A view shows a car left during mass protests triggered by fuel price increase in Almaty, Kazakhstan. Protests sparked by rising fuel prices, started in the towns of Zhanaozen and Aktau in western Kazakhstan on January 2 and spread rapidly across the country. On January 5, President Tokayev dismissed the government and declared a 2-week state of emergency in the Mangistau and Almaty regions, as well as in the cities of Almaty and Nur-Sultan.10.01.2022#6738644
Tajik SSR. Unrest took place in Dushanbe on February 10-17, 1990. A rally was held near the building of the Tajikistan Communist Party Central Committee, the participants of which demanded the deportation of Armenians from the country under the threat of reprisals.11.02.1990#6670344
Tajik SSR. Unrest took place in Dushanbe on February 10-17, 1990. A rally was held near the building of the Tajikistan Communist Party Central Committee, the participants of which demanded the deportation of Armenians from the country under the threat of reprisals.11.02.1990#6670337
Tajik SSR. Unrest took place in Dushanbe on February 10-17, 1990. A rally was held near the building of the Tajikistan Communist Party Central Committee, the participants of which demanded the deportation of Armenians from the country under the threat of reprisals.11.02.1990#6670335
Tajik SSR. Unrest took place in Dushanbe on February 10-17, 1990. A rally was held near the building of the Tajikistan Communist Party Central Committee, the participants of which demanded the deportation of Armenians from the country under the threat of reprisals. People living in the city go to protest.11.02.1990#6671040
A visit by a delegation from China's Heilongjiang Province, led by Head of Heilongjiang Provincial People's Government Shao Qihui, to the USSR. Shao Qihui, center, and members of the delegation on Moscow's Red Square.29.11.1989#6622309
A visit by a delegation from China's Heilongjiang Province, led by Head of Heilongjiang Provincial People's Government Shao Qihui, to the USSR. Shao Qihui, center, and members of the delegation during the wreath-laying ceremony at Lenin's Mausoleum.29.11.1989#6623431
A visit by Minister President of North Rhine-Westphalia (Federal Republic of Germany) Johannes Rau to the USSR. Johannes Rau speaks to journalists of the Soviet television on Red Square.22.11.1989#6630466
A rally on Pushkin Square in Moscow marking the solidarity march supporting the Russian-speaking population in the Baltic states.07.09.1989#8210993
Streets in the Yugoslavian capital during the 9th Summit of the Non-Aligned Movement, Belgrade, September 4-7, 1989. Background: Sava Center, the venue of the summit.05.09.1989#8129582
The Democratic Republic of Afghanistan, now the Islamic Republic of Afghanistan. White doves in front of the Blue Mosque, the Shrine of Hazrat Ali, in Mazar-i-Sharif.01.06.1988#6592248
Celebrations of the Day of International Solidarity of the Working People (now the Holiday of Spring and Labor) . A parade of athletes on Red Square.01.05.1988#5748945
Farm center of Druzhba Narodov (People's Friendship) collective farm, Crimea district of the Ukrainian SSR, 1987.06.09.1987#2928985
The Democratic Republic of Afghanistan. Kabul residents watch a military parade in the city's central district.22.05.1987#6364702
Gala events in honour of the Erebuni-Yerevan holiday in the central Lenin Square (now Republic Square) in Yerevan, Armenian SSR.11.10.1986#8587242
Characters of works by Yakub Kolas (Konstantin Mikhailovich Mitskevich), Belorussian poet in the square named after him, Minsk.01.07.1986#893214
Polish Cinema Week at Warsaw movie theater in Moscow. The event is dedicated to the 10th |Congress of the Polish United Workers Party.28.06.1986#9014122
A military delegation of the People's Republic of Bulgaria led by Minister of People's Defense of the People's Republic of Bulgaria, Army General Dobri Dzhurov, take part in the wreath-laying ceremony at Lenin's Mausoleum during their official visit to the USSR.12.06.1986#8385482
