The 1964 Individual and Team Soviet Athletics Championships, Central Stadium in Kiev, August 27-30, 1964. Soviet track-and-field athlete Niliya Kulkova during the 100 m hurdles event.27.08.1964#6029074
Granite, a Soviet trotter, has won the People's Friendship Cup during the Grand All-Union derby competitions at the Central Moscow Raceway.01.08.1964#6053943
Four-time Olympic champion in speedskating Lidiya Skoblikova (Innsbruck). Reproduction of a photo by AP.01.02.1964#701477
Olympic champions skiers Alevtina Kolchina, Yevdokiya Mekshilo and Klavdiya Boyarskikh. They won a 3x5 km relay race at the 9th Winter Olympics.31.01.1964#555974
9th Winter Olympics in Innsbruck, Austria, January 29 - February 9, 1964. Speed-skater Lidia Skoblikova, an all-around Olympic champion.29.01.1964#5697224
9th Winter Olympics in Innsbruck, Austria, January 29 - February 9, 1964. Speed-skater Lidia Skoblikova with fans.29.01.1964#5697222
9th Winter Olympics in Innsbruck, Austria, January 29 - February 9, 1964. Speed-skater Lidia Skoblikova during a race.29.01.1964#5697219
Soviet skier and Merited Master of Sports of the USSR Alevtina Kolchina during a training session.01.01.1964#5864752
Viktor Kosichkin, Soviet speed skater, Merited Master of Sports of the USSR and member of the Soviet national speed skating team, on the track.01.01.1964#5864751
Third Summer Spartakiad of the Peoples of the USSR. Soviet athletes Ludmila Samotyosova (hands the baton) and Maria Itkina during the 4x200 m relay race.18.08.1963#2602851
Swimmer Alexander Paramonov, who won the 200m freestyle race at the Third Spartakiad of the Peoples of the USSR.15.08.1963#689801
Bicyclist Gaynan Saydzukhin, champion of the Third Summer Spartakiad of the Peoples of the USSR.10.08.1963#689803
Tupolev Tu-95 Soviet turboprop-powered strategic bomber and missile platforms of the USSR Air Force.01.08.1963#5603852
Soviet athlete Igor Novikov, Merited Master of Sports of the USSR, four-time world champion, Olympic champion in modern pentathlon, during a competition.01.07.1963#2639522
Soviet athlete Vera Mukhanova (No.6) leading in a 800 m race. Lenin Central Stadium (Luzhniki). Track and Field Athletics Championships for RSFSR, Poland and GDR.01.07.1963#689808
International track-and-field competitions for prizes of Pravda newspaper. Participants in an 800 meter race take off.01.05.1963#6187473
Soviet runners Edvin Ozolins, left, and Amin Tuyakov, foreground, finishing a 200m race.01.03.1963#686631
Soviet speed-skater Viktor Kosichkin won the 1960 Winter Olympics n Squaw Valley and the 1960 Classic All-Round Competitions in Moscow.12.12.1962#6162845
Crew members of MI-6 helicopter who set four world speed records of flying with and without load at various distances during one flight on September 11, 1962. From left to right: helicopter commander Vasily Koloshenko,second pilot Gurgen Karapetyan, radio operator Stanislav Ivanov, board-engineer Vyacheslav Scherbin and navigator Semen Klepikov12.10.1962#609972
USSR Track and Field Athletics Championship. August 11-13, 1972. Vladimir Lenin Central Stadium. Winner in the 5,000 m race Pyotr Bolotnikov during an award ceremony.11.08.1962#5770458
Members of the Antarctic expedition Moscow-Mir (peace) to Antarctica. Commanders of aircraft IL-18 A.S. Polyakov and of the AN-10, B.S. Osipov.01.02.1962#736433
Members of the Antarctic expedition Moscow-Mir (peace) to Antarctica. Commanders of aircraft (from left): the IL-18 A.S. Polyakov, and the AN-10, B.S. Osipov. (The map shows the route taken by the pilots in their aircraft, via New Zealand.)01.02.1962#736432
Members of the Antarctic expedition Moscow-Mir (peace) to Antarctica. The commanders of aircraft IL-18 A.S. Polyakov and the AN-10 B.S. Osipov minutes after landing in Moscow.01.01.1962#736431
Soviet athlete Pyotr Bolotnikov (first left) winning the 5000m race at the Brothers Znamensky Memorial international track and field meet.16.07.1961#686134
Lidiya Skoblikova, Soviet speedskater and two-time Olympic champion (Squaw Valley, 1960) in 1,500 m and 3,000 m.25.03.1960#6376845
V.Rakhmanov, Master of Sports of the USSR, at the start of the 400 m race. USSR Track and Field Championship at Komsomol Stadium on July 19-21, 1958. Estornian SSR.19.07.1959#3324813
The Brothers Znamensky Memorial. The Central Lenin Stadium. July 4-5, 1959. Women's 800 meters race.04.07.1959#3325023
Edward Lorent, holder of plenty of national records, on the point of starting a race car of his design, to run a heat in which one of his records was established24.05.1959#180875
Soviet sportsman, distance runner Vladimir Kuts, who won the 5000m at the 1954 European Championships in Berne.01.06.1957#105552
First USSR Summer Spartakiade (August 5-16, 1956) in Moscow. Vladimir Lenin Central Stadium (now Big Sports Arena at the Luzhniki Olympic Center). USSR champion Vasily Vlasenko during a men's 3,000 m hurdling.12.08.1956#6402960
The First USSR Summer Spartakiade in Moscow (August 5-16, 1956). Vladimir Lenin Central Stadium (now Big Sports Arena of the Luzhniki Olympic Center), Moscow. Boris Tokarev (1) wins a 100 m race.25.07.1956#6397335
Women's world Allround Speed Skating champion in Kvarnsveden, Sweden, Soviet skate runner, Merited Master of Sports of the USSR Sofya Kondakova, the winners of the championship.05.02.1956#5815809
Speed skater Boris Shilkov, world champion, Olympic champion and Merited Master of Sports of the USSR, on the rink.17.02.1954#675882
The Great Patriotic War of 1941-1945. Camels which covered the distance from Stalingrad to Berlin. 1945.12.07.1945#611521
The Great Patriotic War of 1941-1945. Armored cars which covered the distance from Caucasus to Berlin at Reichstag. 194501.05.1945#611518
The Tupolev ANT-37 Rodina (Motherland) crew. Heroes of the Soviet Union Marina Raskova, Valentina Grizodubova and Polina Osipenko, left to right, who made a record-breaking non-stop flight from Moscow to the Far East on September 24-25, 1938.04.11.1939#5669511
Soviet track-and-field athlete, long-distance runner, prize winner of several USSR championships Serafim Znamensky.14.06.1935#5633682
Soviet track-and-field athlete, long-distance runner, prize winner of several USSR championships Georgy Znamensky.14.06.1935#5633681
Spectators at the 1st Olympic Games in Athens (1896 ) hail the winners in the 40-kilometer race. 01.08.1896#56140
