Russian director Andrei Konchalovsky poses with the Special Jury Prize he received for the movie "Dear Comrades!" during the winners' photocall at the closing ceremony of the 77th Venice Film Festival in Venice, Italy.12.09.2020#6330963
Russian director Andrei Konchalovsky poses with the Special Jury Prize he received for the movie "Dear Comrades!" during the winners' photocall at the closing ceremony of the 77th Venice Film Festival in Venice, Italy.12.09.2020#6330964
Russian director Andrei Konchalovsky poses with the Special Jury Prize he received for the movie "Dear Comrades!" during the winners' photocall at the closing ceremony of the 77th Venice Film Festival in Venice, Italy.12.09.2020#6330965
Russian director Andrei Konchalovsky poses with the Special Jury Prize he received for the movie "Dear Comrades!" during the winners' photocall at the closing ceremony of the 77th Venice Film Festival in Venice, Italy.12.09.2020#6330966
Russian director Andrei Konchalovsky poses with the Special Jury Prize he received for the movie "Dear Comrades!" during the winners' photocall at the closing ceremony of the 77th Venice Film Festival in Venice, Italy.12.09.2020#6330967
Russian director Andrei Konchalovsky poses with the Special Jury Prize he received for the movie "Dear Comrades!" during the winners' photocall at the closing ceremony of the 77th Venice Film Festival in Venice, Italy.12.09.2020#6330968
Russian director Andrei Konchalovsky poses with the Special Jury Prize he received for the movie "Dear Comrades!" during the winners' photocall at the closing ceremony of the 77th Venice Film Festival in Venice, Italy.12.09.2020#6330969
Russian director Andrei Konchalovsky poses with the Special Jury Prize he received for the movie "Dear Comrades!" during the winners' photocall at the closing ceremony of the 77th Venice Film Festival in Venice, Italy.12.09.2020#6330970
Russian director Andrei Konchalovsky poses with the Special Jury Prize he received for the movie "Dear Comrades!" during the winners' photocall at the closing ceremony of the 77th Venice Film Festival in Venice, Italy.12.09.2020#6330971
Russian director Andrei Konchalovsky poses with the Special Jury Prize he received for the movie "Dear Comrades!" during the winners' photocall at the closing ceremony of the 77th Venice Film Festival in Venice, Italy.12.09.2020#6330972
Russian director Andrei Konchalovsky poses with the Special Jury Prize he received for the movie "Dear Comrades!" during the winners' photocall at the closing ceremony of the 77th Venice Film Festival in Venice, Italy.12.09.2020#6330973
Russian director Andrei Konchalovsky poses with the Special Jury Prize he received for the movie "Dear Comrades!" during the winners' photocall at the closing ceremony of the 77th Venice Film Festival in Venice, Italy.12.09.2020#6330974
Kiev residents lay flowers at the Russian Embassy in Kiev in memory of the TU-154 air crash victims in Sochi.26.12.2016#3003834
Vorkuta's Olymp Center where the ceremony of mourning miners killed in a Severnaya mine accident took place.29.02.2016#2799557
Activists of the Trade Union of Russian Citizens picket the US Embassy in Moscow to support the Russian entrepreneur Viktor Bout convicted by an American jury of arms smuggling.27.03.2012#1076180
The women of the Abutalipovs family living in the Dagestan village of Rakhati making burkas, the traditional clothes of people inhabiting the Caucasus region. Only a few families in the Caucasus are engaged in this craft.21.06.2010#701828
The town of Baltiysk welcoming Russia's missile frigate Neustrashimy, which participated in a counter-piracy mission in the Gulf of Aden. The crew spent over four months in a tour of duty off Somalia, where pirates frequently assault vessels. The missile frigate succeeded in averting a few piratical attacks.08.02.2009#373025
Farewell ceremony for wife of the former President of the USSR, Raisa Gorbachev at the Russian Culture Foundation. Mikhail Gorbachev, friends and family members near the coffin.23.09.1999#5772635
Serafimovskoye Cemetery, St. Petersburg. The funeral of Yury Alexandrov, a crew member of the Baltic Shipping Company's motor ship Polessk that sank on September 17, 1993. One sailor, Yury Altukhov, survived by a miracle nd was rescued by a foreign vessel on the high seas.07.10.1993#6295703
Serafimovskoye Cemetery in St. Ptersburg. Funeral services for Yury Alexandrov, a deceased sailor of the motor ship Polessk, owned by the Baltic Shipping Company, that sank on September 17, 1993.07.10.1993#8722087
Serafimovskoye Cemetery in St. Ptersburg. Funeral services for Yury Alexandrov, a deceased sailor of the motor ship Polessk, owned by the Baltic Shipping Company, that sank on September 17, 1993.07.10.1993#8722088
Viktor Chernomyrdin, Chairman of the Council of Ministers (Government) of Russia (second right), meets his near and dear in Chorny Otrog village.01.07.1993#37112
October 9, 1991. Paying last respects to tragically murdered singer and composer Igor Talkov at Youth Palace on Moscow's Komsomolsky Prospekt.09.10.1991#8232667
October 9, 1991. Paying last respects to tragically murdered singer and composer Igor Talkov at Youth Palace on Moscow's Komsomolsky Prospekt.09.10.1991#8231686
