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Photograph of Marlow Boyer

Photograph of a key figure In a Peace Activist group

This image showcases the Seattle Peace Chorus singing at peace rallies, the chorus also takes part in many fundraisers to help raise money during times of need such as natural disasters.

Photograph of a main contributor to 1983 peace activist trip to Tashkent

Events that occurred in Seattle during time period.

A Korean flight is shot down by USSR.

Items from forming the sister city

Norm Rice was the mayor of Seattle at the time of Space Flight 500's launch. In a letter to Russian President Boris Yeltsin, Rice mentioned the historical ties between Seattle and the people of Russia, such as actions of citizen diplomacy and the…

This image is of a Soviet R-7 Semyorka Intercontinental Ballistic Missile. Developed in the late 1950s, the R-7 would become the base platform for the later Soyuz rocket booster in the 1960s. This system would go on to become one of the most…

Pictured is the American organizer for Europe America Space Flight 500, Bob Walsh, at the 1990 Seattle Goodwill Games. Walsh was influential in bringing the Games to Seattle as a sign of improving US-Soviet relations during the Cold War, and later…