Actress Paris Hilton, left, and Russian fashion designer Kira Plastinina meeting at Plastinina's shop in Moscow. 30.10.2007#170825
A hunger strike of Red Youth Vanguard activists protesting against replacement of social benefits by cash payments is still going on. 06.08.2004#111228
Director of the Fine Arts Museum Irina Antonova (center) during passing to her museum an AO Ingosstrakh 3.6 million-ruble payment order as reparation for damages done to Rembrandt's painting Portrait of an Old Woman. 17.02.2003#86756
Old lithograph featuring an account of Khamovniki Joint Stock Brewery in Moscow. !875.02.09.1995#415373
Armored car of Elbim Bank of the German company Volkswagen designed to transport cash and valuable goods, at the building of the World Trade Center on Krasnopresnenskaya Embankment in Moscow.13.05.1995#8260771
The nation-wide political strike of coal miners in Kuzbass which began back in 1989. The region's residents make donations to the strikers' assistance fund.15.03.1991#6691483
The All-Union miners' political strike in Kuzbass that began in 1989. Photo: One of the miners was always on duty 24 hours a day at the strike headquarters.15.03.1991#6691477
All-Union coal miners' political strike that started in 1989. A rally in Vorkuta, Komi ASSR. Coal miners from Novokuznetsk go on hunger strike in solidarity.15.03.1991#8149792
Moldovan Soviet Socialist Republic. Tatyana Verlan, recipient of a collective farm scholarship, student of the construction department of the Polytechnical Institute, with her father Savely Verlan. The collective farm funds Tatyana's studies.19.09.1988#6569093
The Moldavian SSR. Left: Tatiana Verlan studies at the Polytechnic Institute under a scholarship from her collective farm. She is seen here with her family.19.09.1988#6569087
The Moldavian SSR. Tatiana Verlan studies at the Polytechnic Institute under a scholarship from her collective farm.19.09.1988#6569084
The Moldavian SSR. Tatiana Verlan studies at the Polytechnic Institute under a scholarship from her collective farm. She is seen here talking to the collective farm's Chairman P. Paly.19.09.1988#6569083
Chief Accountant at the Dzerzhinsky district branch of the State Bank of Moscow Anastasia Lomakina.01.07.1978#811168
Stockholm '74 International Philatelic Expo took place in Sweden in September 21-29, 1974. From the collection of Soviet stamps: a sheet of standard Soviet stamps with a double design error. It is imperforate and contains a misprint in the value of one of the stamps. The sheet was printed in December 1922- January 1923.21.09.1974#2886647
Stockholm '74 International Philatelic Expo took place in Sweden in September 21-29, 1974. From the collection of Soviet stamps: the first Russian stamp on an envelope. May 24, 1858.21.09.1974#2886646
Stockholm '74 International Philatelic Expo took place in Sweden in September 21-29, 1974. From the collection of Soviet stamps: a consular service stamp, also known as the consular service 50 kopeck stamp, dated 1922. Red ink overprint – “RSFSR Air mail. 1,200 Deutsche Mark” – was made on a 50 kopeck consular service stamp of the Russian Empire.21.09.1974#2886645
Postage stamp with picture by Vasily Zvyalov of "History of domestic post" series. Reproduction.01.07.1974#712052
Postage stamp with picture by Vasily Zvyalov of "History of domestic post" series. Reproduction.01.07.1974#712051
Postage stamp with picture by Vasily Zvyalov of "History of domestic post" series. Reproduction.01.07.1974#712050
Postage stamp with picture by Vasily Zvyalov of series dedicated to Russian Navy. Reproduction.01.07.1974#712049
Postage stamp with picture by Vasily Zvyalov of "History of domestic post" series. Reproduction.01.07.1974#712048
Postage stamp with picture by Vasily Zavyalov of "History of domestic post" series. Reproduction.01.07.1974#712024
A branch of the State Labor Savings Banks of the USSR (as from 1987, Bank of Labor Savings and Consumer Loans or the Savings Bank of the USSR, present-day Sberbank of Russia). Pension payment.03.09.1973#5705851
Temporary Siberian government's treasury note of 100-ruble value (ataman Semyonov's property). 1920. Reproduction.01.05.1972#814380
Collective farm scholarship holder of Voronezh Glinkin Agricultural Institute (present-day Voronezh State Agricultural University named after Emperor Peter the Great) V. Rudnev. The student's studying is funded by the collective farm.01.04.1972#5489509
Soviet post stamps dedicated to Russian poet Alexander Pushkin (1799-1837). Reproduction.01.01.1971#711304
Voroshilovgrad, Ukrainian SSR. Raising money to help the children of the Rovenky Home for the Elderly and Disabled.06.10.1970#5588150
Voroshilovgrad, Ukrainian SSR. Raising money to help the children of the Rovenky Home for the Elderly and Disabled.16.02.1970#5588153
Voroshilovgrad, Ukrainian SSR. Raising money to help the children of the Rovenky Home for the Elderly and Disabled.16.02.1970#5588152
Postwoman Antonina Alekseyeva delivers latest newspapers and letters to postboxes in the hall of a residential building.06.08.1969#8743943
Postwoman Antonina Alekseyeva delivered an old-age pension to a personal pensioner Ivan Zaryanov.06.08.1969#8743936
Ukrainian SSR. Insurance agent issuing an insurance policy to a Kharkiv zoo worker.10.07.1967#5728359
Sets of Soviet postage stamps issued in 1966 to mark the International Tchaikovsky Competition and International Track and Field Competition.02.06.1966#5866419
