A Soviet agrarian scientist, Rural Economy Institute Director Alexander Vasilievich Chayanov (1888-1937). Arrested and executed in 1937. Vindicated in 1987.01.02.1936#3318101
Maria Ulyanova, the younger sister of Vladimir Lenin and a member of Russian revolutionary movement (1878-1937)01.10.1935#5672493
French writer Romain Rolland (right) and Soviet People's Commissioner of Foreign Affairs Maxim Litvinov on Red Square during a sports parade. Moscow, 1935.30.06.1935#3029279
Writer Maxim Gorky (Alexei Peshkov, 1868-1936). The USSR Central State Archive of Film and Photo Documents (today's Russian State Archive of Film and Photo Documents).01.02.1935#5669513
Soviet scientist Konstantin Tsiolkovsky (1857-1935), the father of the theory of inter-planetary travel and a rocket science pioneer, receives visitors at home. He is holding an improvised hearing aid in his left hand.01.08.1934#6089688
Thermal cracking unit designed by a Russian inventor Vladimir Shukov. The city of Baku, Azerbaijan, 1934.25.04.1934#3082781
Vasily Molokov (1895-1982), polar pilot, third Hero of the Soviet Union, participant in the rescue operation of the Chelyuskin steamship expedition.19.04.1934#8576558
Political figure and Soviet diplomat Alexandra Kollontai (1872-1952). Reprint of a photo made in 1934 when Kollontai was Soviet Ambassador in Sweden (from 1930 to 1945).01.01.1934#2453531
First Soviet high-altitude balloon USSR-1 carried Georgy Prokofyev, Konstantin Godunov and Ernst Birnbaum to a record-breaking altitude of 19 km.30.09.1933#2412221
Georgy Prokofyev, who commanded the crew of high-altitude balloon USSR-1 which set a world record when soaring into the stratosphere. 1933.30.09.1933#2412218
Construction of the iron and steel complex of Magnitogorsk, "Magnetic Mountain". The blast furnace "Komsomolskaya-2, 1932.01.04.1932#5507933
Soviet scientist Konstantin Tsiolkovsky (1857-1935), the father of the theory of inter-planetary travel and a rocket science pioneer, works at his home in Kaluga in the 1930s.29.11.1930#6089690
The beginning of construction of the Magnitogorsk iron and steel works. The Chelyabinsk region, 1930.25.06.1930#3082791
A Latvian, Soviet military leader, commander of Latvian rifle division, 2nd rank army commander Ioakim Ioakimovich Vatsetis (1873-1938), the 1930's.24.04.1930#3081884
Semyon Mikhailovich Budennyi, 1883-1973, commander of the Workers' and Peasants' Red Army. One of the first Marshals of the Soviet Union. Commander of the First Cavalry army during the Civil war.27.03.1930#3057680
Soviet scientist Konstantin Tsiolkovsky (1857-1935), the father of the theory of inter-planetary travel and a rocket science pioneer, in his study in Kaluga in the 1930s.01.02.1930#6089691
Soviet film director Sergei Eisenstein, creator of fundamental works on cinematography theory. Thanks to the film "Battleship Potemkin" his name became synonymous with Soviet cinema of the 1920s.01.08.1928#8760489
Alexandra Kollontai's letter to a famous Norwegian scientist and public figure Fridtjof Nansen, December 2, 1927.02.12.1927#3100834
A Soviet poet Vladimir Mayakovsky, left, meets a Mexican communist Francisco Moreno, 1925.26.07.1925#5684135
Aircraft designer Andrei Tupolev stands on the wing of a Tupolev TB-1 built in 1925.01.01.1925#2412143
A football match between "Weser-08" from Bremen, Germany, and the team of Moscow Council of Physical Culture (MSFK)ю Score 0 to 4. October 10, 1924.09.10.1924#5677590
A Soviet statesman and party figure, People's Commissar for Transport of the RSFSR (1919-1920), People's Commissar for External Trade of the RSFSR (1920-1923), First People's Commissar for External Trade of the USSR (1923-1925). Copy of Novosti Press Agency, 1987.01.01.1924#2000309
Director Sergei Eisenstein is the head of the Proletkult theater workshops. Here he taught a variety of disciplines from aesthetics to acrobatics, and at the same time published his creative manifesto, Montage of Attractions (a special method of directing in cinema) in the LEF magazine.12.11.1923#8760548
