United States Office of Education
Published: 2002-11-01
Total Pages: 152
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This is a brief report on the observations of the first official United States education mission to the U.S.S.R. The group spent one month, in 1958, in the U.S.S.R. While there they conferred with Soviet educators and visited approximately 100 schools and other educational institutions. In a chartered plane, they traveled as a team for 7,000 miles, from Belorussia to the Urals, from the Chinese border to the Black and Baltic Seas. And they visited eight of the principal cities: Moscow; Kazan, the capital of the Tatar Republic; Sverdlovsk, the Pittsburgh of the Urals in Siberia; Alma-Ata; Tashkent; Sochi, a workers' center on the Black Sea for rest, recreation, and treatment; Minsk, the capital of the Belorussian Republic; and Leningrad.