Meeting of the Standing Commission of the Council for Mutual Economic Assistance (CMEA) on Cooperation in Foreign Trade. Minister of Foreign Trade of the German Democratic Republic Yulius Balkov (left) signs a protocol of the meeting.02.04.1963#6185614
Burma, now Myanmar. Under the 1962 Soviet-Burmese Treaty, the Soviet Union provided Burma with loans for building a dam and a reservoir in Chemoltau and an irrigation system in the Mu River valley and in Titso and also sent its specialists and equipment there. This artificial lake formed after a dam was built in Chemoltau.20.02.1963#6173439
Burma, now Myanmar. Under the 1962 Soviet-Burmese Treaty, the Soviet Union provided Burma with loans for building a dam and a reservoir in Chemoltau and an irrigation system in the Mu River valley and in Titso and also sent its specialists and equipment there. A huge reservoir will appear here after a dam, designed by Soviet engineers, is completed in Chemoltau.20.02.1963#6173436
Burma, now Myanmar. Under the 1962 Soviet-Burmese Treaty, the Soviet Union provided Burma with loans for building a dam and a reservoir in Chemoltau and an irrigation system in the Mu River valley and in Titso and also sent its specialists and equipment there. Building a dam in Chemoltau, designed by Soviet engineers.20.02.1963#6173434
Burma, now Myanmar. Under the 1962 Soviet-Burmese Treaty, the Soviet Union provided Burma with loans for building a dam and a reservoir in Chemoltau and an irrigation system in the Mu River valley and in Titso and also sent its specialists and equipment there. A section of an irrigation system, designed with the help of Soviet engineers.20.02.1963#6173433
Burma, now Myanmar. Under the 1962 Soviet-Burmese Treaty, the Soviet Union provided Burma with loans for building a dam and a reservoir in Chemoltau and an irrigation system in the Mu River valley and in Titso and also sent its specialists and equipment there. Building a dam, designed by Soviet engineers, in Chemoltau.20.02.1963#6173431
Ambassador of Japan to the USSR Hisanari Yamada, left, and Minister of Foreign Trade of the USSR Nikolai Patolichev, right, before the ceremony to sign the Agreement on Trade between the USSR and Japan.18.01.1963#6170350
A visit by a governmental delegation of the United Arab Republic to the USSR. Deputy Minister of Foreign Trade of the USSR Pavel Kumykin, right, and head of the delegation of the United Arab Republic, A.M.Kayeuni, sign a trade agreement between the USSR and UAR.01.07.1962#5684059
Treaty on the Creation of the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (USSR) approved by the first congress of the USSR Soviets on December 30, 1922, and passed by the second congress of the USSR Soviets on January 31, 1924.29.03.1962#5744849
Chairman of the Soviet Union's Supreme Soviet Presidium Leonid Brezhnev (foreground right) and Ghana's President Kwame Nkrumah (foreground, second left) signing a joint communiqué in Moscow.24.07.1961#416110
First Deputy Minister of Foreign Trade of the USSR, Ivan Semichastnov, and Deputy Minister of Foreign Trade of the DPRK, Kim Hyun Guk, after singing the Protocol on Trade Turnover between the USSR and the DPRK, 1961.06.07.1961#2319189
Chairman of USSR Council of Ministers Nikolai Bulganin and Prime minister of Japan Ichiro Hatoyama during signing The Joint declaration between the USSR and Japan. Moscow's Kremlin, October 19, 1956. Reproduction.19.10.1956#818561
Launching direct passenger trains connecting the capitals of the Soviet Union and the People's Republic of China. January 31, 1954. The first train departs from the Yaroslavsky Railway Station in Moscow.31.01.1954#8434031
The Great Patriotic War of 1941-1945. The Yalta Conference, February 4-11, 1945, a meeting where the three leaders of the anti-Hitler coalition, the USSR, the United States and Great Britain, made important decisions regarding the postwar world. Members of delegations, navy officers from the US and Britain touring the sites of recent fierce fighting on Malakhov Kurgan Mound in Sevastopol.09.11.1945#8571935
The Great Patriotic War of 1941-1945. The Yalta Conference, February 4-11, 1945, a meeting where the three leaders of the anti-Hitler coalition, the USSR, the United States and Great Britain, made important decisions regarding the postwar world. Members of the conference delegations, navy officers from the United States and Great Britain, visiting the Museum-Reserve of the Heroic Defense and Liberation of Sevastopol. The delegation participants examining an defense gun from the Crimean War of 1853-1855.09.11.1945#8571523
Great Patriotic War 1941-1945. Former head of the German Armed Forces High Command Wilhelm Keitel signs unconditional surrender of the German army, May 9, 1945.09.05.1945#5821005
