The memorial stone on the place of the house in the village of Zhelvachyovo, where poet Nikolai Klyuyev lived from 1895 to 1915.01.11.1995#733873
Moldovian SSR. Normally the number of guests at a wedding party in a Moldavia village equals the number of the villagers plus relatives from other places. Therefore dishes for the banquet are being cooled by several best mistresses and each of them has her own culinary masterpiece as some cook meat, others bakery or salads.14.09.1989#6741759
Moldovian SSR. Fellow villagers Vitaly and Anisoara are seen here in the bride's house on their wedding day.14.09.1989#6741757
Moldovian SSR. Normally the number of guests at a wedding party in a Moldavia village equals the number of the villagers plus relatives from other places. The celebration spilled over onto the street.14.09.1989#6741746
Moldovian SSR. Normally the number of guests at a wedding party in a Moldavia village equals the number of the villagers plus relatives from other places. Therefore dishes for the banquet are being cooled by several best mistresses and each of them has her own culinary masterpiece. Homemade bakery for the wedding table.14.09.1989#6741743
Normally the number of guests at a wedding party in a Moldavia village equals the number of the villagers plus relatives from other places. However, there is enough space for dancing under a big tent in the courtyard.14.09.1989#6741742
Normally the number of guests at a wedding party in a Moldavia village equals the number of the villagers plus relatives from other places. Therefore dishes for the banquet are being cooled by several best mistresses and each of them has her own culinary masterpiece. Moldavian SSR.14.09.1989#6741741
Left: Soviet writer Viktor Astafyev on vacation with his countryman in his native village of Ovsyanka on the banks of the Yenisei.01.09.1988#8363964
Kanysh Yusupova, fourth right, head of the village council at the garden plot of one of the collective farm's veterans. The village of Kara-Zhigach. The Kirgiz SSR, 1987.06.09.1987#2928990
Adyghe Autonomous Area. Four-time European judo champion Khazret Tletseri, center, in his native village of Kazanukai, Teuchezhsky district.20.03.1987#5823052
Ainur Sofiyeva, USSR women's chess champion, winner of the Summer Spartakiad of the Peoples of the USSR, accepts congratulations from residents of her native village of Gakh, Azerbaijan SSR.01.10.1986#8391433
Former fellow villagers greeting writer Mikhail Alexeyev, Hero of Socialist Labor. He won the Russian 1966 and 1976 U.S.S.R. State Prizes, and was Soviet Writers Union Board Secretary and editor-in-chief of the literary magazine Moskva.01.05.1986#2738
Veteran of the Great Patriotic War, former scout and communications officer, participant in the liberation of Bulgaria Alexei Skurlatov laying flowers at the Memorial Complex to soldiers who died during the war in the village of Kosikha, Altai Territory. Alexei served as a prototype for the famous “Alyosha” - a monument to Soviet soldiers-liberators in the Bulgarian city of Plovdiv.10.11.1985#8791023
People's Actor of the USSR Suimenkul Chokmorov never looses connections with his homeland. Right: Suimenkul Chokmorov in his home village of Chon-Tash near Frunze, Kyrgyz SSR.28.07.1982#6707953
Georgian SSR, South Ossetian Autonomous Area. Head of the collective farm D. Okruashvili, center, celebrates the traditional festival Shepherd Day with his fellow villagers.29.05.1982#6691557
Fellow-villagers welcome cosmonaut Andriyan Nikolayev, according to old folk customs, with bread, salt and a love-cup. Shorshely, Chuvashia01.08.1977#62859
Reproduction of "Admirers" painting (1957) by Dmitry Mochalsky. Oil on canvas. The State Russian Museum.01.01.1974#548153
Ukrainian SSR. The opening of the grave monument to Soviet teacher, Hero of Socialist Labor Vasily Sukhomlinsky in Pavlysh village in the Onufriyevsky District of the Kirovograd Region.29.07.1972#5601176
The picture "The arrival of Nadezhda Kostantinovna Krupskaya and her mother Yelizaveta Vasilievna in Shushenskoye". Artist Vladimir Pavlovich Butanayev. Canvas, oil. The memorial park "Vladimir Ilyich Lenin's Siberian Exile" in Shushenskoye (he lived there in 1897-1900).01.05.1972#749081
The Kazakh SSR. U. Nazarov, an 84-year-old retired person and an actor of a collective farm theater, prepares for a competition of folk poets and singers.09.01.1970#6450293
Still from the "Ballad of a Russian Mother" documentary (1966) about Yepistiniya Stepanova. Directed by Boris Karpov and Pavel Rusanov at the Central Documentary Movie Studios.01.03.1969#598374
The Mikhail Lomonosov historical memorial museum in the village of Lomonosovo, Arkhangelsk Region.01.02.1960#5625698
Writer Leonid Leonov (center) conversing with fellow villagers in the Polukhino village. 01.06.1949#82968
