The Constitutional Court of the Russian Federation considers the legitimacy of the Russian President's executive orders on prohibiting the USSR Communist Party and the Russian Communist Party, as well as reviewing the compliance of the USSR Communist Party and the Russian Communist Party with the Constitution. Left: Alexander Yakovlev, former secretary of the USSR Communist Party, member of the Political Bureau, member of the USSR Presidential Council, Senior Advisor to the USSR President, State Councilor of the USSR President, one of the ideologists and "architects" of the perestroika and witness in the case, before the hearing.30.11.1992#6584561
A statue of Igor Kurchatov, one of the founders of the Semipalatinsk Test Site and creator of a nuclear bomb, outside the Central Headquarters in Kurchatov, Kazakhstan.01.10.1991#8601068
Memorial rally for academician Andrei Sakharov on his 70th birthday, on May 21, 1991, on Manezhnaya Square in Moscow.21.05.1991#6610246
A photo exhibition organized by the Izvestia journal of the USSR Academy of Sciences (now Izvestia of the Russian Academy of Sciences) and marking Andrei Sakharov's 70th anniversary. Andrei Sakharov's daughter Tatyana at the opening of the exhibition.21.05.1991#6610242
Russian Orthodox priest Gleb Yakunin speaks at a memorial rally for academician Andrei Sakharov on his 70th birthday, on May 21, 1991, on Manezhnaya Square in Moscow.21.05.1991#6610240
Otolaryngologist Professor Simon Khechinashvili, head of the Otolaryngology Department at the Tbilisi Medical INstitute (currently Tbilisi Medical University), academician of the USSR Academy Academy of Medicine, is also rector of the Tbilisi Institute for Advanced Medical Education. Republic of Georgia.28.11.1990#8311645
The 11th World Mass Media Conference at the Center for International Trade and Scientific and Technical Cooperation with Foreign Countries, April 9-13, 1990. Chairman of the World Media Association, Sun Myung Moon, center, and Editor-in-Chief of the Pravda newspaper Ivan Frolov, 2nd right. Right: Sun Myung Moon's wife, Hak Ja Han.10.04.1990#6714167
Nikolai Petrakov, Soviet and Russian economist, corresponding member of the USSR Academy of Sciences, Deputy Director of the Central Economics and Mathematics Institute of the USSR Academy of Sciences (now Russian Academy of Sciences). In 1989, he was elected USSR People's Deputy and was Economic Assistant to the Secretary-General of the USSR Communist Party.08.12.1989#6630471
Boris Piotrovsky, Director of The Hermitage, Soviet archaeology, Orientalist and doctor of history.18.11.1989#6627057
The Ecology, Perestroika, Politics International Conference in Moscow. Nikolai Izmerov, Soviet and Russian hygienist, doctor of medical sciences, professor, academician of the Academy of Medical Sciences of the USSR (now - Russia) is seen speaking.10.11.1989#8413670
Svyatoslav Fyodorov, prominent Soviet ophthalmologist, eye microsurgeon, corresponding member of the USSR Academy of Sciences and Director of the Eye Microsurgery Inter-disciplinary Research Center.05.10.1989#6549200
Member of the USSR Academy of Medical Sciences (now Russian Academy of Sciences) Alexander Konovalov separated two conjoined twins from Lithuania, Vilija and Vitalija Tamuleviciute, who were 11 months. The surgery took place at the Burdenko Moscow Institute of Neurosurgery. The twins six months after the surgery.15.09.1989#6625934
Member of the USSR Academy of Medical Sciences (now Russian Academy of Sciences) Alexander Konovalov separated two conjoined twins from Lithuania, Vilija and Vitalija Tamuleviciute, who were 11 months. The surgery took place at the Burdenko Moscow Institute of Neurosurgery. The surgeon and the twins' mother six months after the surgery.15.09.1989#6625928
Member of the USSR Academy of Medical Sciences (now Russian Academy of Sciences) Alexander Konovalov separated two conjoined twins from Lithuania, Vilija and Vitalija Tamuleviciute, who were 11 months. The surgery took place at the Burdenko Moscow Institute of Neurosurgery. Vilija and Vitalija walk with their mother six months after the surgery.15.09.1989#6625927
