Chechen Republic leader Ramzan Kadyrov speaks at the opening of the Ethnographic Museum complex, which reproduces old Chechen life in Germenchuk village in the Shali district of Chechnya.16.08.2014#2477904
The Ethnographic Museum complex, which reproduces old Chechen life in Germenchuk village in the Shali district of Chechnya.16.08.2014#2477891
The Ethnographic Museum complex, which reproduces old Chechen life in Germenchuk village in the Shali district of Chechnya.16.08.2014#2477893
The Ethnographic Museum complex, which reproduces old Chechen life in Germenchuk village in the Shali district of Chechnya.16.08.2014#2477892
A man eating in the Ethnographic Museum complex, which reproduces old Chechen life in Germenchuk village in the Shali district of Chechnya.16.08.2014#2477902
A man looks into the well at the Ethnographic Museum complex, which reproduces old Chechen life in Germenchuk village in the Shali district of Chechnya.16.08.2014#2477894
The Ethnographic Museum complex, which reproduces old Chechen life in Germenchuk village in the Shali district of Chechnya.16.08.2014#2477901
The Ethnographic Museum complex, which reproduces old Chechen life in Germenchuk village in the Shali district of Chechnya.16.08.2014#2477900
The Ethnographic Museum complex, which reproduces old Chechen life in Germenchuk village in the Shali district of Chechnya.16.08.2014#2477898
An elderly woman at the opening of the Ethnographic Museum complex, which reproduces old Chechen life in Germenchuk village in the Shali district of Chechnya.16.08.2014#2477895
The Ethnographic Museum complex, which reproduces old Chechen life in Germenchuk village in the Shali district of Chechnya.16.08.2014#2477897
The Ethnographic Museum complex, which reproduces old Chechen life in Germenchuk village in the Shali district of Chechnya.16.08.2014#2477896
Local residents demonstrate Evenk national rites in the cultural ethnographic complex Menedek in the village of Anavgai, Kamchatka Territory.10.07.2012#1181285
Local residents demonstrate Evenk national rites in the cultural ethnographic complex Menedek in the village of Anavgai, Kamchatka Territory.10.07.2012#1181284
Native people in Anavgai village, Bystrinsky district of Kamchatka demonstrate their Even national ceremonies in the "Menedek" cultural complex.10.07.2012#1181800
Local residents demonstrate Evenk national rites in the cultural ethnographic complex Menedek in the village of Anavgai, Kamchatka Territory.10.07.2012#1181280
Native people in Anavgai village, Bystrinsky district of Kamchatka demonstrate their Even national ceremonies in the "Menedek" cultural complex.10.07.2012#1181799
Local residents demonstrate Koryak national rites in the Nomad Koryak Camp Chau-Chiv in the village of Esso, Bystrinsky District, Kamchatka.10.07.2012#1181279
Local residents demonstrate Koryak national rites in the Nomad Koryak Camp Chau-Chiv in the village of Esso, Bystrinsky District, Kamchatka Territory.10.07.2012#1181278
Local residents demonstrate Koryak national rites in the Nomad Koryak Camp Chau-Chiv in the village of Esso, Bystrinsky District, Kamchatka.10.07.2012#1181277
A local girl demonstrates Koryak national rites in the Nomad Koryak Camp Chau-Chiv in the village of Esso, Bystrinsky District, Kamchatka.10.07.2012#1181274
A local resident demonstrates Koryak national rites in the Nomad Koryak Camp Chau-Chiv in the village of Esso, Bystrinsky District, Kamchatka.10.07.2012#1181281
Taxidermist Gennady Ponamaryov shows a stuffed bear in his workshop in the village of Esso, Bystrinsky District, Kamchatka Territory.10.07.2012#1181282
During the Day of Chebak ethnographic festival, residents of Starocherkasskaya village sharing recipes for Cossack dishes from fish, including chebak (bream).13.09.2008#341515
A folk art group performing during Day of Chebak in Starocherkasskaya village, Rostov Region.13.09.2008#341514
A folk art group performing during Day of Chebak in Starocherkasskaya village, Rostov Region.13.09.2008#341513
A folk art group performing during Day of Chebak in Starocherkasskaya village, Rostov Region.13.09.2008#341512
Bride and groom from the village of Chetrosu in a wedding carriage, Republic of Moldova.02.09.1994#8273220
