From left: President of the Russian Federation Boris Yeltsin awards Russian philologist and art expert Dmitry Likhachev the Order For Merit to the Fatherland 2nd Class for outstanding scholarly achievements and the development of Russian culture.20.12.1996#6328024
From left: President of the Russian Federation Boris Yeltsin awards the Order For Merit to the Fatherland 2nd Class to Russian philologist and art expert Dmitry Likhachev for outstanding scholarly achievements and the development of Russian culture.20.12.1996#6328021
Russian writer Leo Tolstoy's descendants visit the Tula region. The writer's great-grandson Pyotr Petrovich, a resident of Sweden, and his daughter Tatyana take photos at the monument to their great grandfather at the entrance to Nikolskoye-Vyazemskye estate. The monument by sculptor Yury Chernov was erected in 1988.15.07.1991#6614678
Elections of People’s Deputies of the USSR. Writer Vitaly Korotich, editor-in-chief of Ogonyok magazine, is nominated as a candidate in the election. Members of the Pamyat national patriotic society.01.02.1989#6747601
Elections of People’s Deputies of the USSR. Writer Vitaly Korotich, editor-in-chief of Ogonyok magazine, is nominated as a candidate in the election. People in the conference hall.01.02.1989#6747600
Elections of People’s Deputies of the USSR. Writer Vitaly Korotich, editor-in-chief of Ogonyok magazine, is nominated as a candidate in the election. In the presidium: Academician Svyatoslav Fyodorov, Hero of Socialist Labor, third right, sitting; writer Ales Adamovich, second right, sitting; international journalist Vladimir Tsvetov, fourth left, standing.01.02.1989#6747596
Elections of People’s Deputies of the USSR. Writer Vitaly Korotich, editor-in-chief of Ogonyok magazine, is nominated as a candidate in the election. Particiapnts in the nomination gathering seen here ahead of the meeting.28.01.1989#6747604
Kapitolina Kozhevnikova, a special correspondent of the literary and political weekly Literaturnaya Gazeta.19.01.1989#6599030
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
Valery Pogrebenkov head of the division on military-political issues and disarmament problems at Novosti Press Agency (APN, curently - Rossiya Segodnya international information agency).10.12.1988#6596016
International symposium on Asia-Pacific issues in Vladivostok. Soviet journalist and political observer Alexander Bovin, right, gives an interview to Japanese journalists.01.10.1988#6288940
Books by Soviet columnist Ivan Vasilyev, Lenin Prize winner, dedicated to his native Pskov region and the Russian countryside.25.06.1988#5741773
Vitaly Dymarsky, observer of the Novosti Press Novosti (now Rossiya Segodnya International Information Agency).01.06.1988#6545655
Vitaly Dymarsky, observer of the Novosti Press Novosti (now Rossiya Segodnya International Information Agency).01.06.1988#6543958
Moskovsky Komsomolets journalist Olga Boguslavskaya talks with headmaster of a children's home Anton Kalabalin, the Moscow Region.11.03.1988#5473340
Moskovsky Komsomolets journalist Olga Boguslavskaya with children at a children's home, the Moscow Region.11.03.1988#5473329
Moskovsky Komsomolets journalist Olga Boguslavskaya, center, talks with a child at a children's home whose headmaster is Anton Kalabalin, right. The Moscow Region.11.03.1988#5473327
The Georgian Soviet Socialist Republic. The founding congress of the International Association of Female Cinematographers. German cinema columnist Monika Maurer, right, talks to church senior priest Father David.11.03.1988#5473325
Novosti Press Agency (today's Rossiya Segodnya) Board Chairman Valentin Falin, right, and US Senator from Colorado Gary Hart, left, during a meeting, Moscow.12.12.1986#5823607
Novosti Press Agency (today's Rossiya Segodnya) Board Chairman Valentin Falin, right, and US Senator from Colorado Gary Hart during a meeting, Moscow.12.12.1986#5823606
The 8th International Tchaikovsky Competition (June 11-July 4, 1986). People’s Artist of the USSR Yevgeny Nesternko, right, an opera singer and vocal contest jury member and Polish vocalist Weslaw Nowak have a conversation.01.07.1986#6546542
Columnist Felix Alexeyev of the Main Editorial Office of Western Europe at Novosti Press Agency (now Rossiya Segodnya International News Agency).29.01.1985#8778065
The 14th congress of UNIMA (international union of puppetry) in Dresden. People's Artist of the USSR Sergei Obraztsov, principal director of the Central Puppet Theater, welcomes the Congress particpants.30.06.1984#5833120
