TOUR IN 1964

In 1964 I had a special opportunity to join a Canadian photographer club tour in Russia, Ukraine, George and Uzbekistan - That year the Russian wheat harvest was exceptionally poor and Khruschev was anxious to obtain as much Canadian wheat as possible. Hence this tour received extraordinary opportunities for photography and meetings with local Soviet camera clubs. Here are some of the photos from that tour, as this was the only such tour I had to these special places. But the photography of Moscow and Leningrad (now St. Petersburg) is included in the folders for those cities with many photographs from later visits..

Yalta and Pytagorsk - We flew from Moscow to Yalta and then flew to Pytagorsk in preparation for crossing the Caucasus

Crossing the Caucasus by bus and visiting Georgia Republic

We flew to Tashkent for a brief stop - then to Samarkand and Bukhara and back to Tashkent enroute to Leningrad - But Tashkent was still recovering from a terrible earthquake ande there was not much to photograph.

But Samarkand was am extraordinary visual experience, historical also.

Bukhara has a similar ancient and medieval history as does Samarkand but not the gorgeous architecture