Election of the President of the Russian Federation. March 14, 2004. Presidential candidate from the Liberal Democratic Party (LDPR) of Russia Oleg Malyshkin, background, and LDPR leader Vladimir Zhirinovsky at a voting station in Moscow.14.03.2004#2788785
Nikolai Travkin, Member of the Coordinating Council of the Inter-regional Deputy Group of the Congress of People's Deputies of the USSR.18.12.1990#8225243
Vladimir Zhirinovsky, Chairman of the Liberal Democratic Party of the Soviet Union (currently of Russia), takes part in a roundtable discussion, Russia's Place and Role in the Reformed Union.10.10.1990#8334846
Right: Vladimir Zhirinovsky, Chairman of the Liberal Democratic Party of the Soviet Union, currently of Russia, speaks to a correspondent for the Palestinian magazine Al-Hadaf at Novosti Press Agency (currently Rossiya Segodnya International Information Agency)01.10.1990#8335769
The All-Union Vegetative Pathology Center of the I.M. Sechenov First Moscow State Medical University. Head of the center, a leading Soviet researcher of sleep and wakefulness physiology and pathology Professor Alexander Vein with a patient.27.04.1988#5486305
The open-air museum-reserve of wooden architecture and folk art in the village of Nizhnaya Sinyachikha Founder and director of the museum Ivan Samoilov speaks at a folklore festival.27.04.1988#5486287
The open-air museum-reserve of wooden architecture and folk art in the village of Nizhnaya Sinyachikha. Demonstration of bast shoe weaving during a folklore festival.27.04.1988#5486286
The open-air museum-reserve of wooden architecture and folk art in the village of Nizhnaya Sinyachikha. Founder and director of the museum Ivan Samoilov during restoration works.27.04.1988#5486285
The open-air museum-reserve of wooden architecture and folk art in the village of Nizhnaya Sinyachikha. Founder and director of the museum Ivan Samoilov.27.04.1988#5486284
The open-air museum-reserve of wooden architecture and folk art in the village of Nizhnaya Sinyachikha. Museum exposition in the Transfiguration Church. Founder and director of the museum Ivan Samoilov and his assistant perform restoration works.27.04.1988#5486282
The village of Nizhnaya Sinyachikha. Founder and director of the museum-reserve of wooden architecture and folk art Ivan Samoilov.27.04.1988#5486279
Ambassador of the Oriental Republic of Uruguay to the USSR Juan Pedro Amestoy at the official event to commemorate national hero and the father of Uruguayan nationhood, José Gervasio Artigas, in Moscow.10.01.1987#8533408
April 22, 1985. The Kremlin Palace of Congresses. Official meeting dedicated to the 115th birth anniversary of Soviet leader Vladimir Lenin [1870-1924].22.04.1985#783056
Andrei Tikhonov, Member of the USSR Academy of Sciences and founder of the Faculty of Computational Mathematics and Cybernetics at Lomonosov Moscow State University, addresses students.01.09.1984#8308735
Diorama Simbirsk: Lenin's Birthplace by artist Y. I. Deshalyt on display at the Lenin Museum-Memorial in Ulyanovsk, Now the Vladimir Lenin Memorial Center.26.07.1980#8242924
From left: Founder of Tokai University, politician Shigeyoshi Matsumae held a meeting with Chair of the USSR Supreme Council Presidium Alexei Kosygin as part of his visit to the USSR.15.06.1978#8113926
Third from left: Founder of Tokai University, politician Shigeyoshi Matsumae held a meeting with Chair of the USSR Supreme Council Presidium Alexei Kosygin (next to him on the right) as part of his visit to the USSR.15.06.1978#8113924
Students of the Mikalojus Konstantinas Ciurlionis National Art School. Lithuanian Soviet Socialist Republic.01.02.1977#6530049
The Lithuanian SSR. The city of Panevezys. People's Artist of the USSR Juozas Miltinis - the founder and artistic director of the Panevezys Drama Theater (currently the Juozas Miltinis Drama Theater) as Volpone from Ben Jonson's comedy play "Volpone, or the Fox."01.07.1974#2902477
From right: founder and Head of the Department of Psychology at Moscow Institute of Physical Culture (today's Russian State University of Physical Education, Sport, Youth and Tourism), Pyotr Rudik talks with Soviet track and field athlete Valery Brumel.01.07.1973#5645110
