On October 14, 2016, the Ivan the Terrible Monument, the first one in Russian history, was unveiled in Oryol. It is located on a river embankment near the Theophany Cathedral. A team of sculptors, Andrei Sledkov, Alexei Petrov and Alexei Dmitriyev, designed the monument under the supervision of Merited Artist of Russia Oleg Molchanov, Associate Member of the Russian Academy of Arts, ahead of the 450th anniversary of founding the city-fortress.29.07.2023#8576454
Moscow, Russia. Actor Dmitry Nagiyev, right, on the set of upcoming New Year comedy "Noviye Yolki" ("New Christmas Trees").22.05.2017#3107648
Tianjin, China. October 8-16, 1999. The 34th World Artistic Gymnastics Championships. Photo: Russian gymnast Alexei Nemov performs floor exercises. He won two gold medals for performing floor exercises and for exercising on th vaulting horse. He also won silver during the men's team event.12.10.1999#8891737
Tianjin, China. October 8-16, 1999. The 34th World Artistic Gymnastics Championships. Photo: Russian gymnast Alexei Nemov performs floor exercises. He won two gold medals for performing floor exercises and for exercising on th vaulting horse. He also won silver during the men's team event.12.10.1999#8891734
Tianjin, China. October 8-16, 1999. The 34th World Artistic Gymnastics Championships. Photo: Russian gymnast Yelena Produnova won silver in the women's all-round team competitions by performing her famous jump with a subsequent somersault on the balance beam.09.10.1999#8891718
Actress and war veteran Maryan Mametyeva, Artistic Director of the Edissey Theater, shows her combat and government orders and medals to the Theater's Head, actor Ivan Miranyan.01.09.1994#8715957
The 1993 FINA World Junior Synchronized Swimming Championships, which took place on August 27-30, 1993 in Leeds, UK. The Russian Federation's national team performs their free program.28.08.1993#8740344
The 1993 FINA World Junior Synchronized Swimming Championships, which took place on August 27-30, 1993 in Leeds, UK. The Italian national team performs their free program.28.08.1993#8740343
The 1993 FINA World Junior Synchronized Swimming Championships, which took place on August 27-30, 1993 in Leeds, UK. The Russian Federation's national team led by Olga Brusnikina (center), 14, solo and team event medalist.28.08.1993#8740346
The 1993 FINA World Junior Synchronized Swimming Championships, which took place on August 27-30, 1993 in Leeds, UK. Russia's Olga Brusnikina, 14, solo and team event medalist.28.08.1993#8740345
Center: Russian jeweler Andrei Ananov, General Director of the Russian Jewelry Art - Ananov Enterprise, with his employees.01.06.1993#8260994
Center: Andrei Makarevich, front-man and co-founder of the Mashina Vemeni (Time Machine) rock band, performs on stage.02.04.1992#8152122
The Crimean Region in the Ukrainian SSR. Staffers of an editorial office who prepared the book Poetic Atlas of Crimea, a publication on regional history with a print run of 85,000 copies. The Tavriya Publishing House in Simferopol printed the book in 1989. The collection included works by Russian and Soviet poets who wrote about Crimea and related subjects. From left: Vasily Zheribor, editor Pavel Konkov, compiler Vadim Kazarin, senior editor Alexander Lyusy and head of the editorial office galina Gzhebovskaya.26.09.1990#8348087
The rock opera The Boy and Carlson who Lives on the Roof by composer Edison Denisov on the stage of the Moscow Children's Variety Theater. Starring Vadim Komyagin as Carlson. In this photo, he is talking to young actors.01.06.1990#8334371
Members of a music band conducted by Oleg Lundstrem, now the Oleg Lundstrem Jazz Band, perform at a concert.01.09.1989#8217470
A saxophone player of a music band conducted by Oleg Lundstrem, now the Oleg Lundstrem Jazz Band, performs at a concert.01.09.1989#8217126
A trumpeter of the concert and music band conducted by Oleg Lundstrem performs at a concert.01.09.1989#8217125
The Republican Ensemble of Young Violinists in the Estonian SSR. Educator Anne Maijuberg rehearses with her students.15.05.1988#6548463
The Republican Ensemble of Young Violinists in the Estonian SSR. Educator Aino Tamm with her students.15.05.1988#6548461
