Russia. Parents prepare to take the Russian language Unified State Exam at the Novosibirsk Institute of Education Monitoring and Development during a nationwide project called Unified State Exam Day for Parents.07.02.2017#3022532
Russia. Parents prepare to take the Russian language Unified State Exam at the Novosibirsk Institute of Education Monitoring and Development during a nationwide project called Unified State Exam Day for Parents.07.02.2017#3022528
Russia. A lecturer checks parents' passports during the Russian language Unified State Exam in Novosibirsk. The exam is part of a nationwide project called Unified State Exam Day for Parents.07.02.2017#3022526
Visitors at the opening of the exhibition on the centenary of the outbreak of WWI in Grozny's National Library.09.07.2014#2459676
Visitors at the opening of the exhibition on the centenary of the outbreak of WWI in Grozny's National Library.09.07.2014#2459677
A visitor at the opening of the exhibition on the centenary of the outbreak of WWI in Grozny's National Library.09.07.2014#2459674
Visitors at the opening of the exhibition on the centenary of the outbreak of WWI in Grozny's National Library.09.07.2014#2459673
Visitors at the opening of the exhibition on the centenary of the outbreak of WWI in Grozny's National Library.09.07.2014#2459672
Visitors at the opening of the exhibition on the centenary of the outbreak of WWI in Grozny's National Library.09.07.2014#2459667
Visitors at the opening of the exhibition on the centenary of the outbreak of WWI in Grozny's National Library.09.07.2014#2459666
Historian and publicist Timur Muzayev (left) tells guests about the archive documents presented at the opening of the exhibition on the centenary of the outbreak of WWI in Grozny's National Library. On the right: Speaker of Chechen Parliament Dukuvakha Abdurakhmanov.09.07.2014#2459662
Descendant of a serviceman of a cavalry division, writer Oleg Dzhurgayev (center) at the opening of the exhibition on the centenary of the outbreak of WWI in Grozny's National Library.09.07.2014#2459663
Merited Worker of Culture of the Chechen Republic and Head of the Archive Department of its Government Magomed Muzayev, Speaker of Chechen Parliament Dukuvakha Abdurakhmanov and Deputy Head of the Chechen Government Abdula Magomadov at the opening of the exhibition on the centenary of the outbreak of WWI in Grozny's National Library.09.07.2014#2459660
Merited cultural worker of the Chechen Republic and Head of the Archive Department of its Government Magomed Muzayev at the opening of the exhibition on the centenary of the outbreak of WWI in Grozny's National Library.09.07.2014#2459661
The RSFSR Commission of the Supreme Council to investigate the causes and consequences of the attempted coup d'état in the USSR in August 1991. Members of the commission withdraw materials from the archives of the Military Publishing House of the USSR Ministry of Defense.06.09.1992#8297378
Alexander Obolensky, Chairman of the Commission of the Supreme Soviet (Parliament) of the RSFSR for Investigating the Causes and Circumstances of the August 1991 Coup in the Soviet Union.07.09.1991#8238542
Alexander Obolensky, Chairman of the Commission of the Supreme Soviet (Parliament) of the RSFSR for Investigating the Causes and Circumstances of the August 1991 Coup in the Soviet Union, studies documents.07.09.1991#8238538
Second right: Alexander Obolensky, Chairman of the Commission of the Supreme Soviet (Parliament) of the RSFSR for Investigating the Causes and Circumstances of the August 1991 Coup in the Soviet Union, talks to colleagues/06.09.1991#8238612
Members of the Parliamentary Commission for Investigating the Causes and Circumstances of the August Putsch in August 1991.06.09.1991#8238543
Left: Alexander Obolensky, Chairman of the Commission of the Supreme Soviet (Parliament) of the RSFSR for Investigating the Causes and Circumstances of the August 1991 Coup in the Soviet Union, at a meeting.06.09.1991#8238541
