African students at a reading hall of the Patrice Lumumba Peoples' Friendship University.10.04.1963#2556081
Practical classes at School of of Industrial and Applied Arts in Yuzhno-Sakhalinsk, now Sakhalin College of Arts.24.03.1963#6178408
Postcard collector and art critic Nikolai Tagrin (1907-1981), a member of the Union of Soviet Artists and Head of the Leningrad Club of Postcard Collectors, did his best to popularize postcards.14.01.1963#6165752
Zoya Markelova, a part time student of the polytechnic university in Cheboksary, is a member of the city's library council.01.10.1962#670613
Art critic Nikolai Tagrin (1907-1981) was a member of the Union of USSR artists. he collected and popularized postcards and also headed the Leningrad Club of Postcard Collectors.01.07.1962#5683991
The building of Saltykov-Shchedrin State Public Library (now National Library of Russia), designed by architects Yegor Sokolov, Carlo Rossi and Yevgraf Vorotilov between 1796-1801.01.07.1962#5770489
Gnessin Music Pedagogical Institute (today's Gnessin Russian Academy of Music). The music library's reading room.17.03.1962#5678925
The Yamal-Nenets National Area of the Tyumen Region. Zoya Salinder, a resident of the village of Panayevsk, in the village library.01.03.1962#5678933
18-19th century Russian writers' archives, the Institute of Russian Literature (The Pushkin House), USSR Academy of Sciences.01.09.1961#603677
Alexander Sergeyevich Pushkin's books published in different languages of the world. The Institute of Russian Literature (The Pushkin House), USSR Academy of Sciences.01.09.1961#603670
Konstantin Fedin, writer, Hero of Socialist Labor, first secretary and chairman of the management board of the USSR Union of Writers, at home.01.09.1961#2566772
The 16th century Illustrated Chronicles of Ivan the Terrible, a compilation of the Nikon Chronicles, on display at the State History Museum01.08.1961#8761152
August Kirchenstein (1872-1963), Academy member and director of the Institute of Microbiology of the Latvian Academy of Sciences, in the library. 01.12.1960#37871
Vladimir Mayakovsky's house, library and museum of in Moscow (the house where Vladimir Mayakovsky lived with Lilya and Osip Brik in 1926-1930). Exhibitions dedicated to the Russian avant-garde artists - contemporaries of the poet, illustrators of his first books - were held here. Works by Vladimir Mayakovsky published in foreign languages.28.08.1960#8934189
A young woman at the reading room of the State Lenin Library of the USSR (currently - the Russian State Library).01.03.1960#721972
Professor Boris Porshnev (1905-1972), Russian historian and sociologist, Doctor of Philisophy, Doctor of History, was awarded Honorary Doctor by the Clermont-Ferrand University of France. 18.02.1960#158585
Kornei Chukovsky (1882-1969), classic children's writer, translator of English nursery rhymes into Russian, literary critic and theoretician of translation, with his readers at the children's library he had founded in Peredelkino, writers' country settlement near Moscow, 1959 16.11.1959#179377
The former commandant of the Soviet sector of Berlin, Major General Alexander Kotikov.01.01.1958#843621
The former commandant of the Soviet sector of Berlin, Major General Alexander Kotikov.01.01.1958#843620
Professor Boris Kukarkin, Doctor of Physical and Mathematical Sciences, Vice Chairman of the Astronomical Council, USSR Academy of Sciences, Vice President of the International Astronomical Union.01.11.1957#642437
Kornei Chukovsky, celebrated author of children's books and translator of English nursery rhymes, center, with young clients of the public library he set up in his dacha 17.06.1957#55611
On the left is art studio, on the right is resident house of the estate. State memorial historic reserve museum of painter Vasily Polenov.01.06.1957#723511
Library of painter Vasily Polenov. State memorial historic reserve museum of painter Vasily Polenov.01.06.1957#723508
A section of the lobby of the reading and study rooms at Lenin State Library of the USSR (now Russian State Library) in Moscow.06.05.1957#8917328
A section of the lobby of the reading and study rooms at Lenin State Library of the USSR (now Russian State Library) in Moscow.06.05.1957#8917307
Collection of miniature editions at the Russian National Library (former Saltykov-Shchedrin Public Library), St Petersburg.01.04.1957#733769
A miniature edition (Venice, 1488) at the Russian National Library (former Saltykov-Shchedrin Public Library), St Petersburg.01.04.1957#733766
Ilovka village in the Alekseyevsky District, Belgorod Region. The library of the Chapayev collective farm.26.07.1956#5943705
Writer Nikolai Ostrovsky's wife Raisa Ostrovskaya (second left) talks to readers of district Library No. 22. 01.01.1956#82868
Resident of Tashkent reading sacred books in the Central Asian Muslim Board's library. 01.12.1955#43068
Soviet writer and public figure Konstantin Mikhailovich Simonov (1915-1979) at his study.01.09.1955#616766
Grigory Kruglenko, worker of the Novosibirsk Cargo Port on the River Ob, is seen choosing books for another lesson at the course for port engineers.15.05.1953#8132199
A handwritten copy (1601-1602) of Abu'l-Qasim Firdawsi's (934-1027) poem "Shahnameh". The State Public Library of the Tajik SSR.01.03.1951#736453
