Nikita Khrushchev (1st row, 2nd right), apprentice mechanic at the Bosse Machine-Building Ironworks, 1909-1912.01.08.1962#5697221
Center: Nikita Khrushchev, instructor of the political department of the 9th Kuban Army, 1920.01.08.1962#5697220
Celebration of the 50th anniversary of Pravda, a newspaper founded by Vladimir Lenin. Chairman of the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet of the USSR Leonid Brezhnev presents the Order of Lenin to Editor-in-Chief of Izvestia newspaper Alexei Adzhubei for his work as a journalist and for this contribution to developing the Soviet press, publishing business, radio and television broadcasting. Kremlin Palace of Congresses (now State Kremlin Palace), May 5, 1962.05.05.1962#6147351
Soviet writer Ilya Erenburg, right, attends the first session of USSR's Supreme Council of the sixth convocation.24.04.1962#5749768
Deputy, worker of the Dushanbe Textile Plant Dushanbe Karimova at th first session of the USSR Supreme Soviet.24.04.1962#5749403
First session of the USSR Supreme Council of the sixth convocation. First Secretary of the USSR Communist Party, Chairman of the USSR Council of Ministers Nikita Khrushchev at the tribue after his speech.23.04.1962#5749396
Linotype operator Vladimir Shchuchkin types a new issue of the Pravda newspaper at the newspaper's printing house.01.03.1962#5678963
The 5th World Trade Union Congress. Chairman of the All-Union Central Soviet of Trade Unions Viktor Grishin greets the congress delegates at the Kremlin Palace of Congresses (now the State Kremlin Palace).04.12.1961#5741764
The 22nd Congress of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union. The Kremlin Palace of Congresses. October 17-31, 1961. First Secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union Nikita Khrushchev makes a report.17.10.1961#5472092
Chairman of the Council of Ministers (Government) of the RSFSR Dmitry Polyansky (1917-2001).17.07.1958#5491773
Autographs of Argentine workers on a publication of Vladimir Lenin. Central Museum V.I. Lenin.01.06.1958#751365
Ukrainian Communist Party CC First Secretary Nikolay Viktorovich Podgorny (1903-1983).17.04.1958#5486850
The Sixth Session of the USSR Supreme Soviet (Parliament) of the Fourth Convocation (February 5-12, 1957). From left: Deputies of the USSR Supreme Soviet - First Secretary of the Moscow Regional Committee of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union Ivan Kapitonov, Chairman of the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet of the Uzbek SSR Sharaf Rashidov and Chairman of Zvezda Vostoka (Eastern Star) Collective Farm Khamrakul Tursunkulov - in between meetings.05.02.1957#5966350
An official visit of President of the Federal People's Republic of Yugoslavia Josip Broz Tito and First Lady of Yugoslavia Jovanka Broz to the USSR. Josip Broz Tito and Jovanka Broz, center, present sweet gifts to Soviet young pioneers during the meeting for the Soviet-Yugoslav friendship, attended by thousands of people, at Moscow's Dynamo Stadium.19.06.1956#8545889
The 20th Soviet Communist Party Congress. February 14-25, 1956. Grand Kremlin Palace. Second right: Terenty Maltsev, plant selection breeder, Soviet agricultural innovator, crop grower at the Zavety Lenina collective farm, talks to congress delegates during a break between meetings.14.02.1956#5864914
The 20th Congress of the CPSU, the Grand Kremlin Palace, February 14-25, 1956. First Secretary of the CPSU Central Committee Nikita Khrushchev, left, Prime Minister of the USSR Nikolai Bulganin, center, and First Deputy Prime Minister Anastas Mikoyan, right, among the congress delegates.14.02.1956#5815770
Aram Khachaturyan, professor of the Tchaikovsky Moscow Conservatory, composer and conductor.10.12.1955#5943831
Soviet statesman Nikolai Bulganin (1895-1975). A member of the CPSU Central Committee and the Presidium of the CPSU Central Committee. A close associate of Iosif Stalin.01.01.1955#2854792
A monument at the grave of Andrei Zhdanov (1896-1948) on Red Square and near the Kremlin Wall in Moscow.01.12.1951#6681617
Leonid Brezhnev, First Secretary of the Zaporozhye Regional Committee of the Communist Party of Ukraine.02.09.1946#8414193
A reception of the delegation of the Czechoslovak Socialist Republic by the Slavonic Committee of the USSR. Chair of the Slavonic Committee of the USSR, Lieutenant General Alexander Gundorov, left, General Secretary of the Communist Party of Czechoslovakia Klement Gottwald, right, and Ambassador of the USSR to Czechoslovakia Valerian Zorin, 1945.01.08.1945#5712837
Moscow. A diplomatic reception at the Receptions House - Mansion of the People's Commissariat (Ministry) for Foreign Affairs of the Soviet Union. Second left: Maxim Litvinov, People's Commissar for Foreign Affairs of the Soviet Union.28.07.1945#8832465
Moscow. A diplomatic reception at the Receptions House - Mansion of the People's Commissariat (Ministry) for Foreign Affairs of the Soviet Union. Second right: Maxim Litvinov, People's Commissar for Foreign Affairs of the Soviet Union.28.07.1945#8832443
Great Patriotic War 1941-1945. Soviet troops joint the Communist Party ahead of a Soviet offensive outside Voronezh, summer 1942.01.09.1942#5813874