A member of the Commission of the Supreme Soviet (Parliament) of the RSFSR for Investigating the Causes and Circumstances of the August 1991 Coup in the Soviet Union confiscates materials from the archive of the Voyenizdat Military Publishers of the Soviet Defense Ministry.06.09.1991#8238540
Right: Vladimir Shcherbakov, Chairman of the USSR State Committee on Labor and Social Issues, at a meeting of the Commission of the Supreme Soviet (Parliament) of the RSFSR for Investigating the Causes and Circumstances of the August 1991 Coup in the Soviet Union.06.09.1991#8238539
Members of the Commission of the Supreme Soviet (Parliament) of the RSFSR for Investigating the Causes and Circumstances of the August 1991 Coup in the Soviet Union with materials, confiscated from the archive of the Voyenizdat Military Publishers of the Soviet Defense Ministry.06.09.1991#8238537
Vladimir Shcherbakov, Chairman of the USSR State Committee on Labor and Social Issues, at a meeting of the Commission of the Supreme Soviet (Parliament) of the RSFSR for Investigating the Causes and Circumstances of the August 1991 Coup in the Soviet Union.06.09.1991#8238536
Acting Soviet Prime Minister Vitaly Doguzhiyev at a meeting of the Commission of the Supreme Soviet (Parliament) of the RSFSR for Investigating the Causes and Circumstances of the August 1991 Coup in the Soviet Union.06.09.1991#8238535
Members of the Commission of the Supreme Soviet (Parliament) of the RSFSR for Investigating the Causes and Circumstances of the August 1991 Coup in the Soviet Union confiscate materials from the archive of the Voyenizdat Military Publishers of the Soviet Defense Ministry.06.09.1991#8238534
Members of the Commission of the Supreme Soviet (Parliament) of the RSFSR for Investigating the Causes and Circumstances of the August 1991 Coup in the Soviet Union at the archive of the Voyenizdat Military Publishers of the Soviet Defense Ministry.06.09.1991#8238533
Members of the Commission of the Supreme Soviet (Parliament) of the RSFSR for Investigating the Causes and Circumstances of the August 1991 Coup in the Soviet Union confiscate materials from the archive of the Voyenizdat Military Publishers of the Soviet Defense Ministry.06.09.1991#8238532
Fourth from left: Moscow Mayor Gavriil Popov at a press conference of the commission of the Supreme Soviet of the RSFSR to investigate the causes and circumstances of the coup d'état in the USSR in August 1991.06.09.1991#8236527
Members of the commission of the Supreme Soviet of the RSFSR to investigate the causes and circumstances of the coup d'état in the USSR in August 1991 withdraw materials from the archives of the Military Publishing House of the USSR Ministry of Defense.06.09.1991#8236526
Meeting of the commission of the Supreme Soviet of the RSFSR to investigate the causes and circumstances of the coup d'état in the USSR in August 1991.06.09.1991#8236524
Right: Vladimir Shcherbakov, Chairman of the USSR State Committee on Labor and Social Issues, at a meeting of the Commission of the Supreme Soviet (Parliament) of the RSFSR for Investigating the Causes and Circumstances of the August 1991 Coup in the Soviet Union.06.09.1991#8236519
Center: Alexander Obolensky, Chairman of the Commission of the Supreme Soviet (Parliament) of the RSFSR for Investigating the Causes and Circumstances of the August 1991 Coup in the Soviet Union, studies documents.06.09.1991#8236518
The RSFSR Supreme Soviet Commission on USSR Attempted Coup Investigation, probing the attempted coup in August 1991. Members of the commission during a meeting.06.09.1991#8285286
The Commission of the Supreme Soviet (Parliament) of the RSFSR for Investigating the Causes and Aftermath of the Abortive August 1991 Coup in the Soviet Union. Photo: Commission members confiscate materials from the archive of the Military Publishing House of the Soviet Defense Ministry.06.09.1991#8285283
