The Tatyana's Day (Russian Students Day) traditional festival celebrations at Lomonosov Moscow State University. From left: Viktor Sadovnichy, Rector of Lomonosov Moscow State University, greets Vladimir Zhirinovsky, leader of the State Duma's Liberal Democratic Party of Russia faction, who arrived to attend the celebrations.25.01.2001#8898479
The Tatyana's Day (Russian Students Day) traditional festival celebrations at Lomonosov Moscow State University. From left: Yevgeny Primakov, head of the State Duma's Fatherland – All Russia party faction, presents a commemorative vase with an image of Russia's first major scientist and polymath Mikhail Lomonosov to Viktor Sadovnichy, Rector of Lomonosov Moscow State University.25.01.2001#8898465
Vladimir Shagal, Soviet Orientalist, writer, translator, Doctor of Sciences in Philology, professor at the Institute of Asian and African Studies of Moscow State University, and member of the Union of Soviet Writers.16.06.1990#8411795
Nodari Simoniya, Soviet political expert, Orientalist, and Deputy Director of Institute of World Economy and International Relations of the Academy of Sciences of the USSR, gives an interview to S. Musafir, correspondent for an Arabian newspaper.01.01.1989#6747519
Nodari Simoniya, Soviet political expert, Orientalist, and Deputy Director of Institute of World Economy and International Relations of the Academy of Sciences of the USSR.01.01.1989#6747513
Afghan students at the Tajik Agricultural Institute (now Tajik Agricultural University) during cotton cultivation class.26.06.1983#8292682
State Hermitage Museum Director Boris Piotrovsky holds a museum tour for elementary school students.15.10.1982#6708397
The Central Asian Research Hydrometeorological Institute (today Uzhydromet Research Hydrometeorological Institute) in Tashkent, Uzbek SSR. Second left: Alexander Osipov, the institute's employee, avalanche service chief, is seen aboard a helicopter while inspecting mountain pastures.01.12.1981#6699261
The Central Asian Research Hydrometeorological Institute (today Uzhydromet Research Hydrometeorological Institute) in Tashkent, Uzbek SSR. Developing a program to process information.01.12.1981#6699260
The Uzbek SSR. Students at Lenin Tashkent State University (today's Mirzo Ulugbek National University of Uzbekistan) during laboratory classes.01.06.1974#5507353
The Uzbek SSR. Students at Lenin Tashkent State University (today's Mirzo Ulugbek National University of Uzbekistan).01.06.1974#5507347
Lomonosov Moscow State University's Institute of Oriental Languages (now - Institute of Asian and African Studies). Burmese language lessons.11.11.1972#5696660
Lomonosov Moscow State University's Institute of Oriental Languages (now - Institute of Asian and African Studies). Students inside the language room.11.11.1972#5696659
The Institute of Oriental Languages (from 1972 - Institute of Asian and African Studies) at Lomonosov Moscow State University (MSU). Postgraduate student Gennady Bandilenko at the institute's library.25.05.1972#5647094
Participants in the international Conference Racism-Enemy of Social Progress at the Russian Academy of Sciences' Africa Institute.27.09.1971#5801312
The Al-Biruni Institute of Asian Studies of the Uzbek SSR Academy of Sciences (today's Uzbekistan Academy of Sciences). Research Fellow Abdulladzhan Dzheunaniardiyev deciphers ancient manuscripts.22.08.1967#6140590
Patrice Lumumba People's Friendship University (now People's Friendship University of Russia). Vice Rector Rafail Romanov, far center, meets with students from Asian and African countries.11.05.1964#5942989
The international student theater Friendship of the Institute of Oriental Languages (today's Institute of Asian and African Studies) of Lomonosov Moscow State University (MSU). A quartet of Italian students sing the song Mamma Mia (My Mother) to the accompaniment of a student jazz orchestra.04.05.1961#5794403
Learning Arabic at the Institute of Oriental Languages, Lomonosov Moscow State University, created as a special department for oriental languages (now Institute of Asia and Africa).03.12.1956#8913848
The 3rd International Congress on Iranian Art and Archeology in Leningrad in September 1935. Iranian Minister of Education Ali Asghar Hekmat, left, and State Hermitage Museum director Joseph Orbeli, 3rd left, near the entrance to State Hermitage Museum.26.09.1935#5795273
Participants in the 3rd International Congress on Iranian Art and Archeology in Leningrad in September 1935.26.09.1935#5795271