Union of Soviet Socialist Republics, 1963
April 27 to June 3, 1963.
• He visited: Murmansk, Moscow, Volgograd, Uzbekistan, Irkutak and Bratsk (Siberia), Sverdlovsk, Leningrad, Kiev and Abkhazia.
April 27
• He sent greetings to Nikita Jruschov from the plane while
overflying the Soviet border.
Murmansk
• Welcome at the Murmansk airport.
• Speech delivered during the welcome rally at Murmansk’s railroad station platform.
• Visit to the Murmansk fishing port. Fidel visited the port workshops and got on board of rescue towboat ‘Stereguschi’ to sail across the Gulf of Kola and reach the atomic icebreaker 'Lenin'.
• Remarks he made during his visit to the atomic icebreaker 'Lenin'. Murmansk.
• Greetings to ‘Pravda’ readers.
• Speech made at the dinner hosted in his honor by the Regional Committee of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union in Murmansk.
April 28
• Speech delivered during the visit he paid to the sailors of the Northern Fleet. Fidel visits a missile-carrying submarine and a missile cruiser. Murmansk.
Moscow
• Visit to the Lenin’s Mausoleum of the Kremlin, in Moscow.
• Speech delivered during the welcome ceremony at the Red Square in Moscow.
April 29
• Fidel met with Nikita Jruschov at the Kremlin, Moscow.
• Fidel talked with Leonid Brezhnev at the Kremlin, Moscow.
• Speech delivered during the luncheon hosted by the Central Committee of the Party and the Council of Ministers of the USSR at Kremlin’s Grand Palace, Moscow.
• Fidel visited and laid a wreath on Lenin’s Mausoleum. Kremlin, Moscow.
• Visit to the Grand Theatre of the USSR to watch the ballet ‘The Swans Lake’, Moscow.
April 30
• Visit to the State’s Department Store (GUM) of Moscow, the ‘Proletarski’ District and the ‘Likhachov’ automobile factory.
May 1st
• Fidel attended the May Day parade in Moscow’s Red Square.
• Speech given during the dinner hosted by the Central Committee of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union and the Council of Ministers of the USSR at Kremlin’s Congress Palace in Moscow in honor of the participants in the May Day rally and parade.
• Fidel attended the festivities that marked the beginning of the summer sport season at the ‘Lenin’ Stadium in Moscow.
• Fidel attended the concert offered on the occasion of the May Day celebrations at Kremlin’s Congress Palace.
Volgograd
May 6
• Words pronounced by Fidel during the welcome ceremony at the airport of Volgograd.
May 7
• Fidel laid a wreath on the tomb of the defenders of the Volga River and at the Square of Fallen Combatants of Volgograd.
• Tour around important landmarks in the city of Volgograd.
• Visit to Volgograd’s tractors factory.
• Visit to Volga’s river hydro-power station ‘Twenty Second Congress of the Soviet Union Communist Party’, Volgograd.
• Tour on board of a motor vessel down the dam, heading for the city of Volgograd.
• Speech delivered during a huge rally organized at the Central Stadium of the city of Volgograd.
• Words pronounced in the toast during a dinner hosted in his honor by the Executive Committee of the workers’ deputies urban Soviet.
May 8
• Farewell words pronounced at the airport of Volgograd.
Uzbekistan
• Words pronounced upon his arrival at the airport of Tashkent, the capital city of Uzbekistan.
• Fidel talked with the leaders of that Republic.
• Tour around the city of Tashkent.
May 9
• Visit to the huge dam ‘Sea of Tashkent’.
• Words pronounced at the meeting held nearby the Tashkent Sea dam construction site.
• Conversation held with workers nearby the ‘Kirov’ sovkhoz.
• Visit to and tour round the ‘Kzil Uzbekistan’ kolkhoz in Tashkent.
• Words pronounced at the ceremony held in the Palace of Culture of the ‘Kzyl Uzbekistan’ kolkhoz in Tashkent.
• Speech delivered by Fidel at the dinner hosted in his honor by the Central Committee of the Communist Party of Uzbekistan and the Council of Ministers of the Uzbek Soviet Socialist Republic in Tashkent.
May 10
• Arrival at the railroad station and visit to the historical monuments of Samarqand.
• Arrival at the railroad station of Dzhizak and visit to the summer camp of the ‘Zhdanov’ kolkhoz. Conversation with the kolkhozniks.