The first international auction of Russian avant-garde and contemporary Soviet art organized by Sotheby's and the Soviet Ministry of Culture. Exhibition at the Garage Museum of Contemporary Art in Moscow. Soviet avant-garde artists, the auction participants.23.01.1988#8367831
Tallinn, the Estonian SSR. Members of the Hetero rock band from the city of Viru perform at a concert.10.02.1987#8477171
Film director Tengiz Abuladze after the first night of his feature film "Repentance" on the stage of Moscow House of Cinema (the present-day Headquarters of the Union of Cinematographers of the Russian Federation).13.11.1986#5720509
July 5-20, 1986. The Goodwill Games in Moscow. Women's artistic gymnastics competitions at the Olimpiisky Sports Complex. Soviet gymnast Yelena Shushunova, Merited Master of Sports of the USSR, won four gold medals in the team qualification, the vault and parallel bar exercises. She also won silver in the all-round competitions and beam exercises.16.07.1986#8832267
1986 Goodwill Games (July 5-20, 1986). Artistic gymnastics. Women's multiathlon. Chinese gymnasts watch the competition. Olimpiysky Sports Center.09.07.1986#5781397
Rhythmic gymnastics competitions as part of the Goodwill Games in Moscow at the Olimpiysky sports complex, July 9-10, 1986. Gymnast from the German Democratic Republic Bianka Dietrich during a performance.09.07.1986#8389654
Rhythmic gymnastics competitions as part of the Goodwill Games in Moscow at the Olimpiysky sports complex, July 9-10, 1986. Bulgarian gymnast Adriana Dunavska-Nikolova performing.09.07.1986#8389651
Rhythmic gymnastics competitions as part of the Goodwill Games in Moscow at the Olimpiysky sports complex, July 9-10, 1986. Gymnast from the German Democratic Republic Esther Niklas.09.07.1986#8389650
Folk festival at Kolomenskoye Museum Reserve (now the Moscow State United Artistic Historical-Architectural and Natural Landscape Museum Reserve). Participants of the Veretyontse children's folklore ensemble are preparing for a performance.03.06.1986#8962061
Alexei Zimin, a drummer with the Zodchiye (Architects) music band, performs in Moscow.26.05.1986#8334933
Clothing items from a clothing collection presented by Youth Fashion House. A discussion during the work to create a new collection. From left: fashion designer and stylist Galina Popova, Youth Fashion House chief stylist Lidia Soselia, and fashion designer A. Martynova.01.12.1985#8776398
Soviet gymnast, five-time Olympic champion, Honored Master of Sports of the USSR, and coach of the Ukrainian SSR national team, Polina Astakhova, with her protege, the all-around world champion in artistic gymnastics, Oksana Omelyanchik.01.10.1985#9020622
Moscow. The 12th World Festival of Youth and Students. July 27 - August 3, 1985. Bandura player L. Fetsenko performs at a festive concert, part of the festival program, in Gorky Central Park of Culture and Leisure.27.07.1985#8966720
Opening the club of the delegation of the Socialist Republic of Romania during the 12th World Festival of Youth and Students in Moscow.26.07.1985#8969614
A rock band performs during opening of the club of the delegation of the Republic of Finland during the 12th World Festival of Youth and Students in Moscow.26.07.1985#8969573
Petrozavodsk State University graduate, engineer-architect Tatyana Silkina is a member of the Rhythm amateur ensemble invited to perform at the XII World Festival of Youth and Students in Moscow in 1985. Left: Tatyana Silkina with a friend sewing a dress for ballroom dancing.01.09.1984#8767886
Petrozavodsk State University graduate, engineer-architect Tatyana Silkina is a member of the Rhythm amateur ensemble invited to perform at the XII World Festival of Youth and Students in Moscow in 1985. Tatyana Silkina is seen during a walk.01.09.1984#8767878
Petrozavodsk State University graduate, engineer-architect Tatyana Silkina is a member of the Rhythm amateur ensemble invited to perform at the XII World Festival of Youth and Students in Moscow in 1985. Right: Tatyana Silkina with her friends at a youth cafe.01.09.1984#8767850
Petrozavodsk State University graduate, engineer-architect Tatyana Silkina is a member of the Rhythm amateur ensemble invited to perform at the XII World Festival of Youth and Students in Moscow in 1985. Tatyana Silkina is in the far left, during class at the Rhythm modern dance studio.01.09.1984#8767820
