From left: NASA astronaut Christopher Cassidy and Russian cosmonauts Alexander Misurkin and Pavel Vinogradov in a bus near the Cosmonaut Hotel before the launch of a Soyuz-FG rocket carrying a manned Soyuz TMA-08M spacecraft from Baikonur Cosmodrome.28.03.2013#1428247
The family of a graduate at the graduation ceremony at the Ryazan Higher Airborne Command School (now named after General Margelov).15.06.1993#8256971
A visit by a Russian delegation to Buryatia, May 28-29, 1992. President of the Russian Federation Boris Yeltsin tours the Museum of Ethnography of Transbaikal Peoples.28.05.1992#6537298
The funeral service for People's Artist of the USSR Sergei Obraztsov at Moscow's Novodevichye Cemetery.10.05.1992#8784994
Farewell to the tragically deceased singer and composer Igor Talkov. Palace of Youth on Komsomolsky Prospekt in Moscow. October 9, 1991.09.10.1991#8280239
Bidding farewell to tragically killed singer and songwriter Igor Talkov at the Youth Center on Komsomolsky Prospekt in Moscow. October 9, 1991.09.10.1991#8274946
Farewell to tragically lost singer and composer Igor Talkov at the Youth Palace on Komsomolsky Avenue in Moscow, October 9, 1991.09.10.1991#8600285
Farewell to tragically lost singer and composer Igor Talkov at the Youth Palace on Komsomolsky Avenue in Moscow, October 9, 1991.09.10.1991#8600284
January 11-13, 1991. Clashes in Vilnius between advocates of Lithuania's independence, service personnel of the Soviet Armed Forces and activists of the National Salvation Committee of the Lithuanian SSR. following Lithuania's secession from the Soviet Union. Photo: The funeral of a city resident who was killed during street fighting.13.01.1991#6688591
Honored football coach of the USSR Konstantin Beskov with his wife Valeria Nikolaevna at a gala evening to mark of his 70th birthday.18.11.1990#8338835
Friends and relatives of the newlyweds on a wedding walk along Red Square in Moscow.10.10.1990#8338815
From right: 11-year-old American school student Anthony Aliengena who performed the round-the-world Friendship Flight '89 flight in a Cessna 210 Centurion light-engine aircraft his Soviet friend Roman Cheremnykh and sister Elaina meet with Soviet school students.25.07.1989#8159213
A meeting of Afghan War veterans' mothers. Photo: The families and friends of Soviet soldiers, killed in action during the Afghan war of 1979-1989, gather for a symbolic wake.01.06.1989#5929562
A meeting of Afghan War veterans' mothers. Photo: The families and friends of Soviet soldiers, killed in action during the Afghan war of 1979-1989.01.06.1989#5929561
A meeting of Afghan War veterans' mothers. Photo: The families and friends of Soviet soldiers, killed in action during the Afghan war of 1979-1989, gather for a symbolic wake.01.06.1989#5929560
A meeting of Afghan War veterans' mothers. Photo: The families and friends of Soviet soldiers, killed in action during the Afghan war of 1979-1989.01.06.1989#5929559
A meeting of Afghan War veterans' mothers. Photo: The families and friends of Soviet soldiers, killed in action during the Afghan war of 1979-1989.01.06.1989#5929558
Aftermath of an earthquake that occurred on December 7, 1988, in northern Armenia. The magnitude in the epicenter exceeded 10 points. Residents of the completely ruined Spitak check lists of survivals.07.12.1988#6593862
Lithuanian Soviet Socialist Republic. Friends pick mushrooms in a forest. The more the merrier.14.09.1988#8358617
Funeral of a Soviet soldier killed during the Afghan War, at the Kotlyakovskoye Cemetery in Moscow.01.08.1988#6573566
Laying foundation for a monument to Soviet international troops killed in Afghanistan, in Druzhba Park on Leningradsky Highway in Moscow.01.08.1988#6573565
The Ukrainian SSR. Former residents of Pripyat tell their friends about the town evacuation following the Chernobyl disaster.29.07.1988#5621663
Tatyana Samoilenko, Soviet track and field athlete, 1988 Olympic champion in the 3,000 m race, USSR Distinguished Master of Sports, with family and friends. Ukrainian Soviet Socialist Republic.05.05.1988#6572021
The Petushkov family with many children, Moscow. Tatyana Petushkova, right, during a recess at school.01.02.1988#5735111
Unveiling a memorial plaque to Vladimir Vysotsky at 28 Malaya Gruzinskaya Street, saying "Poet and singer lived in this building between 1975 and 1980."25.01.1988#5748911
Krylatskoye, a new elite district in western Moscow, ranks among environmentally friendliest and neatest city districts. In March 1987, British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher paid an official visit to the Soviet Union, toured the Krylatskoye District and even visited the Matviyeko family's apartment. Right: The family youngest member with his friends.27.07.1987#6369970
According to tradition, after a ceremony at Moscow's Wedding Palace, newlyweds go to Alexander Garden to lay flowers at the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier.01.06.1987#8543193
The funeral of Soviet politician Vyacheslav Molotov in Moscow's Novodevichye Cemetery.12.11.1986#6736658
A wedding in Yamburg, a polar workers' settlement of the Yamburggazdobycha production facility (now Gazprom Yamburg) in the Nadymsky District in the Tyumen Region, Yamal-Nenets Autonomous Area.10.10.1986#8441271
The Uzbek SSR. Third left: Amateur ornithologist Abdujabbar Kakharov visits his friend Doston Mutinov, a cactus collector.01.06.1986#8959847
Twice Heroes of the Soviet Union, Pilot-Cosmonauts of the USSR, Soyuz T-13 space ship's commander Vladimir Dzhanibekov (center) and Soyuz T-14 space ship's flight engineer Georgyi Grechko (right) welcomed by family members and friends after the space flight was over. L.I.Brezhnev Star City.01.10.1985#500514
Right: Soviet architect Irina Chichua and her friends picnicking in a Tbilisi park, Georgian SSR.15.09.1984#8310296
The Soviet tanker Lugansk, which was blown up by an American mine in the Nicaraguan port of Sandino, returns to the Novorossiysk port. The ship was seriously damaged and several crew members were injured. This act of international robbery once again exposed the aggressive nature of the policy pursued by the US administration.19.04.1984#8579697
Welcoming in the Novorossiysk port of Soviet sailors of the tanker Lugansk, which was blown up by an American mine in the Nicaraguan port of Sandino. The ship was seriously damaged and several crew members were injured. Center: head of the tanker's radio station Mr. Morozov with his daughters.19.04.1984#8579698
Welcoming in the Novorossiysk port of Soviet sailors of the tanker Lugansk, which was blown up by an American mine in the Nicaraguan port of Sandino. The ship was seriously damaged and several crew members were injured.19.04.1984#8579699
The return to the Novorossiysk port of the Soviet tanker Lugansk, which had blown up on an American mine in the Nicaraguan port of Sandino. The vessel was seriously damaged, several crew members were wounded. This act of international robbery once again exposed the aggressive nature of the policy pursued by the US administration. The tanker's first mate Mr. Naronov during an interview with Soviet journalists.19.04.1984#8767416