The Moscow Engineering and Economic Institute, currently the State University of Management. President Olimpiada Kozlova, right, at the institute computer center.05.09.1971#5968697
The family of Vladimir Lenin's nephew Viktor Dmitriyevich Ulyanov are at their dacha outside Moscow.14.07.1970#5946254
The family of Vladimir Lenin's nephew Viktor Dmitriyevich Ulyanov. Viktor Ulyanov's daughter Maria's husband Igor Litvinov is in the laboratory of the Institute of Fossil Fuels of the Academy of Sciences of the USSR (currently V.Topchiev Institute of Petrochemical Synthesis).14.07.1970#5946253
The family of Vladimir Lenin's nephew Viktor Dmitriyevich Ulyanov. Viktor Ulyanov's daughter Maria with her husband Igor Litvinov.14.07.1970#5946252
The family of Vladimir Lenin's nephew Viktor Dmitriyevich Ulyanov. Viktor Ulyanov's son is a leading engineer at the S.A.Lebedev Research Institute for Precision Mechanics and Computing Technology.14.07.1970#5946251
The family of Vladimir Lenin's nephew Viktor Dmitriyevich Ulyanov. Viktor Ulyanov's son Vladimir, his wife and daughter are at their dacha outside Moscow.14.07.1970#5946250
The family of Vladimir Lenin's nephew Viktor Dmitriyevich Ulyanov. Viktor Ulyanov and his wife Viktoria are in their apartment in Moscow.14.07.1970#5946249
The family of Vladimir Lenin's nephew Viktor Dmitriyevich Ulyanov. Viktor Ulyanoc's daughter Maria.14.07.1970#5946248
The family of Vladimir Lenin's nephew Viktor Dmitriyevich Ulyanov. Viktor Ulyanov's wife Viktoria in a food store.14.07.1970#5946207
The family of Vladimir Lenin's nephew Viktor Dmitriyevich Ulyanov at their dacha outside Moscow. Viktor Ulyanov plays chess with his granddaughter with his son Vladimir standing on the left and daughter Maria and her husband, sitting.14.07.1970#5946206
The family of Vladimir Lenin's nephew Viktor Dmitriyevich Ulyanov at their dacha outside Moscow.14.07.1970#5946205
The celebrations to mark Vladimir Lenin's 100th birthday. A delegation of the Socialist Party of Chile lays a wreath at Lenin's Mausoleum.22.04.1970#5573592
The celebrations to mark Vladimir Lenin's 100th birthday. A Somalian delegation at Lenin's Mausoleum.22.04.1970#5573587
The celebrations to mark Vladimir Lenin's 100th birthday. A delegation of the United Arab Republic at Lenin's Mausoleum.22.04.1970#5573584
The celebrations to mark Vladimir Lenin's 100th birthday. A Somalian delegation lays a wreath at Lenin's Mausoleum.22.04.1970#5573583
The celebrations to mark Vladimir Lenin's 100th birthday. A delegation of the United Arab Republic at Lenin's Mausoleum.22.04.1970#5573582
The celebrations to mark Vladimir Lenin's 100th birthday. A delegation of the United Arab Republic lays a wreath at Lenin's Mausoleum.22.04.1970#5573581
The celebrations to mark Vladimir Lenin's 100th birthday. A delegation of the Somali Democratic Republic lays a wreath at Lenin's Mausoleum.22.04.1970#5573578
The celebrations to mark Vladimir Lenin's 100th birthday. A delegation of the Communist Party of Belgium lays a wreath at Lenin Mausoleum.22.04.1970#5647030
The celebrations to mark Vladimir Lenin's 100th birthday. A delegation of the National Liberation Front of South Vietnam lays a wreath at Lenin's Mausoleum.22.04.1970#5574579
The celebrations to mark Vladimir Lenin's 100th birthday. Delegations of the Communist parties of the Federal Republic of Germany, France and Venezuela in Leningrad.22.04.1970#5574578
The celebrations to mark Vladimir Lenin's 100th birthday. A delegation of the Socialist Party of Chile lays a wreath at Lenin's Mausoleum.22.04.1970#5574577
The celebrations to mark Vladimir Lenin's 100th birthday. A delegation of the National Liberation Front of South Vietnam lays a wreath at Lenin's Mausoleum.22.04.1970#5574576
A Costa Rican delegation arrives in Moscow to attend the celebrations marking Vladimir Lenin's 100th birthday. A delegation of Costa Rica headed by leader of the People's Vanguard Party Manuel Mora, right, at Sheremetyevo Airport.21.04.1970#5573590
