Harriman Visiting With Local Women While on His 1959 Tour of the Soviet Union

Exterior view with diplomat W. Averell Harriman bent over in the center of the image and talking with a group of native women and a child. They appear to be seated in a garden area by a building. Others with Harriman are not named. Exact location not identified. 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).

W. Averell Harriman Visiting With Local Women While on His 1959 Tour of the Soviet Union

Exterior view with diplomat W. Averell Harriman bent over and talking with a group of native women and a child. They appear to be seated in a garden area by a building. Others with Harriman are not named. Exact location not identified. 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).