Friedrich Schneider, Hero of Socialist Labor, former chairman of the Kirov collective farm. German national region of the Altai Territory (administrative center: the village of Halbstadt, 430 km west of Barnaul).23.10.1992#8281323
The 1992-1994 Karabakh War. Refugees flee from their native village due to the outbreak of hostilities between Azerbaijani and Armenian armed groups for control over Nagorno-Karabakh and adjacent territories.27.08.1992#8270670
The 1992-1994 Karabakh War. The Armenian village of Artsevashen, abandoned by the inhabitants after units of the Azerbaijani army entered there. Nagorno-Karabakh.25.08.1992#8270669
Life in Lombovozh village, Beryozovsky District, Khanty-Mansi Autonomous Area - Yugra. The general view of Lombovozh village, Beryozovsky District.03.08.1992#8801203
The Lensky Druzhba (Friendship) Historical-Architectural Museum-Reserve in the village of Ogorodtakh (Sottintsy) in the Ust-Aldan District of the Republic of Sakha (Yakutia).01.07.1992#8264956
The armed conflict in Yugoslavia in 1991. Residents of the village of Borovo Selo, Yugoslavia, defend their homes.02.10.1991#6371946
Residents of the village of Shaglaser of the Talysh ethnic group in Azerbaijan. Members of the Talysh ethnic group mostly live in the high-altitude and foothill Talysh region.01.07.1991#8329306
Sports and entertainment games at the traditional summer festival Ysyakh in the village of Kyusyur, Bulunsky ulus, Yakut Autonomous Soviet Socialist Republic.21.06.1991#8587206
Sports and entertainment games at the traditional summer festival Ysyakh in the village of Kyusyur, Bulunsky ulus, Yakut Autonomous Soviet Socialist Republic.01.05.1991#8587214
Almost every household of the Nanai village of Achan in the Amursky District of the Khabarovsk Territory keeps poultry, including geese, ducks or chickens.10.09.1990#8303745
Young residents of the Nanai village of Achan in the Amursky District of the Khabarovsk Territory.10.09.1990#8303744
Young residents of the Nanai village of Achan in the Amursky District of the Khabarovsk Territory learn to play a traditional Nanai musical instrument.10.09.1990#8303738
Uzbek scientist and public figure Galina Khajibayeva visits a collective farm in the Tashkent region, Uzbek SSR.04.09.1990#6644464
Crimean Region, Ukrainian SSR. On November 14, 1989, the USSR Supreme Soviet adopted a declaration restoring the deported ethnicities' rights. Crimean Tatars started to return from deportation. Chair of the Village Council in a state farm established in the 1990s V.Kovalenko, left, speaks to V.Suleimanov, the head of a returnees' family.01.09.1990#8205060
A young woman from the village of Posad, Onezhsky District, Arkhangelsk Region. The indigenous population of the village is Onega Vepsians.05.07.1990#8289321
A woman from the village of Posad, Onezhsky District, Arkhangelsk Region. The indigenous population of the village is Onega Vepsians.05.07.1990#8289320
Northern (Onega) Vepsians, an indigenous people living in Posad, Onezhsky District of the Arkhangelsk Region. Traditions, customs and local trades, including lacemaking, are carefully preserved and passed on to next generations.03.07.1990#8288524
An embroidered towel with a traditional ornament of Northern (Onega) Vepsians living on the Onega River in the Arkhangelsk Region.03.07.1990#8288522
Windows of a house in Posad, Onezhsky District of the Arkhangelsk Region. The indigenous people here are Vepsians.03.07.1990#8288520
Vepsians, an indigenous people living in Posad, Onezhsky District of the Arkhangelsk Region.03.07.1990#8288518
Vepsians, an indigenous people living in Posad, Onezhsky District of the Arkhangelsk Region.03.07.1990#8288517
Vepsians, an indigenous people living in Posad, Onezhsky District of the Arkhangelsk Region.03.07.1990#8288516
Vepsians, an indigenous people living in Posad, Onezhsky District of the Arkhangelsk Region.03.07.1990#8288515
Orthodox Christian priest Moses Otorishevili and Mullah Nowruz Sadykhov near the Jami Mosque of Gullyuk village in the Gakhsky District of the Azerbaijani SSR.05.12.1989#6625932
Residents of the community of Sirenki, Magadan Region, Russia, celebrating the Pol'a whale festival, marked by indigenous inhabitants of the Chukotka coast - the Chukchi and Eskimos.01.09.1988#844413
