The Central Cultural Center of Soviet Work Reserves (now National Center of Arts and Humanitarian Technologies). A New Year's party with dancing, contests and games.30.12.1956#8909253
The Central Culture Palace of the USSR State Labor Reserves (Russian Center for the Development of Artistic Creativity and Humanitarian Technologies). Young radio amateurs master practical skills in constructing communication devices in the radio engineering studio.25.12.1956#8909408
Staff members of the Cosmic Rays Station of the Soviet Academy of Sciences' Yakut scientific and research base go fishing.16.09.1956#5964793
Head of the Cosmic Rays Station of the Soviet Academy of Sciences' Yakut scientific and research base, Yury Shafer, right, and his colleague go fishing in their leisure time.16.09.1956#5964792
Dmitry Krasilnikov, junior research assistant of the Cosmic Rays Station of the Soviet Academy of Sciences' Yakut scientific and research base, goes hunting in his leisure time.15.09.1956#5964791
Sergiyev Posad District, Moscow Region. Vorya River (left tributary of Klyazma) near Abramtsevo.01.08.1956#5941743
Members of a young sailors' club Valya Yakovleva and Yura Pukalov during navigation lessons.09.07.1956#5941745
Soviet women household routine. Maria Molchanova, a waitress at Praga restaurant, with her family.01.05.1956#5815767
Comprehensive Boarding School No. 2 on Kashtanovaya Alleya Street in Kaliningrad. Pupils of the boarding school during classes at the Pionersky Kostyor (Pioneer Fire) theater led by teacher Oleg Drutman. Reading of the play Matriculation Certificate by Liya Geraskina.19.04.1956#8908637
Bezvodnoye village in the Nizhny Novgorod Region's Kstov District. Photo: Rural school students attend the Bird Friends club.01.04.1956#5935670
Joseph Stalin Moscow Steel Institute (National University of Science and Technology "MISiS"). Chinese student Sui Yu-Jiang plays a traditional Chinese musical instrument.01.04.1956#5864903
Children at a design and technology class in a carpenter's workshop at Sormovo Orphanage No. 1 for orphans and children left without parental care in the city of Gorky.01.04.1956#5880355
Gorky city. Photo: Residents of a retirement home for senior citizens and disabled persons are relaxing.01.04.1956#5880351
The everyday life of Soviet women. Taisia Tulova, a worker of the Moscow-based Dukat Tobacco Factory, trains at an equestrian school.01.03.1956#5815795
Soviet women's everyday life. A Moscow hairdresser Lyubov Kulishova during a session in a swimming pool.01.03.1956#5815774
The youth amateur brass band of the Center of Culture and Technology of the Dzerzhinsky Stalingrad Tractor Plant (Volgograd Tractor Plant) is a close-knit, friendly team of different professions - they rehearse together, participate in concerts, and relax together.30.12.1955#8542598
New Year's Eve Party at the Cultural Center of the Stalingrad Tractor Plant (now Volgograd Tractor Plant). Mail, a note passing game popular among Soviet youth.30.12.1955#8542585
New Year's Eve Party at the Cultural Center of the Stalingrad Tractor Plant (now Volgograd Tractor Plant). Mail, a note passing game popular among Soviet youth.30.12.1955#8542561
New Year's Eve Party at the Cultural Center of the Stalingrad Tractor Plant (now Volgograd Tractor Plant).30.12.1955#8542545
Moscow. Second right: Maxim Tolmachev, Head of the Andrei Nedogonov Literary Association, conducts a seminar at the Gorbunov Palace of Culture.21.09.1954#8416235
Vacationers at a health resort in the Adler district of Sochi. A medical worker monitors the health of vacationers on the sanatorium beach.01.08.1954#8563050
Vacationers at Baranov Spa Resort in Simeiz (a former estate of Count Milyutin, the Minister of Defense under Emperor Alexander II). The resort has modern treatment and diagnostics facilities and a beach with a nap pavilion.12.07.1940#8544037
The Moscow Youth Center. Children feeding a bear cub at the nature corner. Moscow, 1939.25.07.1939#5761365
Moscow House of Pioneers and School Pupils. Classes in the electric engineering hobby group.25.01.1939#5761370
Izmailovo Park of Culture and Leisure named after Stalin (now Izmailovo Park) in Moscow. Ascent in a tethered balloon at one of the park's sites.29.08.1937#8548306
Academician Ivan Pavlov, Russian physiologist, winner of the 1904 Novel Prize in medicine and physiology. Academician Pavlov playing gorodki (similar to skittles).01.06.1929#3078790
People's Commissar (Minister) of Foreign Trade of the RSFSR and Soviet Plenipotentiary and Trade Envoy to the United Kingdom Leonid Krasin plays golf in the courtyard of the Soviet Embassy in London.07.05.1922#5851566
Russian Emperor Nicholas II (second from left) hunting. Russian State Archive of Film and Photo Documents.10.10.1915#8335782
Russian Emperor Nicholas II (fifth from right, second row) at Russian Knight, the aircraft designed by Igor Sikorsky. Russian State Archive of Film and Photo Documents.01.10.1913#8335783