The Great Patriotic War of 1941-1145 Signing the instrument for Germany's unconditional surrender. Center: Marshal of the Soviet Union Georgy Zhukov a representative of the Red Army's Supreme Command, opens the ceremony of signing the instrument for Germany's unconditional surrender. Attending the signing ceremony from left: Admiral Sir Harold Burrough, Allied Naval Commander-in-Chief, Expeditionary Force (ANXF), Political Counselor Andrei Vyshinsky, Arthur Tedder, Deputy Supreme Commander at the Supreme Headquarters Allied Expeditionary Force and Commander of the Royal Air Force, Marshal of the Soviet Union Georgy Zhukov a representative of the Red Army's Supreme Command and General Carl Spaatz, Commander of US Strategic Air Forces in Europe. The Officers' Club at the former Karlshorst Combat Engineers School. The surrender instrument was signed on May 8, 1945, 22:43 Central European Time (May 9,1945, 0:43 Moscow Time).08.05.1945#6355891
The Great Patriotic War of 1941-1945. The Yalta Conference, February 4-11, 1945, a meeting where the three leaders of the anti-Hitler coalition, the USSR, the United States and Great Britain, made important decisions regarding the postwar world. After the conference, British Prime Minister Winston Churchill and the British officers accompanying him visited the English Military Cemetery, the resting place of British soldiers and officers who fought in the Crimean War of 1854-1855, including Churchill's ancestors,the Dukes of Marlborough. Winston Churchill at the tomb of an unknown man.13.02.1945#8572108
The Great Patriotic War of 1941-1945. The Yalta Conference, February 4-11, 1945, a meeting where the three leaders of the anti-Hitler coalition, the USSR, the United States and Great Britain, made important decisions regarding the postwar world. After the Yalta Conference, British Prime Minister Winston Churchill (center) and British officers accompanying him visited Balaklava and Sevastopol to monuments related to the Crimean War. The British delegation on the seafront of Balaklava.13.02.1945#8571893
Great Patriotic War, 1941-1945. Yalta Conference of the leaders of the three countries of the anti-Hitler coalition of the USSR, US and Great Britain (February 4-11, 1945), dedicated to the establishment of the postwar world order. Members of the British delegation during a visit to Sapun Mountain in Sevastopol. Center: British Prime Minister Winston Churchill on Sapun Mountain listens to an English officer's explanations about the Battle of Balaklava in 1854.09.02.1945#8570471
Great Patriotic War, 1941-1945. Yalta Conference of the leaders of the three countries of the anti-Hitler coalition of the USSR, US and Great Britain (February 4-11, 1945), dedicated to the establishment of the post-war world order. Members of the conference delegations, naval sailors from the US and Great Britain during a visit to the Malakhov Kurgan in Sevastopol.09.02.1945#8570206
The Great Patriotic War of 1941-1945. The Yalta Conference, February 4-11, 1945, a meeting where the three leaders of the anti-Hitler coalition, the USSR, the United States and Great Britain, made important decisions regarding the postwar world. US and British navy officers who participated in the conference visiting the Panorama at the Defense of Sevastopol 1854-1855 Museum on Istorichesky Boulevard in Sevastopol.09.02.1945#8572157
The Great Patriotic War of 1941-1945. The Yalta Conference, February 4-11, 1945, a meeting where the three leaders of the anti-Hitler coalition, the USSR, the United States and Great Britain, made important decisions regarding the postwar world. Members of the delegations accompanying the conference participants, navy officers from the US and Britain examining a German tank hit during a street battle in Sevastopol.09.02.1945#8571805
The Great Patriotic War of 1941-1945. The Yalta Conference, February 4-11, 1945, a meeting where the three leaders of the anti-Hitler coalition, the USSR, the United States and Great Britain, made important decisions regarding the postwar world. Conference participants, US officers visiting the Black Sea Fleet cruiser Voroshilov in Sevastopol's South Bay.06.02.1945#8570295
The Great Patriotic War of 1941-1945. The Yalta Conference, February 4-11, 1945, a meeting where the three leaders of the anti-Hitler coalition, the USSR, the United States and Great Britain, made important decisions regarding the postwar world. Conference participants, US and British officers visiting the Black Sea Fleet cruiser Voroshilov in Sevastopol's South Bay. The delegation members examining the cruiser's radio antenna systems.06.02.1945#8571691
