Moldavian Soviet Socialist Republic. In the summer of 1989, multiple political rallies were held in Chisinau at the initiative of the Moldovan Popular Front, culminating in the Great National Assembly on August 27 during which protesters demanded Moldavia's political and economic independence, annulling the consequences of the 1939 German-Soviet treaty and recognizing the Moldovan language as the republic's official language. The protesters also demanded a historical reunification with Romania. The Unity movement, represented mainly by Russian-speaking residents of Chisinau, was in opposition with the Moldovan Popular Front. In the photo: Yury Blokhin, one of the leaders of the Unity movement.27.08.1989#6550635
Oleg Blokhin winner of the Golden Ball award, right, gives an interview to Argentinean journalist C. Bonelli, center, on the day of Lev Yashin's 60th birthday celebration in Moscow.10.08.1989#6546335
Ukrainian Soviet Socialist Republic. Oleg Blokhin, multiple USSR champion, UEFA Cup Winners' Cup winner and bronze Olympic champion, Golden Ball winner, plays his last match (USSR vs the world's team). A balloon with the football player's name floating over the Republican Stadium in Kiev.28.06.1989#6746934
Ukrainian Soviet Socialist Republic. Oleg Blokhin, multiple USSR champion, UEFA Cup Winners' Cup winner and bronze Olympic champion, Golden Ball winner, plays his last match (USSR vs the world's team). A balloon with the football player's name floating over the Republican Stadium in Kiev.28.06.1989#6746931
Ukrainian Soviet Socialist Republic. Oleg Blokhin, multiple USSR champion, UEFA Cup Winners' Cup winner and bronze Olympic champion, Golden Ball winner, plays his last match (USSR vs the world's team). More than 100,000 fans gathered at the Republican Stadium in Kiev.28.06.1989#6746930
Ukrainian Soviet Socialist Republic. Oleg Blokhin, multiple USSR champion, UEFA Cup Winners' Cup winner and bronze Olympic champion, Golden Ball winner, plays his last match (USSR vs the world's team). Starting the game with an Italian boy, the mascot of the star team. Republican Stadium in Kiev.28.06.1989#6746926
Ukrainian Soviet Socialist Republic. Oleg Blokhin, multiple USSR champion, UEFA Cup Winners' Cup winner and bronze Olympic champion, Golden Ball winner, plays his last match (USSR vs the world's team). Starting the game with an Italian boy, the mascot of the star team. Republican Stadium in Kiev.28.06.1989#6744044
Members of the Soviet national football team and a national team of top foreign football players hold a match to honor football player Oleg Blokhin, recipient of the Golden Ball award, bronze medalist of the Olympic Games and many-time champion of the USSR, at the Republican Stadium in Kiev, the Ukrainian SSR. Photo: Actors perform before the game.28.06.1989#8159210
Oleg Blokhin, member of the USSR's national football team, bids adieu to football fans after his last match.28.06.1989#97936
Valery Lobanovsky, coach of the USSR's national football team, watching the last game being played by Oleg Blokhin. 28.06.1989#97935
Oleg Blokhin, member of the USSR's national football team (right), playing his last match. 28.06.1989#97934
Soccer player Oleg Blokhin saying good-bye to his fans after the USSR vs world soccer stars match held in Kiev.28.06.1989#95279
Best European soccer players Lev Yashin (left) and Oleg Blokhin, winners of the Golden Ball, during the event devoted to Oleg Blokhin's last match.28.06.1989#95282
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
Viktor Letyagin, surgeon, oncologist, Doctor of Medicine, Director of the Surgery Department at the All-Union Oncology Research Center of the USSR Academy of Medical Sciences (now Blokhin National Medical Research Center for Oncology), during a surgery to remove a mammary gland tumor.01.07.1985#8965987
Viktor Letyagin, surgeon, oncologist, Doctor of Medicine, Director of the Surgery Department at the All-Union Oncology Research Center of the USSR Academy of Medical Sciences (now Blokhin National Medical Research Center for Oncology), during patient examination.01.07.1985#8965986
Viktor Letyagin, surgeon, oncologist, Doctor of Medicine, Director of the Surgery Department at the All-Union Oncology Research Center of the USSR Academy of Medical Sciences (now Blokhin National Medical Research Center for Oncology), during post-surgery rounds.01.07.1985#8965985
USSR national team forward Oleg Blokhin (Dynamo Kiev) in a USSR Championship match.24.06.1982#6679327
The All-Union Oncology Center of the USSR Academy of Medical Sciences (now National Medical Reseach Center of Oncology). An X-ray room technician Nelli Kozak.15.06.1982#6732632
Oleg Blokhin, Russian national football team's forward and Dynamo Kiev player, during training sessions ahead of the World Cup in Spain.12.05.1982#6694905
Oleg Blokhin, member of the Soviet national football team, forward and Merited Master of Sports of the USSR.10.08.1981#5966128
Dinamo Kiev's Oleg Blokhin, member of U.S.S.R. football select team, leads the ball. 01.04.1981#93804
The All-Union Oncology Research Center of USSR Academy of Medical Sciences (now National Medical Oncology Research Center of the Russian Healthcare Ministry) on Kashirskoye Highway in Moscow.06.03.1980#8249213
President of the Women's International Democratic Federation Freda Brown, 2nd left, and Chairperson of the Soviet Women's Committee, Pilot-Cosmonaut of the USSR and Hero of the Soviet Union, Valentina Nikolayeva-Tereshkova, 2nd right, during the ceremony to award Freda Brown with the International Lenin Prize for Strengthening Peace Among Peoples. The prize was presented by Chairperson of the International Lenin Prize Committee Nikolai Blokhin, 1st row, left.12.09.1979#8225855
Director of the Institute of Experimental and Clinical Oncology of the Academy of Sciences of the USSR (now the Nikolai Blokhin Russian Oncology Research Center), Academician of the USSR Academy of Medical Sciences and of the USSR Academy of Sciences, Hero of Socialist Labor surgeon-oncologist Nikolai Blokhin in the operation room.01.10.1977#874204
Soviet and Ukrainian football player Oleg Blokhin, the best player of Europe and winner of the Golden Ball.16.08.1977#6515946
Football player Oleg Blokhin (2nd right) scoring a goal during the finals Dynamo (Kiev) vs Zarya (Voroshilovgrad).01.09.1974#37268
Dynamo Kiev players celebrating their victory in the 1974 Football Cup after defeating Zarya Voroshilovgrad 3-0.10.08.1974#366747
Nikolai Blokhin, director of the research institute of experimental and clinical oncology of the USSR Academy of Medical Sciences (left), and composer Tikhon Khrennikov (right) in the conference hall at the first session of the USSR Supreme Soviet of the eighth convocation.15.07.1970#35407
Professor Nikolai Blokhin, director of the Oncological Institute (right) getting ready for an operation. 30.11.1966#31824
Nikolai Blokhin, Director of the Institute of Experimental and Clinical Oncology of the Soviet Academy of Medical Sciences, now the Blokhin National Medical Oncology Research Center, surgeon-oncologist, President of the Soviet Academy of Medical Sciences and its member, during an interview.03.08.1966#5935941
Nikolai Blokhin, Director of the Institute of Experimental and Clinical Oncology of the Soviet Academy of Medical Sciences, now the Blokhin National Medical Oncology Research Center, surgeon-oncologist, President of the Soviet Academy of Medical Sciences and its member.01.08.1966#5935940
