Soviet stage-and-screen actress Valentina Telichkina, right, receives guests at home.01.06.1969#5911940
General Secretary of the CPSU Central Committee Leonid Ilyich Brezhnev (center) and Chairman of the USSR Supreme Soviet's Presidium Nikolai Viktorovich Podgorny (second from left) among Soviet cosmonauts.22.01.1969#563273
General Secretary of the CPSU Central Committee Leonid Ilyich Brezhnev (second from left) among Soviet cosmonauts. The Kremlin Palace of Congresses, the Banquet Hall.22.01.1969#563271
General Secretary of the CPSU Central Committee Leonid Ilyich Brezhnev (second from left) among Soviet cosmonauts. The Kremlin Palace of Congresses, the Banquet Hall.22.01.1969#563270
General Secretary of the CPSU Central Committee Leonid Ilyich Brezhnev (left) among Soviet cosmonauts. The Kremlin Palace of Congresses, the Banquet Hall.22.01.1969#563269
General Secretary of the CPSU Central Committee Leonid Ilyich Brezhnev (second from left) among Soviet cosmonauts. The Kremlin Palace of Congresses, the Banquet Hall.22.01.1969#563268
General Secretary of the CPSU Central Committee Leonid Ilyich Brezhnev among Soviet cosmonauts. The Kremlin Palace of Congresses, the Banquet Hall.22.01.1969#563267
General Secretary of the CPSU Central Committee Leonid Ilyich Brezhnev among Soviet cosmonauts. The Kremlin Palace of Congresses, the Banquet Hall.22.01.1969#563266
General Secretary of the CPSU Central Committee Leonid Ilyich Brezhnev among Soviet cosmonauts. The Kremlin Palace of Congresses, the Banquet Hall.22.01.1969#563265
General Secretary of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union Leonid Brezhnev, left, and President of the Presidium of the USSR Supreme Soviet (Parliament) Nikolai Podgorny meet with Soviet pilots-cosmonauts. From left: Hero of the Soviet Union Vladimir Shatalov, Hero of the Soviet Union Alexei Yeliseyev and Hero of the Soviet Union Boris Volynov.01.01.1969#6151886
A fragment of the ceiling in the Arbat restaurant in Kalinin Prospekt (now Novy Arbat) in Moscow. Opened in 1967, Arbat is the largest restaurant in Europe and features in the Guinness Book of World Records.19.06.1968#6091089
Pobeda collective farm, Sunzhensky district, Chechen-Ingush ASSR. Farmer Dmitry Yemelyanov, left, is congratulated on his retirement and is given a gift.01.08.1967#6212296
Pobeda collective farm, Sunzhensky district, Chechen-Ingush ASSR. A banquet celebrating retirement of the farm's workers.01.08.1967#6212244
Soviet partisans and WWII participants meet with Polish national hero and legendary partisan intelligence officer Stanislaw Wronski, right, at the House of Friendship With Peoples of Foreign Countries.01.07.1966#5868413
A Jewish wedding in Moscow. Photo: Newlyweds Maya Babinets and Eduard Wasserstein at a wedding feast.04.09.1965#6022695
The Georgian SSR. Photo: Roman and Nana are getting married in the village of Natanebi.01.07.1965#5856256
The Georgian SSR. Photo: Roman and Nana are getting married in the village of Natanebi. They are walking under daggers in a ceremony which aims to protect their family.01.07.1965#5856255
Indian Prime Minister Lal Bahadur Shastri (R) attending a reception in his honor at Moscow's Grand Kremlin Palace.15.05.1965#415620
Reception on the occasion of Rusiian Federation writers II congress ending. Reception participants: Russian Federation CC CPSU Bureau First deputy Chairman Andrei Kirilenko (right), Russian Federation Writers Union Executive committee Chairman Leonid Sobolev (second right), the USSR Supreme Soviet Chairman Anastas Mikoyan (left).08.03.1965#687909
Official event honoring Soviet athletes, winners and medalists of the 1964 Tokyo Summer Olympics at the Kremlin Palace of Congresses, now the State Kremlin Palace. Photo: Galina Prozumenshchikova, the first Soviet Olympic swimming champion (200 meters, breast-stroke) and silver medalist Georgy Prokopenko (200 meters breast-stroke).25.12.1964#5897857
The Stockholm City Hall was built in 1911-1923 on Kungsholmen Island Spit to a design by architect Ragnar Estberg.18.07.1964#5950397
A visit by King of Laos Sisavang Vatthana to the USSR. Sisavang Vatthana visits the Uzbek SSR. Chairman of the Council of Ministers of the Uzbek SSR Rakhmankul Kurbanov, left, presents a traditional Uzbek dress and a cap to the king.04.09.1963#5997799
Left: Swedish scientist and International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) Director General Sigvard Eklund and his wife talk to Andranik Petrosyants, Deputy Chairman of the State Committee for the Use of Atomic Energy of the Council of Ministers (Government) of the USSR.09.02.1963#6004826
Italian surgeon Mario Dogliotti speaks after receiving a diploma of a foreign member of the USSR Academy of Medical Sciences.23.07.1962#731727
A still from the documentary film "America Applauds Soviet Ballet", Zoya Tulubyeva, director, 195927.11.1959#180509
Soviet physicist Pyotr Kapitsa receives a University of Calcutta medal for his contribution to global science. From left: Pyotr Kapitsa, a member of the Soviet Academy of Sciences, talks to Mikhail Malkov, DSc. (Technology), and Ambassador of the Republic of India to the Soviet Union Kumar Padma Shivashankar Menon at the Indian Embassy in Moscow.16.01.1957#5968687
Ernst Henry (Semyon Rostovsky) (right), a Soviet journalist who worked in foreign countries, and Vyacheslav Molotov, people’s commissioner for foreign affairs, during a reception in the Soviet Embassy in London, September 1945. (Photo from a family archive).14.09.1945#149821
Alexander Troyanovsky (center), Soviet ambassador to the U.S., at a reception dedicated to Soviet academics Otto Schmidt (right, sitting) and Sergei Ushakov (left, sitting). 01.07.1934#33957
