Ellen Binder Moscow: The Moscow Foster Distribution Center is the central orphanage that functions as a thirty-day holding cell for abandoned children and runaways.
Gjon Mili [Duke Ellington at piano, Dizzy Gillespie (fore, 2L) on trumpet and behind him Mezz Mezzrow on clarinet, surrounded by other unidentified musicians during jam session in studio of LIFE photographer Gjon Mili]
Ellen Binder Farm fields, Nedelnoe village: a private farmer carries a cherry sapling across state-owned land towards his own small farm plot, where he will plant it.
Ellen Binder Novocherkassk: Students of the Kadetsky Korpus (Cossack Military Academy for boys) practice marching drills.