Vladimir Ilyich Lenin with his nephew Victor (Dmitry Ilyich Ulianov's son). The Moscow region, Gorki, 1922.03.08.1922#3085514
A still frame from a drama film "Polikushka" based on the story by Leo Tolstoy of the same title. Film director Alexander Sanin. Film company "Rus", 1922. Ivan Moskvin as Polikei.01.03.1922#5712828
Yulian Marianovich Lensky, 1889-1937. A polish and international communist movement leader, a publicist, member of the Polish bureau of the Russian communist party (Bolshevik) CC. The Central State Archive of Film Photographic Documents of the USSR.14.03.1921#3040521
Kazimir Genrikhovich Tsikhovsky, 1887-1937, a Polish revolutionary, CEC Chairman of the Lithuanian Belorusian Soviet Socialist Republic, a COMINTERN leader. The Central State Archive of Film Photographic Documents of the USSR.14.03.1921#3040502
Vladimir Lenin in Kremlin inspects the parade of the 11th class of graduates of the 1st Moscow machine-gun courses for Red Army commanders. Moscow, May 12, 1920.12.05.1920#3085500
Vladimir Lenin takes the salute of the honor guards going to the foundation stone site of the "Liberated Labor" monument on Prechistenskaya quay. Moscow, May 1, 1920. Photograph by A. I. Saveliev.01.05.1920#3085502
A poster calling to join the May Day All-Russia subbotnik. Created by Dmitry Stakhievich Orlov (Moor), 1920.01.05.1920#3063904
Joseph Stalin (b.1879, d.1953), Soviet revolutionary, political, state, military and party figure, General Secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union (1924-1953), Marshal of the Soviet Union, and Generalissimo of the Soviet Union.15.10.1919#6043205
Grigory Konstantinovich Ordzhonikidze, 1886-1937, a Bolshevik, prominent Soviet state and political figure, revolutionary, during the Civil war held a commanding position in the Red Army, one of the initiators of defeating the white Gen. Denikin.04.04.1919#3064716
Front page of the the Izvestia newspaper of November 6, 1918, dedicated to the 1st anniversary of the Bolshevik socialist revolution.06.11.1918#3085499
The Bolshevik October revolution. A soldier of the first machinegun company of the Military-revolutionary Committee. He became a student of the 1st Moscow revolutionary machinegun school (later, the Moscow Higher Military Command School). December 22, 1917.22.12.1917#3063912
The call of the Military Revolutionary Committee of the Petrograd Soviet of Workers' and Soldiers' Deputies "To the Citizens of Russia!".25.10.1917#5660818
Prince Pyotr Kropotkin (1842-1921), a historian, philosopher and publicist, creator of the ideology of anarcho-communism and one of the most influential theorists of anarchism. 1917. The Central State Archive of Film and Photo Documents in Leningrad.05.08.1917#3039640
Legal tender notes and bills issue in Russia according to the Provisional government resolution in 1917.31.03.1917#3061314
Sergey Stepanov (Braun), a delegate of the 2nd congress of the Russian Social Democratic Party. London, 1903.30.07.1903#3033772
Martin Mandelshtam (Martyn Lyadov), a delegate of the 2nd congress of the Russian Social Democratic Party. London, 1903.30.07.1903#3033768
The pre-revolutionary Russia. A tarman during the fair in the town of Lyskovo, the Nizhnyi Novgorod region.05.06.1898#3084349
Nadezhda Krupskaya (1869-1939) was a Russian revolutionary, the wife of Vladimir Lenin, a Soviet government minister, party, public and cultural activist and an organizer and main ideologist of the Soviet education system and that of Communist indoctrination for young people. This photo was taken during her Siberian exile.02.07.1896#6043191
Portrait of a Russian writer Ivan Sergeyevich Turgenev by Konstantin Makovsky, 1871. The Ivan Turgenev State Museum, the city of Oryol.25.04.1871#3082442
Revolutionary event during the Commune of Paris, 1871. Barricade on Paris' streets.13.04.1871#3072537
Revolutionary event during the Commune of Paris, 1871. Barricade on Paris' streets.13.04.1871#3072536