Party and state leader of the USSR, Chairman of the Moscow Soviet Executive Committee Nikolai Bulganin. Moscow, 1938.08.11.1938#5606374
Nikolai Bulganin, Soviet party activist and statesman, Chairman of the Moscow Council's Executive Committee. Moscow, 1938.08.11.1938#5606373
Members of the USSR All-Union Communist Party Central Committee's Political Bureau (bolsheviks), from right: Mikhail Kalinin, Joseph Stalin, Vyacheslav Molotov, Lazar Kaganovich in the Kremlin.07.11.1938#5480051
Nikolai Bulganin, Soviet party activist and statesman, Chairman of the Moscow Council's Executive Committee (faces retouched for censorship reasons). Moscow, 1938.05.11.1938#5609191
Nadezhda Krupskaya (1869-1939), member of the revolutionary movement, Soviet state and party activist, wife of the first chairman of the USSR Council of People's Commissar Vladimir Lenin (Ulyanov).18.02.1938#5480049
Session of the USSR Supreme Council, first convocation. From right: Joseph Stalin, Secretary General of the All-Union Communist Party Central Committee's Political Bureau (bolsheviks), and members of the Political Bureau, Kliment Voroshilov, Mikhail Kalinin, Vyacheslav Molotov among the members of the USSR Supreme Council.19.01.1938#5480055
Session of the USSR Supreme Council, first convocation. Joseph Stalin, Secretary General of the All-Union Communist Party Central Committee's Political Bureau (bolsheviks), second right, and members of the Political Bureau, Vyacheslav Molotov, Kliment Voroshilov, Lazar Kaganovich and Andrei Andreyev, left to right, among the members of the USSR Supreme Council.19.01.1938#5480050
Workers rally on Red Square on November 7, 1937 marking the 20th anniversary of the October Socialist Revolution.07.11.1937#5480056
Soviet party and state figure, the Soviet People's Commissar for Food Industry Anastas Mikoyan (left: censor's retouch). Moscow, 1937.12.08.1937#5609192
National and party leaders (from left to right): Chairman of the USSR Council of People's Commissars Vyacheslav Molotov, Secretary of the All-Union Communist Party Bolsheviks Joseph Stalin and member of its Politburo Grigory Ordzhonikidze (Sergo), Moscow, 1936.06.11.1936#5605373
First Secretary of the Moscow City Committee of the All-Union Communist Party (Bolsheviks) Nikita Khrushchev meets with local school students in 1936.09.09.1936#6004830
Vyacheslav Molotov (1890- 1986), chairman of the Council of People's Commissars, in his office. 1936.08.05.1936#2854796
Nikita Khrushchev [1894-1971], First Secretary of the Moscow Region and City Committees of the Soviet Communist Party. Reproduction of 1935 photo.01.07.1935#612778
Moscow Komsomol members dispatched to the political departments at tractor depots register before leaving. Reproduction of a photo from the Russian State Documentary Film & Photo Archive.11.02.1934#6102500
Loading ore at the Magnitogorsk Iron and Steel Works, a shock construction project in the 1930s.14.05.1932#6106169
Workers, builders of the Magnitogorsk Iron and Steel Works, read a socialist emulation report on a bulletin board.14.05.1930#6106165
The famous Magnitka (Magnitogorsk Iron and Steel Works) was the most ambitious construction projects in the 1930s. The project largely involved manual labor.14.05.1930#6106163
A meeting of workers building Magnitogorsk city and the Magnitogorsk Iron and Steel Works, the largest construction project of the 1930s.14.05.1930#6106162
The 10th All Russia Communist party conference, May 26-28, 1921. Vladimir Lenin, forth left, among the delegates in Kremlin's Sverdlovsky's (Catherine) hall.28.05.1921#3027881
First Moscow machine-gun courses for command staff of the Workers' and Peasants' Red Army. Vladimir Lenin during the parade of the graduates ща the 11th class of graduates of the Moscow machine-gun courses.12.05.1920#3027882
Vladimir Lenin delivers a speech on Sverdlov square (present-day Teatralnaya) for the troops going to fight anti-revolutionary Poles on May 5, 1920.05.05.1920#3027888
Vladimir Lenin laying the monument to the "Liberated Labor" on Moscow's Prechistenskaya embankment.01.05.1920#3027887
Joseph Stalin (b.1879, d.1953), Soviet revolutionary, political, state, military and party figure, General Secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union (1924-1953), Marshal of the Soviet Union, and Generalissimo of the Soviet Union.15.10.1919#6043205
Fyodorov, secretary of the Tula City Committee of the Revolutionary Communist Union of Youth, is seen speaking at a rally to mark the arrival of the October Revolution agitation train. Copy of a photo from the Central State Archive of Film and Photo Documents.10.08.1919#6102675
Vladimir Iliych Lenin delivers a speech for the Universal Military Training students during the parade on Red Square on Mayx25, 1919.25.05.1919#3027889
Vladimir Lenin (second left) and Yakov Sverdlov (third left) during the opening of a temporary monument to Karl Marx and Fridriech Engels at Revolution Square in Moscow on November 7, 1918.07.11.1918#3033966
Vladimir Lenin and Vladimir Bonch-Bruyevich, the executive officer at the Council of People's Commissars, during a walk in the Kremlin. October 16, 1918. Newsreel shot.16.10.1918#3027883