In August and September 1964 Maurie Crow visited the Soviet Union with a delegation of eight Trade Unionists who were members of the Communist Party of Australia. He visited  Moscow, Leningrad (now St. Petersburg), Stalingrad (now Volgograd), Krasnadon (a mining town ... probably on the Don River), Tashkent (Uzbekistan) and Yalta. The main interest of the delegation was to see workplaces, but they saw much more, especially some of the theatre productions, galleries and churches.