A bee-yard at the Shulgan-Tash state biosphere reserve in the Burzyansky district, Bashkiria.15.06.2015#2659751
A 100-year-old veteran of the Great Patriotic War Mikhail Rezepin in an apiary in Chelyabinsk Region.23.03.2015#2592648
An employee works at the Teplichnoye greenhouse facility, part of UGMK-Agro Ltd., in the Sverdlovsk Region.04.03.2015#2582888
An employee works at the Teplichnoye greenhouse facility, part of UGMK-Agro Ltd., in the Sverdlovsk Region.04.03.2015#2582884
A woman in the village of Malaya Tavra, whose residents are ethnic Mari people, tends the bee hives in her yard.29.07.2014#2470491
Beekeepers calm down bees using a special “smoker” at an apiary in the Novgorod Region.16.08.2013#2267440
Professor Alfir Mannapov, the head of the bee-keeping and aquaculture department of the Russian State Agrarian University named after K.Timiryazev, inserts a frame into a bee hive at the scientific-experimental apiary of the University's scientific unit in Moscow.12.08.2013#2262661
Bees on frames in an open hive at a private apiary in the village of Inyakino, Ryazan Region.07.07.2013#2219066
A one-year old queen bee amid bees on a frame with brood and honey at a private apiary in the village of Inyakino, Ryazan Region.07.07.2013#2219065
Bees on frames with honey at a private apiary in the village of Inyakino, Ryazan Region.07.07.2013#2219063
Bee-keeper Ivan Kabanov checks the condition of a honey frame at a private apiary in the village of Inyakino, Ryazan Region.07.07.2013#2219062
Bee-keeper Ivan Kabanov inserts a frame into a hive at a private apiary in the village of Inyakino, Ryazan Region.07.07.2013#2219060
Belaya Dacha agrofirm - the largest hothouse farm in Russia, equipped with up-to-date facilities. Eggplants are grown in the hothouse via pollination by bumblebees brought from Israel, who dwell in exclusively set up special cabins.01.04.1998#535655
A monk at the Saint Panteleimon Monastery collects honey in the monastery's bee farm.01.06.1992#5786731
The All-Union Bee-Keeping Scientific Research Institute, now the Federal Bee-Keeping Research Center. Photo: Beehives at the Institute's experimental apiary.01.06.1990#8205306
The All-Union Bee-Keeping Scientific Research Institute, now the Federal Bee-Keeping Scientific Center. Photo: The Institute's staffers conduct research on an experimental apiary.01.06.1990#8205286
The All-Union Bee-Keeping Scientific Research Institute, now the Federal Bee-Keeping Scientific Center. Photo: The Institute's staffer weighs bee venom.01.06.1990#8205283
Apiary of the Semyonov New Life collective farm, Shchyokinsky District, Tula Region.01.07.1985#8962019
Migratory beekeeping on sunflower fields to increase the honey production and crop harvest at the Pobeda multi-purpose collective farm in Pokrovskoye, Dnepropetrovsk Region of the Ukrainian SSR.04.07.1982#8477424
An experimental bee garden of the Beekeeping Research Institute in Rybnoye, Ryazan Region.01.08.1979#8172540
Sapetka, an old woven bee hive at an experimental bee garden of the Beekeeping Research Institute in Rybnoye, Ryazan Region.01.08.1979#8172535
Beekeeper at an apiary of a collective farm named after Vladimir Lenin in Kirsanovo region.01.08.1979#461981
Bee farmers in a bee yard of the Kirov forestry in a walnut forest in a range of Tien Shan. The Kyrgyz SSR.01.10.1974#732390
A bee yard of the Kirov forestry in a walnut forest in a range of Tien Shan. The Kyrgyz SSR.01.08.1974#732389
Ukrainian SSR. The Crimea region. Pervomaisky state poultry farm. Pavel Litvinenko, a beekeeper of the state farm apiary.01.07.1974#2897271
Student of Gorky (Nizhny Novgorod) Medical Institute Nadezhda Sivacheva on the beach.01.07.1970#569986
The Uzbek (present-day Uzbekistan) SSR. Big Uzbek Ikramovs' family. Head of the family Usman Ikramov, left, in bee garden.01.10.1969#2758367
Beehouse "Peasant". XIX century. An exhibition of Russian wooden sculpture and decorative carving in Moscow.01.01.1964#547614