On second thought and considering the emergency escape ladder and the Soviet worldwide ingenuity when it comes to wishes of members of the administration the above pic could show a formal reception for the Soviet leadership at the government airport Vnukovo.

The conference of foreign ministers in spring of 1947 seemed to convert Moscow into a parking area of company ZIS, as the next photograph indicates.



picture source: "Handbuch der UdSSR" (compendium of USSR), published by PROGRESS-publishing house, Moscow 1954

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Dave, I did my best to find the answer. Both visible airplanes are Soviet airliners, the passenger plane to the right seems to be a TU-114, the civil version of the first Soviet AWACS.




The sole airfield next to Moscow to operate this type of passenger prop plane was Domodedovo International Airport due to its special passenger steps.

"The prototype Tu-114, CCCP-л5611, ferried Nikita Khrushchev to the United States on his first visit in 1959. When it arrived at Andrews Air Force Base, the ground crew found that the aircraft's landing gear was so high that they had no passenger steps tall enough to reach the forward hatch. The end result was that Khrushchev and his party were obliged to use the aircraft's own emergency escape ladder."
[Fursenko, Alexandr; Timothy J. Naftali (2006). Khrushchev's Cold War: The Inside Story of an American Adversary. Norton. p. 334. ISBN 0393058093.]

According to wikipedia the services from Domodedovo began in March 1964 and, according to the same source the TU-114 has been introduced April 24, 1961
Either the Soviet government were three to five years obliged to use that aircraft's own emergency escape ladder or the mentioned airport in Domodedovo was for years a ghost station or it is another plane, however, it finished my research for the event.

Political mass gatherings such as party congresses in Moscow sometimes led to a temporary high density of Soviet luxury cars on certain, centrally located gathering places.

sources
pic #1: wikipedia
pic #2: La Settimana Incom Illustrata

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Steve, King Carol of Romania's 1937 Packard convertible has been for decades in Estonia. Now it is in a museum in Riga, Latvia. Our member Victor (56P400) is looking for detailed pictures. If you could find side views I kindly ask you to post them --> there. Thanks in advance.

This photograph was taken in postwar years, on the right-hand side a Soviet general. Without indication of source.

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Dave, thanks for sharing. Is Packard (the brand, the history, the cars, pioneering achievements, ...) even today in your country sometimes a topic? Is Packard a kind of US everyday culture like Marilyn Monroe or only subject of shop talks?

What may you would have imagined ten years after the end of Packard and 5,000 miles from home in a country whose ruling elite never stopped telling the world everything you always wanted to know about the backwardness of the USA?


Welcome to (Red) Packardia!

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A straggler.



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Pat, try to go --> this way.


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1980s pictures taken in the former Estonian Soviet Socialist Republic.



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Today an ultrashort film clip of an Austrian newsreel. What may JFK have imagined five years after the end of Packard?

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