Paying last respects to People's Artist of the USSR Lyudmila Zykina at the Tchaikovsky Concert Hall.03.07.2009#408952
Paying last respects to People's Artist of the USSR Lyudmila Zykina at the Tchaikovsky Concert Hall.03.07.2009#408947
Paying last respects to People's Artist of the USSR Lyudmila Zykina at the Tchaikovsky Concert Hall.03.07.2009#408957
Paying last respects to People's Artist of the USSR Lyudmila Zykina at the Tchaikovsky Concert Hall.03.07.2009#408956
Singer Iosif Kobzon paying last respects to People's Artist of the USSR Lyudmila Zykina at the Tchaikovsky Concert Hall.03.07.2009#408955
Paying last respects to People's Artist of the USSR Lyudmila Zykina at the Tchaikovsky Concert Hall.03.07.2009#408954
Paying last respects to People's Artist of the USSR Lyudmila Zykina at the Tchaikovsky Concert Hall.03.07.2009#408953
Paying last respects to People's Artist of the USSR Lyudmila Zykina at the Tchaikovsky Concert Hall.03.07.2009#408945
Paying last respects to People's Artist of the USSR Lyudmila Zykina at the Tchaikovsky Concert Hall.03.07.2009#408944
Paying last respects to People's Artist of the USSR Lyudmila Zykina at the Tchaikovsky Concert Hall.03.07.2009#408943
Paying last respects to People's Artist of the USSR Lyudmila Zykina at the Tchaikovsky Concert Hall.03.07.2009#408942
Paying last respects to People's Artist of the USSR Lyudmila Zykina at the Tchaikovsky Concert Hall.03.07.2009#408941
Paying last respects to People's Artist of the USSR Lyudmila Zykina at the Tchaikovsky Concert Hall.03.07.2009#408939
Dinamo Moscow football club player Alexander Kerzhakov paying last respects to football coach Vladimir Fedotov at the CSKA Universal Sports Hall.02.04.2009#384475
Russian national football team player Roman Pavlyuchenko, center, paying last respects to football coach Vladimir Fedotov at the CSKA Universal Sports Hall.02.04.2009#384474
Serafimovskoye Cemetery, St. Petersburg. The funeral of Yury Alexandrov, a crew member of the Baltic Shipping Company's motor ship Polessk that sank on September 17, 1993. One sailor, Yury Altukhov, survived by a miracle nd was rescued by a foreign vessel on the high seas.07.10.1993#6295703
Serafimovskoye Cemetery in St. Ptersburg. Funeral services for Yury Alexandrov, a deceased sailor of the motor ship Polessk, owned by the Baltic Shipping Company, that sank on September 17, 1993.07.10.1993#8722087
Serafimovskoye Cemetery in St. Ptersburg. Funeral services for Yury Alexandrov, a deceased sailor of the motor ship Polessk, owned by the Baltic Shipping Company, that sank on September 17, 1993.07.10.1993#8722088
A memorial service for the police officers of the Central Internal Affairs Directorate.07.10.1993#468950
St. Petersburg, Russia. May 29, 1992. The funeral of Grand Duke Vladimir Kirillovich Romanov at the Grand Dukes Sepulcher of the Peter and Paul Cathedral.29.05.1992#8262904
Paying last respects to People's Artist of the USSR Sergei Obraztsov, the founder and Director of the State Academic Central Puppet Theater, now the Obraztsov State Academic Central Puppet Theater.11.05.1992#8262509
Sevastopol, Crimea. Reinterring the remains of four Russian admirals. A minesweeper with the caskets of Admiral Mikhail Lazarev, Vice Admiral Vladimir Kornilov, Admiral Pavel Nakhimov and Rear Admiral Vladimir Istomin, covered with St. Andrew's flags, sails past warships anchored at a roadstead of Severnaya (Northern) Harbor.29.02.1992#6389458
October 9, 1991. Paying last respects to tragically murdered singer and composer Igor Talkov at Youth Palace on Moscow's Komsomolsky Prospekt.09.10.1991#8232667
October 9, 1991. Paying last respects to tragically murdered singer and composer Igor Talkov at Youth Palace on Moscow's Komsomolsky Prospekt.09.10.1991#8231686
October 9, 1991. Paying last respects to tragically murdered singer and composer Igor Talkov at Youth Palace on Moscow's Komsomolsky Prospekt.09.10.1991#8231683
October 9, 1991. Paying last respects to tragically murdered singer and composer Igor Talkov at Youth Palace on Moscow's Komsomolsky Prospekt.09.10.1991#8231681
October 9, 1991. Paying last respects to tragically murdered singer and composer Igor Talkov at Youth Palace on Moscow's Komsomolsky Prospekt.09.10.1991#8231680
October 9, 1991. Paying last respects to tragically murdered singer and composer Igor Talkov at Youth Palace on Moscow's Komsomolsky Prospekt.09.10.1991#8231679
Events in Vilnius, Lithuania, in February 1991 following the republic's secession from the Soviet Union. Supporters of the country's independence clashed with service personnel of the Soviet Armed Forces and activists of the Committee for the National Salvation of the Lithuanian SSR. Photo: Paying last respects to those killed during clashes.16.02.1991#8227349
