Four groups of 12 students, each group led by an American professor or some other person qualified for leadership are to tour Russia this summer under the auspices of the National Student Federation of America in cooperation with the Society for Cultural Relations with Foreign Countries of the U. S. S. R. and the All Russian Central Students Bureau.

Provides Cultural Chance

The aim of the tours is to provide a cultural opportunity for a limited number of particularly qualified American students. The itineraries, which will be different for each of the four groups, have been worked out in order to combine a program varied enough to give the student a sense of the scale of living and of the many-sided life of the Soviet Union, and at the same time to make the experience of the individual intense enough to have educational value.

Sall June 25

As the plans now stand, all four groups will sail from New York on June 25, arriving at Southampton July 2. They will sail from London by a connecting steamer direct to Leningrad, arriving there about July 7. In Moscow they will remain for a week and from there will go to Moscow to spend a similar period. From this point on each group will travel independently.

The group on Tour 1 will proceed to Kharkkov, the Don Basin, up the Dnuper to Kiev and then through White Russia. Tour II will include the Caucasus and the Volga, making possible a study of the old and new agricultural systems. Tour III will take in the Volga, the Caucasus and Crimea, while Tour IV will be devoted to the Urals.

The technical organization work is being done by the Open Road, Inc., 2 West Forty-Sixth Street, New York City. The expense of each tour will be approximately $850.