Academician Dmitry Skobeltsin (left) awarding an English public leader John Bernal the International Lenin Prize for "Strengthening of Peace Among Nations".23.09.1954#740221
Nina Popova, Chairman of the Soviet Women's Committee and Laureate of the International Lenin Peace Prize with Eugenie Cotton, President of the Women's International Democratic Federation (from left to right).03.06.1954#740222
Visit by a delegation of French women to the USSR. Members of the delegation at Petrodvorets.18.05.1954#5595184
French President Vincent Jules Auriol visits the USSR. Auriol, third left, and his wife in a train at the Lenin Moscow Metro.01.03.1954#5815805
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
French politician and public figure Yves Farge (standing) during the ceremony of awarding the International Lenin Peace Prize for Strengthening Peace Among Peoples.01.03.1953#740217
The XV Summer Olympic Games (July 19 - August 3, 1952) in Helsinki (Finland). The building of the USSR Embassy in Helsinki on Tehtaankatu Street (Factory Street). It was built in 1952 according to the design of architect Anatoly Strizhevsky.19.07.1952#8551107
Indian artists in in concert at the Hall of Columns in Moscow. Singers Mira Chatterjee and Surander Kesur .15.06.1952#8132357
Finnish Prime Minister Mauno Pekkala visits USSR. Soviet Foreign Minister Vyacheslav Molotov (left) and Finnish Prime Minister Mauno Pekkala in the airport. 1948. Reproduction.24.03.1948#2862204
Dynamo Club footballers on the field to play a match with Cardiff-City, Great Britain, 194517.11.1945#178958
Prime Minister of the Federal People's Republic of Yugoslavia Josip Broz Tito, center, during a meeting with Soviet cultural figures in Belgrade.20.10.1945#6502109
The Soviet-Japanese War of August-September 1945. Photo: Representatives of the 8th Kwantung Army's high command negotiate surrender terms at a Soviet army's headquarters.02.09.1945#6045271
Soviet-Japanese War (August-September 1945). Tank divisions of the Soviet Army cross the Gobi Desert in the Mongolian People's Republic.30.08.1945#6051468
June 1945. Marshal of the Soviet Union Georgy Zhukov presents Order of Victory to Army General Dwight David Eisenhower, Supreme Allied Commander of the Allied Expeditionary Force, at Supreme Headquarters Allied Expeditionary Force [SHAEF] in Frankfurt-am-Main, Germany. 04.06.1945#168327
The leaders of the anti-Hitler coalition, from right, Chairman of the State Defence Committee, General Secretary of the All-Union Communist Party (bolsheviks), Chairman of the Council of People's Commissars Josef Stalin, American President Franklin Roosevelt and British Prime Minister Winston Churchill at the Crimean Conference of the leaders of the three Allied powers in the Second World War, Yalta February 4-11 1945.04.02.1945#309681
The Great Patriotic War.The Tehran Conference (November 28 - December 1, 1943) of leaders of three countries, from left: Joseph Stalin (Soviet Union), Franklin Roosevelt (US), Winston Churchill (UK)28.11.1943#5679100
The 1941-1945 Great Patriotic War. Aviation Colonel Mikhail Machin, right, and American pilot Senior Lieutenant Nikolai de Tolly. Mikhail Machin served as Head of the Military Representation of the Red Army Air Force in Alaska (USA) from September 1942 to May 1944. He participated in the organization and implementation of lend-lease deliveries of American aircraft.01.10.1942#6677895
Fairbanks, Alaska. The Great Patriotic War of 1941-1945. Brigadier General Dale Gaffney, Commanding Officer, Ladd Field Air Force Base where US aircraft were officially handed over to Soviet representatives under the Lend Lease Act.01.10.1942#6677892
Representatives of 26 countries attended the ceremony of the signing of the United Nations Declaration in Washington, D.C. Thirty second U.S. President Franklin Delano Roosevelt is at the table, second left. January 1, 1942.01.01.1942#404549
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
