Sinkhole collapse over one meter wide and 3 meters deep next to a condominium on Leningradsky Prospect (Avenue), Moscow.29.10.2009#491382
Tunnel of abandoned Kholtoson mine in Buryatia's Zakamensky District where illegal tungsten-ore producers perished. 23.10.2007#169905
Tunnel of abandoned Kholtoson mine in Buryatia's Zakamensky District where illegal tungsten-ore producers perished.23.10.2007#169904
Twenty-five people were killed and 39 were rescued as a result of the fire that broke out in a shaft of the Vershino-Darsunsky mine, Chita Region. 09.09.2006#133762
Twenty-five people were killed and 39 were rescued as a result of the fire that broke out in a shaft of the Vershino-Darsunsky mine, Chita Region. 09.09.2006#133761
A photo from the series "The People of Russia's underground." Preparations are underway for an amateur art performers' competition at Prokopyevskugol company. An exhibition stock photo.06.02.2005#6705031
A photo from the series "The People of Russia's underground." A miner at Voroshilov mine, Prokopyevskugol company, is seen here after his shift. An exhibition stock photo.06.02.2005#6705011
A photo from the series "The People of Russia's underground." Dzerzinsky mine miners of Prokopyevskugol company are in Zenkovsky park with their family celebrating the completion of the year's coal extraction program ahead of schedule. An exhibition stock photo.06.02.2005#6704932
A photo from the series "The People of Russia's underground." Miners of Kyrgaiskaya mine, Rosa-Kuzbass company, return from their shift. An exhibition stock photo.06.02.2005#6704878
A photo from the series "The People of Russia's underground." Miners of Kyrgaiskaya mine, Rosa-Kuzbass company. An exhibition stock photo.06.02.2005#6704832
A photo from the series "The People of Russia's underground." Miners of Kyrgaiskaya mine, Rosa-Kuzbass company, seen after their shift. An exhibition stock photo.06.02.2005#6704819
A miner of Kyrgaiskaya mine, Rosa-Kuzbass company, is seen here in the locker room. An exhibition stock photo.06.02.2005#6704813
A photo from the series "The People of Russia's underground." Mibners of Kyrgaiskaya mine, Rosa-Kuzbass company, seen here in the locker room after their shift. An exhibition stock photo.06.02.2005#6704799
A photo from the series "The People of Russia's underground." QA miner of Taldinskaya-South mine, Rosa-Kuzbass company, during a lunch break. An exhibition stock photo.06.02.2005#6704784
A photo from the series "The People of Russia's underground." A miner of the Voroshilov mine, Prokopyevskugol cmopany, is seen here after his shift. An exhibition stock photo.06.02.2005#6704781
A photo from the series "The People of Russia's underground." Kyrgaiskaya mine of Rosa-Kuzbass company. An exhibition stock photo.06.02.2005#6704768
Putting out a fire at the US Embassy in the USSR, caused by a short circuit in the elevator shaft.28.03.1991#8227736
Putting out a fire at the US Embassy in the USSR, caused by a short circuit in the elevator shaft.28.03.1991#8227732
The concept of Kolyma as a region was formed in the 1920s and 1930s, first due to the discovery of deposits of gold and other valuable resources in the basin of the Kolyma River, and then, during the mass repressions in 1932-1953, as a location of labor camps with extremely hard living and working conditions. Shaft workers of the Karamkensky mine play cards during a break. Karamken, Khasynsky District of the Magadan Region.09.01.1990#6727225
The Valdai Little Bell exhibition at the Valdai Regional History Museum, now the Valdai Bells Museum. photo: An 1813 die-cast little shaft-bow bell.01.01.1989#6638949
The decoration of the Holy Trinity Church (1833–1838) built under the project of O.I. Bove. The St. Daniel's Stauropegial Monastery.01.07.1988#529060
