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1. Printed report of a visit to the USSR by the British Electricity Supply Delegation in May 1956, led by Lord Citrine, Chairman of the Central Electricity Authority (includes many photographs and diagrams). Melling was included as Chairman of the Eastern Electricity Board. An account of this 3-week visit to the Soviet Union, which followed a visit of a deputation of Soviet electrical engineers to Great Britain earlier in 1956, was given in a lecture by Sir Josiah Eccles at the IEE 8 November 1956, subsequently reported in the Journal of the IEE, March 1957 pp142-148. [digital images available] The sections of the printed report include; 1. Electrical development in the USSR. 2. The organisation of the Ministry of Power Stations. 3. Thermal power stations. 4. Nuclear power. 5. Hydro-electric power. 6. Transmission. 7. Distribution. 8. Commercial and financial aspect of supply. 9. Education and training. 10. Labour relations The file also include much paper ephemera connected with the visit. 2. Delegation leaflet- showing photographs of the Russian delegation (with names and positions) for its visit to Great Britain in March 1956, 3. Delegation leaflet - showing photographs of the British delegation (with names and positions in Russian) which made the return trip to USSR in May 1956. 4. Map of the USSR overprinted with the itinerary of the delegation. 5. Melling's manuscript visit notes. 6. Photographic booklet records places visited 7. Tourist information booklets (one for Stalingrad and one for Moscow); 8. Programme in English for the Bolshoi Theatre production of 'the fountain of Bakhchisarai' by B Asafyev, a ballet in 4 acts and programme in Russian 9. Place name cards x5 10. Menus from different dinners attended by the party 11. A pass to enter Red Square on 1 May 12. Programme and ticket for the Hungarian State circus 13. Illustrated unaddressed envelopes x4 14. Dinner invitation for Mr Melling in honour if the visit to the USSR 15. Blank hotel headed notepaper 16. Opera programme for Mademoiselle Nitush 17. Photocopy map of flight paths for USSR airlines, shared and foreign airlines