October 9, 1991. Paying last respects to tragically murdered singer and composer Igor Talkov at Youth Palace on Moscow's Komsomolsky Prospekt.09.10.1991#8231683
October 9, 1991. Paying last respects to tragically murdered singer and composer Igor Talkov at Youth Palace on Moscow's Komsomolsky Prospekt.09.10.1991#8231681
October 9, 1991. Paying last respects to tragically murdered singer and composer Igor Talkov at Youth Palace on Moscow's Komsomolsky Prospekt.09.10.1991#8231680
October 9, 1991. Paying last respects to tragically murdered singer and composer Igor Talkov at Youth Palace on Moscow's Komsomolsky Prospekt.09.10.1991#8231679
Farewell to tragically lost singer and composer Igor Talkov at the Youth Palace on Komsomolsky Avenue in Moscow, October 9, 1991.09.10.1991#8600285
Farewell to tragically lost singer and composer Igor Talkov at the Youth Palace on Komsomolsky Avenue in Moscow, October 9, 1991.09.10.1991#8600284
Moscow. Newlyweds Lydia and Mikhail Pavlov after officially registering their marriage at the local Wedding Palace.01.09.1991#8595890
Moscow. Newlyweds Lydia and Mikhail Pavlov after officially registering their marriage at the local Wedding Palace.01.09.1991#8595889
The Ukrainian SSR. An event honoring residents of Ivano-Frankovsk who perished during clean-up operations following the April 26, 1986 disaster at the Chernobyl nuclear power plant.26.04.1991#6738095
The Ukrainian SSR. A rally in Ivano-Frankovsk on the day of memory and sorrow for victims of the April 26, 1986 disaster at the Chernobyl nuclear power plant.26.04.1991#6738094
Events in Vilnius, Lithuania, in February 1991 following the republic's secession from the Soviet Union. Supporters of the country's independence clashed with service personnel of the Soviet Armed Forces and activists of the Committee for the National Salvation of the Lithuanian SSR. Photo: Paying last respects to those killed during clashes.16.02.1991#8227349
Works of Georgian artist, representative of the "primitivism" art movement Niko Pirosmani (real name Nikolai Pirosmanashvili, 1862-1918). Photo courtesy Nino Meliya.11.09.1989#680696
Military commanders invited relatives of conscripts to attend the Convention of Soldiers' Mothers at the 2nd Guards Taman Division in the Moscow Region.17.02.1989#8199535
Military commanders invited relatives of conscripts to attend the Convention of Soldiers' Mothers at the 2nd Guards Taman Division in the Moscow Region.17.02.1989#8199534
Military commanders invited relatives of conscripts to attend the Convention of Soldiers' Mothers at the 2nd Guards Taman Division in the Moscow Region.17.02.1989#8199532
Military commanders invited relatives of conscripts to attend the Congress of Soldiers' Mothers at the 2nd Guards Taman Motorized Rifle Division in the Moscow Region.17.02.1989#8199531
Military commanders invited relatives of conscripts to attend the Congress of Soldiers' Mothers. In this photo, they are attending a festive concert in the Columns Hall of the House of Trade Unions in Moscow.17.02.1989#8199530
Hearing the case of amateur pilot Mathias Rust from the Federal Republic of Germany at an open session of the Criminal Cases Panel of the Supreme Court of the USSR. On May 28, 1987, Rust violated Soviet airspace and landed on Moscow's Bolshoi Moskvoretsky Bridge. Photo: Defendant Mathias Rust with his parents, Monika and Karl-Heinz Rust, in the courtroom.02.09.1987#8587000
Hearing the case of amateur pilot Mathias Rust from the Federal Republic of Germany at an open session of the Criminal Cases Panel of the Supreme Court of the USSR. On May 28, 1987, Rust violated Soviet airspace and landed on Moscow's Bolshoi Moskvoretsky Bridge. Photo: Defendant Mathias Rust with his parents, Monika and Karl-Heinz Rust, in the courtroom.02.09.1987#8586999
The funeral of Soviet politician Vyacheslav Molotov in Moscow's Novodevichye Cemetery.12.11.1986#6736658
Participants of the opening ceremony of I Goodwill Games on the Central Lenin Stadium in Moscow.05.07.1986#483061
The Soviet tanker Lugansk that hit a mine in Sandino, Nicaragua, returning to the Novorossiisk seaport. The ship sustained serious damage, and several sailors were wounded. This act of international piracy once again laid bare the aggressive essence of the |US administration's policy. Photo: Welcoming Soviet sailors who honorably withstood the difficult ordeal and who worthily fulfilled their duty.19.04.1984#8379684
Moscow. Members of a delegation from the People's Republic of China headed by Chinese Foreign Minister Huang Hua, center left, pay last respects to Leonid Brezhnev, General Secretary of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union and Chairman of the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet (Parliament) of the USSR, at the Hall of Columns, House of Trade Unions.15.11.1982#6727594
Volgograd airport welcome to Hungarian delegation led by Janos Kadar (second left), First Secretary of the Hungarian Socialist Workers' Party.29.06.1968#571753
A wedding of Nigerian students from Patrice Lumumba People's Friendship University, now People's Friendship University of Russia, in Moscow.17.09.1966#6045204