• Exchange with workers during the various stops made during the car ride to the city of Yanguier in the region of Syrdarinski.
• Words addressed to the citizens of Yanguier at the Palace of Culture.
• Words pronounced through Radio Moscow from Uzbekistan.
May 11
• Return to Tashkent. Words pronounced at the farewell ceremony in the airport.
Irkutsk
• Words pronounced at the airport of Irkutsk upon his arrival in that city.
May 12
• Tour around Lake Baikal and visit to the port. Exchange held with a student and several fishermen by the lake’s shore.
• Visit to the Irkutsk’s hydro-power station.
• Words pronounced while bidding farewell to the citizens of Irkutsk.
• Comments made for Radio Moscow during the train journey from Irkutsk to Bratsk.
Bratsk (Siberia)
• Arrival at the ‘Padunskie Porogui’ railroad station to visit the construction works of the Bratsk hydro-power station in the Angara River. Exchanges held during the tour around the hydro-power station.
May 13
• Speech given at the popular rally held at the Bratsk Stadium.
• Stopover at the Krasnoyarsk airport. Conversation held with the leaders of that territory and greetings conveyed to them.
Sverdlovsk
• Words of welcome expressed upon his arrival at the Sverdlovsk’s airport.
May 14
• Visit and tour of the heavy equipment factory of Uralmashzavod.
• Speech delivered during a rally with the Sverdlovsk workers at the ‘First Quinquennium Square’ across the Uralmashzavod factory.
• Words pronounced at a meeting with leaders of the party organizations, the Soviets and the economic institutions of Sverdlovsk.
Leningrad
May 15
• Words pronounced upon arriving at the airport of the city of Leningrad.
• Visit to the ‘Electrosila’ factory in Kirov, Leningrad.
• Speech delivered at a rally organized at the ‘Electrosila’ turbo-generators factory.
May 16
• Visit to the ‘dacha’ –now a monument- formerly owned by Vladimir Ilich Lenin in Razliv. Questions asked to its director.
• Visit to historical monuments in remembrance of the Great October Socialist Revolution.
• Visit to the Cruiser ‘Aurora’.
• Visit to the ‘Piskarievskoie’ memorial cemetery.
• Talks held with leaders of the Party and executives of Leningrad and the entire region.
May 17
• Farewell words expressed at the airport of the city of Leningrad.
Moscow
• Arrival at the Vnukovo airport.
• Visit to the ‘Pravda’ newspaper editorial office and print shop. Words addressed to its workers.
Ukraine
May 20
• Speech delivered upon his arrival at the Borispol airport in Kiev.
• Tour by car around the city.
• Visit to the kolkhoz ‘Forty Years Since October’ in the ‘Ustinovka’ village. Exchange held with the kolkhoz leaders.
• Speech given during the dinner hosted by the Central Committee of the Communist Party and the Council of Ministers of the Soviet Socialist Republic of Ukraine.
May 21
• Speech delivered during the farewell ceremony held at Kiev airport.
Moscow
• Visit to the ‘Lomonosov’ University. Conversation held at the Rector’s office. Fidel is awarded a commemorative medal bearing the image of Mikhail Lomonosov, the founder of that University.
• Speech delivered at the ‘Lomonosov’ University Assembly Hall upon receiving the title of Honorary Doctor.
May 23
• Speech delivered at the ceremony to celebrate the Soviet and Cuban friendship held at the ‘Lenin’ Stadium in Moscow.
• Signing of the Joint Cuban-Soviet Declaration at Kremlin’s Grand Palace.
• Words pronounced at the reception offered in his honor at the Kremlin, upon receiving the ‘Hero of the Soviet Union’ award, the ‘Red Star Medal’ and the ‘Lenin Order’.
Georgia
June 1st
• Arrival at the railroad station of Mtsjeta, in Tbilisi, the capital of Georgia.
• Speech given at the reception hosted in his honor by the Communist Party and the Council of Ministers of the Soviet Socialist Republic of Georgia.
June 2
• Visit to important landmarks in the city of Tbilisi; the Lenin Square; the ‘Saburtalo’ new housing complex; the top of the Mtsaminda Mountain, the highest spot in the city.
• Visit to the teaching experimental farm of the Agriculture Institute of Georgia and to the wine factory in Digomi. Words addressed to its workers.
• Farewell in Tbilisi.
Murmansk
June 3
• Farewell at the Murmansk airport.
• Message sent to the people of the Soviet Union from the TU-144 aircraft that is carrying Fidel back to Cuba.
