Masters part their dogs during a fight at dog fighting competitions in the village of Roshni-Chu, Urus-Martan District.11.11.2012#1286007
A bride with a wrap on her face sitting in a groom's house during a wedding ceremony in Kubachi village, Dagestan.05.07.2012#1176424
Women leading a bride with a wrap on her face to the groom's house during a wedding ceremony in Kubachi village, Dagestan05.07.2012#1176420
Women preparing a bride's dowry during a wedding ceremony in Kubachi village, Dagestan.05.07.2012#1176418
Young people dressed in national clothes dance downtown Grozny. Activists of Ramzan patriotic club marched along Ahmat Kadyrov prospekt to the city's main mosque to commemorate the National Unity Day.04.11.2011#984209
Activists of Ramzan patriotic club participate in a procession commemorating the National Unity Day on Ahmat Kadyrov prospekt.04.11.2011#984212
Activists of Ramzan patriotic club participate in a procession commemorating the National Unity Day on Ahmat Kadyrov prospekt.04.11.2011#984211
Activists of Ramzan patriotic club participate in a procession commemorating the National Unity Day on Ahmat Kadyrov prospekt.04.11.2011#984210
President of Daghestan Magomedsalam Magomedov pictured during his meeting with Prime Minister Vladimir Putin in the Novo-Ogaryovo country residence. October 31, 2011.31.10.2011#982059
Chechen Republic leader Ramzan Kadyrov (third from left) and Russian presidential envoy to the North Caucasus Federal District Alexander Khloponin (second from right) at his inauguration ceremony.05.04.2011#896894
Chechnya leader Ramzan Kadyrov before the match between his team and the Brazilian national football team of 2002.08.03.2011#877140
Grozny residents, attired in ethnic costumes, are dancing in front of the Chechen Government building while celebrating Chechen Language Day.25.04.2010#637122
Grozny resident, attired in an ethnic costume, is dancing in front of the Chechen Government building while celebrating Chechen Language Day.25.04.2010#637120
From left: RussianAState Duma Deputy Adam Delimkhanov and Chechen President Ramzan Kadyrov seen during celebrations of Chechen Language Day.25.04.2010#637123
The leaders of Russia, Azerbaijan, Armenia and Georgia meeting in Kiev. From left: Georgia's Eduard Shevardnadze, Azerbaijan's Geidar Aliyev, Russia's Vladimir Putin, and Armenia's Robert Kocharian.28.01.2003#382870
Shamil the Imam of Chechnya and Dagestan (1797/99-1871), the leader of Caucasian liberation struggle. Chromolithograph after Yevgeny Lansere's drawing16.05.1998#175264
Portrait of Khadzhi Murat, Naib [Governor-General] of Avaria appointed by Imam Shamil, by I. Bogatyryov. Late 1820s -- Early 1830s. Paper, Charcoal.09.05.1997#154954
On December 7, 1988, a terrible earthquake in the Armenian SSR with a force of 10 completely destroyed the city of Spitak and the second largest city in the Republic, Leninakan (now Gyumri), by 80 percent. Other cities and villages in the north of Armenia were also affected. Seven hundred children were brought for treatment to the Polyana children's sanatorium near Moscow. During treatment, students continue to study.21.12.1989#6636817
On December 7, 1988, a terrible earthquake in the Armenian SSR with a force of 10 completely destroyed the city of Spitak and the second largest city in the Republic, Leninakan (now Gyumri), by 80 percent. Other cities and villages in the north of Armenia were also affected. Seven hundred children were brought for treatment to the Polyana children's sanatorium near Moscow.21.12.1989#6636813
On December 7, 1988, a terrible earthquake in the Armenian SSR with a force of 10 completely destroyed the city of Spitak and the second largest city in the Republic, Leninakan (now Gyumri), by 80 percent. Other cities and villages in the north of Armenia were also affected. Seven hundred children were brought for treatment to the Polyana children's sanatorium near Moscow.21.12.1989#6636812
On December 7, 1988, a terrible earthquake in the Armenian SSR with a force of 10 completely destroyed the city of Spitak and the second largest city in the Republic, Leninakan (now Gyumri), by 80 percent. Other cities and villages in the north of Armenia were also affected. Seven hundred children were brought for treatment to the Polyana children's sanatorium near Moscow. During the treatment, children continue to study.21.12.1989#6636811
On December 7, 1988, a terrible earthquake in the Armenian SSR with a force of 10 completely destroyed the city of Spitak and the second largest city in the Republic, Leninakan (now Gyumri), by 80 percent. Other cities and villages in the north of Armenia were also affected. Seven hundred children were brought for treatment to the Polyana children's sanatorium near Moscow.21.12.1989#6636810
On December 7, 1988, a terrible earthquake in the Armenian SSR with a force of 10 completely destroyed the city of Spitak and the second largest city in the Republic, Leninakan (now Gyumri), by 80 percent. Other cities and villages in the north of Armenia were also affected. Seven hundred children were brought for treatment to the Polyana children's sanatorium near Moscow.21.12.1989#6636808
