The Conscience of the Week event at the Palace of Culture of the Moscow Electric Lamps Plant (MELZ), November 19-26, 1988. Photo: People stand near the Wall of Memory with photos and documents dealing with victims of Stalin-era purges.20.11.1988#6743143
Still from 1988 movie Little Vera directed by Vasily Bichul at Maxim Gorky Studio. Starring Natalia Negoda and Andrei Sokolov.16.10.1988#6722563
Members of the Caucasian archaeological expedition are excavating one of the burial mounds of the Bronze Age near the farm Chernyshev, Adyghe Autonomous Region.01.06.1988#8354457
This stock photo Short Meeting was taken in 1987 by RIA Novosti (Rossiya Segodnya International Information Agency) press photographer Yury Ivanov at a workshop of the Minsk Fine Cloth Integrated Works during the international project One Life in the Life of the Soviet Union and received a World Press Photo in The Hague.12.05.1987#5875805
A game between children's local ice hockey teams in the Krasnopresnensky district of Moscow.10.01.1987#8563162
NBC filming TV series Peter the Great with the participation of the Sovinfilm Soviet export film association. Directors: Marvin Chomsky and Lawrence Schiller. Based on Robert Massie's novel "Peter the Great. His Life and His World." Production designer Alexander Popov recreated wooden Moscow and the Moscow Kremlin of the Peter the Great era in Suzdal to the smallest detail for the filming of the series Peter the Great. The streets of 17th-century Moscow were built in the floodplain of Kamenka and near the walls of the Spaso-Yevfimiev and Spaso-Pokrovsky monasteries.01.01.1985#8776130
NBC filming TV series Peter the Great with the participation of the Sovinfilm Soviet export film association. Directors: Marvin Chomsky and Lawrence Schiller. Based on Robert Massie's novel "Peter the Great. His Life and His World." Masters of the Yalta Film Studio and the Gorky Film Studio, commissioned by NBC, built the Assumption Cathedral of the Moscow Kremlin and the Faceted Chamber with the Red Porch on the territory of the Suzdal Kremlin for the series.01.01.1985#8776115
NBC filming TV series Peter the Great with the participation of the Sovinfilm Soviet export film association. Directors: Marvin Chomsky and Lawrence Schiller. Based on Robert Massie's novel "Peter the Great. His Life and His World." Actors in the hotel lobby after filming. Third left: the actor who plays Peter, Austrian actor Maximilian Schell, to his right is the actor who plays Princess Sophia, British actress Vanessa Redgrave.01.01.1985#8776080
Moscow panorama. The Soviet, now Russian, Foreign Ministry skyscraper on Smolenskaya Square.16.06.1982#8318526
The Soviet, now Russian, Foreign Ministry skyscraper on Smolenskaya Square as seen from the Moskva River.16.06.1982#8318525
Moscow. The building of the State Television and Radio Broadcasting (Gosteleradio) under the USSR Council of Ministers at Pyatnitskaya Street, 25. It hosted the editorial office of foreign broadcasting of the State Television and Radio Broadcasting of the USSR (broadcasting to foreign countries, now Rossiya Segodnya International News Agency).30.04.1982#6685368
Soviet-Indian seminar of archaeologists in the city of Allahabad in February 1982. Meeting with Indira Gandhi. On the right is Vadim Masson, a Soviet and Russian archaeologist, doctor of historical sciences. India17.02.1982#8366602
Front entrance to the Exhibition of Achievements of the National Economy of the USSR. The arch of the Main Entrance of VDNKh was built in 1951-1954. designed by architect Innokenty Melchakov. The arch is crowned by the sculpture Tractor Driver and Collective Farm Girl (created by Sergei Orlov).12.02.1981#8338095
Friendship of Peoples Fountain is one of the three main fountains of the Exhibition of Achievements of the National Economy of the USSR (VDNKh). It was built in 1954 by architect K. Topuridze, designed by sculptors P. Dobrynin, Z. Ryleeva, V. Aleksandrova-Roslavleva. In the background is the Main Pavilion of the USSR Exhibition of Economic Achievements (now Pavilion No. 1, Central). It was built in 1954 according to the design of G. Schuko and Y. Stolyarov.14.07.1980#8317218
Cobblestone the Proletariat's Weapon, a bronze sculpture in Krasnaya Presnya Park (also known as December Revolt Park, 1905 Park, Revolutionaries' Memorial Park), by Soviet sculptor Ivan Shadr. The sculpture was created in 1927 of plaster and in 1947 later founded in bronze. The plaster version is in the Tretyakov Gallery.12.06.1980#8191697
Soviet poet Robert Rozhdestvensky is seen in the editorial of the Smena literary and artistic youth magazine, on the pages of which his poems were regularly published. Viewing the layout of the next issue of the magazine.02.03.1980#8247481
Poet Robert Rozhdestvensky is seen at a meeting with readers. The auditorium of the Mossovet State Academic Theater.02.03.1980#8247479
A memorial plaque honoring Felix Dzerzhinsky at 11 Dzerzhinsky, now Bolshaya Lubyanka, Street in Moscow.09.04.1979#8161681
The Worker and Kolkhoz Woman sculptural composition was created by the famous Soviet sculptor Vera Mukhina and architect Boris Iofan in 1935-1937 for the Soviet pavilion at the World Exhibition in Paris. In August 1939, it was installed on a pedestal in front of the Northern entrance to the All-Union Agricultural Exhibition (now the All-Russian Exhibition Center).08.04.1978#8897271
