The All-Army Officers' Assembly in the Kremlin Palace of Congresses. A participant speaks from his seat.16.01.1992#5564717
The All-Army Officers' Assembly in the Kremlin Palace of Congresses. Participants make their way through a picket line.16.01.1992#5564715
The All-Army Officers' Assembly in the Kremlin Palace of Congresses. Participants speak from their seats.16.01.1992#5564714
Moscow. November 7-11, 1991. The commercial ice hockey tournament Million on Ice for the prize of the Alisa Commodity Exchange. From right: Honorary guest Gordie Howe, Canadian professional ice hockey player and four-time Stanley Cup winner, talks to Soviet hockey player Vyacheslav Starshinov, two-time Olympic champion and nine-time world champion.07.11.1991#8608709
The First American Football Championships in the USSR. A final match between the Moscow Swans and Moscow Bears teams at Moscow's Lokomotiv Stadium.29.09.1991#6368250
The First American Football Championships in the USSR. A final match between the Moscow Swans and Moscow Bears teams at Moscow's Lokomotiv Stadium.29.09.1991#6368249
The First American Football Championships in the USSR. A final match between the Moscow Swans and Moscow Bears teams at Moscow's Lokomotiv Stadium.29.09.1991#6368248
The armed conflict between supporters of the first President of Georgia Zviad Gamsakhurdia and government forces in September 1991. Barricades on Rustaveli Avenue in Tbilisi.26.09.1991#8600315
Official events marking the 50th anniversary of the Allied convoy Dervish that delivered strategic war materiel in the Soviet Union on August 31, 1941. Photo: Performing funeral services over the remains of an unknown soldier delivered from a Murmansk Region battle site for burial near the Victory Monument.30.08.1991#8595622
Official events marking the 50th anniversary of the Allied convoy Dervish that delivered strategic war materiel in the Soviet Union on August 31, 1941. Photo: Official ceremony of unveiling a monument to members of Arctic convoys who gave their lives during the Arctic Campaign, part of World War II, in a public square on Leningradskaya Street.29.08.1991#8595623
Official events marking the 50th anniversary of the Allied convoy Dervish that delivered strategic war materiel in the Soviet Union on August 31, 1941. From left: Dervish-91 Convoy Commander Vice Admiral Igor Kasatonov, Deputy Commander of the Soviet Northern Fleet, and Royal Navy rear Admiral Bruce Richardson meet on Krasnaya Pristan (Red Pier).28.08.1991#8595627
Official events marking the 50th anniversary of the Allied convoy Dervish that delivered strategic war materiel in the Soviet Union on August 31, 1941. Photo: World War II veterans from the Soviet Union, the United States and the United Kingdom share their recollections.26.08.1991#8595630
Official events marking the 50th anniversary of the Allied convoy Dervish that delivered strategic war materiel in the Soviet Union on August 31, 1941. Photo: World War II veterans from the Soviet Union, the United States and the United Kingdom share their recollections.26.08.1991#8595629
Official events marking the 50th anniversary of the Allied convoy Dervish that delivered strategic war materiel in the Soviet Union on August 31, 1941. Photo: World War II veterans from the Soviet Union, the United States and the United Kingdom visited the Open-Air Wooden Architecture Museum, no the Maliye Korely Wooden Architecture Museum-Reserve in the Arkhangelsk Region.26.08.1991#8595626
Official events marking the 50th anniversary of the Allied convoy Dervish that delivered strategic war materiel in the Soviet Union on August 31, 1941. Photo: City residents welcome World War II veterans from the Soviet Union, the United States and the United Kingdom on Krasnaya Pristan (Red Pier).26.08.1991#8595625
Official events marking the 50th anniversary of the Allied convoy Dervish that delivered strategic war materiel in the Soviet Union on August 31, 1941. Photo: This London-class heavy cruiser served with long-range escort forces during the Arctic Campaign, part of World War II.26.08.1991#8595624
An extraordinary session of the Supreme Soviet of the RSFSR, convened in connection with an attempted coup in the USSR by members of the State Emergency Committee. Colonel General Konstantin Kobets, appointed to the post of Minister of Defense of the RSFSR, temporarily established on August 20, 1991 until the activities of the constitutional bodies of state power and administration of the USSR were fully restored, during a speech.21.08.1991#8598558
A visit by U.S. Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, Army Gen. Colin Powell, to the USSR. Soviet Minister of Defense Dmitry Yazov, right, and Army Gen. Colin Powell, center, during their meeting.22.07.1991#6536744
A visit by U.S. Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, Army Gen. Colin Powell, to the USSR. From left: Soviet Minister of Foreign Affairs Alexander Bessmertnykh meets with Army Gen. Colin Powell.22.07.1991#6536742