An official meeting of the general public of Moscow's Zhdanovsky District, dedicated to Vladimir Lenin's 100th birthday.21.04.1970#5573589
A Costa Rican delegation arrives in Moscow to attend the celebrations marking Vladimir Lenin's 100th birthday. A delegation of Costa Rica headed by leader of the People's Vanguard Party Manuel Mora, right, and his deputy Humberto Vargas Carbonell, left, at Sheremetyevo Airport.21.04.1970#5573588
The celebrations to mark Vladimir Lenin's 100th birthday. A delegation of the People's Movement for the Liberation of Angola arrives at Sheremetyevo Airport in Moscow.21.04.1970#5574810
The interior of Vladimir Lenin's office in Lenin Kremlin Office and Apartment Museum at the Moscow Kremlin's Senate Palace. In 1994, the museum collection was transferred to Gorki Leninskiye State Historical Museum Reserve.01.01.1970#6669688
The Podolye historical and memorial estate museum in the historical part of Podolsk, Moscow Region. The historical buildings of the reserve include the house where the Ulyanov family lived: Lenin's mother Maria and sisters Maria and Anna with her husband Mark Yelizarov (now the Lenin memorial museum). The display "Vladimir Lenin and the Ulyanov family in Podolsk" presents authentic things and artifacts of that era.05.06.1969#6666661
Ulyanovsk city. The Ilya Ulyanov Public Garden, formerly the Intercession of the Holy Virgin Necropolis. The grave of Ilya Ulyanov (1831-1886), father of Vladimir Lenin. Inspector Ilya Ulyanov also headed people's schools in the Simbirsk Gubernia (Region).01.06.1969#6665203
Leningrad. Photo: The Smolny Institute building that houses the Smolny State Historical-Memorial Museum. In October 1917, it accommodated a headquarters to prepare for the Bolshevik revolt, led by the Petrograd Military Revolutionary Committee. The Smolny building also housed the Bolshevik Government and Vladimir Lenin. In November 1917, it was the venue of the 2nd All-Russian Congress of the Soviets whose delegates passed decrees on peace and land. Since 1918, the building accommodated the Petrograd, later Leningrad, City Soviet of Working People's Deputies. Today, it serves as the official residence of the Governor of St. Petersburg.17.07.1968#6077342
Leningrad. Photo: The mansion of ballerina Mathilda Kschessinskaya near Troitskaya (Trinity) Square where the State Museum of Great October Socialist Revolution, now the Museum of Russian Political History, has been located since 1957. The mansion housed the headquarters of the Bolshevik Party from April through early July 1917. From March through early July 1917, Vladimir Lenin and the Secretariat of the Bolshevik Part worked in two rooms on the second floor.17.07.1968#6077341
Leningrad. Photo: The Vasily Shelgunov House-Museum, now the Historical regional History Museum Nevskaya Zastava. In 1894-1895, Vladimir Ulyaniov-Lenin chaired illegal meetings of a Social Democratic group here in the room of Vasily Shelgunov, an Obukhovsky Plant worker.17.07.1968#6077337
Built to a design by sculptor Matvei Manizer and artist V. Vitman, this monument to Vladimir Lenin on Lenin Square in Ulyanovsk was unveiled on April 22, 1940 during celebrations of Lenin's 70th birthday anniversary.01.07.1968#6151885
This monument to Vladimir Lenin on Volzhsky Boulevard in Kineshma town.was built to a design by sculptor L. A. Fridman and architects A. A. Edelev and A. N. Tolstopyatov and unveiled in 1958.28.05.1968#6067476
Leningrad. Photo: The Lenin Apartment-Museum is located in this building at 1 Serdobolskaya Street. On July 6, 1917, Vladimir Lenin attended a meeting of the Bolshevik Party's Central Committee whose participants discussed the July 1917 events. On October 7-24, 1917, he also hid here in Margarita Fofanova's apartment prior to the armed revolt of October 25, 1917.17.05.1968#6077338
Right: Margarita Rudomino, founder and director of State Library for Foreign Literature (renamed Rudomino All-Russia State Library for Foreign Literature in 1990).23.06.1967#5661050
