Visiting Russian Woman Has Column In “Izvestia”

Press, Volume CIII, Issue 30560, 1 October 1964, Page 2

Visiting Russian Woman Has Column In “Izvestia”

A woman special columnist on one of the largest papers in Russia, Mrs Tatiana Tess Sosiura, is one of five women in a party of 11 Russian tourists who arrived in Christchurch from Australia last evening.

She had her own column in ‘lzvestia,” which had a circulation of 7,000,000, said Mrs Sosiura. “I write about moral problems.” Though she is making her first visit to New Zealand, she is widely travelled. “I had been to four continents before this journey. Now I have been on all five,” she smiled. The group will be in New Zealand until October 10, and its programme has been planned to allow them to see many aspects of life in this country. The women represent many professions. As well as Mrs Sosiura, the journalist, there is a botanist, a doctor of foreign literature, a tram driver, a senior, scientific worker, and a children’s surgical specialist.

Mrs Vera Andreeva, a senior scientific worker at the Institute of Geography of the Academy of Sciences of the U.S.S.R., is also a vice-presi-dent of the New Zealand Society there. Mrs Nina Bluket, the professor of

botany at the Timariazev Agricultural Academy, comes from Moscow. A tram driver in Moscow is the occupation of blonde Mrs Evgehia Potapova. Since the loss of manpower in the Second World War, many women had driven trams in Moscow, said a member of the party. Mrs Marta Stepanova is the director of the children’s surgical clinic in the regional surgical unit. The group will spend two days in Christchurch. They are being accompanied on the tour by Mrs N. Wassilief, of Wellington, who has lived for 15 years in New Zealand.