A Soviet delegation visits Turkey (1933). Kliment Voroshilov, head of the delegation, People's Commissar for Military and Naval Affairs, Chair of the USSR Revolutionary Military Council, left, at the parade to mark the 10th anniversary of the Republic of Turkey (October 29, 1923).29.10.1933#5970877
A Soviet delegation visits Turkey (1933). Kliment Voroshilov, head of the delegation, People's Commissar for Military and Naval Affairs, Chair of the USSR Revolutionary Military Council, center, at the meeting with President of the Republic of Turkey Mustafa Kemal Ataturk at the parade held to mark the 10th anniversary of the Republic of Turkey (October 29, 1923). Left: USSR Deputy People's Commissar for Foreign Affairs Lev Karakhan.29.10.1933#5970875
A Soviet delegation visits Turkey (1933). Kliment Voroshilov, head of the delegation, People's Commissar for Military and Naval Affairs, Chair of the USSR Revolutionary Military Council, center, examines the honor guard.28.10.1933#5970874
France's Minister of Foreign Affairs Edouard Herriot signing the Soviet-French nonaggression pact. Moscow, November 29, 1932.29.11.1932#3082789
The text of the Soviet-French nonaggression pact signed on November 29, 1932, published in the Izvestia newspaper.29.11.1932#3082782
A Turkish delegation visits the USSR. USSR People's Commissar for Foreign Affairs Maxim Litvinov, second right, and Prime Minister of Turkey Ismet Igenu, second left, pass the honor guard.01.10.1932#5970878
Indian writer, poet, compose, artist and public figure Rabindranat Tagor (1861-1941) met with Soviet film workers in Moscow in 1930. A scene from a newsreel. USSR Central State Film and Photo Archive. 12.09.1930#180919
Alexander Kollontai (1972-1952), Soviet state figure and diplomat, ambassador of the Soviet Union to Sweden from 1930 to 1945.31.05.1930#5670292
USSR Plenipotentiary to Poland Vladimir Antonov-Ovseyenko, center, and Trade Representative Pavel Galanin, fourth left.25.10.1929#5610456
During the internal war in Afghanistan in the 1920s the Soviet Union supported the national patriotic movement (the Young Afghans) headed by Amir Amanullah Khan by supplying weapons, munitions and military equipment. The presence of Soviet specialists was tangible in various areas of Afghanistan's economic, public and cultural life. Soviet film-makers shoot a documentary in Kabul.19.09.1928#6640018
During the internal war in Afghanistan in the 1920s the Soviet Union supported the national patriotic movement (the Young Afghans) headed by Amir Amanullah Khan by supplying weapons, munitions and military equipment. The presence of Soviet specialists was tangible in various areas of Afghanistan's economic, public and cultural life. A delegation of the Soviet photo cimenatographic state agency and the Soviet Cinema Studios in Kabul.19.09.1928#6640013
Crimean Soviet Socialist Republic. King Amanullah Khan of Afghanistan and Queen Soraya, second left, in Yalta during an official visit to the Soviet Union at the invitation of the Soviet government.15.05.1928#6640004
The official visit of King of Afghanistan Amanullah-Khan's to the USSR at the invitation of the Soviet government. Center foreground: Amanullah-Khan in the Kremlin. To the left of him wearing a black overcoat is Mikhail Kalinin, Charmian of the Central Executive Committee of the USSR. Second left from Mikhail Kalinin is Alexei Rykov, Chairman of the Council of People's Commissars of the USSR.10.05.1928#6640005
Ali Khan Ansari, the foreign minister of Persia, with Persian merchants at the Moscow commodity exchange. Sergey Vasilievich Malyshev is in the party.01.10.1927#782898
Politician, Soviet diplomat, Alexandra Kollontai (1872-1952) and Mexican President, Plutarco Elias Calles, after presenting credentials of the Soviet party. Reproduction of photo of 1927.24.12.1926#610546
During the internal war in Afghanistan in the 1920s the Soviet Union supported the national patriotic movement (the Young Afghans) headed by Amir Amanullah Khan by supplying weapons, munitions and military equipment. The presence of Soviet specialists was tangible in various areas of Afghanistan's economic, public and cultural life. The opening of a new school in Kabul.01.09.1925#6640012