Member of the USSR Academy of Medical Sciences (now Russian Academy of Sciences) Alexander Konovalov separated two conjoined twins from Lithuania, Vilija and Vitalija Tamuleviciute, who were 11 months. The surgery took place at the Burdenko Moscow Institute of Neurosurgery. Alexander Konovalov and the twins' doctor C.Vajcis with their little patients.15.09.1989#6625926
Member of the USSR Academy of Medical Sciences (now Russian Academy of Sciences) Alexander Konovalov separated two conjoined twins from Lithuania, Vilija and Vitalija Tamuleviciute, who were 11 months. The surgery took place at the Burdenko Moscow Institute of Neurosurgery. Vilija and Vitalija walk with their mother six months after the surgery.15.09.1989#6625925
Alexander Konovalov, member of the USSR Academy of Medical Sciences (now Russian Academy of Sciences), separated Siamese twins, Vilija and Vitalija Tamuleviciute, who were joined at the forehead, meaning their brains were also linked, at the Burdenko Neurosurgery Institute in Moscow (now Burdenko National Medical Research Center of Neurosurgery of the Russian Healthcare Ministry). Vilija and Vitalija with their mother, Dajva, after the surgery.15.09.1989#8505865
Vitaly Goldansky, Soviet physicist and chemist, member of the USSR Academy of Sciences (now Russian Academy of Sciences), at the Vernadsky Geology Museum. On the table: Vladimir Vernadsky's works.03.04.1989#6536476
From right: Academician of the USSR Academy of Medical Sciences Levon Badalyan; writer, chairman of the Soviet Peace Committee Genrikh Borovik, and Mother Teresa was the founder of the Catholic Order of the Missionaries of Charity, Nobel Prize winner, are the news conference following her visit to the Armenian SSR to help the survivors of the December 7, 1988 earhtquale with the magnitude of over 10 in its epicenter.25.12.1988#6599034
The official visit of a delegation of the Federative Republic of Brazil to the USSR. President of Brazil Jose Sarney, center, after receiving the diploma of Honorary Doctor of Moscow State University from Lomonosov Moscow State University Rector and Member of the USSR Academy of Sciences, Anatoly Logunov, first row second right.18.10.1988#8312786
Yevgeny Syroyechkovsky, doctor of biology, Head of the Laboratory for Ecological Basis of Ecosystem Protection and Animal Population Management, Institute of Evolutional Morphology and Animal Ecology, USSR Academy of Sciences (now Severtsov Institute of Ecology and Evolution at the Russian Academy of Sciences).08.10.1988#6591868
Nikolai Plate, Director of the Petrochemical Synthesis Institute of the Soviet Academy of Sciences, now the Topchiyev Petrochemical Synthesis Institute of the Russian Academy of Sciences, at home with his wife.10.07.1988#5495978
19th All-Union Conference of Soviet Communist Party (June 28 - July 1, 1988) at the Kremlin Palace of Congress (now State Kremlin Palace). Svyatoslav Fyodorov, delegate, corresponding member of the USSR Academy of Medical Sciences, Director of the Eye Microsurgery Cross-Industrial Research and Technology Center, talks to Raisa Gorbachev, the wife of Mikhail Gorbachev, Secretary-General of the Soviet Communist Party's Central Committee.01.07.1988#6568751
From left: Otto Latsis, First Deputy Editor-in-Chief of The Communist, and Vladimir Klyuyev, First Secretary of the Lenin District Committee of the Moscow Department of the Soviet Communist Party.30.06.1988#6572597
Yelena Litasova, Director of the Department of Congenital Heart Disorders at the Institute of Blood Circulation Pathology, Russian Healthcae Ministry (now National Medical Research Center of the Russian Healthcare Ministry), monitoring a patient after a surgery.15.06.1988#6548719
Yelena Litasova, Director of the Department of Congenital Heart Disorders at the Institute of Blood Circulation Pathology, Russian Healthcae Ministry (now National Medical Research Center of the Russian Healthcare Ministry), with her granddaughter.15.06.1988#6548718
Yelena Litasova, Director of the Department of Congenital Heart Disorders at the Institute of Blood Circulation Pathology, Russian Healthcae Ministry (now National Medical Research Center of the Russian Healthcare Ministry), with young patients.15.06.1988#6548713