• He visited: Murmansk, Moscow, Volgograd, Uzbekistan, Irkutak and Bratsk (Siberia), Sverdlovsk, Leningrad, Kiev and Abkhazia.
April 27
• He sent greetings to Nikita Jruschov from the plane while
overflying the Soviet border.
Murmansk
• Welcome at the Murmansk airport.
• Speech delivered during the welcome rally at Murmansk’s railroad station platform.
• Visit to the Murmansk fishing port. Fidel visited the port workshops and got on board of rescue towboat ‘Stereguschi’ to sail across the Gulf of Kola and reach the atomic icebreaker 'Lenin'.
• Remarks he made during his visit to the atomic icebreaker 'Lenin'. Murmansk.
• Greetings to ‘Pravda’ readers.
• Speech made at the dinner hosted in his honor by the Regional Committee of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union in Murmansk.
April 28
• Speech delivered during the visit he paid to the sailors of the Northern Fleet. Fidel visits a missile-carrying submarine and a missile cruiser. Murmansk.
Moscow
• Visit to the Lenin’s Mausoleum of the Kremlin, in Moscow.
• Speech delivered during the welcome ceremony at the Red Square in Moscow.
April 29
• Fidel met with Nikita Jruschov at the Kremlin, Moscow.
• Fidel talked with Leonid Brezhnev at the Kremlin, Moscow.
• Speech delivered during the luncheon hosted by the Central Committee of the Party and the Council of Ministers of the USSR at Kremlin’s Grand Palace, Moscow.
• Fidel visited and laid a wreath on Lenin’s Mausoleum. Kremlin, Moscow.
• Visit to the Grand Theatre of the USSR to watch the ballet ‘The Swans Lake’, Moscow.
April 30
• Visit to the State’s Department Store (GUM) of Moscow, the ‘Proletarski’ District and the ‘Likhachov’ automobile factory.
May 1st
• Fidel attended the May Day parade in Moscow’s Red Square.
• Speech given during the dinner hosted by the Central Committee of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union and the Council of Ministers of the USSR at Kremlin’s Congress Palace in Moscow in honor of the participants in the May Day rally and parade.
• Fidel attended the festivities that marked the beginning of the summer sport season at the ‘Lenin’ Stadium in Moscow.
• Fidel attended the concert offered on the occasion of the May Day celebrations at Kremlin’s Congress Palace.
Volgograd
May 6
• Words pronounced by Fidel during the welcome ceremony at the airport of Volgograd.
May 7
• Fidel laid a wreath on the tomb of the defenders of the Volga River and at the Square of Fallen Combatants of Volgograd.
• Tour around important landmarks in the city of Volgograd.
• Visit to Volgograd’s tractors factory.
• Visit to Volga’s river hydro-power station ‘Twenty Second Congress of the Soviet Union Communist Party’, Volgograd.
• Tour on board of a motor vessel down the dam, heading for the city of Volgograd.
• Speech delivered during a huge rally organized at the Central Stadium of the city of Volgograd.
• Words pronounced in the toast during a dinner hosted in his honor by the Executive Committee of the workers’ deputies urban Soviet.
May 8
• Farewell words pronounced at the airport of Volgograd.
Uzbekistan
• Words pronounced upon his arrival at the airport of Tashkent, the capital city of Uzbekistan.
• Fidel talked with the leaders of that Republic.
• Tour around the city of Tashkent.
May 9
• Visit to the huge dam ‘Sea of Tashkent’.
• Words pronounced at the meeting held nearby the Tashkent Sea dam construction site.
• Conversation held with workers nearby the ‘Kirov’ sovkhoz.
• Visit to and tour round the ‘Kzil Uzbekistan’ kolkhoz in Tashkent.
• Words pronounced at the ceremony held in the Palace of Culture of the ‘Kzyl Uzbekistan’ kolkhoz in Tashkent.
• Speech delivered by Fidel at the dinner hosted in his honor by the Central Committee of the Communist Party of Uzbekistan and the Council of Ministers of the Uzbek Soviet Socialist Republic in Tashkent.
May 10
• Arrival at the railroad station and visit to the historical monuments of Samarqand.
• Arrival at the railroad station of Dzhizak and visit to the summer camp of the ‘Zhdanov’ kolkhoz. Conversation with the kolkhozniks.
• Exchange with workers during the various stops made during the car ride to the city of Yanguier in the region of Syrdarinski.
