

Thrice Hero of the Soviet Union, Marshall of Air Force Ivan Kozhedub, left, handed over the festival torch kindled from the Eternal Flame of the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier at the Kremlin Wall to post-graduate student of Moscow Institute of Economics named after Georgy Plekhanov Galina Gagarina and assembler of "Uralmash" association Pavel Ratnikov. The opening ceremony of the XII World Youth and Students Festival in Moscow (July 27-August 3).
- Categories: Lifestyle & Leisure, Arts, Culture & Entertainment
- Location: Moscow, Russia
- Event date: 27.07.1985
- Date published: 09.02.2011
- Author: V. Kiselev
- Credit: Sputnik
- Source: Sputnik
- Original: 85-11086, 35 mm film
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