Official meeting at the Kremlin Palace of Congresses, now the State Kremlin Palace, marking the successful completion of the triple Soyuz-6, Soyuz-7 and Soyuz-8 space mission.22.10.1969#5896190
Official meeting at the Kremlin Palace of Congresses, now the State Kremlin Palace, marking the successful completion of the triple Soyuz-6, Soyuz-7 and Soyuz-8 space mission. Photo: Presenting government awards.22.10.1969#5896188
Official meeting at the Kremlin Palace of Congresses, now the State Kremlin Palace, marking the successful completion of the triple Soyuz-6, Soyuz-7 and Soyuz-8 space mission. Photo: General Secretary of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union Leonid Brezhnev delivers a congratulatory speech.22.10.1969#5896186
Official meeting at the Kremlin Palace of Congresses, now the State Kremlin Palace, marking the successful completion of the triple Soyuz-6, Soyuz-7 and Soyuz-8 space mission.22.10.1969#5896181
High-Energy Physics Institute (now the High-Energy Physics Institute of the Kurchatov Institute National Research Center). A powerful generating accelerator triode.01.10.1969#6436166
The Cosmonaut Training Center. From left: The crew of the Soyuz-7 spacecraft that flew on October 12-17, 1969. Pilots-Cosmonauts Anatoly Filipchenko and Viktor Gorbatko inside a spacecraft simulator.01.10.1969#6437125
The Cosmonaut Training Center. From left: The crew of the Soyuz-6 spacecraft that flew on October 11-16, 1969. Pilots-Cosmonauts Georgy Shonin and Valery Kubasov inside a spacecraft simulator.01.10.1969#6437122
Konstantinovo village, Ryazan Region. The Sergei Yesenin Literature Museum in Lidiya Kashina's house (now the Sergei Yesenin State Museum and Reserve, Lidiya Kashina Estate).26.09.1969#6402984
German Democratic Republic. VEB Leunawerke Walter Ulbricht is the largest chemical plant situated in Halle near Leipzig.01.09.1969#6227933
The Chirkei hydropower plant on the Sulak River in the Daghestani ASSR. Photo: Senior Engineer Gennady Deryugin studies a spillway on the hydropower plant's working model.19.08.1969#6110449
Gus Khrustalny. View from a fiberglass company (now Steklovolokno). The building was demolished in 2011.15.08.1969#6157237
Deputies in the convention hall during the 6th Session of the Supreme Soviet of the USSR of the 7th Convocation at the Grand Kremlin Palace.10.07.1969#6204735
Deputies vote during the 6th Session of the Supreme Soviet of the USSR of the 7th Convocation at the Grand Kremlin Palace.10.07.1969#6204734
The Kostroma Power Plant (GRES). First stage assembly operations in the generator room.01.07.1969#5928939
A rotor shaft for a turbine generator is transported in one of the shops of the Izhora Plant.24.06.1969#6178315
Moscow City Palace of Pioneers and School Pupils on Leninskiye Gory (now Moscow City Palace of Children's and Youth Creativity on Vorobyevy Gory).22.06.1969#6174884
International meeting of Communist and workers' parties in Moscow (June 5-17, 1969). Delegation of the Polish United Workers' Party headed by First Secretary Wladyslaw Gomulka, third right, and Secretary Zenon Nowak, second right.12.06.1969#6249615
International meeting of Communist and workers' parties in Moscow (June 5-17, 1969). Delegation of the Hungarian Socialist Workers' Party headed by Secretary-General Janos Kadar, center.12.06.1969#6249614
From left: Luis Corvalan, General Secretary of the Communist Party of Chile, and Alexander Alexeyev, Deputy Board Chairman of Novosti Press Agency (Rossiya Segodnya), attend a reception at the Embassy of the Republic of Chile.06.06.1969#6256952
From left: Luis Corvalan, General Secretary of the Communist Party of Chile, and Professor Viktor Volsky, a Soviet economist and an expert on foreign and Latin American affairs, attend a reception at the Embassy of the Republic of Chile.06.06.1969#6256951
Moscow, the Soviet Union. The main-floor banquet hall at Slavyansky Bazar restaurant serving Rusisan cuisine.19.05.1969#6149593
The Receptions House on Lenin Hills. Opening a session of the Council for Mutual Economic Assistance (COMECON) involving leaders of Communist and workers' paarties and heads of government COMECON meember countries. Photo: A Soviet delegation headed by General Secretary of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union Leonid Brezhnev.23.04.1969#6237143
The 50th Communist Subbotnik held at Moscow Railway's Moscow Classification Locomotive Depot. From left: Vitaly Bubenin, Hero of the Soviet Union, senior lieutenant and participant in the 1969 Sino-Soviet border military conflict on Damansky Island, and maintenance technician G. Polyakov during work.12.04.1969#6206181
