Photos couleur de la Russie du siècle passé.

Frenchmen In Russia In 1956

In 1956 two young French reporters Dominique Lapierre and Jean-Pierre Pedrazzaini became the first men who got a permission to travel over the USSR by car in the post-war years. They took their girlfriends with themselves and set off. Their first destination was Moscow, then the Black Sea (the distance is 15.ooo km). After the traveling they made one of the best and most impressive reports ever. Everybody applauded to them. Here is their story about their thrilling trip.