SOVIET SIBERIA AND CENTRAL ASIA. US/USSR Part 5

Description

Film Report: Vinokurov (?), President of the Yakutsk Republic, welcomes Vice-Pres. Henry A. Wallace on his 1944 journey to Soviet Asia during World War II. His tour includes the Yakutsk airfield and agricultural station; the Irkutsk railroad station; Red Dawn state farm; Lake Baikal; a locomotive works; a collective ranch; Lenin's quarters during his exile at Minnusinsk; the Yenisey river; Novosibirsk airfield, Yak fighter plane factory and a demonstration by Yak fighters; and copper and coal mines at Karaganda and Koumradski; Wallace gives a speech in Russian, meets with Amb. Averell Harriman and tours cotton and grape farms.

Collection

Records of the Office of Strategic Services

Series

Training Films, Instructional Films, and Film Reports Relating to World War II