Soviet Defense Minister Marshal Dmitry Yazov, right, and Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Gen. Colin Powell during an official visit.22.07.1991#428677
The first cosmonaut from the Mongolian People's Republic, Hero of the Soviet Union Jugderdemidiin Gurragchaa, second left, the world's first woman cosmonaut Valentina Tereshkova and Major General of Aviation, Pilot and Cosmonaut of the USSR, twice Hero of the Soviet Union Viktor Gorbatko, third right, during a meeting at the Union of Soviet Societies for Friendship and Cultural Relations with Foreign Countries.15.07.1991#6609795
President of the Soviet Union Mikhail Gorbachev tours Alma Ata Cotton Factory while visiting the Kazakh SSR to meet with head of the republic Nursultan Nazarbayev, May 28-30, 1991.29.05.1991#6615611
Participants in the Extreme Ski Orienteering Competition AVENTURE NORDIQUE (NORTH ADVENTURE), organized on the initiative of French athlete Gerard Albare.10.01.1991#8188160
Suzdal residents welcome participants in the Extreme Ski Orienteering Competition AVENTURE NORDIQUE (NORTH ADVENTURE), organized on the initiative of French athlete Gerard Albare.10.01.1991#8187764
The Constituent Kuban Cossack Congress, October 12-14, 1990. Participants of the meeting at a memorial service for the Cossacks in St. Catherine's Cathedral in Krasnodar.12.10.1990#8338830
The Constituent Kuban Cossack Congress, October 12-14, 1990. Archpriest Valentin Mertsev with participants of the congress at a memorial service for the Cossacks in St. Catherine's Cathedral in Krasnodar.12.10.1990#8338829
The Constituent Kuban Cossack Congress, October 12-14, 1990. Participants of the congress with the consecrated tricolor banner of the Kuban Cossacks.12.10.1990#8338827
The Constituent Kuban Cossack Congress, October 12-14, 1990. Participants of the meeting at a memorial service for the Cossacks in St. Catherine's Cathedral in Krasnodar.12.10.1990#8338820
A concert in the Vladivostok port held as part of the meeting of representatives of 26 small peoples of the North and the Far East held in the Primorye Territory in September-October of 1990.01.09.1990#8215917
The Moscow city club of young sailors at the Rybinskoye Reservoir. Summer practice aboard the Saima training ship. Meeting one's friend after a trip.20.08.1990#6674410
A group of Bundeswehr soldiers (West Germany) visits the USSR. Members of the Bundeswehr military delegation (Bundeswehr is armed forces of the Federal Republic of Germany) visited the Ukrainian SSR. Members of the delegation on the main street of Kyiv, Khreshchatyk.06.06.1990#8301140
A group of Bundeswehr soldiers (West Germany) visits the USSR. Members of the Bundeswehr military delegation (Bundeswehr is armed forces of the Federal Republic of Germany) visited the Ukrainian SSR. Members of the delegation in a greenhouse of a Kiev Region collective farm.06.06.1990#8301139
A group of Bundeswehr soldiers (West Germany) visits the USSR. Members of the Bundeswehr military delegation (Bundeswehr is armed forces of the Federal Republic of Germany) visited the Ukrainian SSR. Members of the delegation are greeted in a Kiev Region collective farm.06.06.1990#8301138
A group of Bundeswehr soldiers (West Germany) visits the USSR. Members of the Bundeswehr military delegation (Bundeswehr is armed forces of the Federal Republic of Germany) visited the Ukrainian SSR. German servicemen are visiting a Civil Defense regiment in Kiev.06.06.1990#8301137
A group of Bundeswehr soldiers (West Germany) visits the USSR. Members of the Bundeswehr military delegation (Bundeswehr is armed forces of the Federal Republic of Germany) visited the Ukrainian SSR. German servicemen are visiting a Civil Defense regiment in Kiev.06.06.1990#8301136
Military personnel from the Federal Republic of Germany visit the Moscow Kremlin as part of the delegation's friendly visit to the Soviet Union.03.06.1990#8206851
Military personnel from the Federal Republic of Germany visit the Lyublinskoye Cemetery where German troops are buried as part of the delegation's friendly visit to the Soviet Union.03.06.1990#8206847
Friendly visit of a group of Bundeswehr (FRG) servicemen to the USSR. The delegation of the Bundeswehr (Armed Forces of the Federal Republic of Germany) during a meeting with the Soviet Army.03.06.1990#8816819
A group of Bundeswehr soldiers (West Germany) visits the USSR. Members of the Bundeswehr military delegation (Bundeswehr is armed forces of the Federal Republic of Germany) visited the 4th Guard Tank Kantemirov Division (now named after Andropov) in Naro-Fominsk, Moscow Region. A friendly handshake.03.06.1990#8301125
Military personnel from the Federal Republic of Germany visit the Holy Trinity - St. Sergius Laura in Zagorsk as part of the delegation's friendly visit to the Soviet Union.02.06.1990#8206849
