Official Visit
Visit Details
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.