Blue Cliff Natural Landmark on the shore of the river Tom near Kolarovo village. Tomsk Region.27.10.2017#3225263
Moscow, Russia. Fyodor Shaidulin, Deputy Director for Regional Development at Ros-Geo-Perspektiva Group, attends a news conference on the past and future of Russian geological prospecting at the International Multimedia Press Center of the Rossiya Segodnya International Information Agency.25.04.2017#3082523
Moscow, Russia. Ros-Geo-Perspektiva Group Director Vladimir Chechulin attends a news conference on the past and future of Russian geological prospecting at the International Multimedia Press Center of the Rossiya Segodnya International Information Agency.25.04.2017#3082519
Moscow, Russia. Ros-Geo-Perspektiva Group Chief Engineer Andrei Larin attends a news conference on the past and future of Russian geological prospecting at the International Multimedia Press Center of the Rossiya Segodnya International Information Agency.25.04.2017#3082520
Moscow, Russia. Ros-Geo-Perspektiva Group Director Vladimir Chechulin attends a news conference on the past and future of Russian geological prospecting at the International Multimedia Press Center of the Rossiya Segodnya International Information Agency.25.04.2017#3082518
Moscow, Russia. Ros-Geo-Perspektiva Group Chief Geologist Vyacheslav Bal attends a news conference on the past and future of Russian geological prospecting at the International Multimedia Press Center of the Rossiya Segodnya International Information Agency.25.04.2017#3082522
Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin (center on the foreground) visiting video presentation of 3D geological model in 3D center of Gazprom-VNIIGAZ Ltd. August 3, 2010.03.08.2010#734465
Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin (second on the right) visiting video presentation of 3D geological model in 3D center of Gazprom-VNIIGAZ Ltd. August 3, 2010. Right: Moscow Region Governor Boris Gromov. Left: Russian Deputy Prime Minister, head of the Presidential Administration of the Russian Federation Sergei Sobyanin. Third on the left: Russian Deputy Prime Minister Sergei Ivanov.03.08.2010#734475
Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin (second on the right) visiting video presentation of 3D geological model in 3D center of Gazprom-VNIIGAZ Ltd. August 3, 2010. Right: Moscow Region Governor Boris Gromov. Left: Russian Deputy Prime Minister, head of the Presidential Administration of the Russian Federation Sergei Sobyanin. Third on the left: Russian Deputy Prime Minister Sergei Ivanov.03.08.2010#734474
The Lena River near Lena Pillars National Park in the Khangalassky District of the Republic of Sakha (Yakutia).01.07.1992#8264957
The Lena Pillars (now the Lena Pillars National Park) are rock formations on the banks of the Lena River in the Khangalassky Ulus of the Yakut Autonomous Soviet Socialist Republic. "Wild" tourists who enjoy water tourism are ready to be content with primitive living conditions on a makeshift raft for the sake of local beauties.03.08.1991#8333224
A tour to the Lena Pillars (now the national park of the same name), located on the banks of the Lena River in the Yakut Autonomous Soviet Socialist Republic.03.08.1991#8590960
The Lena Pillars (now the Lena Pillars National Park) are rock formations on the banks of the Lena River in the Khangalassky Ulus of the Yakut Autonomous Soviet Socialist Republic. Tourists admire the unique creation of nature.05.07.1991#8333223
The Lomonosov diamond deposit near Pomorye town in the Primorsky District of the Arkhangelsk Region. Geological prospectors working in the Russian North use speedboats to reach their respective destinations.20.09.1990#8302118
The Lomonosov diamond deposit near Pomorye town in the Primorsky District of the Arkhangelsk Region. Photo: Geologist Oleg Aronov.20.09.1990#8302114
The Lomonosov diamond deposit near Pomorye town in the Primorsky District of the Arkhangelsk Region. Photo: A. Ivanov, head of a geological prospecting expedition, rides a GT-SM GAZ 71 all-terrain vehicle.20.09.1990#8302097
The Lomonosov diamond deposit near Pomorye town in the Primorsky District of the Arkhangelsk Region. Photo: Veteran geological prospector Kim Tyukin.20.09.1990#8300865
Geological prospectors in the vicinity of the Lomonosov diamond deposit near Pomorye town in the Primorsky District of the Arkhangelsk Region.20.09.1990#8300864
The Lomonosov diamond deposit near Pomorye town in the Primorsky District of the Arkhangelsk Region. Photo: Geological prospectors use light-engine aviation, namely, a Mil Mi-8 Hip helicopter.20.09.1990#8301667
The Lomonosov diamond deposit near the town of Pomorye in the Arkhangelsk Region. Photo: A helicopter has delivered a team of geologists to the deposit.20.09.1990#8301205
The Lomonosov diamond deposit near the town of Pomorye in the Arkhangelsk Region. Photo: Veteran diamond deposit prospector Kim Tyukin.20.09.1990#8301202
The Lomonosov diamond deposit near the town of Pomorye in the Arkhangelsk Region. Photo: A team of geologists at work.20.09.1990#8301201
Offshore drilling rigs operated by the Soviet-Vietnamese oil and gas joint venture Vietsovpetro. Socialist Republic of Vietnam.01.07.1990#643874