Voluntary work on Sunday. Pilot-Cosmonaut Vladimir Shatalov, right, near an unfinished club building.10.04.1969#6116952
Elekstrosila electric machine company (now a branch of Power Machines) in Leningrad. Finishing a turbine generator rotor shaft with a capacity of 800,000 kW.03.04.1969#6129475
Elektrosila electric machinery company (now a branch of Power Machines) in Leningrad. Preparation for turbo generator stator binding.03.04.1969#6126090
Pilots-Cosmonauts Vladimir Shatalov, center, and Georgy Beregovoi at a theoretical lesson.14.02.1969#6116955
Pilot-Cosmonaut Vladimir Shatalov trains on a bicycle exerciser. This makes it possible to expose latent coronary insufficiency and to determine his individual physical stamina levels.13.02.1969#6116948
Pilot cosmonaut Vladimir Shatalov during a training session with a cycle ergometer (a test held to find the latent (hidden) coronary insufficiency and determine the level of individual tolerance towards physical exercise).13.02.1969#5912339
A meeting marking the end of the Soyuz-4/Soyuz-5 space mission (January 14-18, 1969). From left: Crew members, pilots-cosmonauts Vladimir Shatalov, Boris Volynov, Alexei Yeliseyev and Yevgeny Khrunov during the awards ceremony at the Kremlin Palace of Congresses, now the State Kremlin Palace.22.01.1969#6118070
Groundbreaking operations inside a pit during construction of the Krasnoyarsk hydropower plant on the Yenisei River.18.01.1969#6110130
The Kazakh SSR. Welcoming crews of the Soyuz-4 and Soyuz-5 spacecraft [that flew on January 14-18, 1969] after landing. From left: Cosmonauts Vladimir Shatalov and Yevgeny Khrunov.18.01.1969#6019460
Soviet cosmonaut, Hero of the Soviet Union, and member of the Soyuz-4 crew Vladimir Shatalov after landing.17.01.1969#5969194
The Lenin Ural Heavy Electrical Engineering Uralelektrotyazhmash Plant in Sverdlovsk city, now Yekaterinburg. Photo: Assembling a hydro-generator's components.15.01.1969#6149599
The Lenin Ural Heavy Electrical Engineering Uralelektrotyazhmash Plant in Sverdlovsk city, now Yekaterinburg. Photo: Assembling aerial switches.15.01.1969#6149597
The first Gagarin Cosmonaut Training Center (today's Gagarin Cosmonaut Preparation Research and Training Center). Soviet cosmonaut, Lieutenant-General of Air Forces Vladimir Shatalov, after whom a lunar crater is named.10.01.1969#6163331
The first Gagarin Cosmonaut Training Center (today's Gagarin Cosmonaut Preparation Research and Training Center). Soviet cosmonaut, Lieutenant-General of Air Forces Vladimir Shatalov, after whom a lunar crater is named.10.01.1969#6163327
Pilot-Cosmonaut Vladimir Shatalov rehearses spacecraft docking sequence in the run-up to the Soyuz-4/Soyuz-5 space mission (January 14-18, 1969).02.01.1969#6116956
The Cosmonaut Training Center. From left: Members of the Soyuz-4 and Soyuz-5 space crews Pilots-Cosmonauts Alexei Yeliseyev, Vladimir Shatalov and Yevgeny Khrunov inside a spacecraft simulator.01.01.1969#6116954
The Cosmonaut Training Center. From left: Members of the Soyuz-4 and Soyuz-5 space crews Pilots-Cosmonauts Alexei Yeliseyev, Yevgeny Khrunov Vladimir Shatalov and Boris Volynov.01.01.1969#6116951
The Institute of Normal and Pathological Physiology of the Soviet Academy of Medical Sciences, now the Scientific Research Institute of General Pathology and Pathological Physiology. Photo: An employee of the radioactive isotopes laboratory.26.11.1968#6086943
The 15th session of the Permanent Council for Mutual Economic Assistance (COMECON) Commission for the Peaceful Use of Atomic Energy in Prague, the Czechoslovak Socialist Republic. Center: First Deputy Minister of Medium Machine-Building of the USSR Andranik Petrosyants, Head of the Main Directorate for the Use of Atomic Energy, delivers a reports.24.11.1968#6092847
Welcoming Pilot-Cosmonaut Georgy Beregovoi, commander of the Soyuz-3 spacecraft, after a successful mission at Vnukovo Airport near Moscow. General Secretary of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union Leonid Brezhnev, second left, and Georgy Beregovoi, left.01.11.1968#5870217
Welcoming Pilot-Cosmonaut Georgy Beregovoi, commander of the Soyuz-3 spacecraft, after a successful mission at Vnukovo Airport near Moscow. General Secretary of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union Leonid Brezhnev, second left, talks to Georgy Beregovoi, left.01.11.1968#5870216
An assembly at Kremlin Palace of Congress (today's Kremlin State Palace) dedicated to the return of Georgy Beregovoi from his space mission. Form left: USSR Supreme Council Presidium Chairman Nikolai Podgorny awards Merited Test Pilot of the USSR Georgy Beregovoi with the Order of Lenin and the Golden Star Medal of the Hero of the USSR.01.11.1968#6091776