Army General Vladimir Lobov, First Deputy Head of the General Staff of the Soviet Armed Forces and Chief of the Joint Staff of the Armed Forces of Warsaw Treaty Member States. meets with Dutch journalists at Novosti Press Agency.01.06.1990#8416284
Army General Vladimir Lobov, First Deputy Head of the General Staff of the Soviet Armed Forces and Chief of the Joint Staff of the Armed Forces of Warsaw Treaty Member States. meets with Dutch journalists at Novosti Press Agency.01.06.1990#8416283
An English delegation visits the USSR. Princess Anne, daughter of Queen Elizabeth II, is seen talking with representatives of the internal affairs bodies of Kiev, Ukrainian SSR.01.06.1990#8317007
President of the USSR, General Secretary of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union Mikhail Gorbachev on an official visit to the United States that took place on May 30 – June 4, 1990. Mikhail Gorbachev and US President George Bush review the troops at the White House.31.05.1990#2891859
Chief of Staff of the Belgian Armed Forces Lieutenant General Joseph Charlier, center, visits the USSR. The guest is welcomed by the cadets of the the Lenin Komsomol Ryazan Higher Airborne Command Twice Red Banner School (now Margelov Ryazan Guards Higher Airborne Order of Suvorov twice Red Banner Command School). The head of the school, Lieutenant General Albert Slyusar, right.01.02.1990#6670323
Chief of Staff of the Belgian Armed Forces Lieutenant General Joseph Charlier, second right, visits the USSR. During the tour to the the Lenin Komsomol Ryazan Higher Airborne Command Twice Red Banner School (now Margelov Ryazan Guards Higher Airborne Order of Suvorov twice Red Banner Command School). The head of the school, Lieutenant General Albert Slyusar, right, shows classrooms to the guest.01.02.1990#6670322
Chief of Staff of the Belgian Armed Forces Lieutenant General Joseph Charlier, center, visits the USSR. During the tour to the the Lenin Komsomol Ryazan Higher Airborne Command Twice Red Banner School (now Margelov Ryazan Guards Higher Airborne Order of Suvorov twice Red Banner Command School). A hand-to-hand combat training in the school gym.01.02.1990#6670321
Chief of Staff of the Belgian Armed Forces Lieutenant General Joseph Charlier, second right, visits the USSR. During the tour to the the Lenin Komsomol Ryazan Higher Airborne Command Twice Red Banner School (now Margelov Ryazan Guards Higher Airborne Order of Suvorov twice Red Banner Command School). The head of the school, Lieutenant General Albert Slyusar, second right, shows classrooms to the guest.01.02.1990#6670320
Chief of Staff of the Belgian Armed Forces Lieutenant General Joseph Charlier, second right, visits the USSR. During the tour to the the Lenin Komsomol Ryazan Higher Airborne Command Twice Red Banner School (now Margelov Ryazan Guards Higher Airborne Order of Suvorov twice Red Banner Command School). The head of the school, Lieutenant General Albert Slyusar gives a souvenir to the guest.01.02.1990#6670319
The first visit of naval ships of the Federal Republic of Germany to Leningrad, October 13-16, 1989. The military delegation of the Federal Republic of Germany during the flower-laying ceremony at the monument to victims of the Siege of Leningrad and soldiers of the Leningrad Front at Piskaryovskoye Memorial Cemetery.13.10.1989#8168409
The first visit of naval ships of the Federal Republic of Germany, headed by Admiral Hans-Rudolf Boehmer, to Leningrad, October 13-16, 1989. The military delegation of the Federal Republic of Germany, headed by Admiral Hans-Rudolf Boehmer, six on the right, tours Frunze Higher Naval School (now St. Petersburg Naval Institute).13.10.1989#8168408
The first visit of naval ships of the Federal Republic of Germany to Leningrad, October 13-16, 1989. The military delegation of the Federal Republic of Germany during the flower-laying ceremony at the Eternal Flame memorial at Piskaryovskoye Memorial Cemetery.13.10.1989#8168407
The first visit of naval ships of the Federal Republic of Germany to Leningrad, October 13-16, 1989. Center: Admiral Hans-Rudolf Boehmer, head of the military delegation of the Federal Republic of Germany, during the flower-laying ceremony at the monument to victims of the Siege of Leningrad and soldiers of the Leningrad Front at Piskaryovskoye Memorial Cemetery.13.10.1989#8168406
The first visit of naval ships of the Federal Republic of Germany, led by Admiral Hans-Rudolf Boehmer, to Leningrad, October 13-16, 1989. The military delegation of the Federal Republic of Germany headed by Admiral Hans-Rudolf Boehmer, center, tours Frunze Higher Naval School (now St. Petersburg Naval Institute).13.10.1989#8168405
Visit of a detachment of US Navy ships to Sevastopol from August 4 to 8, 1989. A US Navy soldier at a meeting with residents of Sevastopol05.08.1989#8371453
US Navy ships call at Sevastopol, Ukrainian SSR, on August 4-8, 1989. Greeting American sailors in the port.04.08.1989#8207659
US Navy ships call at Sevastopol, Ukrainian SSR, on August 4-8, 1989. American sailors walk around the city.04.08.1989#8207656