40 days of Fidel in the USSR

Exactly half a century ago, on 27 April 1963, it began the first visit of the leader of the Cuban Revolution Fidel Castro in the USSR, which lasted 40 days. The Cuban leader had to go round the whole country, visiting factories, secret military bases and nuclear submarine, walk unguarded at night Moscow, to communicate with the top of the government and ordinary Soviet narodom.Stal first foreigner to climb the podium of the mausoleum, and even received the title of Hero of the Soviet Union .

Flight from Havana to Murmansk became the longest non-stop flight of the day. Dates and flight routes were kept in the strictest sekretnosti.Po said interpreter on the plane all the windows were shuttered, and none of the escort could not navigate, where he flies.

From the first days of the visit, it was clear that such a reception, which was given the Castro, the Soviet Union did not receive even one. Just before the flight back to Cuba, from the airplane, full of impressions and feelings meet the agreements reached in the military and economic fields, Fidel sent a farewell message to Khrushchev with words of admiration and gratitude for the great journey.

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Murmansk meets Fidelya.Imenno here begins an official visit to the Cuban leader.



Meeting with students in Murmansk.



It is said that Fidel did not calculate with the weather, and he was already in place had to give a warm jacket and an army cap.



At the meeting in Murmansk.



In Severomorsk with the sailors of the Northern Navy. Fidel was the first and the last in the history of foreign heads of state, who had the honor to see the launch pad of the Soviet intercontinental ballistic missiles and mines, where they "lie."



On the fish factory.



The meeting in Murmansk.



Moscow meets Cuban leader crowds of workers with flags and banners. Leninsky Prospekt.



During the May Day demonstration in Red Square.



Warm greetings!



The rise to the podium of the mausoleum.



Fidel Castro - the first foreigner on the platform of the mausoleum.



The symbol of friendship between the Soviet and Cuban peoples.



Nikita Khrushchev met Fidel as a mother.



Serious talks on military and economic aid.



Nikita Khrushchev, Fidel Castro shows a new model of gas mask, Moscow.



In Uzbekistan.



Visiting the construction of the Bratsk Hydroelectric Power Station.



Fidel at the airport Koltsovo, Ekaterinburg (then Sverdlovsk).



Yekaterinburg met with the Cuban leader.



The "working office" Lenin in Razliv.



Warm welcome in Georgia.



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Fidel Castro with a bear cub named Baikal, given to him the Siberian geologists. Bear went along with the new owner to Cuba, but, unfortunately, could not adapt to the unfamiliar tropical climate.

Behind this all. Thank you for attention.



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