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India is one of our most trusted partners. We are not just selling our arms to India and India is not just buying arms from us. This relationship between us is above all else. We are also sharing technology. This is not a common thing in the defense sector, because it requires unwavering trust between two countries.
Russian President Vladimir Putin has given this statement just a day before coming to India.
The journey of friendship between the two countries in 20 pictures…
Picture- 21 December 1947
For the first time, India appointed Vijay Lakshmi Pandit as the ambassador to Russia (then Soviet Union). Russia sent Kirill Novikov to Delhi as India’s ambassador. This picture is from the same time when he landed at Delhi airport with his wife and children. This was the day when the unbreakable foundation of India-Russia relations was laid.
Picture- 7 November 1951
This year, 34 years of the world’s largest workers’ revolution, the Russian Revolution, were being completed. A grand event was organized on this occasion in Russia. President of India Rajendra Prasad received an invitation to attend it. Russian Ambassador Kirill Novikov himself reached the President of India Dr. Rajendra Prasad with the invitation. This picture is from that time.
Picture- 7 June 1955
Pandit Jawaharlal Nehru visited the Soviet Union for the first time as PM in 1955. During this time, he was welcomed at the airport in Moscow by the then Communist Party Secretary and Russia’s biggest leader, Nikita Khrushchev. However, this was not Jawaharlal Nehru’s first Soviet visit. He also went to Moscow in 1927 with his father to participate in the 10th anniversary of the October Revolution.
Picture- 7 June 1955
The friendship between India and Russia was deepening. 5 months after Nehru’s visit, for the first time, Chairman of the USSR Council of Ministers Nikolai Bulganin and Nikita Khrushchev (Chief Secretary of the CPSU Central Committee) themselves visited India. Both the leaders spent several days in Hyderabad House in New Delhi. Both had come to India on a 3-week long visit. This visit was also special because for the first time after the beginning of the Cold War, a Russian leader had visited a country which was not communist. This picture is from that tour.
Picture- 28 November 1955
The friendship between India and Russia was deepening. 5 months after Nehru’s visit, for the first time, Chairman of the USSR Council of Ministers Nikolai Bulganin and Nikita Khrushchev (Chief Secretary of the CPSU Central Committee) themselves visited India. Both the leaders spent several days in Hyderabad House in New Delhi. Both had come to India on a 3-week long visit. This visit was also special because for the first time after the beginning of the Cold War, a Russian leader had visited a country which was not communist. This picture is from that tour.
Picture- 10 December 1955
On their visit to India’s Paradise (Kashmir), Khrushchev and Bulganin were welcomed by Bakshi Ghulam Mohammad, the then Prime Minister of Jammu and Kashmir. The visit of top leaders of the Soviet Union to Kashmir was discussed all over the world. During this, Khrushchev gave a big statement on Kashmir and called it a part of India. In the picture Bakshi and Khrushchev are feeding each other Gustaba (Kashmiri dish).
Photo- December 1955
This picture is of Khrushchev and Bulganin’s road show in Kashmir. During this road show, Prime Minister Bakshi Ghulam Mohammad and Sadar-e-Riyasat Karan Singh were also with him. A crowd of thousands had gathered to welcome him.
Photo- December 1955
During their visit to India, Khrushchev and Bulganin visited Vadamadurai village near Coimbatore before returning to Russia. It was here that Bulganin stopped to drink coconut water in a field. Even today people call this place ‘Bulganin Thottam’. This picture is from that time.
Picture- 27 March 1960
As Prime Minister, Jawaharlal Nehru visited the Soviet Union for the second time. During this time the Soviet government gifted him a cow. When Soviet Ambassador Ivan Benedictov and his wife handed over the cow rope to Nehru, he immediately started feeding it. This was a very memorable time for both the countries.
Photo- November 1961
On April 12, 1961, Soviet cosmonaut Yuri Gagarin became the first person to fly in space. After his success, he came to India this year. The picture is from the same time when Nehru along with Gagarin took out a rally on the streets of Mumbai. Later, Russia supported India in conquering the sky and space.
Picture- year 1963
On June 16, 1963, for the first time in the world a woman flew into space. Astronaut Valentina Tereshkova visited India in the same year. Soviet ambassadors Ivan Benediktov and Valentine participated in a program in Delhi along with the then PM Nehru. This is a picture of that time.
Photo- 1966
19 years had passed since India’s independence. Till now no big steel plant was established in the country. The Indian government did not have the technology to set up the plant. For this work, India looked towards its friend Russia, after which Russia immediately announced to send special help. Result- In 1966, the then Prime Minister Indira Gandhi laid the foundation stone of Bokaro Steel Plant with the help of Russia.
Photo- 1971
A war broke out between India and Pakistan over Bangladesh. Western countries including America were supporting Pakistan. America sent its seventh fleet of warships against India in this war.
In response, Russia stopped the ships of America, Britain and other countries from attacking India by blocking the sea route with submarines equipped with nuclear missiles.
Photo- 1988
After the Bangladesh war, the friendship between India and Russia became an example for the whole world. Other countries of the world started keeping an eye on this friendship. After this, when Soviet President Mikhail Gorbachev came to India on an official visit, Prime Minister Rajiv Gandhi went straight to the airport to welcome him. This picture is from November 1988, New Delhi.
Photo- 1993
Russian President Boris Yeltsin came to India. During this, President of India Shankar Dayal Sharma welcomed President Boris Yeltsin at a reception at Rashtrapati Bhavan. This picture is from that time.
Photo- 2000
Russian President Vladimir Putin came on an official visit to India. During this time he was given a state welcome at Rashtrapati Bhavan.
Photo- November 2001
Atal Bihari Vajpayee’s government was at the centre. Putin was once again on a tour of India. Then in a meeting, Vajpayee and Putin are sitting on a chair. During this meeting, the then CM of Gujarat Narendra Modi is standing behind. Then even Putin would not have had any idea that Modi standing behind was going to become the Prime Minister of India in the future.
Photo- 2007
The government may have changed, but Putin’s love for India has not diminished. Once again Putin came to India and promised to provide technology and resources for nuclear energy to India.
Russian President Vladimir Putin and Indian Prime Minister Dr. Manmohan Singh are seen in this picture.
Photo- 2014
When Putin came to India in November 2001, Modi was standing behind Atal Bihari’s chair. When Putin came to India after 13 years, Narendra Modi became the Prime Minister of the country. This photo was taken on 11 December 2014 at Hyderabad House, New Delhi. In the picture both the leaders are seen shaking hands.
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