Team captains Vladimir Plotnikov, left, deputy head of the agro-industrial deputy group, and Matti Saarinen, vice-speaker of the Finnish parliament, at the Izmailovo stadium for a football match between the State Duma and Finnish Parliament teams.17.05.2003#809342
The Finnish Parliament team at the Izmailovo stadium in a football match against the Russian State Duma team.17.05.2003#809341
Deputy Chairman of the Board of the Association of Estonian Big Business Aaadu Luukas at a news cionference.01.02.2003#812470
Georgian President Eduard Shevardnadze, right, at a summit of the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe, in Istanbul.18.11.1999#443836
Georgian President Eduard Shevardnadze, third from right, at a summit of the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe, in Istanbul.18.11.1999#443833
Georgian President Eduard Shevardnadze, left, at a summit of the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe, Istanbul. Photo courtesy of Nino Meliya.18.11.1999#443810
Georgian President Eduard Shevardnadze, right, visiting Japan. Photo courtesy of Nino Meliya.11.03.1999#444444
Georgian President Eduard Shevardnadze (born in 1928), left, on a visit to Turkmenistan, and the country's President Saparmurat Niyazov (1940-2006). Photo courtesy of Nino Meliya.05.12.1997#442639
Pennant with the emblem of the Commonwealth of Independent States, symbolizing the desire for equal partnership, unity, peace and stability. Approved March 13, 1994. Designed by Alexander Grigoryev.09.11.1997#8441440
Georgian President Eduard Shevardnadze (born in 1928), right, on a visit to Armenia, and Armenian President Levon Ter-Petrosian (born in 1945). Photo courtesy of Nino Meliya.02.09.1997#442584
Legendary football player, merited coach of the Georgian SSR Slava Metreveli at home.01.06.1997#1178687
Three-mast 46-gun man-of-war Krepost [Fortress], one of the first built on orders from Tsar Peter the Great. 05.03.1996#146120
German coach Sepp Maier (second left) and Georgian fullback Murtazi Sheliya at a qualification match of the European Football Championship, Georgia vs. Germany. 1995. Germany won, 2-0.29.03.1995#1188417
From left: Leo Lindalom, a goodwill ambassador of the Lions Club International Charter, and Yevgeny Ozhiganov, President of the First Russian Lions Family Club, at the opening ceremony in Moscow.01.03.1992#8151878
A pennant issued for the football match between the world team and the Dynamo Moscow team, which took place on August 10, 1989, on the 60th birthday of the world's best goalkeeper, Olympic champion (Melbourne, 1956), European champion, winner of the Golden Ball Lev Yashin.09.08.1989#6556146
Participants of the summer feast of Ingrian Finns held near the village of Koltushi.24.06.1989#468130
A family of field hockey enthusiasts getting ready for a game. Lithuanian Soviet Socialist Republic.04.06.1988#6565113
The Kyrgyz SSR. Young people date each other during the Catch a Girl popular equestrian game.07.03.1988#5806152
Students at the Yerevan children's aesthetic center during a class at the Obsedian young geologists' hobby group. Armenian SSR.01.03.1988#760234
Haiphong Dockers Cup of the Socialist Republic of Vietnam in the Odessa seaport of the Ukrainian SSR.10.09.1987#8356323
Samples of pennants of the production association of the Kama Tractor Plant, Tatar Autonomous Soviet Socialist Republic.08.08.1986#8334997
Competitors and honorary guests of the first Goodwill Games on Googwill Alley in Olympic stadium Luzhniki.15.07.1986#484733
Goodwill Games, July 5-20, 1986. Druzhba Sports Center. The captains of the teams exchange pennants ahead of the women's basketball match USSR vs. Brazil. The USSR won 77 - 72.09.07.1986#6460244
Pennant of the Polish city of Elblag on the desk of an employee of the Kaliningrad sewing production association.06.07.1985#8827013