Yelena Litasova, Director of the Department of Congenital Heart Disorders at the Institute of Blood Circulation Pathology, Russian Healthcae Ministry (now National Medical Research Center of the Russian Healthcare Ministry), performing an open-heart surgery.15.06.1988#6548712
Left: Yelena Litasova, Director of the Department of Congenital Heart Disorders at the Institute of Blood Circulation Pathology, Russian Healthcae Ministry (now National Medical Research Center of the Russian Healthcare Ministry).15.06.1988#6548710
Yelena Litasova, Director of the Department of Congenital Heart Disorders at the Institute of Blood Circulation Pathology, Russian Healthcae Ministry (now National Medical Research Center of the Russian Healthcare Ministry), with her granddaughter in an art gallery in Novosibirsk.15.06.1988#6548709
Gavriil Ilizarov, an orthopedic surgeon, general director of the All-Union Kurgan Research Center for Restorative Traumatology and Orthopedics (now the Academician Ilizarov Russian Research Center for Restorative Traumatology and Orthopedics) talks with doctor Akhdar Shadli (Kuwait) during a visit of doctors and business people from the Arab countries.01.06.1988#5832029
Alexei Vasilyev, Deputy Director of the Institute of African Studies at the USSR Academy of Sciences (now Russian Academy of Sciences).01.06.1988#6541212
The Slavonic Literature and Culture Festival in Novgorod (now Veliky Novgorod) on May 24-28, 1988. Valentin Yanin, head of the Novgorod archaeological expedition, Head of the Archaeology Department at the Lomonosov Moscow State University, during an interview.24.05.1988#6567345
Yegor Stroyev, First Secretary of the Oryol Regional Committee of the Soviet Communist Party, speaks to residents of Zhilina, Oryol Region.15.05.1988#6549865
Vladimir Baranovsky, head of the international security sector at the Institute of World Economy and International Relations of the Academy of Sciences of the USSR (now Primakov Research Institute of World Economy and International Relations of the Russian Academy of Sciences).01.05.1988#5832063
The All-Union Vegetative Pathology Center of the I.M. Sechenov First Moscow State Medical University. Head of the center, a leading Soviet researcher of sleep and wakefulness physiology and pathology Professor Alexander Vein with a patient.27.04.1988#5486305
The Novosibirsk Academic Town. Academician of the USSR Academy of Sciences, economist and sociologist Tatyana Zaslavskaya, center.27.04.1988#5486302
President of the Japanese Association of Cultural Relations with Foreign Countries, President of Tokai University (Japan) Shigeyoshi Matsumae, left, on a visit to the USSR. Shigeyoshi Matsumae and President of the Academy of Sciences of the USSR Gury Marchuk, right, during signing of an agreement on scientific cooperation between the USSR and Japan.08.04.1988#5817133
Deputy Director of the Institute of World Economics and International Relations at the USSR Academy of Sciences, Doctor of History, Professor Nodary Simonia.01.04.1988#2966767
Deputy Director of the Institute of World Economics and International Relations at the USSR Academy of Sciences, Doctor of History, Professor Nodary Simonia.01.04.1988#2966766
Novgorod archaeological expedition headed by Professor of the Archeology Department at the Lomonosov Moscow State University Valentin Yanin.15.03.1988#3324640
Alexander Topchiyev (1907-1962), the first director of the Topchiyev Petrochemical Processing Institute of the USSR Academy of Sciences (currently of the Russian Academy of Sciences).13.02.1988#5829567
Nikolai Plate, director of the Topchiyev Petrochemical Processing Institute of the USSR Academy of Sciences (currently of the Russian Academy of Sciences).13.02.1988#5829566
Director of the Topchiyev Petrochemical Processing Institute of the USSR Academy of Sciences (currently of the Russian Academy of Sciences) Nikolai Plate, left, and Polymer Rheology Lab head Valery Kulichikhin.13.02.1988#5829564
