The Order of the October Revolution, one of the top Soviet-era orders, was instituted by an October 31, 1967 decree of the Presidium of the USSR Supreme Soviet (Parliament) in honor of the 50th anniversary of the Great October 1917 Socialist Revolution. Artist V. P. Zaitsev contributed the order's rough sketch.10.11.1968#6068777
Fireworks in Moscow on the 50th anniversary of the All-Union Leninist Young Communist League (Komsomol).29.10.1968#5935230
The city of Novorossiysk. Young pioneers during a farewell ceremony for the steamship Berezovka, which is leaving for the Democratic Republic of Vietnam to bring a cargo of humanitarian aid and presents for Vietnamese children.26.06.1968#6086941
Moscow. The Pionerskaya Pravda newspaper advertisement on a building in Gorky Street (currently Tverskaya Street).08.03.1968#6079642
United Institute of Nuclear Research in Dubna. A banquet in a hall of the House of Scientists opened at the institute in 1958.30.09.1966#5651626
A women's delegation from the Republic of Cyprus during a talk with members of the Executive Committee of Moscow City Council of Workers' Deputies.26.08.1965#5907360
Joint Institute for Nuclear Research. Employee standing in the measuring pavilion of a proton synchrotron accelerator.06.07.1961#5470342
Joint Institute for Nuclear Research. Employee standing next to the hydrogen chamber control board in the measuring pavilion of a proton synchrotron accelerator.06.07.1961#5470341
Joint Institute for Nuclear Research. Employee standing next to a freon chamber in the measuring pavilion of a proton synchrotron accelerator.09.04.1960#5471786
Joint Institute for Nuclear Research. Junior research scientist at the Armenian National Academy of Sciences Ruben Kavalov.09.04.1960#5471783
Daghestanian Autonomous Soviet Socialist Republic. Makhachkala's Pedagogical Institute (the present-day Daghestanian State Pedagogical University).29.05.1951#3324592
The Great Patriotic War (1941-1945). Soviet conductor Karl Eliasberg, right, and the Bolshoi Symphony Orchestra of the Leningrad Radio Committee during a rehearsal of the 7th Symphony by Dmitry Shostakovich he created in a city under siege. The Grand Hall of the Leningrad Philharmonic. Musicians were retrieved from military units to replenish the orchestra.30.07.1942#8852074