Estonian Soviet Socialist Republic. Tallinn. The Old Town Days festival. In the Old Town streets during the festival.09.06.1986#2960452
Estonian Soviet Socialist Republic. Tallinn. The Old Town Days festival. In the Old Town streets during the festival.09.06.1986#2960449
Estonian Soviet Socialist Republic. Tallinn. The Old Town Days festival. The festival's opening ceremony on Town Hall Square.09.06.1986#2960448
Estonian Soviet Socialist Republic. Tallinn. The Old Town Days festival. The festival's opening ceremony on Town Hall Square.09.06.1986#2960447
A visit by a delegation of the People's Democratic Republic of Algeria to the USSR. President of Algeria and General Secretary of the National Liberation Front, Chadli Bendjedid, during the wreath-laying ceremony at Lenin's Mausoleum,27.03.1986#6578330
Third right: Ibragim Kurbakov, the Mayor of Termez, the Uzbek SSR, meets with members of a delegation from the Democratic Republic of Afghanistan on Lenin Square.01.08.1985#9071782
A statue of Russian author, playwright and diplomat Alexander Griboyedov in Yerevan, Armenian SSR. Designed by sculptors Ovanes Bedzhanyan and architect Spartak Kntechtsyan.11.05.1985#8960573
Spouses Anatoly and Tatyana Belyayev are seen near the monument to Sadriddin Ayni in Dushanbe, Tajik SSR.28.04.1985#9044975
The village of Gulakandoz, the administrative center of the Lenin Collective Farm in Tajik SSR's Leninabad Region.15.04.1985#9014239
Exhibition show by preschoolers on May Rebellion Heroes' Square in Leninakan (now Vardanants Square) conducted by Merited Coach of the USSR Oganes Arakelyan.05.04.1985#9011884
Minister of the National Defense of the Czechoslovak Socialist Republic, Colonel General Milan Vaclavík on an official friendly visit to the USSR upon the invitation of the Defense Minister of the USSR, Marshal of the Soviet Union Sergei Sokolov. Milan Vaclavík lays a wreath at the Lenin Mausoleum.02.03.1985#5831955
Vladimir Lenin Square, now Mustaqillik Maydoni (Independence Square), in Tashkent, Uzbek SSR.01.02.1985#8956980
Right: Weaver of the Alytus Cotton Mill Marite Dragašienė walking around the city with her family, Lithuanian SSR.30.06.1984#8778908
Weaver of the Alytus Cotton Mill Marite Dragašienė during a break at an ice cream cafe, with her husband and son, Lithuanian SSR.30.06.1984#8778901
Ashkhabad, the Turkmen SSR. The People's Memory memorial complex honoring Turkmenistan's soldiers, killed in action during the Great Patriotic War of 1941-1945. Architects F. Bagirov and A. Kurbanliyev, sculptor D. Zhumadurdy.02.06.1984#8778591
SPD Bundestag faction chairman Hans-Jochen Vogel, left, who arrived in Moscow at the invitation from a parliamentary group of the USSR, during the flower-laying ceremony at the tomb of Yury Andropov at Kremlin Wall Necropolis.12.03.1984#8214579
Abasha city in the Georgian SSR. Members of a district agro-industrial association talk to each other near the municipal administration building ahead of a meeting.29.09.1983#8399339
Young residents of Chisinau during a walk in Pushkin Park (now Stefan cel Mare park), Moldavian SSR.28.07.1983#8489188
Vitebsk Hotel and the Central Department Store, which are part of the architectural ensemble of buildings on Zamkovaya Street in Vitebsk, Belarusian SSR.01.06.1983#8576004
Moskva and Ishin hotels on Lenin Square (now Old Square) in central Tselinograd, Kazakh SSR.01.06.1983#8491058
The Polish People's Republic. Nuns walk to attend an evening mass at St. Anne's Church on Castle Square in Warsaw, with Sigismund's Column seen in the background.01.05.1983#8130114
Square on Shkolny Boulevard in the city of Nizhnekamsk, Tatar Autonomous Soviet Socialist Republic.24.07.1982#8517680
Ivano-Frankivsk, Ukraine. A Soviet tradition: newlyweds lay flowers at the statue of Vladimir Lenin (demolished in 1990).12.05.1982#6694893
Tajik SSR. Sadriddin Aini Square in Dushanbe with a monument to writer Sadriddin Aini, the founder of Tajik Soviet literature unveiled in 1978 on his 100th birth anniversary. By sculptor G. Eldarov and architects A. Agaronov and R. Karimov10.05.1982#6718851