• Words addressed to the citizens of Yanguier at the Palace of Culture.
• Words pronounced through Radio Moscow from Uzbekistan.
May 11
• Return to Tashkent. Words pronounced at the farewell ceremony in the airport.
Irkutsk
• Words pronounced at the airport of Irkutsk upon his arrival in that city.
May 12
• Tour around Lake Baikal and visit to the port. Exchange held with a student and several fishermen by the lake’s shore.
• Visit to the Irkutsk’s hydro-power station.
• Words pronounced while bidding farewell to the citizens of Irkutsk.
• Comments made for Radio Moscow during the train journey from Irkutsk to Bratsk.
Bratsk (Siberia)
• Arrival at the ‘Padunskie Porogui’ railroad station to visit the construction works of the Bratsk hydro-power station in the Angara River. Exchanges held during the tour around the hydro-power station.
May 13
• Speech given at the popular rally held at the Bratsk Stadium.
• Stopover at the Krasnoyarsk airport. Conversation held with the leaders of that territory and greetings conveyed to them.
Sverdlovsk
• Words of welcome expressed upon his arrival at the Sverdlovsk’s airport.
May 14
• Visit and tour of the heavy equipment factory of Uralmashzavod.
• Speech delivered during a rally with the Sverdlovsk workers at the ‘First Quinquennium Square’ across the Uralmashzavod factory.
• Words pronounced at a meeting with leaders of the party organizations, the Soviets and the economic institutions of Sverdlovsk.
Leningrad
May 15
• Words pronounced upon arriving at the airport of the city of Leningrad.
• Visit to the ‘Electrosila’ factory in Kirov, Leningrad.
• Speech delivered at a rally organized at the ‘Electrosila’ turbo-generators factory.
May 16
• Visit to the ‘dacha’ –now a monument- formerly owned by Vladimir Ilich Lenin in Razliv. Questions asked to its director.
• Visit to historical monuments in remembrance of the Great October Socialist Revolution.
• Visit to the Cruiser ‘Aurora’.
• Visit to the ‘Piskarievskoie’ memorial cemetery.
• Talks held with leaders of the Party and executives of Leningrad and the entire region.
May 17
• Farewell words expressed at the airport of the city of Leningrad.
Moscow
• Arrival at the Vnukovo airport.
• Visit to the ‘Pravda’ newspaper editorial office and print shop. Words addressed to its workers.
Ukraine
May 20
• Speech delivered upon his arrival at the Borispol airport in Kiev.
• Tour by car around the city.
• Visit to the kolkhoz ‘Forty Years Since October’ in the ‘Ustinovka’ village. Exchange held with the kolkhoz leaders.
• Speech given during the dinner hosted by the Central Committee of the Communist Party and the Council of Ministers of the Soviet Socialist Republic of Ukraine.
May 21
• Speech delivered during the farewell ceremony held at Kiev airport.
Moscow
• Visit to the ‘Lomonosov’ University. Conversation held at the Rector’s office. Fidel is awarded a commemorative medal bearing the image of Mikhail Lomonosov, the founder of that University.
• Speech delivered at the ‘Lomonosov’ University Assembly Hall upon receiving the title of Honorary Doctor.
May 23
• Speech delivered at the ceremony to celebrate the Soviet and Cuban friendship held at the ‘Lenin’ Stadium in Moscow.
• Signing of the Joint Cuban-Soviet Declaration at Kremlin’s Grand Palace.
• Words pronounced at the reception offered in his honor at the Kremlin, upon receiving the ‘Hero of the Soviet Union’ award, the ‘Red Star Medal’ and the ‘Lenin Order’.
Georgia
June 1st
• Arrival at the railroad station of Mtsjeta, in Tbilisi, the capital of Georgia.
• Speech given at the reception hosted in his honor by the Communist Party and the Council of Ministers of the Soviet Socialist Republic of Georgia.
June 2
• Visit to important landmarks in the city of Tbilisi; the Lenin Square; the ‘Saburtalo’ new housing complex; the top of the Mtsaminda Mountain, the highest spot in the city.
• Visit to the teaching experimental farm of the Agriculture Institute of Georgia and to the wine factory in Digomi. Words addressed to its workers.
• Farewell in Tbilisi.
Murmansk
June 3
• Farewell at the Murmansk airport.
• Message sent to the people of the Soviet Union from the TU-144 aircraft that is carrying Fidel back to Cuba.