Petrozavodsk State University graduate, engineer-architect Tatyana Silkina is a member of the Rhythm amateur ensemble invited to perform at the XII World Festival of Youth and Students in Moscow in 1985. Architectural engineers perform complex calculations on computers, which increases the accuracy of design and reduces the likelihood of errors at all stages of work. Tatyana Silkina is on the right.01.09.1984#8767791
Petrozavodsk State University graduate, engineer-architect Tatyana Silkina is a member of the Rhythm amateur ensemble invited to perform at the XII World Festival of Youth and Students in Moscow in 1985. Tatyana Silkina's favorite dance is waltz.01.09.1984#8767780
The concert to greet British explorer and historian Tim Severin, who conducted an expedition with a team of rowers on a replica of the galley Argo to recreate the voyage by ancient Greek mythological hero Jason and the Argonauts, in the town of Vani, Georgian SSR.24.07.1984#8368522
Members of a dance ensemble the Kalityansky state farm-combine livestock complex Culture Center in the village of Kalita, Ukrainian SSR.01.06.1984#8312305
The 11th Moskovskiye Novosti International Artistic Gymnastics Tournament. March 30 - April 1, 1984. Vladimir Lenin Stadium (now Luzhniki Sports Palace).01.04.1984#8771640
Dmitry Bilozerchev, Soviet gymnast, world champion, Honored Master of Sports of the USSR, during training.01.03.1984#8758797
The Soviet Academy of Arts hosts the 4th International Exhibition Satire Fights for Peace. Chief Artist of Cuba's Granma newspaper Rene de La Nuez talks to members of the Kukryniksy creative team People's Artists of the USSR and Heroes of Socialist Labor Porfiry Krylov, third right, Nikolai Sokolov, second right, and Mikhail Kupriyanov, right.01.10.1983#5907368
Soloists of the State Song and Dance Ensemble of the Komi ASSR Tamara Mikhailova and Tamara Petrova.01.05.1983#3250252
A gala night dedicated to the 20th anniversary of the Kinopanorama television program produced by the Chief Editorial Board of the Central Television of the USSR. On stage: Ksenia Marinina, center, creator and director of the program and People's Artist of the RSFSR Zinovy Gerd, fourth left, the first host, with the program team.21.10.1982#6691624
Members of the State Krasnoyarsk Ensemble of Siberian Dance, now the Godenko Krasnoyarsk State Academic Ensemble of Siberian Dance, perform.01.09.1982#6691448
Lidiya Ivanova, Soviet gymnast, two-time Olympic champion, two-time world champion, senior coach of the Soviet national youth artistic gymnastics team, and Merited Master of Sports of the USSR.01.09.1982#6691528
Members of the Moldavian SSR's Zhok Folk Dance Ensemble, now the Zhok State Academic Folk Dance Ensemble of Moldova, perform the Calusari folk ritual dance.25.06.1982#6704185
Members of a multi-ethnic music band from the Tashkentsky State Farm in Gorky Region perform at a rural club.01.06.1982#8476872
Anatoly Mamontov, Merited Artist of the RSFSR, people's Artist of the Udmurt ASSR, Artistic Director and Chief Conductor of the Udmurtia State Song and Dance Ensemble Italmas, now the State Order of People's Friendship Academic Song and Dance Ensemble Italmas of the Republic of Udmurtia, rehearses.01.02.1982#8517622
Go Kitagawa, founder and director of the Shirakaba (Birch-Tree) ensemble from Japan, at a concert in Moscow.01.10.1981#8291306
Members of the Shirakaba (Birch-Tree) ensemble from Japan perform a Ukrainian folk dance.01.10.1981#8290378
Leonid Lazarev (center), a member of an amateur choir, head of the cattle-breeding branch of the Uritsky collective farm, Gomel Region, Belorussian SSR, performing at the local cultural center.01.09.1981#8515894
The 22nd Summer Olympic Games in Moscow. July 19 - August 3, 1980. Artistic gymnastics. Vladimir Lenin Central Stadium (now Luzhniki Olympic Center). President of the International Technical Committee of Women's Gymnastics Ellen Bercher with judges.25.07.1981#8173943
The 22nd Summer Olympic Games in Moscow. July 19 - August 3, 1980. Artistic gymnastics. Vladimir Lenin Central Stadium (now Luzhniki Olympic Center). President of the International Technical Committee of Women's Gymnastics Ellen Bercher with judges.25.07.1981#8173931
