Yura Skorynin suffers from a congenital defect in his right hand. After surgery he is using a prosthetic hand and learning to write. Central Research Institute of Prostheses and Prosthetics in Moscow.01.10.1971#749318
Seven-year-old Sasha learns to use a bioelectric prosthetic right hand on the stand. Central Research Institute of Prostheses and Prosthetics in Moscow.01.10.1971#749317
A man lost his leg during the punitive operation of government forces of western Pakistan, Indian hospital.01.08.1971#48032
A man lost his leg during the punitive operation of government forces of western Pakistan, Indian hospital.01.08.1971#48031
Viktor Gordeyev, a worker at the Ordzhonikidze Ural Heavy Engineering Plant in Sverdlovsk, now Uralmashzavod, was a two-time world champion in Greco-Roman wrestling among deaf athletes and those with impaired hearing.14.04.1971#5848411
Viktor Gordeyev, a worker at the Ordzhonikidze Ural Heavy Engineering Plant in Sverdlovsk, now Uralmashzavod, was a two-time world champion in Greco-Roman wrestling among deaf athletes and those with impaired hearing.14.04.1971#5848409
Physics class at School No. 1 for children with visual impairments (now Boarding School No. 1 for education and rehabilitation of the blind).01.04.1971#5604602
Voroshilovgrad, Ukrainian SSR. Children of the Rovenky Home for the Elderly and Disabled out on a walk.23.11.1970#5588160
Voroshilovgrad, Ukrainian SSR. Children of the Rovenky Home for the Elderly and Disabled.23.11.1970#5588159
Voroshilovgrad, Ukrainian SSR. Talking to children of the Rovenky Home for the Elderly and Disabled.23.11.1970#5588158
Voroshilovgrad, Ukrainian SSR. Children from the Rovenky Home for the Elderly and Disabled.23.11.1970#5588157
Voroshilovgrad, Ukrainian SSR. Nurse of the Rovenky Home for the Elderly and Disabled combing little girl's hair.23.11.1970#5588156
Voroshilovgrad, Ukrainian SSR. Viktor Kozin's family helping the children from the Rovenky Home for the Elderly and Disabled.23.11.1970#5588155
Voroshilovgrad, Ukrainian SSR. Viktor Kozin talking to children from the Rovenky Home for the Elderly and Disabled.23.11.1970#5588154
Voroshilovgrad, Ukrainian SSR. Raising money to help the children of the Rovenky Home for the Elderly and Disabled.06.10.1970#5588150
Children during a graphics class at the Moscow boarding school for people with visual impairments.29.07.1970#5715713
Voroshilovgrad, Ukrainian SSR. Raising money to help the children of the Rovenky Home for the Elderly and Disabled.16.02.1970#5588153
Voroshilovgrad, Ukrainian SSR. Raising money to help the children of the Rovenky Home for the Elderly and Disabled.16.02.1970#5588152
Reproduction of "Pointer of Revenge Seeker" poster by Estonian artist E. Piho. The international exhibition "Satire in Fight for Peace".01.01.1969#435520
A man on crutches (with one leg amputated) looking at 'The Motherland Calls!' monument at the Mamayev Kurgan. 05.06.1967#133055
Soviet writer Vladislav Titov, a disabled person, and his wife Rita sorting letters from readers.01.02.1967#857724
Hero of Soviet Union and pilot Alexei Maresyev in his office at the Committee of War Veterans.21.06.1966#5855835
A vocational training enterprise of the All-Russian Society for the Visually Impaired. Blind and visually impaired employees at an assembly workshop.15.02.1966#6345555
Central Research Institute of Prosthesis and Prosthetics Design (now subdivision of Federal Bureau of Medical and Social Expert Review). Sergei Zubkov holds a razor with a bioelectric prosthetic hand created at the institute.23.09.1965#6019531
All-Russian Society of the Deaf Moscow Branch. USSR freestyle wrestling champion, Merited Master of Sport Mikhail Bekmurzov, center, during practice of the freestyle wrestling team made up of people with hearing disability and hearing impairment.16.05.1965#5879366
A chess tournament among people with hearing disability held by the All-Russian Society of the Deaf in Ulyanovsk.16.05.1965#5879365
Captain Ivan Shcherba, a former participant in the combat operations in Algeria (1962-1964), with his son Alexander and daughter Yelena. The Byelorussian SSR. 1964.01.08.1964#660621
War veteran admires Gely Korzhev's painting "Traces of War" at art exhibition "Moscow, Capital City." 01.01.1964#102688
Boris Gainulin, left, Komsomol brigade foreman during the construction of Bratsk Hydroelectric Power Plant.17.12.1963#5754353
The first Soviet psychic Roza Kuleshova has a unique ability, the "skin vision." She reads texts and recognizes colors with blindfolded eyes using extrasensory perception.03.02.1963#5996672
The unveiling of the monument to Alexander Pushkin by sculptor A. A. Kovalev and architect V. G. Gnezdilov at the entrance to Pushkin Park in Kiev on June 2, 1962. The poet's 3.5-meter statue is mounted on a black labradorite base inscribed with the words "To Pushkin from the people of Ukraine".02.06.1962#2555452
Gorky city. Photo: Residents of a retirement home for senior citizens and disabled persons are relaxing.01.04.1956#5880351
Prokofy Nektov from the village of Kazanka in the Orenburg Region's Sharlyksky District lost both legs during the Great Patriotic War of 1941-1945. After returning home, he learned to operate a harvester and achieved record-breaking results while harvesting and threshing grain crops. Affiliated with the Belozyorskaya motor-vehicle and tractor pool, he was awarded the title of Hero of Socialist Labor and also received the Hammer and Sickle gold medal.21.08.1953#5757432
The 15th Olympic Summer Games in Helsinki, Finland (July 19 - August 3, 1952). The opening ceremony was attended by 70,435 people.19.07.1952#2354787
The men's department of the Chesmensky home for war invalids named after Emperor Nicholas I. 01.11.1900#28091
