russian travel agency . intourist was the official state travel agency of the soviet union founded in 1929 by joseph stalin and was staffed by nkvd and later kgb officials . in 1933 aron sheinman started work for intourist in london and filled the post of director from 1937 to 1939 . when he was dismissed he refused to return to moscow and gained british citizenship later that year . 1 intourist was responsible for managing the great majority of foreigners access to and travel within the soviet union . one witticism of the cold war period characterized intourist by stating that intourist is to tourism what indigestion is to digestion . contents 1 after privatisation 2 publications 3 external links 4 references after privatisation edit the enterprise was privatised in 1992 . in 2011 vao intourist established the joint venture with thomas cook group plc with the share of 49.9 % and 50.1 % respectively . the incoming business within the joint venture was fully transferred to the intourist llc which intends continue to expand the tour operating services and host tourists . publications edit visit crimea moscow intourist 1930 external links edit wikimedia commons has media related to intourist . intourist intourist shorn of its stalinist past plans lse listing the times 6 october 2006 references edit aaron lwowitch scheinman aliases sheimann cheinman russian british . a revolutionary . the national archives . retrieved 26 may 2015 . retrieved from https en.wikipedia.org w index.php title intourist & oldid 741757030 categories travel and holiday companies of russiatravel and holiday companies of the soviet uniontourism in the soviet unionrussian brandssoviet brandskgbsistemacompanies established in 1929hidden categories articles containing russian language textcommons category with local link same as on wikidata navigation menu personal tools not logged intalkcontributionscreate accountlog in namespaces article talk variants views read edit view history more search navigation main pagecontentsfeatured contentcurrent eventsrandom articledonate to wikipediawikipedia store interaction helpabout wikipediacommunity portalrecent changescontact page tools what links hererelated changesupload filespecial pagespermanent linkpage informationwikidata itemcite this page print export create a bookdownload as pdfprintable version in other projects wikimedia commons languages deutscheestiespa olfran aisnederlands suomisvenska edit links this page was last modified on 29 september 2016 at 13 34 . text is available under the creative commons attribution sharealike license ; additional terms may apply . by using this site you agree to the terms of use and privacy policy . wikipedia is a registered trademark of the wikimedia foundation inc. a non profit organization . privacy policy about wikipedia disclaimers contact wikipedia developers cookie statement mobile view