Kyrghyz ASSR. Ak-Terek is a mountain village in the Jety-Oguz district of the Issyk-Kul region in the foothills of the Pamirs.18.04.1962#8414160
Volcanologists install a theodolite (a geodesic measuring device) on top of the Avachinsky stratovolcano crater.01.06.1961#5835229
The Stavropol Territory. The Karachaevo-Cherkesskaya Autonomous Region. Tourists on the slopes of Teberda.01.01.1961#3325057
People's Artist of the USSR Nikolai Kryuchkov, Soviet Russian theater and film actor, during the shooting of Eduard Bocharov's film What Is the Sea Like?29.05.1960#5757599
Mountain peaks of Pamir in the territory of Gorno-Badakhshan Autonomous Region, Tajik SSR.05.02.1960#8932402
An illustration to the first part of Mikhail Sholokhov's novel Virgin Soil Upturned by Alexei Laptev (watercolor, reproduction).01.02.1960#417212
Actors of Moscow Art Academic Theater named after Gorky and director Iosif Raevsky, center, during a rehearsal of A. Chekhov's play "Three Sisters", 1958.01.12.1958#1085864
The North Caucasus. The Karachay-Cherkess Autonomous Region. Dombay (the Dombay clearing). Alpinists' training in the mountains.13.05.1958#5486245
The North Caucasus. The Karachay-Cherkess Autonomous Region. Dombay (the Dombay clearing). Opening of the tourist season. A group of students-tourists leaves a camp near the Dombay clearing.13.05.1958#5486244
Still from the 1958 feature film "The Youth of Our Fathers" directed by Mikhail Kalik and Boris Rytsarev and based on the novel "The Rout" by Soviet writer Alexander Fadeyev [1901-1956]. Starring Gennady Yukhtin as Metelitsa.01.01.1958#544928
Koryaksky Volcano (Koryakskaya Sopka) is an active and the highest volcano in the south of Kamchatka, located 35 km from Petropavlovsk-Kamchatsky.15.07.1957#8916815
The Armenian SSR. Photo: Ararat Valley, part of the Caucasus region's Armenian Plateau south of Lake Sevan. Mount Ararat looms in the background.10.05.1957#5966348
Nikolai Barantsev turns in his automatic rifle after finishing his service in the Soviet Army.01.09.1956#5943293
A Soviet-Chinese expedition to the Chinese section of the Pamir Mountains. The main achievements during the expedition included the first climb to the top of the peaks Muztag-Ata (7,546 m) and Kongurtyube (7,595 m). Y.Beletsky was the leader of the expedition, assisted by K.Kuzmin and Shi Rang-Chun. Pictured: a group of rock climbers climbing Muztag-Ata in the Pamir Mountains, on the territory of the Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region, China. Lake Karakul is located between the peaks.12.08.1956#8913196
An unnamed mountain pass near Grandiozny Peak, the highest point of the Kryzhin Ridge in the Eastern Sayany.01.05.1956#5880346
General view of the resort town of Arzni in the picturesque Hrazdan River Gorge and on the left bank plateau, 22 km north of Yerevan.01.03.1955#1146300
USSR downhill skiing championships. Soviet skiers Yevgeniya Sidorova, left, and Valentina Soboleva in the mountains of Zailiyskiy Alatau.05.01.1955#1154639
Lidiya Posokhina, the second navigating officer of passenger boat "Rosa Luxemburg".01.09.1954#1157500
Tolya (Anatoly) Kashirin, young partisan and member of the French Resistance. 1946.15.05.1946#6529702
The 1941-1945 Great Patriotic War against Nazi Germany. Guards Captain S. I. Ivanov of the Red Army holding a child. Reproduction of stock photo.20.10.1944#884069
Great Patriotic War (1941-1945). Konstantin Simonov, Soviet writer and war correspondent of the Krasnaya Zvezda newspaper, talks to refugees.05.09.1943#6355609
Great Patriotic War (1941-1945). Left: Konstantin Simonov, Soviet writer and war correspondent of the Krasnaya Zvezda newspaper, and war correspondent V.Karasteyev.01.08.1943#6355608
Division commander Colonel Yerokhin, left, and regiment commander Lieutenant Colonel Tsenin looking over a site before an attack. // The Bryansk Front, September 1941.05.10.1941#662831
Division commander Colonel Yerokhin, left, and regiment commander Lieutenant Colonel Tsenin looking over a site before an attack. // The Bryansk Front, September 1941.05.10.1941#662830
The Great Patriotic War of 1941-1945. Photo: West Front Commander Lieutenant General Ivan Konev.11.09.1941#6022866
The Great Patriotic War of 1941-1945. Photo: West Front Commander Lieutenant General Ivan Konev, left, and Divisional Commissar Ivan Sheklanov, a member of the Military Council of the 19th Army of the West Front, center, at a command center.11.09.1941#6022863
Great Patriotic War (1941-1945). Konstantin Simonov, Soviet writer and war correspondent of the Krasnaya Zvezda newspaper, talks to Romanian prisoners of war near Odessa.28.08.1941#6355611
Vacationers at Baranov Spa Resort in Simeiz (a former estate of Count Milyutin, the Minister of Defense under Emperor Alexander II). The resort has modern treatment and diagnostics facilities and a beach with a nap pavilion.12.07.1940#8544037
Vice-Admiral Vladimir Tributs, Commander of the Soviet Navy's Baltic Fleet. Reproduction of 1939 photo.01.10.1939#842540
Honored aviation pilot Boris Iliodorovich Rossinsky (left) instructs a group of test pilots for the "Ultima-Tum" aircraft. Khodinskoye field in 1923.01.03.1923#810412
Vladimir Lenin during the May 25, 1919 Universal Military Training (Vsevobuch) parade on Red Square in Moscow. A reproduction of a still from the film.25.05.1919#596542
May 1, 1919. Former German POWs demonstrating solidarity with the Soviet Russia under the motto "Hail World Revolution!" The Civil War. Copy of CB agency.01.05.1919#743028
Delegates of the 5th All-Russian Congress of Soviets (July 4-10, 1918) outside the Bolshoi Theare during an interval between the sittings.06.07.1918#3031243
The premises of the Moscow Bolshoi Theatre on the days of the 5th All-Russian Congress of Soviets (July 4-10, 1918).05.07.1918#3031242
Guard during the 5th All-Russian Congress of Soviets (July 4-10) which was conducted on the days of the Left Socialist Revolutionaries riot. Moscow's Bolshoi Theatre, 1918.04.07.1918#3031247
Civil War in Russia (1917-1922). Semyon Nakhimson, chairman of the Yaroslavl Region Executive Committee. He was killed by the White Guards during the counterrevolutionary coup in July 1918.01.07.1918#3073174
The Bolshoi Theatre is guarded during the 5th All-Russian Congress of Soviets (July 4-10) held there. Moscow, 1918.06.07.1917#3031246
Armored cars patrol the premises of the Bolshoi Theatre during the 5th All-Russian Congress of Soviets (July 4-10) held there. Moscow, 1918.06.07.1917#3031241
A workers and soldiers' march carrying Bolshevik slogans. Petrograd, June 18, 1917. Photo courtesy of the Central State Documentary Film & Photo Archive of the USSR (Krasnogorsk Archive).18.06.1917#3022689
