Archpriest Igor Korostelev, left, Chairman of the Synodal Cossack Liaison Department of the Belarussian Orthodox Church, is seen here at the Christ the Savior Cathedral in Moscow during the first conference of Cossack chaplains "Orthodoxy as Spiritual and Moral Base of the Cossack Outlook."05.12.2013#2332464
Yevdokia Nikulina, right, squadron leader of the 46th Guards Taman Night Bombing Aviation Regiment, the (women's) 325th Night Bombing Aviation Division, the 4th Air Army, the 4th Ukrainian Front, and regiment's navigator Yevgenia Rudneva. World War II. 1943. Reproduction.28.11.2010#812776
Moscow Region Governor Boris Gromov, center, Head of the Administration of the Dmitrovsky District of the Moscow Region Valery Gavrilov, right, and war veterans at the unveiling of the City of Military Glory stele in Dmitrov, Moscow Region.04.09.2010#3054064
May 5, 2010. Moscow Region Governor Boris Gromov, center, with Great Patriotic War veterans. Reception Hall of the Moscow Region's Government, Krasnogorsk.05.05.2010#3004034
Mitred Archpriest Oleg Teor, priest at Alexander Nevsky Church, Russia's first military church, who is in charge of the Diocesan Department for the Interaction with the Armed Forces of the Pskov Region. Mr. Teor is the father confessor of paratroopers. He repeatedly traveled to hotspots as a pastor and is the first awardee of the St. George set of vestments for a military chaplain since 1917.19.02.2010#5786736
Yury Lyubimov, artistic director of the Taganka Theater, got the Japanese Order of the Rising Sun. Yasuo Saito (right), Ambassador to Russia, presented the award. 28.05.2007#155033
Congratulating veterans during the celebration of the 54th Anniversary of Victory in the Great Patriotic War.09.05.1999#807996
A veteran of the Great Patriotic War of 1941-1945 celebrating in Red Square the 52nd anniversary of the Victory of the Soviet people over the Nazi invaders.09.05.1997#479402
Izmailovo Sports Palace. Leader of the CPRF Gennady Zyuganov, second left, and Heroes of Socialist Labor, deputies of the Federation Council Pyotr Romanov, center, and Vasily Starodubtsev, meeting the readers of the newspaper Zavtra (Tomorrow).12.05.1994#832640
Boris Ugarov, People's Artist of the USSR, President of the USSR Academy of Arts, USSR State Prize winner.01.02.1991#861353
An inmate of the Women's Penitentiary in Mozhaisk, now Corrective Labor Institution No. 5 of the Russian Penitentiary Service's Moscow Region Division, with her child who lives at the Penitentiary's children's home.10.10.1989#6641789
WWII veterans meet at the Soviet War Veteran Committee. Doctor of History Vladimir Zelenin address the participants in t he meeting.01.09.1988#6287830
WWII veterans meet at the Soviet War Veteran Committee. The participants in the meeting pose for a photo against the backdrop of the building of the Soviet War Veteran Committee in Moscow.01.09.1988#6287828
WWII veterans meet at the Soviet War Veteran Committee. The participants in the meeting pose for a photo against the backdrop of the building of the Soviet War Veteran Committee in Moscow.01.09.1988#6287822
Planer of "Rostselmash" production association, Hero of Socialist Labor, deputy of the USSR Supreme Soviet Pyotr Kolesnikov.01.02.1987#872073
Alternate member of the politburo of the CPSU Central Committee, Marshal of the Soviet Union, Sergei Sokolov (left), and member of the politburo of the BCP Central Committee, General Dobri Dzhurov, at a meeting at airport "Sheremetyevo" during an official friendly visit of the military delegation of the People's Republic of Bulgaria to the USSR.12.06.1986#422006
CC of the Socialist United Party of Germany General Secretary, State Council of the German Democratic Republic Chairman Erich Honecker (right) and Hero of Socialist Labor, the USSR Honored agricultural worker, field-crop grower of the Lenin's precept collective farm of Russia Kurgansk region Terenty Maltsev (left). The XXVII CPSU Congress in Moscow took place on February 25 - March 6, 1986. Kremlin Palace of Congresses.01.03.1986#676690
Vladimir Semenikhin, Academician of the USSR Academy Sciences, Hero of Socialist Labor, State Prize winner of the USSR, deputy of the Supreme Soviet of the USSR II Congress and delegate of the XXVII CPSU Congress.25.02.1986#422098
A Mouse, a work by Lithuanian artist Stase Samulaviciene who was awarded with the Polish Order of the Smile.05.07.1985#5838021