Nikolai Plate, director of the Topchiyev Petrochemical Processing Institute of the USSR Academy of Sciences (currently of the Russian Academy of Sciences).13.02.1988#5829562
The International Ophthalmology Seminar in Moscow. Journalists interview Soviet ophthalmologist, eye micro-surgeon and Professor Svyatoslav Fyodorov about exchanging experience with leading foreign medical specialists from the Orbis ophthalmology clinic aboard a McDonnell Douglas DC-8 aircraft.25.08.1987#8580992
Left: Jurgis Bredikis, Soviet cardiac surgeon, professor of the department of hospital surgery at the Kaunas Medical Institute (now the Lithuanian University of Medical Sciences), with one of his students at a dacha in the village of Kulautuva, Kaunas region, Lithuanian SSR.01.08.1987#8442859
Nikolai Blokhin, Chair of the Committee on International Lenin Awards For Strengthening Friendship Between Peoples, surgeon and member of the USSR Academy of Medical Sciences, presents an award to Foreign Minister of Nicaragua Miguel d'Escoto Brockmann, second left.16.06.1987#8298326
A visit by a Nicaraguan delegation to the USSR. Foreign Minister of Nicaragua Miguel d'Escoto Brockmann speaks after receiving the award for strengthening friendship between nations from chairman of the Committee for International Lenin Prize, surgeon and academician at the Academy of Medical Sciences of the USSR, Nikolai Blokhin, second left.16.06.1987#8568516
Construction and operation of the Baikal Deep Underwater Neutrino Telescope, a neutrino observatory on the bottom of Lake Baikal. Physicist Georgy Zatsepin, academician of the Academy of Sciences of the USSR.01.03.1987#5787589
A roundtable discussion at Novosti Press Agency (now Rossiya Segodnya International Information Agency). Chief research associate of the Institute of History of Natural Science and Technology of the Academy of Sciences of the USSR (now Vavilov Institute of History of Natural Science and Technology of the Russian Academy of Sciences) Pavel Volobuyev makes a speech.20.02.1987#5796343
Soviet physicist Viktor Trefilov, director of the Materials Science Institute of the Academy of Sciences of the Ukrainian SSR (currently the Frantsevich Materials Science Institute of Ukraine's National Academy of Sciences), delivers a report at a meeting of the USSR Academy of Sciences Presidium in Kiev.08.02.1987#8481525
Soviet physicist Viktor Trefilov, left, director of the Materials Science Institute of the Academy of Sciences of the Ukrainian SSR (currently the Frantsevich Materials Science Institute of Ukraine's National Academy of Sciences), and President of the Ukrainian Academy of Sciences Boris Paton before a meeting of the USSR Academy of Sciences Presidium in Kiev.08.02.1987#8481523
Pavel Volobuyev, professor and chief research associate of the Institute of History of Natural Science and Technology of the Academy of Sciences of the USSR (now Vavilov Institute of History of Natural Science and Technology of the Russian Academy of Sciences).01.02.1987#5796474
The 6th session of the Supreme Soviet of the USSR (11th convocation) in the Grand Kremlin Palace, November 17-19, 1986. Director of Institute for US and Canadian Studies of the Academy of Sciences of the USSR and deputy Georgy Arbarov, right, and his colleague during a talk.17.11.1986#5784456
Sergei Kolesnikov, professor, Soviet embryologist, doctor of medical sciences, member of the USSR Academy of Medical Sciences (now Russian Academy of Medical Sciences).10.10.1986#6554342
First Moscow International Symposium dedicated to the problems of eye microsurgery. Professor, Corresponding Member of the Soviet Academy of Medical Sciences, Director of the Moscow Research Institute for Eye Microsurgery (now Eye Microsurgery interdisciplinary science and technology center) Svyatoslav Fyodorov speaks with Japanese professor M. Momose.22.08.1986#6541278
Professor Vladimir Fyodorov, corresponding member of the Academy of Medical Sciences of the USSR, director of the Proctology Research Institute of the Health Ministry of the Russian Federation (currently The Ryzhykh National Coloproctology Medical Research Center).25.07.1986#6463095
