Leningrad. Mexican politician Lazaro Cardenas del Rio tours the Leningrad Palace of Young Pioneers while on a visit to the USSR.07.12.1958#5470416
Designer of the Leningrad State Optical--Mechanical Plant (now LOMO) Alexander Bespalov with a Congolese soldier. City of Brussels. 1958. From the personal archives.01.10.1958#5733792
World champion in running target rifle shooting Iogann Ivanovich Nikitin (1929-1990).03.09.1958#5483646
A frame from the animation film "The Snow Queen". A screen version of the fairy tale by Hans Christian Andersen. Director Lev Atamanov, scriptwriters Georgy Grebner, Nikolai Erdman, Lev Atamanov. Artistic directors Leonid Schwarzman, Aleksandr Vinokurov. Studio "Soyuzmultfilm", 1957.01.07.1958#751943
A frame from the animation film "The Snow Queen". A screen version of the fairy tale by Hans Christian Andersen. Director Lev Atamanov, scriptwriters Georgy Grebner, Nikolai Erdman, Lev Atamanov. Artistic directors Leonid Schwarzman, Aleksandr Vinokurov. Studio "Soyuzmultfilm", 1957.01.07.1958#751944
A frame from the animation film "The Snow Queen". A screen version of the fairy tale by Hans Christian Andersen. Director Lev Atamanov, scriptwriters Georgy Grebner, Nikolai Erdman, Lev Atamanov. Artistic directors Leonid Schwarzman, Aleksandr Vinokurov. Studio "Soyuzmultfilm", 1957.01.07.1958#751942
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
Physical chemist Alexander Frumkin, Member of the Soviet Academy of Sciences, founder of the Soviet electochemical scientific school and electrical-chemical kinetics.02.12.1956#6404838
First USSR Summer Spartakiade (August 5-16, 1956) in Moscow. The cycling track at the Young Pioneers Stadium (no longer exists). Racing cyclist, multiple USSR champion in spring and heat Rostislav Vargashkin.12.08.1956#6401522
Writer Mikhail Alexandrovich Sholokhov (11(24).05.1905-21.02.1984),Maria Petrovna Sholokhov and writer`s youngest daughter Maria.01.07.1956#577314
Soviet speed skater Sofya Kondakova, Merited Master of Sport, 1956 world champion in women's classical all-round event in Kvarnsveden, Sweden, is at home with her husband.01.03.1956#5815812
Soviet speed skater Sofya Kondakova, Merited Master of Sport, 1956 world champion in women's classical all-round event in Kvarnsveden, Sweden, during a skiing trip.01.03.1956#5815810
Soviet speed skater Sofya Kondakova, Merited Master of Sport, 1956 world champion in women's classical all-round event in Kvarnsveden, Sweden.05.02.1956#5815806
Vissarion Shebalin, Soviet composer, National Artist of RSFSR, winner of two Stalin Prizes 1st class.10.12.1955#5943826
First Secretary of the Soviet Communist Party's Central Committee Nikita Khrushchev [1894-1971], second left, and Soviet statesman, military leader and Marshal of the Soviet Union Nikolai Bulganin [1895-1975], third right, during a bandy match at a stadium in Jaipur.05.11.1955#487650
Closing ceremony of the 1963 USSR Track and Field Championships. Athletes lowering the flag, from left: 800 m race champion Georgy Ivakin, 800 m race champion Nina Otkalenko, 400 m hurdles champion Yury Lituyev, pentathlon champion Alexandra Chudina.27.08.1953#5605541
The USSR Football Cup Trophy, prize of one of the Soviet Union's major football tournaments.04.08.1952#5604060
Giving the international Stalin prize "For the consolidation of peace among nations" to British public figure Monica Felton, Sverdlov Hall, Grand Kremlin Palace.25.04.1952#738585
Russian and Soviet writer Fyodor Vasilievich Gladkov. Portrait by Alexander Mikhailovich Gerasimov.01.01.1952#5475064
The Ukrainian Soviet Socialist Republic. The city of Mikhailovka of Donetsk coal-mining field. Drill runner Luka Golokolosov.01.01.1952#5478192
International Stalin Prize winner "For Strengthening Peace Among Nations" of 1950, the Women's Democratic Union of Korea, Pak Den Ai (DPRK). A reproduction.01.01.1951#727233
Cellist Mstislav Rostropovich, winner of the 3rd National Contest of Musicians in 1945.26.07.1945#2780347
Militiamen marching down Moscow's Gorky Street in 1941. Still from documentary "The Defeat of Nazi Forces Near Moscow" directed by Leonid Varlamov and Ilya Kopalin at the Central Newsreel Studio in October 1941 -- January 1942 during the 1941-1945 Great Patriotic War against Nazi Germany.04.09.1941#601347
Yuldash Akhunbabayev (right), chairman of the Uzbek SSR Central Executive Committee, hands in a prize (high boots) to a foremost worker on the construction site of the Fergana big channel.01.06.1941#82207
President of the Uzbek SSR Yuldash Akhunbabayev (right) presents the prize (high boots) to the best worker at the Big Fergana Canal project. 01.08.1939#62869
Alexander Melik-Pashayev, winner of the second prize, conducting an orchestra at the 1st USSR Conductor Competition, at the Grand Hall of the Moscow Conservatory. Moscow, 1938.19.07.1938#5595326
Composer Sergei Prokofiev, center, on the stage of Grand Hall of Moscow Conservatory (now Tchaikovsky Moscow State Conservatory), Moscow, 1936.17.09.1936#6011828
Soviet Russian physiologist Ivan Pavlov pronounces a toast for Soviet science during the 15th International Physiology Conference on August 9-17, 1935 in Leningrad.09.09.1935#5712844
Soviet writers Alexei Tolstoy, left, and Mikhail Sholokhov, 1934. State Literary Museum.12.11.1934#5677584
Director Konstantin Stanislavsky, left, receives English playwright George Bernard Shaw in his summer cottage.22.07.1931#5657669
Director Konstantin Stanislavsky, center, receives British playwright George Bernard Shaw, right, and Soviet politician Anatoly Lunacharsky at his dacha.22.07.1931#5669506
British writer Bernard Shaw (left) greeted at the airport and escorted to a car. A picture from the stock of the State Archive of Film and Photo Documents.21.07.1931#782899
Indian writer and public figure, poet, musician, artist Rabidranat Tagor (Tkhakur Robindronatkh) is at the meeting with Moscow schoolboys, 1931. Picture reproduction.15.09.1930#663635
Writer Mikhail Sholokhov (1905-1984) reads out excerpts from And Quiet Flows the Don at the Krasny Bogatyr workers' club in 1929.01.12.1929#5613887
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
Yalta, Ukraine, later the Ukrainian SSR. World-famous Russian writer Anton Chekhov in the early 20th century.10.05.1903#6079537
