This study is a story about the professional communication of Soviet and British architects in the 1930s-1960s, from the moment Intourist and the All-Union Society for Cultural Relations with Abroad established organized trips for English specialists to the USSR until the end of the Thaw and the period of post-war reconstruction. The official context of this story is easier to read than private relationships. But behind the general history of cultural diplomacy, sometimes logical and sometimes contradictory, even in the most difficult moments you can still feel personal intonations. After all, in the end, people communicate simply because they are lonely.