January 11-13, 1991. Clashes in Vilnius between advocates of Lithuania's independence, service personnel of the Soviet Armed Forces and activists of the National Salvation Committee of the Lithuanian SSR. following Lithuania's secession from the Soviet Union. Photo: The funeral of a city resident who was killed during street fighting.13.01.1991#6688591
Soviet President Mikhail Gorbachev (center) and Government members pay their last respects to Academician Andrei Sakharov during funeral ceremony. 18.12.1989#45245
The funeral service for Andrei Gromyko, Soviet state and party figure, Minister of Foreign Affairs of the USSR (1957-1985), Chairman of the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet of the USSR (1985-1988), and Member of Politburo of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of the USSR (1973-1988), at Novodevichye Cemetery in Moscow.05.07.1989#8205225
The funeral service for Andrei Gromyko, Soviet state and party figure, Minister of Foreign Affairs of the USSR (1957-1985), Chairman of the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet of the USSR (1985-1988), and Member of Politburo of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of the USSR (1973-1988), at Novodevichye Cemetery in Moscow.05.07.1989#8205224
The funeral service for Andrei Gromyko, Soviet state and party figure, Minister of Foreign Affairs of the USSR (1957-1985), Chairman of the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet of the USSR (1985-1988), and Member of Politburo of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of the USSR (1973-1988). The honor guard during the ceremony at the Central House of the Soviet Army.05.07.1989#8205223
The funeral service for Andrei Gromyko, Soviet state and party figure, Minister of Foreign Affairs of the USSR (1957-1985), Chairman of the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet of the USSR (1985-1988), and Member of Politburo of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of the USSR (1973-1988). Andrei Gromyko's widow Lidiya, right, at Novodevichye Cemetery in Moscow.05.07.1989#8205222
The funeral service for Andrei Gromyko, Soviet state and party figure, Minister of Foreign Affairs of the USSR (1957-1985), Chairman of the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet of the USSR (1985-1988), and Member of Politburo of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of the USSR (1973-1988), at Novodevichye Cemetery in Moscow.05.07.1989#8205221
Soviet leaders and people are paying their last respects to General Secretary of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union and President of the Presidium of the USSR Supreme Soviet (Parliament) Konstantin Chernenko. General Secretary of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union Mikhail Gorbachev, Chairman of the Council of Ministers (Government) of the USSR Nikolai Tikhonov and Soviet Foreign Minister Andrei Gromyko are standing at Chernenko's bier.13.03.1985#5926477
Moscow. Members of a delegation from the People's Republic of China headed by Chinese Foreign Minister Huang Hua, center left, pay last respects to Leonid Brezhnev, General Secretary of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union and Chairman of the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet (Parliament) of the USSR, at the Hall of Columns, House of Trade Unions.15.11.1982#6727594
Funeral of Soviet composer Dmitry Shostakovich at the Novodevichy Cemetery in Moscow. Family and friends bidding last farewell to the composer.20.08.1975#5612969
Members of a Soviet delegation lays wreaths to the grave of French President Georges Pompidou in Orvillers.04.04.1974#5515135
Funeral of Soviet writer Alexander Tvardovsky (1910-1971). Photo: Writer Alexander Solzhenitsyn takes part in civil funeral rites at the Central House of Writers.21.12.1971#5951255
Funeral of Soviet writer Alexander Tvardovsky (1910-1971). Photo: Writer Alexander Solzhenitsyn takes part in civil funeral rites at the Central House of Writers.21.12.1971#5951254
People pay last respects to Heroes of the Soviet Union - Pilot-Cosmonaut of the U.S.S.R. Yuri Gagarin and Colonel-Engineer Vladimir Seregin - at Central House of Soviet Army.30.03.1968#42032
People pay last respects to Heroes of the Soviet Union - Pilot-Cosmonaut of the U.S.S.R. Yuri Gagarin and Colonel-Engineer Vladimir Seregin - at Central House of Soviet Army.30.03.1968#42031
The 1941-1945 Great Patriotic War against Nazi Germany. The funeral of soldiers killed during the Battle of Stalingrad. Reproduction of 1943 photo.03.02.1943#604986
