Aftermath of an earthquake in the South Ossetian Autonomous Area of the Georgian Soviet Socialist Republic on April 29, 1991, that killed 270 people and left almost 100,000 people without homes. Rescue operation.29.04.1991#6607056
Kyrgyz SSR. The Balykchi fishing association (Balykchi is a city on Lake Issyk-Kul).10.10.1990#8353137
Polish journalist and artistic photographer Adam Bujak with a Polish television crew prepares for filming a documentary about the Russian Orthodox Church in the Soviet Union. Adam Bujak during research in the village of Listvyanka by Lake Baikal in the Irkutsk Region.07.10.1990#6671971
A concert of Latin American music at the House of Friendship with Foreign Peoples, Moscow.23.09.1990#8358738
Belarusian SSR. The House-building plant No. 3 (leased company) in Minsk. Leasers with their director Ms. Vinokurova (third row, center).15.09.1990#6651129
Belarusian SSR. The House-building plant No. 3 (leased company) in Minsk. Workshop for the production of body wall panels.15.09.1990#6651128
Crimean Region, Ukrainian SSR. On November 14, 1989, the USSR Supreme Soviet adopted a declaration restoring the deported ethnicities' rights. Crimean Tatars started to return from deportation. Renat Mamutov builds a house.09.09.1990#8205088
Crimean Region, Ukrainian SSR. In 1944, during the Great Patriotic War, Crimean Tatars were deported from the Crimean ASSR to Uzbekistan and neighboring regions of Kazakhstan and Tajikistan. On November 14, 1989, the USSR Supreme Soviet adopted a declaration restoring the deported ethnicities' rights. Crimean Tatars started to return from deportation. A house bought by a family of returnees.01.09.1990#8205063
Residential buildings built by Bulgarian construction workers in Reni, Odessa Region. Ukrainian Soviet Socialist Republic.25.07.1990#6675188
Thousands of people gather outside the Government House on the opening day of an extraordinary session of the Supreme Soviet of the Georgian SSR on June 20, 1990.20.06.1990#8421192
Marina Yurchenko, photojournalist of the Novosti Press Agency (now Rossiya Segodnya International Information Agency).15.06.1990#8136679
Folk Architecture and Lifestyle Museum in Kostroma (now Kostromskaya Sloboda Museum). Hand-woven rugs.01.05.1990#8135559
Folk Architecture and Lifestyle Museum in Kostroma (now Kostromskaya Sloboda Museum). A traditional Russian house.01.05.1990#8135557
Folk Architecture and Lifestyle Museum in Kostroma (now Kostromskaya Sloboda Museum). Wooden carving on the facade of a traditional house.01.05.1990#8135553
Folk Architecture and Lifestyle Museum in Kostroma (now Kostromskaya Sloboda Museum). Smoother (a traditional iron).01.05.1990#8135551
The tenement house of the First Russian Insurance Society at the intersection of Kuznetsky Most Street and Dzerzhinsky Street (now Bolshaya Lubyanka Street). In 1946-1952, the building was used by the People's Commissariat of Foreign Affairs (USSR Foreign Ministry).12.03.1990#6674712
Parishioners at the Moscow Choral Synagogue during a concert by a Jewish men's choir with American cantor Joseph Malovany.04.02.1990#6667966
A concert by Moscow Choral Synagogue's Jewish men's choir. From left: the choir's organizer and director Mikhail Turetsky and American cantor Joseph Malovany during a performance.04.02.1990#6667964
Novosti Press Agency (now Rossiya Segodnya) and the South Korean agency Yonhap sign a cooperation agreement. Chairman of the NPA Board Albert Vlasov, second right, and representative of the Renhap agency I.J. Cho, left, during the meeting.29.01.1990#6655273
Survivors of the Spitak earthquake on December 7, 1988, in northwestern Armenia, one year later.07.12.1989#8174942
Armenian Soviet Socialist Republic. On December 7, 1988, a 10 magnitude earthquake hit Armenia completely destroying the city of Spitak and 80% of its second largest city, Leninakan (now Gyumri). Other cities and villages in northern Armenia were also affected. Italian construction workers build new houses near Spitak where a village was destroyed.13.11.1989#6611420
Armenian Soviet Socialist Republic. On December 7, 1988, a 10 magnitude earthquake hit Armenia completely destroying the city of Spitak and 80% of its second largest city, Leninakan (now Gyumri). Other cities and villages in northern Armenia were also affected. Rebuilding Leninakan.13.11.1989#6611413
