Members of the Volkhov Front: Gaitolovo interregional search expedition tends to military burial sites containing the remains of those killed during the Great Patriotic War in the Leningrad Region. Members of the expedition aim to locate remains of officers and soldiers of the Red Army who were killed, while defending Leningrad and lifting the city's siege and to perpetrate their memory.27.04.2025#8912047600x400 PXJPEG800x534 PXJPEG4914x3279 PXJPEG7 Mb
Members of a Japanese delegation have arrived in the South Kuril Islands under a visa-free exchange program. They are seen here in a Japanese cemetery in Yuzhno-Kurilsk.23.09.2017#3199983
Destruction of the lard, which was confiscated on the Russian-Polish border, at one of the proving grounds in the Kaliningrad Region.11.08.2015#2678324
Destruction of the lard, which was confiscated on the Russian-Polish border, at one of the proving grounds in the Kaliningrad Region.11.08.2015#2678323
Destruction of the lard, which was confiscated on the Russian-Polish border, at one of the proving grounds in the Kaliningrad Region.11.08.2015#2678321
Destruction of the lard, which was confiscated on the Russian-Polish border, at one of the proving grounds in the Kaliningrad Region.11.08.2015#2678322
Destruction of the lard, which was confiscated on the Russian-Polish border, at one of the proving grounds in the Kaliningrad Region.11.08.2015#2678325
A worker sprinkles chlorine over the lard, which was confiscated on the Russian-Polish border, at one of the proving grounds in the Kaliningrad Region.11.08.2015#2678326
Workers unload the lard, which was confiscated on the Russian-Polish border, at one of the proving grounds in the Kaliningrad Region.11.08.2015#2678330
A worker unloads the lard, which was confiscated on the Russian-Polish border, at one of the proving grounds in the Kaliningrad Region.11.08.2015#2678333
A worker unloads the lard, which was confiscated on the Russian-Polish border, at one of the proving grounds in the Kaliningrad Region.11.08.2015#2678335
Workers unload the lard, which was confiscated on the Russian-Polish border, at one of the proving grounds in the Kaliningrad Region.11.08.2015#2678341
The presumed grave of Viktor Yanukovych Jr., the son of former Ukrainian President Viktor Yanukovych, in a military cemetery in Sevastopol.24.03.2015#2592845
The presumed grave of Viktor Yanukovych Jr., the son of former Ukrainian President Viktor Yanukovych, in a military cemetery in Sevastopol.23.03.2015#2592844
The presumed grave of Viktor Yanukovych Jr., the son of former Ukrainian President Viktor Yanukovych, in a military cemetery in Sevastopol.23.03.2015#2592843
The presumed grave of Viktor Yanukovych Jr., the son of former Ukrainian President Viktor Yanukovych, in a military cemetery in Sevastopol.23.03.2015#2592842
An inscription over a communal grave of soldiers who fell during the Adzhimushkai quarries defense in Kerch in May-October 1942, in the underground part of the Museum of the Adzhimushkai Quarries Defense.28.11.2014#2639560
A memorial plaque over a communal grave reading: "Buried here are soldiers who fell during the Adzhimushkai quarries defense in Kerch in May-October 1942. Their remains were found during the Adzhimushkai expedition in the underground part of the Museum of Adzhimushkai Quarries Defense in Kerch".28.11.2014#2639521
A communal grave of soldiers who fell during the Adzhimushkai quarries defense in Kerch in May-October 1942, in the underground part of the Museum of the Adzhimushkai Quarries Defense.28.11.2014#2639545
Belarusian MChS (Ministry of Emergency Situation) workers engaged in elimination of the Slonimsky obsolete pesticide burial site. Contaminated soil packed in special barrels will be transported to Germany's special plant for elimination.08.11.2011#986104
Belarusian MChS (Ministry of Emergency Situation) workers engaged in elimination of the Slonimsky obsolete pesticide burial site. Contaminated soil packed in special barrels will be transported to Germany's special plant for elimination.08.11.2011#986105
Belarusian MChS (Ministry of Emergency Situation) workers engaged in elimination of the Slonimsky obsolete pesticide burial site. Contaminated soil packed in special barrels will be transported to Germany's special plant for elimination.08.11.2011#986103
Belarusian MChS (Ministry of Emergency Situation) workers engaged in elimination of the Slonimsky obsolete pesticide burial site. Contaminated soil packed in special barrels will be transported to Germany's special plant for elimination.08.11.2011#986108
Belarusian MChS (Ministry of Emergency Situation) workers engaged in elimination of the Slonimsky obsolete pesticide burial site. Contaminated soil packed in special barrels will be transported to Germany's special plant for elimination.08.11.2011#986101
Belarusian MChS (Ministry of Emergency Situation) workers engaged in elimination of the Slonimsky obsolete pesticide burial site. Contaminated soil packed in special barrels will be transported to Germany's special plant for elimination.08.11.2011#986100
Belarusian MChS (Ministry of Emergency Situation) workers engaged in elimination of the Slonimsky obsolete pesticide burial site. Contaminated soil packed in special barrels will be transported to Germany's special plant for elimination.08.11.2011#986099
Belarusian MChS (Ministry of Emergency Situation) workers engaged in elimination of the Slonimsky obsolete pesticide burial site. Contaminated soil packed in special barrels will be transported to Germany's special plant for elimination.08.11.2011#986098
