The head of the archive showed photos made for Stalin following the Yalta Conference

The Russian State Archive of Social and Political History keeps an album, which was prepared for Joseph Stalin on the results of the Yalta Conference by the photo correspondent of "Izvestia" Samarii Gurarii. Andrei Sorokin, the archive's scientific director, told Izvestia on February 9, showing the photos.

"Stalin's personal archive keeps an album of photographs prepared on the results of the Crimean Conference by the famous Soviet photo correspondent Gurarii and sent by the management of the Izvestia newspaper to Stalin," he said.

Gurarii photographed the arrival of British Prime Minister Winston Churchill, as well as the moment when the politician descends the airplane ramp at the Saki airfield in Crimea.

In addition, it was filmed as the USSR People's Commissar for Foreign Affairs Vyacheslav Molotov meets the American leader Franklin Roosevelt from the airplane. The footage also shows Stalin himself, who accompanies Churchill, who arrived at the Livadia Palace. Also captured all the participants of the conference at the round table.

Read more about the main episodes of the historic meeting of Churchill, Stalin and Roosevelt 80 years ago, as well as unique archival documents - in the story "Final Program with Peter Marchenko" on February 9 at 23:00 on REN TV.

Earlier, on February 4, the FSB Public Relations Center (PRC) published declassified archival documents dedicated to the 80th anniversary of the Yalta Conference of the leaders of the anti-Hitler coalition countries: the Soviet Union, the United States and Great Britain.