October 4-10, 1977. Participants in the extraordinary Seventh Session of the Supreme Soviet (Parliament) of the USSR of the Seventh Convocation passed the new Soviet (Brezhnev-era) Constitution that replaced the Stalin-era Constitution of 1936 at the Grand Kremlin Palace.04.10.1977#6526682
A school puppet theater in the village of Svisloch in the Grodno Region of the Belarusian Soviet Socialist Republic.27.09.1974#2882852
Dnepropetrovsk residents relax on a summer day at a fountain on Marx Avenue, Ukrainian SSR.13.07.1974#6220494
Scheme of archeological excavations of the bronze epoch monuments in the South of Turkmenia.08.08.1973#5705242
Lomonosov Moscow State University. Postgraduate students F. Hovaja from Pakistan and V. Zelinov, right, near the university.01.04.1973#5886553
Lomonosov Moscow State University on Leninskiye Gory (today's Vorobyovy Gory). It was built in 1949-1953. Architect: Lev Rudnev.17.09.1972#5503092
Mayakovskaya metro station on Line 2 (Zamoskvoretskaya Line) was opened on September 11, 1938. Architect: Alexei Dushkin.17.05.1972#5503096
The USSR Lenin State Library (the Russian State Library) on Vozdvizhenka Street. It was built in 1928-1958; design by architects Vladimir Gelfreikh and Vladimir Shchuko.17.05.1972#5503095
Model of Sputnik-2, the second Soviet artificial satellite. It was launched on November 3, 1957. For the first time it had a live animal -- dog by the name of Laika. Exhibition of National Economic Achievements of the USSR (VDNKh)01.09.1971#5996158
The building of the Soviet, now Russian Foreign Ministry, on Moscow's Smolenskaya Square. It was built in 1948-1953 to a design by architects V. Gelfreikh, M. Minkus and designers G. Limanovsky and S. Gomberg.10.05.1971#6681632
The Soviet Agricultural Exhibition (VDNKh). The Worker and Kolkhozwoman sculpture by Vera Mukhina.06.05.1971#5611313
Sungir, an Upper Paleolithic settlement discovered on the east side of Vladimir in 1955. Remains of an ancient human.03.10.1970#6300116
Otto Bader, archaeologist and doctor of historical sciences, at the Sungir archaeological site.03.10.1970#6300107
The Tatar ASSR. Monument to Vladimir Lenin on Svobody Square in Kazan. Unveiled in 1954 by sculptor Pyotr Yatsyno and architect Alexander Gegello. Background: the Musa Calil Tatar State Theater of Opera and Ballet.19.11.1969#6443052
Parade on Red Square marking the 50th anniversary of Soviet Power Military parade on Red Square, Moscow marking the 50th anniversary of the Soviet Power.01.10.1969#565599
Military parade on Red Square, Moscow marking the 50th anniversary of the Soviet Power.01.10.1969#565598
Military parade on Red Square, Moscow marking the 50th anniversary of the Soviet Power.01.10.1969#565596
Military parade on Red Square, Moscow marking the 50th anniversary of the Soviet Power.01.10.1969#565595
Military parade on Red Square, Moscow marking the 50th anniversary of the Soviet Power.01.10.1969#565594
Military parade on Red Square, Moscow marking the 50th anniversary of the Soviet Power.01.10.1969#565593
Military parade on Red Square, Moscow marking the 50th anniversary of the Soviet Power.01.10.1969#565592
Military parade on Red Square, Moscow marking the 50th anniversary of the Soviet Power.01.10.1969#565591
Military parade on Red Square, Moscow marking the 50th anniversary of the Soviet Power.01.10.1969#565590
Military parade in Red Square, Moscow marking the 50th anniversary of the Soviet Power.01.10.1969#565589
Military parade in Red Square, Moscow marking the 50th anniversary of the Soviet Power.01.10.1969#565588
Military parade on Red Square, Moscow marking the 50th anniversary of the Soviet Power.01.10.1969#565587
Military parade on Red Square, Moscow marking the 50th anniversary of the Soviet Power.01.10.1969#565586
Military parade on Red Square, Moscow marking the 50th anniversary of the Soviet Power.01.10.1969#565584
Military parade in Red Square, Moscow marking the 50th anniversary of the Soviet Power.01.10.1969#565583
Military parade on Red Square, Moscow marking the 50th anniversary of the Soviet Power.01.10.1969#565581
Military parade on Red Square, Moscow marking the 50th anniversary of the Soviet Power.01.10.1969#565580
Military parade in Red Square, Moscow marking the 50th anniversary of the Soviet Power.01.10.1969#565579
Military parade in Red Square, Moscow marking the 50th anniversary of the Soviet Power.01.10.1969#565578
Military parade in Red Square, Moscow marking the 50th anniversary of the Soviet Power.01.10.1969#565576
Military parade on Red Square, Moscow marking the 50th anniversary of the Soviet Power.01.10.1969#565574
Military parade in Red Square, Moscow marking the 50th anniversary of the Soviet Power.01.10.1969#565511
Sculpture Boulder, the Weapon of the Proletariat by sculptor Ivan Shadr in December Uprising Park in Moscow's Krasnaya Presnya District.19.09.1969#6110450
Luzhentsky (Luzhniki) metro bridge as seen from the Moscow River embankment. It connects Luzhniki and Leninskiye (today's Vorobyovy) Gory. The bridge opened on January 12, 1959.01.08.1969#5880377
Frunze city, now Bishkek, the capital of the Kyrgyz SSR. Photo: The building of the Polytechnic School.25.07.1969#6659503