The Kazan Federal Cathedral (The Cathedral of Kazan Mother of God) built in 1801-1811 by architect Andrei Voronikhin. The cathedral was inactive between 1932 and 1991 and was home to the Religion and Atheism History Museum of the USSR Academy of Sciences.15.07.1991#6609797
Leningrad. The first stage of the Constituent Congress of the Russian Communist Party, part of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union (CPSU). Following a discussion, the delegates passed a resolution of the Constituent Congress that virtually acknowledged the establishment of the Russian Communist Party as part of the CPSU. Photo: Veteran CPSU member Georgy Ivanov, President of the Union of Togliatti Veterans, speaks.21.04.1990#8421223
An Indonesian delegation visits the Soviet Union. photo: Indonesian Foreign Minister Ali Alatas lays flowers at the Lenin Mausoleum on Red Square.01.06.1989#5929578
The house in Neyalovka Khutor, the Samara Gubernia, where during the summer months (1889-1893) lived the Ulyanovs family, has been moved to the nearest village of Alakayevka. Since 1932 it is "House Museum of V. Lenin."01.07.1987#759909
President of the People's Republic of Mozambique Samora Machel during his friendly visit to the Soviet Union.01.04.1986#6586140
A visit by a Mozambican delegation to the USSR. President of the People's Republic of Mozambique Samora Machel, right, Chairman of the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet of the USSR Andrei Gromyko, 2nd right, and Minister of Foreign Affairs of the USSR Eduard Shevardnadze, left, at Sheremetyevo Airport.01.04.1986#6586131
President of Mozambique Samora Machel during a wreath-laying ceremony at the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier at the Kremlin Wall.31.03.1986#6578328
President of Mozambique Samora Machel during a wreath-laying ceremony at the Lenin Mausoleum.31.03.1986#6578320
A meeting of the Moscow public dedicated to the 125th anniversary of the figure of the Japanese and international movement Sen Katayama at the Institute of Marxism-Leninism under the Central Committee of the CPSU (in November 1991 the Institute ceased to exist). Center: Sen Katayama's daughter with pioneers, members of the International Friendship Club of the 354th school of the Baumansky district of Moscow.03.12.1984#8772930
Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of the Democratic Republic of Afghanistan to the USSR, Khabib Mangal, reporter, at a ceremonial meeting devoted to the 6th anniversary of the April Revolution at the House of Friendship with Foreign Countries.01.07.1984#829236
Pratically all Soviet schoolchildren aged 9 to 14 were members of the Pioneer Organization named after Lenin. At the age of 14 schoolchildren joined the Young Communist League (Komsomol). At admittance, the new YCL members were given a badge and a membership card which was used to record membership fees. Schoolchildren and college students paid two kopecks a month whereas those employed contributed one percent of their wages as their membership fee.19.04.1982#6675867
A monument to Karl Marx on Sverdlov Square in Moscow (today Theater Square). The sculpture is made of gray granite. The monument unveiled on October 29, 1961, was designed by sculptor Lev Kerbel and architects Begunts, Kovalchuk, Makarevich, and Morgulis. The monument is adorned with the slogan "Workers of all countries, unite!"24.02.1982#6720835
A Japanese delegation of the Worker University of the Society of Socialism of the Socialist Party of Japan stays in Moscow. Guests are welcomed by the workers of the Karacharovsky Mechanical Plant.14.07.1981#6672630
A Japanese delegation of the Worker University of the Society of Socialism of the Socialist Party of Japan stays in Moscow. A tour around the First State Bearing Plant (GPZ-1).14.07.1981#6672625
Kama Automobile Plant, of Kamaz. Center: Adjuster Gennady Bashtanyuk, member of the plant's Komsomol committee.12.03.1981#8338091
Foreign delegations, guests of the XXVI Congress of the CPSU, during a visit to Leningrad. Members of the delegation of the party New Movement JUEL (Grenada's Marxist Party) lay flowers at the Piskarevsky Memorial Cemetery.05.03.1981#8337484
The 26th Congress of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union. Erich Honecker, General Secretary of the Socialist Unity Party of Germany and Chairman of the State Council of the German Democratic Republic, makes a speech.24.02.1981#8335579
North Ossetian Autonomous Soviet Socialist Republic. Agube Kuchiyev, Secretary of North Ossetian Regional Committee for Ideology of the Communist Party of the USSR.08.03.1979#8160757
A delegation of the Japanese Socialist Party's Socialism Society Workers' University arrives in Khabarovsk participate in the scientific seminar of theto mark the 60th anniversary of the Great October Socialist Revolution.30.09.1977#6524561