During the internal war in Afghanistan in the 1920s the Soviet Union supported the national patriotic movement (the Young Afghans) headed by Amir Amanullah Khan by supplying weapons, munitions and military equipment. Soviet specialists help build a telegraph line.01.09.1925#6640011
During the internal war in Afghanistan in the 1920s the Soviet Union supported the national patriotic movement (the Young Afghans) headed by Amir Amanullah Khan by supplying weapons, munitions and military equipment. Soviet specialists help build a telegraph line.01.09.1925#6640009
Soviet supplies of weapons, munitions and military equipment to Afghanistan. In September 1924, six R-1 reconnaissance airplanes were delivered by air from Tashkent to Kabul via the Hindu Kush Range. R-1 is the first Soviet mass-produced airplane designed by Nikolai Polikarpov. The Soviet pilots were instructed to support the troops of the Afghan ruler Amir Amanullah Khan during an internal Afghan war. Locals light bonfires to orient the Soviet pilots.15.09.1924#6640010
Soviet supplies of weapons, munitions and military equipment to Afghanistan. In September 1924, six R-1 reconnaissance airplanes were delivered by air from Tashkent to Kabul via the Hindu Kush Range. R-1 is the first Soviet mass-produced airplane designed by Nikolai Polikarpov. The Soviet pilots were instructed to support the troops of the Afghan ruler Amir Amanullah Khan during an internal Afghan war. Amir Amanullah Khan, left, stands near a Soviet airplane.15.09.1924#6640007
Soviet supplies of weapons, munitions and military equipment to Afghanistan. In September 1924, six R-1 reconnaissance airplanes were delivered by air from Tashkent to Kabul via the Hindu Kush Range. R-1 is the first Soviet mass-produced airplane designed by Nikolai Polikarpov. The Soviet pilots were instructed to support the troops of the Afghan ruler Amir Amanullah Khan during an internal Afghan war.15.09.1924#6640006
During the internal war in Afghanistan in the 1920s the Soviet Union supported the national patriotic movement (the Young Afghans) headed by Amir Amanullah Khan by supplying weapons, munitions and military equipment. A Soviet diplomatic mission to Afghanistan.20.06.1924#6640008
Extraordinary Embassy of the Ukrainian Soviet Socialist Republic in Ankara. Mikhail Frunze (in the center) headed it to establish relations with Turkey and its embassy employees.01.11.1922#5970876
November 28, 1921. V. Lenin, left, meeting with a representative of Labor Farmers' Party of the USA, P. Christensen, in his office in the Kremlin. Photo by Alexandre Levitsky.28.11.1921#766320
Moscow Treaty of Friendship and Fraternity signed by the representatives of the government of the Grand National Assembly of Turkey and the Soviet government on March 16, 1921. Under the treaty Turkey received a total of about 30,000 square meters of Armenian lands.16.03.1921#5970880
V.I.Lenin in the Kremlin at a commission session of the 2nd Congress of the Communist International. Moscow. Not until July 23 - before August 6, 1920.01.08.1920#372198
A Turkish governmental delegation visits RSFSR. A parade held by Red Army units to welcome the delegation in Kazan, July 1920. From the funds of the USSR Central Museum of Revolution (today's State Central Museum of the Modern History of Russia).31.07.1920#5970879
The 1st Russian Congress of Land Departments, Poor Peasants' Committees and Agricultural Communes. In the center of the presidium table are Vladimir Lenin and Yakov Sverdlov. The Column Hall of the House of the Unions. December 11, 1918.11.12.1918#5751260
Mikhail Kashirin, classic writer Maxim Gorky's maternal uncle, with his sons Konstantin, standing left, and Nikolai, right, and nephew Alexander, sitting left01.01.1896#107914
The Russian Empire's naval expedition to the United States of North America in 1863-1864. Photo: A group of officers from the Russian naval squadron in Boston.30.11.1864#5928999
