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Archive footage features US schoolgirl Samantha Smith during her famous two-week visit to the Soviet Union in July 1983.
The trip was arranged after she wrote to Soviet leader Yuri Andropov for a school project, asking him about the USSR and if Moscow wanted peace with Washington. Andropov responded personally, assuring her that his country was 'trying to do everything so that there will not be war' and inviting her to visit.
Eleven-year-old Smith, accompanied by her parents, can be seen in Moscow's Red Square, Piskaryovskoye Memorial Cemetery in St Petersburg as well as outside Peterhof Palace, the Grand Cascade and Samson Fountain.
Footage features Smith talking with Soviet Young Pioneers in Moscow and at their camp in Crimea, with the children seen having tea, wearing traditional costumes, playing sports and making a message in a bottle together.
Samantha Smith, who became known as a 'Goodwill Ambassador' in both countries, was killed in a plane crash in August 1985.
Footage also shows the Minnesota-Moscow Children's Space Bridge project, a joint television programme from December, 1985 organised to commemorate her legacy.
This archive footage is released as part of the '100 Key Events in Russia in the 20th and 21st Centuries', a project with the Russian State Documentary Film and Photo Archive (rgakfd.ru).
US schoolgirl Samantha Smith visits USSR at Andropov's personal invitation *ARCHIVE*
Archive footage features US schoolgirl Samantha Smith during her famous two-week visit to the Soviet Union in July 1983.
The trip was arranged after she wrote to Soviet leader Yuri Andropov for a school project, asking him about the USSR and if Moscow wanted peace with Washington. Andropov responded personally, assuring her that his country was 'trying to do everything so that there will not be war' and inviting her to visit.
Eleven-year-old Smith, accompanied by her parents, can be seen in Moscow's Red Square, Piskaryovskoye Memorial Cemetery in St Petersburg as well as outside Peterhof Palace, the Grand Cascade and Samson Fountain.
Footage features Smith talking with Soviet Young Pioneers in Moscow and at their camp in Crimea, with the children seen having tea, wearing traditional costumes, playing sports and making a message in a bottle together.
Samantha Smith, who became known as a 'Goodwill Ambassador' in both countries, was killed in a plane crash in August 1985.
Footage also shows the Minnesota-Moscow Children's Space Bridge project, a joint television programme from December, 1985 organised to commemorate her legacy.
This archive footage is released as part of the '100 Key Events in Russia in the 20th and 21st Centuries', a project with the Russian State Documentary Film and Photo Archive (rgakfd.ru).
For news purposes only. Onscreen RGAKFD logo must remain visible and intact. No access news agencies
Archive footage features US schoolgirl Samantha Smith during her famous two-week visit to the Soviet Union in July 1983.
The trip was arranged after she wrote to Soviet leader Yuri Andropov for a school project, asking him about the USSR and if Moscow wanted peace with Washington. Andropov responded personally, assuring her that his country was 'trying to do everything so that there will not be war' and inviting her to visit.
Eleven-year-old Smith, accompanied by her parents, can be seen in Moscow's Red Square, Piskaryovskoye Memorial Cemetery in St Petersburg as well as outside Peterhof Palace, the Grand Cascade and Samson Fountain.
Footage features Smith talking with Soviet Young Pioneers in Moscow and at their camp in Crimea, with the children seen having tea, wearing traditional costumes, playing sports and making a message in a bottle together.
Samantha Smith, who became known as a 'Goodwill Ambassador' in both countries, was killed in a plane crash in August 1985.
Footage also shows the Minnesota-Moscow Children's Space Bridge project, a joint television programme from December, 1985 organised to commemorate her legacy.
This archive footage is released as part of the '100 Key Events in Russia in the 20th and 21st Centuries', a project with the Russian State Documentary Film and Photo Archive (rgakfd.ru).