Khabarovsk. Participants of the scientific seminar of the Japanese Socialist Party's Socialism Society Workers' University to mark the 60th anniversary of the Great October Socialist Revolution. Professor A. Sobolev and his Japanese colleague open a keg of sake.30.09.1977#6524560
Khabarovsk. Participants of the scientific seminar of the Japanese Socialist Party's Socialism Society Workers' University to mark the 60th anniversary of the Great October Socialist Revolution.30.09.1977#6524558
A delegation of the Japanese Socialist Party's Socialism Society Workers' University visits the Space Pavilion at the Exhibition of Achievements of the National Economy of the USSR.30.09.1977#6524555
A delegation of the Japanese Socialist Party's Socialism Society Workers' University headed by Tomokazu, center, visits the Likhachev automobile plant (ZIL).30.09.1977#6524556
A visit of a Hungarian delegation to the USSR. Chairman of the Council of Ministers of the People's Republic of Hungary Gyorgy Lazar during the flower-laying ceremony at Lenin Mausoleum on Red Square.22.10.1975#5949176
Nikolai Fedoseyev (1871-1898), the organizer of the first Marxist circles in Kazan in the 1880's. From the funds of the Kazan Local Lore Museum.01.07.1974#743952
"Iskra" editorial board members (from left to right, from above): Vladimir Ilyich Lenin, Georgy Valentinovich Plekhanov, Yuli Osipovich Martov, Vera Ivanovna Zasulich, Pavel Borisovich Akselrod, Aleksandr Nikolayevich Potresov, Nadezhda Konstantinovna Krupskaya.01.07.1973#857881
The 125th anniversary of The Communist Manifesto by Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels. The Latvian Soviet Socialist Republic. A workers' rally in Riga.01.05.1973#5490875
A visit by a Cuban delegation to the USSR (June 26-July 5, 1972). Cuban revolutionary and Prime Minister of Cuba Fidel Castro lays flowers at the Tomb of Unknown Soldier on Red Square.27.06.1972#5684484
A visit by a Cuban delegation to the USSR (June 26-July 5, 1972). Cuban revolutionary and Prime Minister of Cuba Fidel Castro lays flowers at Lenin Mausoleum on Red Square.27.06.1972#5684481
A visit by a Cuban delegation to the USSR (June 26-July 5, 1972). Cuban revolutionary and Prime Minister of Cuba Fidel Castro, 2nd right, lays flowers at the gravesite of Soviet cosmonaut Yuri Gagarin on Red Square near the Kremlin Wall.27.06.1972#5684477
The 24th Congress of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union (March 30-April 9, 1971). First Secretary of the Mongolian People's Revolutionary Party Yumjaagiin Tsedenbal and agriculturist of the Zavety Lenina collective farm of the Kurgan Region's Shadrinsky district Terenty Maltsev have a talk in the Kremlin Palace of Congresses, now the State Kremlin Palace.30.03.1971#5593787
Delegations of the German Democratic Republic, the People's Republic of Bulgaria, the Czechoslovakian Socialist Republic and Rumania, which arrived in the USSR to take part in the 24th CPSU Congress, laying flowers at Lenin's Tomb in Red Square.29.03.1971#5593784
A delegation of the Mongolian People's Revolutionary Party, headed by First Secretary Yumjaagiin Tsedenbal, front row, second from the left, which arrived in the USSR to take part in the 24th Congress of the CPSU, during a flower-laying ceremony at Lenin's Tomb in Red Square.29.03.1971#5593782
A delegation of the Mongolian People's Revolutionary Party, headed by First Secretary Yumjaagiin Tsedenbal, third from the left, which arrived to take part in the 24th Congress of the CPSU, visits Lenin's Tomb in Red Square.29.03.1971#5593780
Delegation of the Colombian Communist Party, headed by Secretary-General Gilberto Vieira White, left, at the Sheremetyevo airport as part of a visit to the USSR to take part in the 24th Congress of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union.29.03.1971#5588850
A delegation of the Hungarian Socialist Workers' Party (HSWP) visits the USSR to take part in the 24th CPSU Congress. First Secretary of the HSWP Central Committee Janos Kadar (second right) during the ceremony of laying flowers to the Lenin Mausoleum on Red Square.29.03.1971#5588848
Delegates of the Supreme Revolutionary Council of Somalia, who arrived to take part in the 24th CPSU Congress, lay flowers to the Lenin Mausoleum on Red Square.29.03.1971#5588843
Delegates of the Communist Party of Costa Rica, who arrived in the USSR to take part in the 24th CPSU Congress, lay flowers to the Lenin Mausoleum on Red Square.29.03.1971#5588809
Delegates of the Communist Party of Chile who arrived in the USSR to take part in the 24th CPSU Congress, lay flowers to the Lenin Mausoleum on Red Square.29.03.1971#5588808
Delegates of the Communist Party of Chile, who arrived in the USSR to take part in the 24th CPSU Congress, lay flowers to the Lenin Mausoleum on Red Square.29.03.1971#5588807
General Secretary of the Peruvian Communist Party Jorge del Prado Chavez (left) who arrived in the USSR to take part in the 24th CPSU Congress, lays flowers to the Lenin Mausoleum on Red Square.29.03.1971#5588806