Sunlight Dapple, a work by Lithuanian artist Stase Samulaviciene who was awarded with the Polish Order of the Smile.03.06.1985#5838020
Naughty Monkey, a work by Lithuanian artist Stase Samulaviciene who was awarded with the Polish Order of the Smile.03.06.1985#5838018
Monkey Tebulya, a work by Lithuanian artist Stase Samulaviciene who was awarded with the Polish Order of the Smile.03.06.1985#5838017
Masterpiece by artist Stasia Kamuliavicene, recipient of Poland's Order of the Smile.03.06.1985#5838013
Ceremonial meeting of the CPSU Central Committee, the USSR Suprene Soviet and the RSFSR Supreme Soviet devoted to the 60th anniversary of the USSR. Participants in the meeting during a break: second left -- labor and CPSU veteran, Hero of Socialist Labor Vasily Vinogradov, fourth left -- foreman of assembly fitters of the production association "Leningrad Metal Plant named after the 22nd CPSU Congress, now the Leningrad Metal Plant, Hero of Socialist Labor, Deputy of the RSFSR Supreme Soviet and member of the CPSU Central Committee Vladimir Chicherov in the Kremlin Palace of Congresses.21.12.1982#2781650
Soviet cosmonaut, two times Hero of the Soviet Union Alexei Leonov with participants of the 26th Congress of the CPSU at the Kremlin Palace.23.02.1981#422219
The Kremlin Palace of Congresses (now the State Kremlin Palace). The 26th congress of the CPSU (February 23 to March 3, 1981). Mikhail Aleksandrovich Ulyanov, delegate of the 26th congress of the CPSU, People's Artist of the USSR.23.02.1981#865274
The Central house of the Soviet Army named after Mikhail Frunze (now the Central house of the Russian Army). The IV all-Union Veterans conference. Hero of the North-Vietnamese People's Army retired Lieutenant-Colonel Nguyen Van Thuang, second right, front, and war invalids social development department head at the Labor Ministry of the Socialist Republic of Vietnam retired Colonel Fan Suyang Kinh, second left, front.01.11.1976#854102
The Central House of the Soviet Army named after Mikhail Frunze (now the Central House of the Russian Army). The 4th all-Union war veterans conference. From left: secretary in charge Zh. Sharkhu of the Committee of revolutionary struggle veterans (Mongolia), Khalkhin Gol veteran L. Kalinichenko, delegate M. Tokarev of Hero City Kerch, merited teacher of the MPR B. Darma who is the chairman of a provincial committee of revolutionary struggle veterans, and chairman N. Presnukhin of the Kerch section of the Soviet war veterans committee.01.11.1976#854100
Soviet scientist and metallurgist, metallurgical aggregates constructor, memder of Soviet Academy of Sciences, Hero of Socialist Labor Alexander Tselikov01.03.1976#664501
Soviet theatre and cinema actor Mikhail Nozhkin, a member of the Central Board of the Society for the Soviet-Polish Friendship. 1975.01.05.1975#716958
Presentation of the Orders of Lenin to academician at the Academy of Sciences of the USSR Anatoly Aleksandrov and film director Georgy Aleksandrov, the Kremlin. After the ceremony, from right: Chairman of the USSR Supreme Soviet Presidium Nikolai Podgorny, Chief Director of the Mossovet Theater, People's Artist of the USSR Yury Zavadsky, academician Anatoly Aleksandrov and actor at the Gorky Moscow Academic Art Theater of the USSR, People's Artist of the USSR Mikhail Yanshin.27.07.1973#5802222
First Secretary of the Central Committee of the Socialist Unity Party of Germany Erich Honecker (right) and Chairman of the GDR Council of Ministers Willi Stoph (center) with participants in a solemn meeting of the CPSU Central Committee, the USSR Supreme Soviet and the Supreme Soviet of the Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic dedicated to the 50th anniversary of the formation of the Soviet Union. The Kremlin Palace of Congresses, Moscow. December 21, 1972.22.12.1972#796697
General Secretary of the Central Committee of the Romanian Communist Party Nicolae Ceausescu with participants in a solemn meeting of the CPSU Central Committee, the USSR Supreme Soviet and the Supreme Soviet of the Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic dedicated to the 50th anniversary of the formation of the Soviet Union. The Kremlin Palace of Congresses, Moscow. December 21, 1972.22.12.1972#796696
Marshal of the Soviet Union Georgy Zhukov with his wife Galina. Photo from the archive of APN Publishing House.01.12.1971#8509900
