Renovating Arch-Gallery linking Bread House and Grand Palace at the Tsaritsyno state historical-architectural, artistic and landscaping museum-reserve.20.07.2006#424542
Renovating the Arch-Gallery linking the Bread House and the Grand Palace at the Tsaritsyno state historical-architectural, artistic and landscaping museum-reserve.14.06.2006#424634
Excavating dozens of secret graves containing the remains of Shiites, executed in 1991 by the Saddam Hussein regime, in Iraq's Babil province. 15.03.2003#169070
Ancient ceramic items of the everyday life found during the archeological excavation on Manezhnaya Square.01.06.1994#529250
Searching for the Amber Room in the basement of Koenigsberg's Ponart brewery in Kaliningrad. Excavations ont he site of the former brewery.24.06.1988#6581475
Searching for the Amber Room in the basement of Koenigsberg's Ponart brewery in Kaliningrad. The site of the former brewery.24.06.1988#6581473
Searching for the Amber Room in the basement of Koenigsberg's Ponart brewery in Kaliningrad. Members of the expedition discuss their plan of works.24.06.1988#6581472
Searching for the Amber Room in the basement of Koenigsberg's Ponart brewery in Kaliningrad. Avenir Obsyanov, a consultant for the expedition.24.06.1988#6581470
Searching for the Amber Room in the basement of Koenigsberg's Ponart brewery in Kaliningrad. Head of the expedition Valery Biryukov, left, talks to chair of the Kaliningrad branch of the Soviet Culture Foundation Yury Ivanov, center, and first deputy chairmanf o the Kaliningrad city council Viktor Voropaev, right.24.06.1988#6581468
Searching for the Amber Room in the basement of Koenigsberg's Ponart brewery in Kaliningrad. Members of the expedition sift through a layer of soil dug out by an excavator.24.06.1988#6581467
Archaeologists at work on the territory of the ancient city of Tanais (III century BC), located 36 kilometers from Rostov-on-Don.10.09.1987#8296834
Housing construction in Raduzhny, Tyumen Region, near an oil and gas production facility.10.11.1986#6641613
Prokopyevsk, Kemerovo Region. Prokopyevskugol Production Association. Open pit coal mining in the Prokopyevsko-Kiselevskoye deposit in the Kuzbass coal basin.01.11.1986#6443290
Armenian SSR. Goris, Syunik Region of Armenia, is known for its unique architecture. Mostly two-story buildings are plastered using a special technique which gives them a characteristing look, with terracota roofs and carved balconies and basalt stonework (also known as peasant stonework, or barkash). The city is surrounded by rocks that local residents call Goris Stone Woods. Rocks create an entire composition in the shape of pyramids, columns and towers.01.07.1986#8835629
Excavator in the Nazarovsky open coal pit of the Kansk-Achinsk Fuel-Energy Complex (KATEK).01.10.1984#17464
The Brezhnev, now Ugarov, Stary Oskol Electric Metallurgical Integrated Works Photo: A rotor excavator operates in an open-pit mine.01.09.1983#8231513
A quarry developed by Stoilensky Mining and Beneficiation Plant, with a powerful bucket wheel excavator, KU-800, manufactured in the Czechoslovak Socialist Republic, working. The first units of this gigantic machine began to be delivered at the plant in March 1968; the excavator was assembled and put into operation in the early 1970s.30.04.1982#6685354
Coal production in the Nazarovsky Kansk-Achinsk Coal Basin. Krasnoyarsk Territory. 1980.01.10.1980#443779
The Yakut Autonomous Soviet Socialist Republic. Neryungra coal strip mine. Loading coal.13.07.1980#5588486
A bridge over the Tyya River in the western section of the Baikal-Amur Railway. The Buryat ASSR. 1980.01.02.1980#801429
Construction of a section of the Tyumen-Surgut-Urengoi railroad. Tyumen Region. 1978.01.10.1978#463882
Construction of Nurek hydropower plant on the Vakhsh River in Pulisanginskoye canyon by the Nurek mountain, Tajikistan.01.09.1978#451843
Assembling the Soyuz Gas Pipeline at the village of Kolochava in Transcarpathian region, Ukraine.01.07.1978#861010
Assembling the Soyuz Gas Pipeline on one of the mountain slopes of Ivano-Frankovsk region, Ukraine.01.07.1978#861008
The Krasnoyarsk Terrotory. The city of Nazarovo. Nazarovsky open-pit mine of the Kansko-Achinsk fuel and energy complex.01.06.1978#3318814
Kazakh SSR. Konyrat copper deposit. Ore is loaded onto rail cars to be sent to Balkhash smelter (currently Balkhashtsvetmet).21.01.1977#6469604
The Yakut Autonomous Soviet Socialist Republic. The kimberlite pipe Mir. Trucks carry out valuable diamond containing rock from the open pit Mir day and night.01.01.1976#5507429
Kursk Magnetic Anomaly. Quarry of the Stoilensky Ore Mining and Processing Facility. Excavator operator Vasily Degtyarev.01.08.1975#6377476
The Bazhenovsky asbestos quarry of the Ural asbestos mining-and-processing integrated works.24.06.1975#5553644
The Ukrainian SSR. A pit at the Ukrainian Komsomol Krivoi Rog Northern Ore Processing Integrated Works.16.05.1974#5502430
The "Medvezhy Ruchei" ("Bear's Brook") opencast ore mine of the Norilsk Mining and Metallurgical Combine named after A.Zavenyagin. Krasnoyarsk Territory. 1973.01.09.1973#584176
Mikhailovskoye iron ore deposit of the Kursk Magnetic Anomaly (KMA). Ore is loaded in the pit of the Mikhailovsky mining and processing works.21.08.1973#5980476
A salt mine of Sverdlov Pit No. 1, now Pit No. 7 of State Enterprise Artyomsol, in the Donetsk Region of the Ukrainian SSR.01.04.1972#6210578
Yakutian Autonomous Soviet Socialist Republic. Mir kimberlite pipe. Loading diamond ore from the quarry of the Yakutalmaz research and production association.20.08.1971#6311776