The Great Patriotic War of 1941-1945. The Yalta Conference, February 4-11, 1945, a meeting where the three leaders of the anti-Hitler coalition, the USSR, the United States and Great Britain, made important decisions regarding the postwar world. Conference participants, US and British officers examining the Black Sea Fleet cruiser Voroshilov's torpedo equipment in Sevastopol's South Bay.06.02.1945#8571650
The Great Patriotic War of 1941-1945. The Yalta Conference, February 4-11, 1945, a meeting where the three leaders of the anti-Hitler coalition, the USSR, the United States and Great Britain, made important decisions regarding the postwar world. Conference participants, US and British officers visiting the Black Sea Fleet cruiser Voroshilov in Sevastopol's South Bay.06.02.1945#8571621
The Yalta (Crimea) conference of the allied states, the USSR, the USA and Great Britain, on a post-war world order establishment (February 4-11, 1945). Second left, Marshal of the USSR Joseph Vissarionovich Stalin.05.02.1945#3090814
Great Patriotic War, 1941-1945. Yalta Conference of the leaders of the three countries of the anti-Hitler coalition of the USSR, USA and Great Britain (February 4-11, 1945), dedicated to the establishment of the post-war world order. Meeting of the heads of allied countries at the Saki military airfield near Simferopol. People's Commissar for Foreign Affairs of the USSR Vyacheslav Molotov (second left), British Prime Minister Winston Churchill (second right) and US President Franklin Roosevelt (ninth right) during the performance of national anthems at Saki airport.04.02.1945#8570361
Great Patriotic War, 1941-1945. Yalta Conference of the leaders of the three countries of the anti-Hitler coalition of the USSR, US and Great Britain (February 4-11, 1945), dedicated to the establishment of the post-war world order. Meeting of the heads of allied countries at the Saki military airfield near Simferopol. Passing the guard of honor in front of the conference participants.04.02.1945#8570242
The Great Patriotic War of 1941-1945. The Yalta Conference, February 4-11, 1945, a meeting where the three leaders of the anti-Hitler coalition, the USSR, the United States and Great Britain, made important decisions regarding the postwar world. A welcome ceremony for the foreign delegations at Saki Airport outside Simferopol.04.02.1945#8572188
Great Patriotic War, 1941-1945. Yalta Conference of the Heads of Government of the Three Allied Powers. February 4-11, 1945. Vyacheslav Molotov, Andrei Vyshinsky and others arrived at the Simferopol airfield for a meeting of the leaders of the USSR, USA and Great Britain. Center: Vyacheslav Molotov talks with Admiral of the USSR Fleet Nikolai Kuznetsov, right.04.02.1945#8570176
The Great Patriotic War of 1941-1945. The Yalta Conference, February 4-11, 1945, a meeting where the three leaders of the anti-Hitler coalition, the USSR, the United States and Great Britain, made important decisions regarding the postwar world. Welcome ceremony for the heads of allied countries at the Saki military airfield outside Simferopol. US President Franklin D. Roosevelt during the national anthems at Saki.04.02.1945#8571740
The Great Patriotic War of 1941-1945. The Yalta Conference, February 4-11, 1945, a meeting where the three leaders of the anti-Hitler coalition, the USSR, the United States and Great Britain, made important decisions regarding the postwar world. After the Yalta Conference, British Prime Minister Winston Churchill (center) and British officers accompanying him visited Balaklava and Sevastopol to monuments related to the Crimean War. The British delegation on the seafront of Balaklava.04.02.1945#8571576
Chairman of the presidium of the Karelo-Finnish SSR's Supreme Soviet Otto Wille Kuusinen (L) meeting with deputy to the Supreme Soviet of the USSR Toivo Antikainen.01.11.1940#415365
Ukrainian collective farmers sign socialist-emulation agreement between their farms at the Agricultural Exhibition in Moscow.01.08.1939#81193
The Munich Agreement. On September 29, 1938, four European heads of state met in Munich: British Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain, French Prime Minister Edouard Daladier, German Chancellor Adolf Hitler, and Italian Prime Minister Benito Mussolini, who agreed to sign an agreement under which a significant part of Czechoslovakia, the Sudetenland, would be transferred to Germany and become German territory. Nazi Foreign Minister Joachim von Ribbentrop, right, shows French Prime Minister Edouard Daladier, second left, where to sign the criminal agreement.30.09.1938#8740455
People's Commissar of food industry Anastas Mikoyan (at the table, right) signs the Franco-Soviet Trade Agreement.20.01.1934#36548
