A chess tournament at the Palace of Culture of Steel Workers in Dnepropetrovsk. The Ukrainian Soviet Socialist Republic.16.03.1948#3319428
The 12th USSR Chess Championship. The Grand Hall of the Moscow Conservatory. September 5-October 3, 1940. Chess player Vasily Smyslov during a match against Andre (Andor) Lilienthal.13.09.1940#5779623
The 12th USSR Chess Championship. The Grand Hall of the Moscow Conservatory. September 5-October 3, 1940.13.09.1940#5779622
The 12th USSR Chess Championship. The Grand Hall of the Moscow Conservatory. September 5-October 3, 1940.13.09.1940#5779621
The 12th USSR Chess Championship. The Grand Hall of the Moscow Conservatory. September 5-October 3, 1940. Chess player Andre (Andor) Lilienthal during a match against Igor Bondarevsky.13.09.1940#5779620
The 12th USSR Chess Championship. The Grand Hall of the Moscow Conservatory. September 5-October 3, 1940. Before the tournament.13.09.1940#5779619
The 12th USSR Chess Championship. The Grand Hall of the Moscow Conservatory. September 5-October 3, 1940. Chess player Andre (Andor) Lilienthal.15.09.1939#5779624
Nikolai Starostin, Soviet footballer, Merited Master of Sports of the USSR, member of the Soviet football team, and the founder of FC Spartak.10.09.1938#6072054
Alexei Stakhanov (1906-1977), miner, coal industry innovator, and founder of the Stakhanov movement. Moscow, 1936. Reproduction.01.06.1936#2930140
An article calling for a socialist competition to mark the 17th Congress of the All-Union Communist Party of Bolsheviks in the Pravda newspaper of November 28, 1933.28.11.1933#5677587
The 1925 International Chess Tournament held at the Fountain Hall of the Second House of Soviets (now Metropol Hotel) between November 10 and December 8, 1925, in Moscow. Cuban chess player and 1921 world champion Jose Raul Capablanca, left, plays against former world champion, German chess player Emanuel Lasker.01.11.1925#6517528
Writer Leo Tolstoy (1828-1910).Playing chess with his son-in-law Mikhail Sergeyevich Sukhotin (third right).Estate Yasnaya Polyana,Krapivensky district,Tula gubernia.Reproduction of 1908 photo.Leo Tolstoy House Museum.01.07.1908#682202
First International Olympic Committee members, Athens, April 10, 1896. From left, foreground: the initiator of the modern Olympic Games, IOC President Pierre de Coubertin; the first IOC President (1894-1986), Greek philologist Demetrios Vikelas; and sports official, one of the IOC founders and member Alexei Butovsky. From left, background: German doctor Willibald Gebhardt, one of the founders of the IOC; Professor Jiri Guth-Jarkovsky (Bohemia), founder and secretary of the Hungarian National Olympic Committee; writer Ferenc Kemeny and Swedish athlete Viktor Gustaf Balck.10.04.1896#6531411