Marshal of the Soviet Union Georgy Zhukov with his wife, Galina. APN Printing Office Archives.01.12.1971#8509887
Hero of the Soviet Union Maj. of the Guards Nadezhda Fedutenko (center) among participants in European women's workshop.01.10.1971#673376
Pilot cosmonaut Vladislav Volkov, a Hero of the Soviet Union, a crew member of the orbiting station Salyut-1 and of spaceship Soyuz-11.01.06.1971#494145
Pilot-Cosmonaut of the USSR, Colonel-Engineer, Hero of the Soviet Union Valentina Vladimirovna Tereshkova (b. 1937). ,01.07.1970#498613
Marshal of the Soviet Union Georgy Zhukov in his office at his country house in Sosnovka, Moscow Region. APN Printing Office Archives.08.01.1970#8509903
On the eve of the Victory Day and the 24-th anniversary of the liberation of Czechoslovakia by the Soviet Army, the party and state delegation, headed by the President of Czechoslovakia Ludvík Svoboda, visited the Central Group of Soviet Forces, based in Czechoslovakia. Soviet and Czech officers at the training center.08.05.1969#602763
Deputy Chairman of the USSR Supreme Soviet Presidium, Sabir Niyazbekov, talking to a veteran of the Hungarian Socialist Workers' Party and women's movement, writer Maria Gardos, left, during her visit to the USSR.01.01.1969#415215
The USSR pilot-cosmonaut Alexey Leonov with his daughter visiting school № 21 in Kaliningrad which he finished in 1953.01.09.1965#642104
The Great Patriotic War participant, Hero of the Soviet Union Yelena Mazanik (1914-1996 years). A photo from the archives of the Russian State Archive of Cinema and Photography. A photo copy.01.01.1964#644653
Pilot-Cosmonaut, Hero of Socialist Labour, commander of the Vostok-2 spaceship German Stepanovich Titov.01.07.1963#524026
The World Congress of Women in the Kremlin Palace of Congresses (now the State Kremlin Palace). Delegates greet the first female cosmonaut Valentina Tereshkova.25.06.1963#2643280
From left: writer Chingiz Aitmatov (Kirghizia), poet Samuil Marshak, sculptor Gediminas Jokūbonis (Lithuania) and artist Pavel Korin attending the 1963 Lenin Prize awards ceremony for outstanding achievements in literature, art and architecture.22.04.1963#734985
From left: Soviet cosmonaut German Titov, Soviet cosmonaut and Hero of the Soviet Union Yury Gagarin, CC CPSU First Secretary and Chairman of the USSR Council of Ministers Nikita Khrushchev with Soviet cosmonauts Andriyan Nikolayev and Pavel Popovich on Lenin's Mausoleum. A rally celebrating the Vostok 3 and 4 space missions manned by Andriyan Nikolayev and Pavel Popovich. Moscow, August of 1962.18.08.1962#2555457
The World Conference for General Disarmament and Peace (July 9-14, 1962). Yury Gagarin, Soviet cosmonaut and Hero of the Soviet Union, talks with members of the Brazilian delegation.12.07.1962#2555449
Hero of Socialist Labor Valentina Gaganova [Born 1932] headed a team of weavers at the Vyshny Volochyok cotton-fabric factory in Russia.01.04.1962#644686
Winners of the 1961 Lenin prize in science and technology. Sitting from left to right: M.M. Postnikov, N.I. Krylov, N.A. Ryzhenko, Ye.A. Zhukevich-Stosha; standing in the second row: V.I. Shchedailo, E.G. Ratts, V.I. Struchkov, A.M. Mkrtyumyan, L.K. Bogush, G.R. Gertsenberg, B.E. Linberg. The St. George Hall of the Kremlin Palace.01.06.1961#731719
Prokofy Nektov from the village of Kazanka in the Orenburg Region's Sharlyksky District lost both legs during the Great Patriotic War of 1941-1945. After returning home, he learned to operate a harvester and achieved record-breaking results while harvesting and threshing grain crops. Affiliated with the Belozyorskaya motor-vehicle and tractor pool, he was awarded the title of Hero of Socialist Labor and also received the Hammer and Sickle gold medal.21.08.1953#5757432
Marina Raskova 586th Fighter Aviation Regiment in the 144th Fighter Division of Air Defense (left to right): technician Yekaterina Polunina, adjutant of the squadron Valentina Skachkova, Deputy Commander of the rifle regiment Valentina Lisitsina. World War II (1939-1945). Budapest, Hungary. May 1945. Reproduction of the photo.01.05.1945#810833
From left to right: Col. Georgy Grishko, Col. Khabib Ganiyev, Lt. Gen. Pavel Batov and Maj. Gen. Nikolay Radetsky. 65th Army, 2nd Belorussian Front. Great Patriotic War of 1941-1945. Reproduction of a photo taken in 1944.30.09.1943#598592
