Children play games during Russia Day celebrations at the Artek International Children's Centre in the Republic of Crimea, Russia.12.06.2024#8704229
Suzdal, Russia. People take part in an open-air party during Maslenitsa celebrations. An archer.29.02.2020#6594330
People take part in an open-air party during Maslenitsa celebrations in Suzdal . The clowns are marching along.29.02.2020#6594300
People take part in an open-air party during Maslenitsa celebrations in Suzdal . The clowns are carrying an effigy of Maslenitsa.29.02.2020#6594258
Participants in the 8th Times & Epochs Historical Reenactment Festival in Moscow. The Russian-Turkish War of 1877-1878 period site.12.08.2018#5608804
Participants in the 8th Times & Epochs Historical Reenactment Festival in Moscow. The Russian-Turkish War of 1877-1878 period site.12.08.2018#5608798
Members of an amateur club revive the rite of Christmas caroling and fortunetelling.08.01.2018#3270951
Members of an amateur club revive the rite of Christmas caroling and fortunetelling.08.01.2018#3270948
Members of an amateur club revive the rite of Christmas caroling and fortunetelling.08.01.2018#3270952
Guests of the National Unity Day festival take part in sack fighting on a log competition on Manezhnaya Square in Moscow.04.11.2017#3228528
Guests of the National Unity Day festival take part in sack fighting on a log competition on Manezhnaya Square in Moscow.04.11.2017#3228531
Congregation members near the Church of the Holy Life-Giving Trinity in the village of Latnaya, Semiluksky district, during the Trinity Sunday celebration.04.06.2017#3121242
Playing a traditional game during the Bright Week celebrations at the Vitoslavlitsy museum of wooden architecture in the Novgorod Region.02.05.2016#2837964
Maslenitsa festival in the village of Perevalnoye in Kizil-Koba valley near Simferopol.13.03.2016#2806028
Maslenitsa festival in the village of Perevalnoye in Kizil-Koba valley near Simferopol.13.03.2016#2806026
Women at the Yuletide festival at the Vitoslavlitsy Museum of Folk Wooden Architecture, Novgorod District.08.01.2016#2770936
Russian fans before the quarterfinals between the Finnish and Russian national teams in the men’s ice hockey tournament, at the XXII Olympic Winter Games in Sochi.19.02.2014#2380968
Torchbearer Dmitry Korotyshyov rehearses for the Olympic torch relay on Sviyazhsk Island.30.12.2013#2344503
Deputy Chairman of the Buryatian Government for Social Development Vladimir Matkhanov, Ulan-Ude Mayor Alexander Golkov (left to right), at the Olympic Flame welcoming ceremony in the Siberian region's capital, Ulan-Ude.22.11.2013#2324110
Young Buryatian women during the Olympic Flame welcoming ceremony in the Siberian region's capital, Ulan-Ude.22.11.2013#2324042
A young woman carrying a scarf during the Olympic Flame welcoming ceremony welcoming ceremony in Ulan-Ude, the capital of the Siberian region of Buryatia.22.11.2013#2324003
A boy jumping rope during the Maslenitsa Pancake Week celebrations at the Russian Village of Shuvalovka in Petrodvorets District of St. Petersburg.16.03.2013#1414871
The Gomel Region's ethnically attired Pogost villagers celebrating St.George (Yuri's) Day with an offering of a baked round loaf and pleas for good harvest.06.05.2011#907519
A "Round Dance" lacquer miniature piece by Nikolai Soloninkin. The Fedoskino Factory of Miniature Painting.01.01.1992#544748
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
Pupils of the Folk Culture School, established in Novosibirsk's Akademgorodok (Academic Town), throw dice, while playing Babki, a game similar to Gorodki (Skittles).05.07.1990#8311644
A ritual structure for the remains of a bear harvested during the ritual holiday of the indigenous peoples of the Khanty-Mansi Autonomous Area, Bear Games, on the territory of the open-air ethnographic museum Torum Maa in the city of Khanty-Mansiysk.29.04.1990#8716685
Children of the reindeer breeders who came at the holiday. 55th traditional North holiday, Murmansk.01.03.1989#459382
Reindeer breeder competition in towing after the reindeer team. 55th traditional North holiday, Murmansk.01.03.1989#459381
Lyubov Polyakova, the leader in reindeer breeder race with the reindeer team. Reindeer breeder competition. 55th traditional North holiday, Murmansk.01.03.1989#459379
Yakut Autonomous Soviet Socialist Republic. Spectators at Yhyakh local lore festival (summer celebration) in Suntar, a district center.01.07.1987#5761082
Goblets made for the 1980 Olympic Games in the Kubachi Artware Manufacturing Group, the village of Kubachi, Dagestan ASSR. Silver, repoussé.21.07.1980#553978
Members of Virsky Ukrainian National Academic Folk Dance Ensemble perform as part of the cultural program of the 1980 Summer Olympics in Moscow.29.09.1979#8226526
A concert launching the Cultural Program of the 22nd Summer Olympic Games in Moscow. Photo: Actors from the Folk Dance Ensemble Zhok of the Moldavian SSR perform.29.09.1979#8226515
Museum of folk games created by schoolchildren. Merry Spooners, old Russian game. The children sew costumes for ethnic games themselves.08.06.1978#8897267
Museum of Folk Games created by schoolchildren. Merry Spooners, an old Russian game. The children sew costumes for the national games themselves.08.06.1978#8897251
Museum of folk games created by schoolchildren. Merry Spooners, Russian old game. Children sew costumes for the national games themselves.08.06.1978#8897281
Participants in the traditional Russian Maslenitsa festival say goodbye to winter in Zagorsk, now Sergiyev Posad, near Moscow.20.03.1978#5861124
The opening ceremony of the 7th Summer Universiade (August 15-25, 1973). The Big Sports Arena of the Lenin Central Stadium (today's Big Sports Arena of Luzhniki Olympic Complex).15.08.1973#5734741
The opening ceremony of the 7th Summer Universiade (August 15-25, 1973). The Big Sports Arena of the Lenin Central Stadium (today's Big Sports Arena of Luzhniki Olympic Complex).15.08.1973#5734732
Individual and team championship of the Soviet Union in gorodki sport. Athlete Vladimir Bochkaryov is on the field.20.09.1969#8746587
Russian Maslenitsa (Pancake Week). On the last day of the festival villagers celebrate Wide Maslenista.25.01.1965#5761478
Russian Maslenitsa (Pancake Week). On the last day of the festival villagers celebrate Wide Maslenista.25.01.1965#5761471
Georgian athlete Nina Dumbadze and weightlifter Yury Kartvelishvili at the opening gala of the 2nd Spartakiade (national games) of the Peoples of the U.S.S.R. in Moscow, 195910.08.1959#314482
Academician Ivan Pavlov, Russian physiologist, winner of the 1904 Novel Prize in medicine and physiology. Academician Pavlov playing gorodki (similar to skittles).01.06.1929#3078790