Grodno Cardan Shaft Plant (now Belcard), Belarusian SSR. Left: Director of the enterprise Vladimir Osipok and blacksmith Anatoly Artemov in one of the workshops of the plant.30.10.1985#8798358
From right: Minister of Coal Industry of the Ukrainian SSR Nikolai Grinko speaks to mine overseer Ivan Strelchenko at Trudovskaya Coal Mine in the Trudovskoye locality of Petrovsky District in the city of Donetsk, Ukrainian SSR.17.05.1985#8964714
Trudovskaya Coal Mine in the Trudovskoye locality of Petrovsky District in the city of Donetsk, Ukrainian SSR.17.05.1985#8964730
3rd from left: Ivan Strelchenko, two-time Hero of Socialist Labor and deputy of the Supreme Soviet of the USSR, meets with students of Vocational Training College No. 93 at Trudovskaya Coal Mine in the Trudovskoye locality of Petrovsky District in the city of Donetsk, Ukrainian SSR.17.05.1985#8964727
Trudovskaya Coal Mine in the Trudovskoye locality of Petrovsky District in the city of Donetsk, Ukrainian SSR.17.05.1985#8964719
Ivan Strelchenko, mine overseer, two-time Hero of Socialist Labor, and deputy of the Supreme Soviet of the USSR.17.05.1985#8964723
Miners in action at Trudovskaya Coal Mine in the Trudovskoye locality of Petrovsky District in the city of Donetsk, Ukrainian SSR.17.05.1985#8964721
A training session in the free-style wrestling club in the Trudovskoye locality of Petrovsky District in the city of Donetsk, Ukrainian SSR.17.05.1985#8964720
Miners of Trudovskaya Coal Mine in the Trudovskoye locality of Petrovsky District in the city of Donetsk, Ukrainian SSR.17.05.1985#8964718
V. Chelobitnikov, the foreman of Section 5 at Trudovskaya Coal Mine in the Trudovskoye locality of Petrovsky District in Donetsk, Ukrainian SSR.17.05.1985#8964716
Smolenskaya Nuclear Power Plant under construction on the right bank of the Desnogorskoye Reservoir.01.03.1984#8374349
Construction of the Frishter Kolyma hydroelectric power plant on the Kolyma River. Construction of a transport tunnel.01.01.1984#8395936
A reproduction of the lacquer miniature "Visiting Lenin" by M. Chizhov. Oil on papier-mache box. Fedoskino.01.01.1983#545095
Moscow Likhachev Automotive Plant - ZIL manufacturing association. A laser machine tool with a control panel for welding ZIL truck driveshafts.01.01.1982#6675510
A monument to Russian poet Alexander Pushkin in Pushkin Garden near the Smolensk fortress wall, in the Lopatinsky Garden city park. The unveiling of the bronze bust took place on May 30, 1976. Design by sculptor E. F. Belashova, and architects Trubaev and Soosar.03.10.1981#8173795
Kopytenskaya gate tower of the fortress wall of the Smolensk Kremlin in the Lopatinsky Garden park.03.10.1981#8173789
The Ukrainian SSR. Photo: A workshop of the Kirov Turbine Plant Production Association, now Turboatom, in Kharkov.02.02.1979#5815698
Uralkali Combine, the largest producer of potassium worldwide. The Verkhnekamskoye potassium salt deposit. Head of a mining team Konstantin Khapantsev examines a mine opening.07.07.1976#5515964
The Kazakh Soviet Socialist Republic. Dzhezkazgan ore-processing works named after Kanysh Satpayev. Copper ore extraction from a mine.23.05.1975#5508801
The Ukrainian SSR. Photo: A workshop of the Kharkov Turbine Generator Plant, now Turboatom Co.22.06.1973#5981187
The Dzerzhinski Cotton Plant "Tryokhgornaya Manufactory" is Moscow's textiles plant, a large producer of jacquard, cotton, linen fabrics and various garments. Adjusting the weaver loom.01.03.1973#2753064
Assembly of a close-coupled turbine with capacity of 800,000 KV at the Slavyansk State District Power Plant. City of Nikolayevka, Ukraine.01.12.1971#417617
Moscow Stud No.1. An exhibition heat of a Russian troika (three horses harnessed abreast). 1971.01.09.1971#734044
View of thermal power station Grozavesti built with technical assistance of the USSR.01.07.1971#575605
View of thermal power station Grozavesti built with technical assistance of the USSR.01.07.1971#575604
