Russia’s Twin Cosmonauts Arrive In Moscow AKA Russian Space Twins In Moscow (1965)

Unissued / unused material - dates and locations may be unclear / unknown. Moscow, Russia, Union of Soviet Socialist Republics / USSR Ground to air of large four engined plane with an escort of small jet fighters flying over Moscow Airport. LS The Russian plane taxiing. LS The two astronauts, Lieutenant-Colonel Alexei Leonov and Colonel Pavel Belayev leave the aircraft and walk across the tarmac. They mount dais and salute, then they both receive hugs and kisses from Russian leaders, President Leonid Brezhnev, (President of the Supreme Soviet) and Alexei Kosygin, Prime Minister of Russia. MS The two cosmonauts walk past and wave to crowds, holding bouquets of flowers. MS Tracking past crowds on people waving from roadside. Various shots, the two cosmonauts in open car, festooned with flowers, drive through crowd lined streets on their way to the Kremlin, Moscow. LS Pan across huge crowd in Red Square to the Lenin Mausoleum. CU One of the cosmonauts and then President Brezhnev address the crowd. Pan from
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