Participants of the Velikaya River religious procession walk through the city of Kirov.08.06.2013#1488161
Participants of the Velikaya River religious procession walk through the city of Kirov.08.06.2013#1488160
Participants of the Velikaya River religious procession walk through the city of Kirov.08.06.2013#1488159
Participants of the Velikaya River religious procession walk through the city of Kirov.08.06.2013#1488158
Participants of the Velikaya River religious procession walk through the city of Kirov.08.06.2013#1488157
Participants of the Velikaya River religious procession walk through the city of Kirov.08.06.2013#1488156
Participants of the Velikaya River religious procession march trough the city of Kirov.08.06.2013#1488155
Bishop Khrysanph of Kirov and Sloboda in the Church of the Trinity in Kirov (Vyatka), the Vyatka Diocese of the Russian Orthodox Church.25.02.1988#5822912
"Lion", 19th century wood carving, fragment of the exterior decoration of a peasant's hut, exhibited at the Museum of History and Reconstruction of Moscow.01.07.1985#783066
Andrei Ronzhin, Hero of Socialist Labor, chairman of the Iskra collective farm in the Kirov Region.18.06.1983#8319772
Participants in the Iskorka amateur song and dance ensemble. The Iskra collective farm in the Kirov Region.18.06.1983#8319757
Russian artisans started making clay Dymkovo toys over 400 years ago in Dykovo Suburb near Vyatka, now Kirov. This photo shows the Horseman toy.24.09.1969#6657966
Goods from the Belka (Squirrel) Fur Factory. Photo: A groundhog coat trimmed with fox fur.15.01.1969#6636753
Kirov city. Photo: This monument-obelisk to local soldiers who gave their lives for the Motherland was installed on May 9, 1967 in memory of those killed at the fronts of the Great Patriotic War of 1941-1945. It was built to a design by sculptors F. A. Shpak and V. S. Ryazantsev and architect Y. I. Karmazin.29.07.1968#6149309
The Vyatka fur animal farm in Zonikha in the Slobodskoi District of the Kirov Region. Photo: A white Arctic fox at an experimental pedigree fur-animal breeding state farm.10.03.1968#6073424
The Vyatka State Fur Farm breeding fur-bearing animals in Zonikha village, Slobodskoy District, Kirov Region. A mink in a cage.10.03.1968#6073422
The monument Kirov Residents Help the Front in Kirov city is dedicated to the heroic work of local home front workers who helped bring victory closer during the Great Patriotic War of 1941-1945. It was built to a design by sculptor A. I. Veselov and architect Y. I. Karamazin and unveiled in 1967.15.02.1968#6074715
A monument to All-Union Communist Party (Bolsheviks) leader and Soviet-era statesman Sergei Kirov (1886-1934) on Oktyabrsky Prospekt in Kirov. Built to a design by Vitaly Savchenko, it was unveiled in 1966.15.02.1968#6074712
The Dormition Cathedral at St. Tryphon's Monastery. 1689. Vyatka, now Kirov, in European Russia's north01.02.1967#74386
Dymkovo, a district (earlier village) of wooden houses on the low bank of the Vyatka River in Kirov where Dymkovo toys (traditional Russian clay toys) were first created in the 15th-16th centuries.29.09.1966#5938378
A regional contest of amateur rural performers in Sverdlovsk, now Yekaterinburg. People's Artist of the RSFSR Irma Jaunzem noticed conest winner Lyubov Bazhina and suggested that the Kirov Philharmonic send her to study at the All-Union Creative Workshop of Stage Performing Art, now the Maslyukov All-Union Creative Workshop of Stage Performing Art.01.08.1965#6051603
Made by artisans from the Kirov subsidiary of the RSFSR Artistic Fund, the Kirov Artistic Production Workshops of the RSFSR Artistic Fund since 1974, these Dymkovo clay toys from Vyatka are displayed at the KHudozhestvenny (Artistic) Salon store on Moscow's Kutuzovsky Prospekt.19.02.1963#6171149
This reinforced concrete bridge over the Vyatka River in Kirov was opened in April 1962.01.11.1962#6158659
Dymkovo toys (the Vyatka toys or Kirov toys), painted clay figurines of people and animals, are one of the Russian folk crafts.01.05.1962#2631384
Dymkovo (Vyatka) clay toy Nurse with Children. Kirov branch of the Art Fund of the RSFSR (from 1974 - Kirov Art and Production Workshops of the Art Fund of the RSFSR).18.01.1962#5786452
Dymkovo (Vyatka) clay toy. Multi-figure composition The Whistler. Kirov branch of the Art Fund of the RSFSR (from 1974 - Kirov Art and Production Workshops of the Art Fund of the RSFSR).03.01.1962#5786449
Dymkovo (Vyatka) clay toy Water Carrier. Kirov branch of the Art Fund of the RSFSR (from 1974 - Kirov Art and Production Workshops of the Art Fund of the RSFSR).03.01.1962#5786446
