Blind and deaf writer and defectologist Olga Skorokhodova, left, holds a colleague by the hand to understand what he is saying and feel the sound of his voice. The latter is Alexander Meshcheryakov, senior researcher at the Institute of Defectology of the Academy of Pedagogical Sciences of the USSR.01.12.1972#5489505
Blind and deaf writer and defectologist Olga Skorokhodova types on a Braille typewriter. Working at the Institute of Defectology of the Academy of Pedagogical Sciences of the USSR, Skorokhodova was the world's only blind and deaf researcher.01.12.1972#5489504
Blind and deaf writer and defectologist Olga Skorokhodova reads a book with Braille's relief-dotted font. Working at the Institute of Defectology of the Academy of Pedagogical Sciences of the USSR, Skorokhodova was the world's only blind and deaf researcher.01.12.1972#5489503
Blind and deaf writer and defectologist Olga Skorokhodova, left, holds a colleague by the hand to understand what he is saying by the phone. The latter is Alexander Meshcheryakov, senior researcher at the Institute of Defectology of the Academy of Pedagogical Sciences of the USSR.01.12.1972#5489502
Blind and deaf writer and defectologist Olga Skorokhodova leaves her autograph on the book "The way I perceive, imagine and understand the world." Working at the Institute of Defectology of the Academy of Pedagogical Sciences of the USSR, Skorokhodova was the world's only blind and deaf researcher.01.12.1972#5489500
Moscow boarding school No. 1 for the education and rehabilitation of blind children. Using Braille code to study foreign languages.17.05.1972#5647049
One of the rooms in the Lenin apartment-museum on Serdobolskaya Street in Leningrad, which from October 7 to November 6, 1917 was Lenin's last shelter before an armed uprising.01.02.1969#755667
Filipino singing and dancing ensemble Bayanihan ensemble on tour in the USSR. Ballet dancer Galina Ulanova (left) and director Yury Zavadsky writing in the book of honored guests.10.08.1968#599794
Vladimir Samoilov as Boris Savenkov in "Failure." Directed by Vladimir Chebotarev. Mosfilm Studios.01.05.1968#10648
A tactile world globe in the reading-room of the library at the House of Culture for the blind, Leningrad branch of the All-Union Society of the Blind (currently the All-Russian Society of the Blind).10.03.1968#6070264
Visually impaired architect Alexander Zotov, Great Patriotic War veteran who went blind but continued working as an architect after the war. The Uzbek SSR's city of Angren in Tashkent Region was build after his designs.20.06.1966#5920936
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
Soviet violinist Kirill Zhirkovich lost vision in his childhood which did not prevent him from becoming a first-rate musician.03.01.1966#5859106
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
Yelena Korolyova as Helen Keller in William Gibson's play "The Miracle Worker" staged by Alexander Shatrin at the Moscow M.Yermolova Theatre. 1964.01.06.1964#732596
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
A Soviet mathematician, member of the USSR Academy of Sciences Lev Pontryagin. He lost eyesight in accident at the age of 14.01.04.1962#574577
From left to right: Nikolai Gribov as Kandyba, Vasily Livanov as Petrus and Dmitry Kondratiev as Nikita when being filmed in the movie "Blind Musician"06.09.1961#12350
Chess tournament for visually impaired and blind children at the athletic boarding school of the All-Union Society of the Blind.01.03.1956#5815801
Turner Kazorenoi, a visually impaired invalid, works at the capstan and turret lathe at the Moscow enterprise of the All-Union Society of the Blind.01.03.1956#5815800