A delegation of the Communist Party of Chile led by its General Secretary Luis Corvalan (center) arrived in the USSR to take part in the 24th CPSU Congress. Participants in the congress before the ceremony of laying flowers to the Lenin Mausoleum on Red Square.29.03.1971#5588805
Secretary-General of the Peruvian Communist Party Jorge del Prado Chavez, left, during a flower laying ceremony at the Vladimir Lenin Mausoleum on Red Square, as part of a visit to the USSR to take part in the 24th Congress of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union.29.03.1971#5588804
Secretary-General of the Communist Party of Venezuela Jesus Faria, left, and party member Garcia Ponce, right, during a flower laying ceremony at the Vladimir Lenin Mausoleum on Red Square, as part of a visit to the USSR to take part in the 24th Congress of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union.29.03.1971#5588803
Delegation of the Colombian Communist Party, headed by Secretary-General Gilberto Vieira White, left, during a flower laying ceremony at the Vladimir Lenin Mausoleum on Red Square, as part of a visit to the USSR to take part in the 24th Congress of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union.29.03.1971#5588802
A delegation of the Communist Party of Chile led by its General Secretary Luis Corvalan (third left) arrived in the USSR to take part in the 24th CPSU Congress. Participants in the congress during the ceremony of laying flowers to the Lenin Mausoleum on Red Square.29.03.1971#5588801
A delegation of the Communist Party of Bolivia visits USSR tom take part in the 24th CPSU Congress. Participants in the congress during the ceremony of laying flowers to the Lenin Mausoleum on Red Square.29.03.1971#5588800
Member of the Communist Party of Venezuela Garcia Ponce (center) in Sheremetyevo Airport. He arrived to take part in the 24th CPSU Congress.29.03.1971#5588785
Delegates of the Communist Party of Spain headed by its leader Dolores Ibarruri arrived in Moscow to take part in the 24th CPSU Congress. Ceremony of laying wreathsto Lenin Mausoleum on Red Square.29.03.1971#5619305
The 5th All-Union Youth Congress in Ulyanovsk, where Komsomol members and young people took a tour around sites of revolutionary, military and labor glory of the Soviet people. The event was dedicated to the 100th anniversary of Vladimir Lenin's birth and the 25th anniversary of the Victory in the Great Patriotic War (August 5-10, 1970). Participants in the congress during a sports festival at a stadium.05.08.1970#5975393
The 5th All-Union Youth Congress in Ulyanovsk, where Komsomol members and young people took a tour around sites of revolutionary, military and labor glory of the Soviet people. The event was dedicated to the 100th anniversary of Vladimir Lenin's birth and the 25th anniversary of the Victory in the Great Patriotic War (August 5-10, 1970). Participants in the congress during a Lenin Subbotnik cleanup event.05.08.1970#5975392
The 5th All-Union Youth Congress in Ulyanovsk, where Komsomol members and young people took a tour around sites of revolutionary, military and labor glory of the Soviet people. The event was dedicated to the 100th anniversary of Vladimir Lenin's birth and the 25th anniversary of the Victory in the Great Patriotic War (August 5-10, 1970). Participant in the congress, Pedagogical Institute student Z. Abdukhatova.05.08.1970#5975386
The 5th All-Union Youth Congress in Ulyanovsk, where Komsomol members and young people took a tour around sites of revolutionary, military and labor glory of the Soviet people. The event was dedicated to the 100th anniversary of Vladimir Lenin's birth and the 25th anniversary of the Victory in the Great Patriotic War (August 5-10, 1970). The sports festival at Lenin Komsomol Central Stadium (now Lev Yashin Trud Stadium).05.08.1970#5975385
The 5th All-Union Youth Congress in Ulyanovsk, where Komsomol members and young people took a tour around sites of revolutionary, military and labor glory of the Soviet people. The event was dedicated to the 100th anniversary of Vladimir Lenin's birth and the 25th anniversary of the Victory in the Great Patriotic War (August 5-10, 1970). Participants in the congress during a cruise on Volga River.05.08.1970#5975384
The 5th All-Union Youth Congress in Ulyanovsk, where Komsomol members and young people took a tour around sites of revolutionary, military and labor glory of the Soviet people. The event was dedicated to the 100th anniversary of Vladimir Lenin's birth and the 25th anniversary of the Victory in the Great Patriotic War (August 5-10, 1970). The cycling competition, held as part of the congress program.05.08.1970#5975383
An international journalists meeting to mark Vladimir Lenin's 100th birthday. Assembly hall of the Smolny Institute in Leningrad.02.10.1969#8725665
Visitors read books about Vladimir Lenin at an international book fair in Sofia, Bulgaria.26.09.1969#6446717
People's Republic of Bulgaria. A stand dedicated to Vladimir Lenin at an international book fair in Sofia.26.09.1969#6446714