The Arlington National Cemetery in Washington, D.C. The cemetery was founded in 1865.01.10.2008#1069486
The Arlington National Cemetery in Washington, D.C. The cemetery was founded in 1865.01.10.2008#1069485
The Arlington National Cemetery in Washington, D.C. The cemetery was founded in 1865.01.10.2008#1069484
The Arlington National Cemetery in Washington, D.C. The cemetery was founded in 1865.01.10.2008#1069483
The Arlington National Cemetery in Washington, D.C. The cemetery was founded in 1865.01.10.2008#1069482
The aftermath of the disastrous may 28, 1995 earthquake thatcompletely leveled the town of Neftegorsk in northern Sakhalin. In all, 2,040 out of the town's 3,197-strong population were killed.28.05.1995#6332508
Cossacks from Irkutsk and the Irkutsk Region honor the memory of Admiral Alexander Kolchak, Russia's supreme ruler and Commander-in-Chief of the Russian Army, on the Ushakov River flowing into the Angara, where he was thrown after the execution on February 7, 1920.07.02.1995#8424058
Cossacks from Irkutsk and the Irkutsk Region honor the memory of Admiral Alexander Kolchak, Russia's supreme ruler and Commander-in-Chief of the Russian Army, on the Ushakov River flowing into the Angara, where he was thrown after the execution on February 7, 1920.07.02.1995#8424057
The Moscow Region. The graves of German prisoners of war in Penyaginskoye Cemetery. People who took part in the work of the Free Germany National Committee, established on the initiative of the Communist Party of Germany, as well as German officers and soldiers, captured near Stalingrad (Volgograd) during the Great Patriotic War, are also buried here.01.07.1993#8618305
The armed conflict in Yugoslavia. The Bosnian War of 1992-1995. A cemetery with the graves of conflict victims in Sarajevo.10.06.1993#6404861
Khanty-Mansi Autonomous Area (today Khanty-Mansi Autonomous Area - Yugra) in the Tymen Region. An abandoned Mansi graveyard.03.07.1992#8266767
Right: Professor and anthropologist Viktor Zvyagin conducts a comparative analysis of the remains of Russian seafarer Vitus Jonassen Bering at the Research and Development Institute of Forensic Medicine, affiliated with the Russian Ministry of Healthcare.01.02.1992#8734105
Professor and anthropologist Viktor Zvyagin, DSc (Medicine) made this sculptural portrait of Russian seafarer Vitus Jonassen Bering on the basis of his skull data, after studying the Commodore's burial site and conducting medical-anthropological research. From October 1991 through June 1992, Bering's bones were studied at the Research and Development Institute of Forensic Medicine, affiliated with the Russian Ministry of Healthcare.01.02.1992#8734104
A collage showing the skull and photographic image of Vitus Jonassen Bering on the basis of his skull data.01.02.1992#8734103
From left: Professor and anthropologist Viktor Zvyagin and Dmitry Shparo, Director of the Adventure Club, study the remains of Russian seafarer Vitus Jonassen Bering at the Research and Development Institute of Forensic Medicine, affiliated with the Russian Ministry of Healthcare.01.02.1992#8734102
A great-grandson of Russian writer, philosopher and classic writer of the world's literature Leo Tolstoy, Nikita, in the family necropolis in Kochaki, Tula Region.15.07.1991#6614669
German veterans of World War II (1939-1945) who fought in the Battle of Stalingrad, now Volgograd, visit Mamayev Hill.01.04.1991#8191998
Moscow. Participants in the 4th Congress of USSR People's Deputies honored the memory of Andrei Sakharov, a member of the Soviet Academy of Sciences, in Vostryakovskoye Cemetery.17.12.1990#8140440
Malaysia Week in the Uzbek SSR. Photo: Members of the Malaysian delegation take a guided tour of the Shakhi Zinda mausoleums ensemble Samarkand.10.09.1990#8211200
Moscow. The grave of Indian boy Deva Snashpala in North Khovanskoye Cemetery. he passed away on July 16, 1980. The inscription on the gravestone reads: "I was born in India, but I loved Moscow more, and this is why I live here."24.04.1990#8418018
Members of the delegation of the Polish People's Republic led by PPR Prime Minister Tadeusz Mazowiecki visited the Piskarevskoye Memorial Cemetery in Leningrad, where a six-meter bronze sculpture "Motherland" was erected as part of a visit to the USSR.23.11.1989#8175830
Re-interring the remains of Soviet soldiers, located in the Kaluga Region by members of the Obninsky Sledopyt (Obninsk Pathfinder) amateur archeologist unit, one of the first such units in the Soviet Union, from the Obninsk Institute of Physics and Power Engineering, now the Leipunsky Institute of Physics and Power Engineering.07.09.1989#6646830
The remains of Soviet soldiers located in the Kaluga Region by members of the Obninsky Sledopyt (Obninsk Pathfinder) amateur archeologist unit, one of the first such units in the Soviet Union, from the Obninsk Institute of Physics and Power Engineering, now the Leipunsky Institute of Physics and Power Engineering.06.09.1989#6646829
Lychakovskoye Memorial Cemetery in Lvov, the Ukrainian SSR. Photo: The grave of Julian Ordon who fought in the 19831 Polish revolt against the Russian Empire.01.08.1989#8206937
Lychakovskoye Memorial Cemetery in Lvov, the Ukrainian SSR. Photo: The grave of Polish writer Gabriela Zapolska.01.08.1989#8206936
The gravestone over the grave of Alexander Karnitsky, Professor of gynecology, director of the school of midwives in Vilnius.01.07.1989#8206100
The tombstone at the grave of Russian-Polish classical guitarist and composer Mark Sokolovsky in Vilnius, Lithuanian SSR.01.07.1989#8206098