Armenian Soviet Socialist Republic. On December 7, 1988, a 10 magnitude earthquake hit Armenia completely destroying the city of Spitak and 80% of its second largest city, Leninakan (now Gyumri). Other cities and villages in northern Armenia were also affected. Rebuilding Leninakan.13.11.1989#6611412
Nina Ricci presents its 1989 fall/winter collection at a fashion show in Moscow. Evening gowns.01.11.1989#6623448
Nina Ricci presents its 1989 fall/winter collection at a fashion show in Moscow. An evening gown.01.11.1989#6623447
Nina Ricci presents its 1989 fall/winter collection at a fashion show in Moscow. An eveninig gown.01.11.1989#6623439
Nina Ricci presents its 1989 fall/winter collection at a fashion show in Moscow. Evening gowns.01.11.1989#6623437
Nina Ricci presents its 1989 fall/winter collection at a fashion show in Moscow. Evening gowns.01.11.1989#6623434
A visit by General Jaakko Valtanen, Chief of Finnish Defense Forces, to the USSR. The meeting with core members of the USSR-Finland Friendship Society, now Russia-Finland Friendship Society, at the House of Friendship with Peoples of Foreign Countries, now the Russian Government's Reception House. 3rd right: Marshal of the Soviet Union and Hero of the Soviet Union Sergei Akhromeyev. 4th right: Pilot-Cosmonaut of the Soviet Union and Hero of the Soviet Union Valentina Tereshkova. 5th right: Chief of Finnish Defense Forces, General Jaakko Valtanen25.10.1989#6558227
The second (fall) session of USSR Supreme Soviet (September 25 - November 28, 1989). Discussing a bill on press.11.10.1989#6551990
The second (fall) session of USSR Supreme Soviet (September 25 - November 28, 1989). During a break. In the presidium, sitting, from left: Anatoly Lukyanov, candidate to the Political Bureau of the Soviet Communist Party's Central Committee, First Deputy Chairman of the USSR Supreme Soviet, Chairman of the USSR Supreme Soviet Mikhail Gorbachev, Standing: Yevgeny Primakov, Chairman of the Union Council of the USSR Supreme Soviet.11.10.1989#6551974
Ukrainian Soviet Socialist Republic. Zmiyevka (now Staroshvedskoye) in the Berislavsky District of the Kherson Region where Estonian Swedes settled in 1782 after being sent to develop the Ukrainian land during the reign of Catherine the Great. Descendants of Estonian Swedes.03.10.1989#6616583
Federal Republic of Germany Bundesrat Speaker Bjorn Engholm, Prime Minister of Schleswig-Holstein State, visits the Soviet Union. He is seen here meeting with Yevgeny Primakov, a Candidate Member of the Politburo of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union and Speaker of the Council of the Union of the Supreme Soviet (Parliament) of the USSR.26.09.1989#6549190
Dmitry Starodubtsev, Director of the Dzerzhinsky Stud Farm and USSR people's deputy. Rare moments of leisure at home.12.08.1989#6624535
Dmitry Starodubtsev, Director of the Dzerzhinsky Stud Farm and USSR people's deputy. Even at the moments of leisure, he can't stop thinking about problems of rural areas.12.08.1989#6624529
Dmitry Starodubtsev, Director of the Dzerzhinsky Stud Farm and USSR people's deputy. The deputy is concerned with war veterans' living conditions.12.08.1989#6624527
Dmitry Starodubtsev, Director of the Dzerzhinsky Stud Farm and USSR people's deputy. Thanks to his work, this family will soon get an apartment in a new building.12.08.1989#6624517
A house with wooden carved window aprons at the Trans-Baikal Territory Ethnographic Museum, Buryatian Autonomous Soviet Socialist Republic.10.07.1989#8160838
The Uzbek Soviet Socialist Republic. The Fergana region. Interethnical unrest on June 304, 1989, in some districts of the Fergana region. Residential houses in the city of Kokand set on fire by insurgentыю04.06.1989#3089266
The Uzbek Soviet Socialist Republic. The Fergana region. Interethnical unrest on June 304, 1989, in some districts of the Fergana region. Residential houses in the city of Kokand set on fire by insurgentыю04.06.1989#3089265
Vladimir Solovei's farm in Penkovo, Kalinin Region. Vladimir's wife doing house chores.02.06.1989#6638919
Buryatian Autonomous Soviet Socialist Republic. North Baikal District. The village of Davsha in the Barguzinsky Nature Reserve.05.05.1989#6639079