The collection of athletic prizes and awards at the Krasnogvardeisky breeding collective farm in the Krasnodar Territory.22.05.1985#8357079
The 50th Ice Hockey World Championship and 61st Ice Hockey European Championship 1985 in Prague, Czechoslovakia (April 17 - May 3). Match between the USSR and Sweden national teams in the Prague Sports Hall. Before the start of the hockey match, players greet each other.23.04.1985#8783722
A meeting of religious figures from the USSR and members of the US Christian delegation in the Ecclesiastical Academy's church in Zagorsk.01.06.1984#473930
I. Petrova, a student from the Bulgarian People's Republic at the Rostov-on-Don State Pedagogical Institute, now Rostov State Pedagogical University, with school students at the International Friendship Club of School No. 36.09.05.1982#6717277
Afghan Young Pioneers take part in a festive procession on the occasion of the second anniversary of the April Revolution.27.04.1980#1222240
Communist Saturday cleaning day workers in Kabul, Democratic Republic of Afghanistan.22.04.1980#1164342
Family of rolling mill operator at the Kuznetsk Metallurgical Combine Anatoly Korolenko with a pennant received during the Best Athletic Family competition.01.05.1979#489978
Veteran football players from the CSKA Football Club and Armenia hold a friendly match on the field of the CSKA Football and Athletics Complex. Photo: A traditional exchange of pennants before the game.15.03.1979#8157468
The medals won by the USSR Honored Master of Sports, European swimming champion in the 100 and 200 meters breaststroke, Leningrad schoolgirl Yulia Bogdanova.02.02.1978#844130
The room where Polish construction workers Yuzek Khoinski and Cheslav Voznyak live while working on the Polish section of the Orenburg-Western Border of the USSR international gas pipeline.01.03.1977#863492
The International Exhibition "Equipment for the Olympics". Souvenirs of the previous Olympic Games on display at the Exhibition of National Economic Achievements, Moscow. September 1976.15.09.1976#840451
Welding of the friendship joint of the gas pipeline Orenburg - Western border of the USSR. On GDR side Hans Lesman, on the side of the Soviet Union - Mikhail Borsch.01.09.1976#661269
Philosophy students of the Lomonosov Moscow State University coming to a shock labor Komsomol project - the construction of the Zeya hydroelectric power station.01.08.1976#496335
Mongolian Minister of Culture Ts. Namsarai, center, presenting the staff of the First State Bearing Factory with a commemorative pennant during the Days of Mongolian culture in the USSR.10.06.1976#790991
Welding the Friendship joint. The Orenburg - Western Border of the USSR Gas Pipeline.01.06.1976#643232
Signing the "Agreement on status, operation and maintenance of surface passage of the Afghanistan-USSR gas pipeline across the Amu-Darya" at the State Committee of the USSR Council of Ministers by the USSR government and the government of the Republic of Afghanistan. Nur Ahmad Ettemadi, Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary Ambassador of the Republic of Afghanistan to the USSR, and Iliodor Kuliev, Deputy Chairman of the State Committee for Foreign Economic Relations at the USSR Council of Ministers.11.05.1976#730961
The delegation of the Finnish Communist Party that participated in the 25th congress of the CPSU aboard cruiser Aurora, Leningrad.01.03.1976#824872
President of the International Gymnastics Federation Yuri Titov by the shelf with trophies won by him at the European and USSR gymnastics championships.01.02.1976#870028
![PETER THE GREAT SHIP KREPOST [FORTRESS]](https://img.sputnikimages.com/images/vol1%2Fmedia%2Foriginal%2Fold%2F14%2F61%2F146120_hires_0%3A0%3A0%3A0_550x550_80_0_1_146120-eng_sputnik-146120-tn_1830d2519833df002adcb4d76a0c14c6.jpg "Three-mast 46-gun man-of-war Krepost [Fortress], one of the first built on orders from Tsar Peter the Great. Location: Russia. Author: RIA Novosti/Sputnik.")