On December 7, 1988, a terrible earthquake in the Armenian SSR with a force of 10 completely destroyed the city of Spitak and the second largest city in the Republic, Leninakan (now Gyumri), by 80 percent. Other cities and villages in the north of Armenia were also affected. Seven hundred children were brought for treatment to the Polyana children's sanatorium near Moscow.21.12.1989#6636807
Lana Gogoberidze, Georgian film director and screenwriter, People's Actress of the Georgian SSR. In the late 1980s, she left her job to go into policy.06.11.1989#6566939
On December 7, 1988, a terrible earthquake with a magnitude of 10 points completely destroyed the city of Spitak, as well as 80 percent of the second largest city in the Armenian SSR, Leninakan (now Gyumri). Second graders of the Kirovka school, destroyed in the earthquake, are studying at a school in Anapa. During a break.01.02.1989#6747608
Nikolai Ivanovich Ryzhkov, CPSU CC Polutbureau member, Chairman of the Council of Ministers of the USSR (left) at a meeting in the headquarters for the liquidation of the December 7, 1988, eqrthquake during his stay in the Armenian Soviet Socialist Republic (January 16 to 18, 1989). Norik Muradyan, first secretary of the Spital district committee of the Communist Party of Armenia (right).18.01.1989#860096
Nikolai Ivanovich Ryzhkov, CPSU CC Politbureau member, Chairman of the Council of Ministers of the USSR (right) talks with the people in the city who survived the December 7, 1988, earthquake, on his stay in the Armenian Soviet Socialist Republic (January 16 to 19, 1989).18.01.1989#860093
Nikolai Ivanovich Ryzhkov, CPSU CC Politbureau member, Chairman of the Council of Ministers of the USSR (left) at a meeting of the Headquarters for the liquidation of the December 7, 1988, earthquake consequences during his stay in the Armenian Soviet Socialist Republic (January 16 to 19, 1989). Norik Muradyan, first secretary of the Spitak district committee of the Communist Party of Armenia (right).18.01.1989#860088
Nikolai Ivanovich Ryzhkov, CPSU CC Politbureau member, Chairman of the Council of Ministers of the USSR (right) talks with the people who survived the December 7, 1988, earthquake, at one of the city's hospitals, on his stay in the Armenian Soviet Socialist Republic (January 16 to 19, 1989).16.01.1989#860095
Nikolai Ivanovich Ryzhkov, CPSU CC Politbureau member, Chairman of the Council of Ministers of the USSR (second from right) at a meeting of the RSFSR headquarters dedicated to the consequetces of the December 7, 1988, earthquake during his stay in the Armenian Soviet Socialist Republic (January 16 to 19, 1989).16.01.1989#860094
Nikolai Ivanovich Ryzhkov, CPSU CC Polutbureau member, Chairman of the Council of Ministers of the USSR (second from left) talking in a secondary school with teachers and pupils who survived the December 7, 1988, eqrthquake, during his stay in the Armenian Soviet Socialist Republic (January 16 to 18, 1989).16.01.1989#860089
Nikolai Ivanovich Ryzhkov, CPSU CC Politbureau member, Chairman of the Council of Ministers of the USSR (center) talks with the people in the city who survived the December 7, 1988, earthquake, on his stay in the Armenian Soviet Socialist Republic (January 16 to 19, 1989).16.01.1989#860087
Mikhail Sergeyevich Gorbachev, General secretary of the CPSU CC, Chairman of the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet of the USSR (right) talks with the people in the city who survived the December 7, 1988, earthquake, on his stay in the Armenian Soviet Socialist Republic.10.12.1988#860086
Ambartsum Kayayan, teacher of history at the Bzhni secondary school giving a lesson during a hike with pupils. The Armenian Soviet Socialist Republic.01.04.1986#764337
Children from a kindergarten of Leninakan performing long jumps on children's playground. Armenian SSR.01.06.1985#893045
Students of a vocational school, future stone carvers at a hands-on course. The Azerbaijani Soviet Socialist Republic.01.03.1985#764324
A parachute jumper Khamid Yusupov with a 6-year old Zhenya Yemelina after the one-canopy jump from the Cheget mountain skiing together at the shooting of a feature about parachute jumpers in the Caucasian mountains01.02.1984#62495
Shashlyk vendors at the "Russian winter" festival in the Lyublino Lenin Komsomol Leisure and Culture Park.26.02.1983#505655
Folk singer of the Tajik SSR, musician Navruzsho Kurbonaseinov demonstrates his collection of traditional musical instruments with his family.01.08.1982#8475621
Navruzsho Kurbonaseinov, People's singer of the Tajik SSR, musician, organizer of the collective creative activity of the theater in the Pamir.01.08.1982#8475620
Mr. Punyasena from Sri Lanka won the contest of distributors of Novosti Press Agency's magazine (now Rossiya Segodnya International News Agency) Soviet Life ("Country of Soviets"). The Lankan guest in the Armenian SSR during a visit to he Mesrop Mashtots Institute of Ancient Manuscripts in Yerevan.10.05.1982#6693087
John Greppin, a US scholar of Armenian Studies, at the Cleveland State University. His academic specialty was the Classical Armenian language.24.04.1982#6679862
The Abkhazian SSR. Suliko and Asli Shulitidze stand near their home in Salme village.01.07.1981#6703169
Rafi Aliyev, a long-lived Azerbaijani, with his wife Dunya over tea. Azerbaijan SSR.02.05.1980#8182261
Saodat Mammad Kuli, one of the Azerbaijani centenarians, with her great-granddaughters in the old part of Baku, Azerbaijan SSR.15.04.1980#8182258
