The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1953-06-23
AREAS OF SOVIET ARE
OPENED TO FOREIGNERS
PerIe MeStG To
Be First Visitor
To Benefit By
Lifted Restriction
BY THOMAS p. WHITNEY

MOSCOW tR-The Soviet govern
nnent has opened vide areas of
European and Asiatic Russia to
unrestricted travel by foreigners.
The first visitor to benefit from
the new freedom win be Mrs. Perle
Mesta, President Truman's party
giving minister % Luxembourg.
The relaxation was disclosed last
night in an official note delivered
to all foreign diplomatic missions
in Moscow. 1t was regarded as
q significant step since even for
eign diplomats until now have been
limited in their movements.
(The order gave no indication
that the SovietS' tight policy on
admission of foreign visitors was
being relaxed. in recent years
only carefully screened-and usu-
ally OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES have
been given entry visas.
(There was no immediate indi-
cation from Washington that the
Soviet move would be followed by
similar u. S. action. Countering
Moscow, the U. S. since March,
1852, has required all Soviet Off
Gals to get State end Defense De-
partment permission before trav-
cling more than rs miles from
Washington or New York City.
Other NATO nations have followed
suit.
Mrs. Mesta, who arrived here
June IL for visit, plans to leave
soon for the Zaborozhe section of
the Ukraine, home of the Ia.
borozhe steel plant and the Dniep-
er Dam. Although her trip was
Okayed before the travel bans were
relaxed, observers here figured
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The new oraer apparently clears
the way for foreign residents TO
visit much Of European Russia and
vast sections OF Siberia but it still
lists many restricted areas.
II also bans automobile journeys
Of more than Is miles outside Mos
cow, except TO three placeS--the
monastery town of Zasbrsk, the
Tchaikowsky Museum at Kiln and
the Tolstoy Museum at Yasnaya
Polyana, south of lula. Even these
cannot be visited by car without
prior notice.
The new regulations also specify
16-mile-deep forbidden zones along
the Soviet Unions borders with
five neighboring countries~-Nor-
way, Finland, Turkey, Iran and
Afghanistan. There are no such
zones, however, along borders with
such Soviet allies in Eastern Eu.
rope as Poland, or along the Chi
nese-Russian frontier in Asia.
Despite the remaining restric-
tons, 1t apparently is possible now
to travel the entire length of the
Volga River to its mouth on the
Caspian Sea at Astrakhan, and to
ride the Siberian Railway all
the way to Vladivostok.
Areas of European Russia in
which travel is now permitted in
clude:
/. Most of the Soviet Unions
Black Sea coast, including the
Crimean Peninsula and such re-
sort eenterS as Yalta--Seene Of a
famous wartime Big Three meet.
ing. Sochi, Adler and Gagry. Only
three Crimean cities, Sevastopol,
Kerch and Fedosiya, remain on
the restricted list,
z. The arctic ports of Murmansk
and Archangel.
3. All of the Ukraine except the
western regions and the Black
Sea port Of NikulaveSk. The order
removed previous restrictions ON
visits to Klev. the ukrainian capt.
cal, and apparently means that the
Dnieper Dam and the industrial
Donbas region also may be viewed.
4. All Of Ryelorussia white Rus.
slsl. including ifs capital city OF
Minsk. This Soviet republic takes
IN the border area just east Of
Poland.
s, All OF Soviet Armenia. This
region IL in the Caucasus, Just
north Of Turkey,
s. All Of Soviet Axerhaiian. ex.
espt The southern area near the
franizn border. Train iravel from
Baku. al port on tie Caspian Sea,
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