The RSFSR Supreme Soviet Commission on USSR Attempted Coup Investigation, probing the attempted coup in August 1991. Moscow Mayor Gavriil Popov, fourth left, during a news conference.06.09.1991#8285280
The Commission of the Supreme Soviet (Parliament) of the RSFSR for Investigating the Causes and Aftermath of the Abortive August 1991 Coup in the Soviet Union. Right: Acting First Deputy Prime Minister of the USSR Vladimir Shcherbakov, Member of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union, at a meeting.06.09.1991#8285266
The RSFSR Commission of the Supreme Council to investigate the causes and consequences of the attempted coup d'état in the USSR in August 1991. Acting First Deputy Prime Minister of the USSR, member of the USSR Communist Party Central Committee Vladimir Shcherbakov during a meeting.06.09.1991#8297380
The RSFSR Commission of the Supreme Council to investigate the causes and consequences of the attempted coup d'état in the USSR in August 1991. Members of the commission withdraw materials from the archives of the Military Publishing House of the USSR Ministry of Defense.06.09.1991#8297379
The 2nd (Fall) Session of Supreme Soviet of the USSR, September 25 - November 28, 1989. People's Deputies of the USSR before the meeting.25.09.1989#6639008
Nikita Khrushchev: Those Ten Years. An exhibition at the Moscow Palace of Youth. A recreated kitchen in a communal apartment from the 1950s and 1960s.01.08.1989#8211055
Nikita Khrushchev: Those Ten Years. An exhibition at the Moscow Palace of Youth. Death mask of Chairman of the Council of Ministers of the USSR Joseph Stalin.01.08.1989#8211054
Nikita Khrushchev: Those Ten Years. An exhibition at the Moscow Palace of Youth. Entertainment and consumer services in 1950s and 1960s.01.08.1989#8211053
Nikita Khrushchev: Those Ten Years. An exhibition at the Moscow Palace of Youth. Gifts from foreign delegates to First Secretary of the CPSU Central Committee, Chairman of the Council of Ministers of the USSR Nikita Khrushchev.01.08.1989#8211050
The text of the opponent's speech of philosopher Immanuel Kant (draft) at the defense of a thesis by Johann Gottlieb Kreutzfeld. 1777. The Tartu University, Estonia.01.07.1986#643013
Nikolai Aleksandrovich Tikhonov, CPSU CC Politbureau member, Chairman of the Council of Ministers of the USSR (fourth left), and Lubomír Štrougal, Czechoslovak Communist Party Presidium member (fourth right).09.07.1984#873038
Restoration workshop of the All-Union State Film Fund (the present-day Russian Film Fund).04.07.1974#5577109
The USSR Central State Archive of Film and Photo Documents. Senior research associate Gelios Zavyalov helps Bulgarian documentary makers select materials for their film.28.07.1972#5600431
Bulgarian and international communist movement activist Georgi Dimitrov. A still from a newsreel from the collection of the Central State Archive of Film and Photo Documents.28.07.1972#5600429
The State Historical Museum. Doctor of historical sciences M. Postnikova, center, shows the museum's exhibit items to visitors.04.03.1972#5802470
Vladimir Lenin's house-museum was opened on November 7, 1937, in the wing of the Orlovs' house, Kazan. The opening was timed to coincide with the 20th anniversary of the October Revolution. The Ulyanovs lived there in September 1888 –May 1889 after they returned from Kokushkino settlement. Vladimir Lenin was exiled there for attending a meeting at Kazan University, December 4, 1887. Kazan.01.07.1969#754516
A table in the room of Vladimir Lenin's mother and sister Anna. The Orlovs' estate, today's Vladimir Lenin's house-museum, Kazan.01.07.1969#754513
After coming back from his Siberian exile Vladimir Lenin lived in Pskov under a secret surveillance of the police from March till June 1900. The building in the picture was a post office then frequently visited by Lenin.01.07.1969#754501
