Viaje al Exterior

Union of Soviet Socialist Republics, 1964

Moscow
 
January 13

•    Exchange held with Nikita Jruschov upon his arrival at the airport of Vnukovo.  Review of the Guard of Honor.
•    Luncheon hosted in his honor during his visit to the Kremlin’s Grand Palace.
•    Speech delivered at the Vnukovo airport.
•    Meeting with Nikita Jruschov and other officials of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the USSR.
•    Visit paid to President Leonid Brezhnev at his office in the Kremlin.
•    Fidel conveys his greetings to the readers of the ‘Izvestia’ and ‘Pravda’ newspapers.
 
January 14

•    Fidel laid a wreath at Lenin’s Mausoleum.
•    Visit to Moscow’s children’s park ‘Tainitsky’ in the Kremlin.  A brief interview granted to the Cuban newspaper ‘Revolución’ and Moscow’s National Radio Station.
 
January 15

•    Meetings held with leaders of the USSR: Nikita Jruschov; Anastas Mikoyan, deputy prime minister and Alexander Alekseev, USSR ambassador to Cuba.
 
January 16

•    Statements made to Alexei Adzhubel, editor of the ‘Izvestia’ newspaper.
 
January 17

•    Speech delivered at the Great Textile Factory in the city of Kalinin.  
 
January 18 and 19

•    Rest at a region in the outskirts of Moscow.
•    Fidel went on a sleigh ride through the woods.
•    Fidel visited a village in the outskirts of Moscow, where he greeted Nikita Jruschov’s family.
•    Fidel took a ride on a Troika (a traditional horse-drawn carriage) through the woods.
•    Fidel had lunch at a country house with members of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union and other members of the Soviet government.
•    He went on a hunting trip together with Nikita Jruschov.
 
January 20

•    Fidel had a meeting with Russian cosmonauts Yuri Gagarin, German Titov, Andrian Nikolaiev, Pavel Popovich and Valeri Bikovski in the Kremlin.
•    Conversation held at the residence of Dolores Ibárruri, known as “La Pasionaria”, who was the President of the Communist Party of Spain.
•    Visit to the sovkhoz “Belaya Dacha” in Moscow. Screening of the film “Landless Fertility”.
 
January 21

•    Words pronounced during a reception hosted in his honor at the Kremlin.
•    Appearance on the USSR Central Television.
 
January 22

•    Signing of the long-term commercial treaty at the Kremlin to supply sugar to the USSR.
 
Ukraine
 
January 22
•    Greetings conveyed to the Ukrainian people at Kiev’s railroad station.
•    Tour around the city of Kiev.
•    Tour around the Ukrainian woods.  Dinner at the woods and after-dinner conversation held with Nikita Jruschov.