From right: Hansjörg Kastl, Ambassador of the Federal Republic of Germany to the USSR, and Pavel Naumov, Chairman of the Board of the Novosti Press Agency (now Rossiya Segodnya) Press Agency at the III National Conference of the USSR-FRG Society in the House of Friendship with the Peoples of Foreign Countries (now the House methods of the government of the Russian Federation).14.12.1983#8305436
Soviet political commentator and television presenter Valentin Zorin, host of the Ninth Studio information and analytical talk show on the Central Television of the USSR, talks with nuclear physicist, president of the USSR Academy of Sciences (now the Russian Academy of Sciences) Anatoly Alexandrov (right).01.02.1983#8251668
Fazu Aliyeva, a Soviet and Russian poetess of the Avar ethnicity, People's Poetess of Dagestan, editor-in-chief of the Dagestan Woman magazine.25.06.1982#6704197
Fazu Aliyeva, a Soviet and Russian poetess of the Avar ethnicity, People's Poetess of Dagestan, editor-in-chief of the Dagestan Woman magazine, treats her guests in her home.25.06.1982#6704194
Fazu Aliyeva, a Soviet and Russian poetess of the Avar ethnicity, People's Poetess of Dagestan, editor-in-chief of the Dagestan Woman magazine, holds a briefing in the editorial office.25.06.1982#6704193
Fazu Aliyeva, a Soviet and Russian poetess of the Avar ethnicity, People's Poetess of Dagestan, editor-in-chief of the Dagestan Woman magazine, talks to her compatriots. Dagestan ASSR.25.06.1982#6704191
A scene from the first act of Georges Bizet's opera Carmen at the State Academic Bolshoi Theater of the USSR (currently of Russia). People's Artist of the USSR Yevgeny Nesterenko as Escamillo10.01.1982#5835825
Ilya Shatunovsky, Soviet comic writer, columnist and satirist, at the Pravda newspaper's editorial office.15.12.1981#6708314
The 26th Congress of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union. Moscow. February 23 - March 3, 1981. The Kremlin Palace of Congresses. Writer Yury Bondarev, the Lenin Prize laureate, the RSFSR and the USSR State Prize laureate.01.03.1981#3041312
The 26th Congress of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union. Moscow. February 23 - March 3, 1981. The Kremlin Palace of Congresses. Writer and poet Nikolai Gribachev, the USSR State Prize laureate, the Lenin Prize laureate, Hero of Socialist Labor, Editor in Chief of "Sovetsky Soyuz" (the Soviet Union) magazine.01.03.1981#3041310
The 26th Congress of the CPSU. February 23 -March 3, 1981. The Kremlin Palace of Congresses. From left: Ivan Naudenov, chairman of the regional Council of Trade Unions (the city of Saratov), Nikolai Aleksandrov, chairman of the regional Executive Committee (the city of Saratov), and Mikhail Alekseyev, Hero of Socialist Labor, editor in chief of Moskva magazine.01.03.1981#2985247
First secretary of Ukrainian Communist Party's Poltava region committee Fyodor Morgun, Hero of Socialist Labor. Ukrainian SSR.28.02.1979#8154557
Ukrainian SSR. Soviet film director Timofey Levchuk, secretaty of the management board of the Film-Maker Union of the USSR.01.09.1978#5635156
Ukrainian SSR. Photos from the personal archive of Soviet film director Timofey Levchuk, secretaty of the management board of the Film-Maker Union of the USSR.01.09.1978#5635155
The Adam Mieckiewicz House-Museum, Novogrudok, Byelorussian SSR. Adam Mieckiewicz, a Polish poet of Belarusian descent, had enormous influence on the Polish and Belarusian literature of the 19th century.15.03.1976#6494147
An identification document of Czech writer Jaroslav Hašek certifying that he is the chairman of the party committee of the political department of the Fifth Army. June 15, 1920. Reproduction.01.10.1975#823810
Ukrainian SSR. Gorizont international friendship club at School No.20 holds a meeting dedicated to Julius Fucik.25.05.1975#5648946
Gennady Deynichenko, deputy editor of the foreign affairs department at the Izvestiya newspaper .01.07.1974#2897315
Journalist Pavel Demchenko, foreign affairs expert, head of the Middle east department at the Pravda newspaper, winner of the 1973 Nasser international award.01.01.1974#2960273
The meeting of the Editorial Board of the literary artistic and socio-political magazine "Sovetish Geymland" ("Soviet Homeland"), published in Yiddish. Third from right - editor-in-chief Aron Vergelis01.01.1970#633913
Samovars (tea macines) from the collection of Moscow architect, collector and restorer Vladimri Rezvin.01.09.1969#5880362