Small arms designer Major General and Two-Time Hero of Socialist Labor Mikhail Kalashnikov, recipient of the State Prize of the Russian Federation, developed the Kalashnikov assault rifle, the most reliable and popular assault rifle in the world03.11.1997#8469250
Left: Vladimir Kinelev, Chairman of the Rusisan Federation's State Committee on Higher Education, meets with journalists at RIA Novosti Agency, now Rossiya Segodnya International Information Agency.20.05.1996#6395959
Anatoly Dudyrev, Rector of the Lensovet (Leningrad City Council) Leningrad Technological Institute, now St. Petersburg State Technological Institute/Technical University, addresses delegates of the 28th Congress of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union.08.07.1990#8339371
A bust to Soviet designer Mikhail Yangel who developed space rocket systems in Plesetsk, the Arkhangelsk Region.01.07.1990#8213105
Vladimir Klyuyev, First Secretary of Moscow's Leninsky District Committee of Communist Party of the Soviet Union.06.06.1988#6572589
Delegates of the 19th All-Union Communist Party of the Soviet Union Conference (June 28-July 1, 1988): Yury Afanasyev, Rector of the Moscow State Historical Archive Institute, now the Historical Archive Institute of the Russian State University of the Humanities, and Vitalina Trifonenko, a student of the Mendeleyev Moscow Institute of Chemical Technology.01.06.1988#6567354
Chairman of the State Committee of the USSR for Science and Technology Boris Tolstykh.01.06.1987#3270987
Chairman of the State Committee of the USSR for Science and Technology Boris Tolstykh.01.06.1987#3270986
Chairman of the State Committee of the USSR for Science and Technology Boris Tolstykh.01.06.1987#3270985
Soviet scientist - Professor Mir Kerim oglu Seid-Reza, DSc (Technology), an expert on the petroleum industry, Associate Member of the Academy of Sciences of the Azerbaijani SSR, Director of the Azerbaijani Petroleum Research and Development Institute AZNIPINEFT, meets with representatives of the Indin press.01.02.1986#8878303
The Crimean coast in the Ukrainian SSR. Photo:Vyacheslav Yastrebov, Deputy Director of the Shirshov Institute of Oceanology of the Soviet Academy of Sciences, now the Russian Academy of Sciences (wearing white helmet, left), during ship-launching operations.14.06.1985#5915156
The 20th Congress of International Association of Hydraulic Engineering and Research in Moscow. Photo: Pyotr Neporozhny, Chair of the Congressional Organizing Committee and Minister of Power Industry and Electrification of the USSR, replies to journalists' questions.05.09.1983#8145879
Dmitry Zhimerin, First Deputy Chairman of the State Committee for Science and Technology of the USSR.01.10.1982#6675525
Vilnius State University Rector Jonas Kubilius, Member of the Academy of Sciences of the Lithuanian SSR, the founder and head of the Lithuanian probability and numbers theory scientific school.01.09.1972#6210592
Associate member of the Academy of Sciences of the USSR, researcher in automobile equipment and transport Dmitry Velikanov (1908-1986).01.01.1972#5690171
The Cosmonaut Training Center. Photo: Pilot-Cosmonaut Alexei Yeliseyev trains for the January 15-18, 1969 Soyuz-5 manned mission.01.07.1969#5982613
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
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
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
Soviet scientist Nikolai Leontyev, holder of two Cambodian orders, specialized in construction mechanics. In 1963-1965, he headed a group of Soviet lecturers at the Higher Technical Institute of Khmer-Soviet Friendship, now the Cambodian Institute of Technology, and also worked as an advisor to the Institute's Rector on orders from the Soviet Ministry of Higher Education.15.08.1966#6103711
An official meeting honoring the second graduation class of the Patrice Lumumba Peoples' Friendship University, now Peoples' Friendship University of Russia, at the Kremlin Palace of Congresses, now the State Kremlin Palace. Left: The University's rector Professor Sergei Rumyantsev at the meeting.30.06.1966#6326453
Professor Alexander Lebedinsky, a Soviet astrophysicist and geophysicist, speaks at a news conference on the first lunar soft landing involving the Luna-9 Soviet automatic interplanetary probe on February 9, 1966. The probe's television camera transmitted video footage of the lunar surface's images.10.02.1966#6345551
Mstislav Keldysh, President of the Soviet Academy of Sciences, opens a news conference on the first lunar soft landing involving the Luna-9 Soviet automatic interplanetary probe on February 9, 1966. The probe's television camera transmitted video footage of the lunar surface's images.10.02.1966#6345550
Signing a Soviet-French cooperation agreement in the area of color television broadcasts. Right: Jermen Gvishiani, Deputy Chairman of the State Committee on Science and Technology, signs the document.10.05.1965#6323074
Vladimir Kirillin (1913-1999), a Soviet statesman and Communist Party activist, a famous scientist in the area of power-engineering and thermal physics and a member of the Soviet Academy of Sciences.01.08.1962#5603079
