Boris Kustodiyev's painting "Easter Salutation" from the collection of the Astrakhan Picture Gallery. 01.01.1969#90837
Photograph "In the Guard of Honor" by Nikolay Zaborin, 15, from Byelorussia, a participant in the International Children's Photo Contest organized by the newspaper "Pionerskaya Pravda" in 1968. Moscow.01.07.1968#726739
Moscow's Red Square. Parade marking anniversary of the All-Union Young Pioneer Organization named after Lenin.19.05.1968#561658
Moscow's Red Square. Parade marking anniversary of the All-Union Young Pioneer Organization named after Lenin.19.05.1968#561655
Young pioneers of Boarding School No. 29 at the eternal flame on Preobrazhenskoye cemetery.08.05.1968#640724
Brass band performing on deck of the Dmitry Pozharsky cruiser during an international salute in the Gulf of Bengal. 01.05.1968#28475
Military parade on Red Square on the International Day of Working People's Solidarity. Soviet Minister of Defense Andrey Grechko inspecting the troops.01.05.1968#693107
Delegation of the People's Republic of South Yemen has laid a wreath to the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier during their visit to the USSR.01.02.1968#583199
From left: Walter Ulbricht, Nikolai Podgorny, Andrei Grechko, Leonid Brezhnev, Alexei Kosygin and Wladyslaw Gomulka stand atop the Lenin Mausoleum during the 50th 1917 October Revolution Anniversary celebrations on Moscow's Red Square.07.11.1967#672155
Swedish man-of-war's men have laid a wreath to the Motherland monument in Piskarovskoye Cemetry01.07.1967#601539
Commander of Soviet warships laying a wreath to war victims in Port Said, ARE. Reproduction.01.07.1967#694344
Victory Salute. Oil on canvas. Exhibited at the Dedicated to the Defenders of Moscow art show for the 25th anniversary of victory over Nazi aggressors in the Moscow environs during World War Two. Moscow, 1967.01.01.1967#557577
Burying a Comrade in Arms. Oil on canvas. Exhibited at the Dedicated to the Defenders of Moscow art show for the 25th anniversary of victory over Nazi aggressors in the Moscow environs during World War Two. Moscow, 1967.01.01.1967#557572
Norwegian Minister of Foreign Affairs John Lyng laying a wreath to the Memorial at the Piskaryov Cemetery.16.11.1966#592770
A visit by President of France Charles de Gaulle to the USSR in June 1966. General Charles de Gaulle visits a Soviet Armed Forces unit.27.06.1966#6088352
President of Mali, Sudanese Union party leader Modibo Keita and CPSU General Secretary Leonid Brezhnev inspect the Honor Guard.07.10.1965#670025
Pilot-cosmonauts, Heroes of the Soviet Union Andriyan Nikolayev and Valentina Tereshkova in Algeria.26.07.1965#611316
The Samson fountain, 1735-1802. Sculptors B. Rastrelli, M. Kozlovsky. Restored by the sculptor V. Simonov in 1947. The White Nights Festival at Peterhof.20.07.1965#518672
A shot from the film "The Doom of the Squadron" by Vladimir Dovgan, 1965. The Dovzhenko Film Studios.01.11.1964#630662
Soviet cosmonauts Konstantin Feoktistov, Vladimir Komarov and Boris Egorov at the Kremlin.19.10.1964#613394
Top-ranking officers of Danish armed forces on board of Komsomolets cruiser: review of the Soviet naval ships' crew visiting Denmark.13.06.1964#710688
The European Rowing Championships (women). Soviet athlets, from left: European champions in the women's double sculls: Maya Kaufmann (Pumpura) and Daina Sveyo (Mellenberg).01.08.1963#2650454
Prime Minister of the Revolutionary Government of the Republic of Cuba Fidel Castro and members of his delegation visit Falling Fighters' Square in Volgograd. Laying wreaths to the fraternal grave of the city's defenders.03.05.1963#2627529
Afghan Padishah Amanula Khan in Moscow. Cober of the Prozhektor magazine, Issue 20 (138). A reproduction,01.01.1962#775873
Yury Gagarin (1934-1968), Soviet cosmonaut and first man in space, at the Tower of London. Gagarin made the first manned space flight on 12 April 1961. He orbited the Earth once in the Vostok 1 spacecraft, a flight that lasted 1 hour and 48 minutes. Gagarin became a hero in the Soviet Union and famous worldwide. He later returned to active service as a test pilot, dying in a crash during a training flight in 1968. His ashes were interred with full military honors in the Kremlin Wall. Photographed in July 1961.13.07.1961#898878
November 7, 1947. Soviet military leader and Marshal of the Soviet Union since 1935 Semyon Budonny inspects parade on Moscow's Red Square.07.11.1947#179219
Victory Parade (in the USSR) that took place on June 24, 1945, in honor of the victory over Nazi Germany in the Great Patriotic War on Red Square, Moscow.24.06.1945#614587
Artillery salute on a Moskva River embankment marks the end of the 1941-1945 Great Patriotic War against Nazi Germany.09.05.1945#84648
Great Patriotic War of 1941-1945. On May 9, 1945, 30 rounds were fired by 1,000 guns, accompanied by cross-rays of 160 searchlights and the launch of multi-colored rockets to mark the Victory over Nazi Germany in Moscow.09.05.1945#5680418
General Ivan Bagramyan (center), commander of the 3rd Belarusian Front, during a military parade near Königsberg, 1945. The Great Patriotic War of 1941-1945.01.05.1945#642123
The Great Patriotic War of 1941-1945. The Soviet-Finnish border is reestablished. June 1944.09.09.1944#5881022
The Great Patriotic War, 1941-1945. The Baltic operation, 1944, a strategic offensive operation of the Soviet troops. Salute on the occasion of breaking through to the Baltic Sea. October 1944.10.05.1944#3095917
Great Patriotic War (1941-1945). Last salute. Comrade pay last respects to their fellow soldier who was killed liberating Odessa. April 1944.10.04.1944#5697382
The Great Patriotic War of 1941-1945. Military oath of service by the Polish troops at the formation ceremony of the Tadeusz Kościuszko Corps.26.07.1943#882599
The 1941-1945 Great Patriotic War against Nazi Germany. 1943. The Battle of Stalingrad. The Red Army's 39th Guards Rifle Division commanded by Major General Stepan Guryev receiving the Guards Banner.03.01.1943#881036
Honored test pilot of the USSR, Air Major General, twice Hero of the Soviet Union who performed the non-stop Moscow-USA flight in 1939 Vladimir Kokkinaki (right) at the Byelorussian railway station.23.05.1939#4952
Soviet government and party officials, from left: Lazar Kaganovich, Kliment Voroshilov and Josef Stalin welcome crew of Soviet test pilot, Hero of the Soviet Union Valery Chkalov at Shchyolkovo airfield after the completion of the crew's non-stop flight to the Far East. Moscow, August 10, 1936.10.08.1936#5643233
The Civil war in Russia, 1917-1922. Units of the People's revolutionary army of the Far East Republic.01.07.1920#3031166
The military saluting Russian Emperor Nicholas II (right in the foreground) and Empress Alexandra Feodorovna (left in the foreground) at the celebrations of the Romanov House 300th anniversary.01.05.1913#81381
Battalion commander (left) saluting Emperor Nicholas II (center) and patron of the Lifeguard 2nd Rifle Battalion Grand Duke Dmitry Pavlovich (child). 01.11.1907#27762