Yakutian ASSR. A nature wonder: the Lena Pillars (rock formations reaching up to 220 m above the river level). Today: Lenskiye Stolby National Park.21.06.1990#6727234
Yakutian ASSR. View of the Lena River from the Lena Pillars (rock formations reaching up to 220 m above the river level). Today: Lenskiye Stolby National Park.21.06.1990#6727228
The Lomonosov diamond deposit near the town of Pomorye in the Arkhangelsk Region. Photo: Geologist Oleg Aronov.20.04.1990#8301206
Fossils with imprints of animals and plants found on the territory of the Central Siberian Natural Biosphere Reserve (now the Central Siberian State Reserve) in the Krasnoyarsk Territory.17.09.1988#8317029
The Tyumen Region. The Yamalo-Nenets Autonomous Area. A drilling rig at the Kharasavey gas condensate field.31.03.1988#5485518
Orlov Paleontological Museum of the USSR Academy of Sciences in Moscow. Severodvinsk gallery, consisting of a series of skeletons of reptiles of the Permian period, discovered by V.P. Amalitsky in 1896.02.02.1988#8364061
The Orlov Paleontology Museum of Soviet Academy of Sciences in Moscow. Photo: A hall with reptile skeletons from the Permian period.02.02.1988#8364685
The Orlov Paleontology Museum of Soviet Academy of Sciences in Moscow. Photo: The skeleton of a Pareiasaur skull on display in one of the museum's halls. These para-reptiles roamed what is now South Africa and Zambia during the Permian period.02.02.1988#8364583
The Orlov Paleontology Museum of Soviet Academy of Sciences in Moscow. Photo: The skull and skeleton of an herbivorous dinocephal, one of the primitive terapsids that roamed the Earth in the late Permian period.02.02.1988#8364571
The Orlov Paleontology Museum of Soviet Academy of Sciences in Moscow. The hall of skeletons of reptiles of the Permian period.02.02.1988#8365773
The Orlov Paleontology Museum of Soviet Academy of Sciences in Moscow. Photo: A plaster cast of a Diplodocus skeleton in one of the museum's halls. The Diplodocus roamed what is now western North America during the Late Jurassic period.02.02.1988#8364566
The Orlov Paleontology Museum of Soviet Academy of Sciences in Moscow. Severodvinsk gallery, consisting of a series of skeletons of reptiles of the Permian period, discovered by Mr. Amalitsky in 1896.02.02.1988#8365772
The Orlov Paleontology Museum of Soviet Academy of Sciences in Moscow. The skull of a labyrinthodont that lived on Earth in the Paleozoic and Mesozoic era (about 390-150 million years ago) is an exhibit of the museum.02.02.1988#8365768
The Orlov Paleontology Museum of Soviet Academy of Sciences in Moscow. Photo: The skeleton of Saurolophus, a duckbill dinosaur, in one of the museum's halls.02.02.1988#8365765
Socialist Republic of Vietnam (SRV). Soviet-Vietnamese oil and gas joint venture Vietsovpetro. From left to right, Deputy Head of sea port Han Van Min, Head of Cargo Shipment and Acceptance Vladimir Serov, representative of Interlikhter company Mikhail Burkhanov.01.01.1988#428706
A unicellular organism found in deposits of the Vendian geological period of the Earth.10.10.1987#8344956
A unicellular organism found in deposits of the Vendian geological period of the Earth.10.10.1987#8344954
Multicellular algae found in deposits of the Vendian geological period of the Earth.10.10.1987#8344953
An accumulation of multicellular algae found in deposits of the Vendian geological period of the Earth.10.10.1987#8344952
Participants in a news conference, "Informal groups in the USSR," from left: Y. Pavlenko, Y. Samodurov, and Y. Voronin.01.08.1987#5803657
The Vakhrushev coal stripping, a mining company in Kiselyovsk town, the Kemerovo Region.23.07.1987#6365544
The Yakut Autonomous Soviet Socialist Republic. Geologists taking core samples by drilling.01.06.1987#5765438
Ivan the Robber is a coastal rock in the Black Sea, belongs to the Kara-Dag mountain-volcanic massif, Ukrainian SSR. It is located in the southern part of the Kara-Dag massif in the southeastern part of the Karagach ridge. It rises 60 meters above the water.10.06.1986#8846984
A brigade of geological surveyors during field work in the area of future irrigation facilities.01.07.1985#8952105
Geological surveyor V.Goi during field work in the area of future irrigation facilities.01.07.1985#8952104
Georgian SSR. Center: First Secretary of the Mestia District Committee of the Communist Party of Georgia Soso Kartozia during a meeting with a group of geologists studying the rock composition of the Greater Caucasus.22.06.1985#8770793
The Belovezhskaya Pushcha State Reserve and Hunting Ground (now the Belovezhskaya Pushcha State National Park). The staff of the scientific department of the farm conducts office processing of the material, analyzes summer collections in order to determine species diversity.01.01.1985#8795261
A sample of deep earth materials from the Kola superdeep borehole is studied under the microscope. The experimental Kola Superdeep Borehole (SG-3), the deepest borehole in the world drilled exclusively for the study of the lithosphere. A tool used for drilling the borehole.08.04.1984#6006055
Yury Smirnov of the Kola incorporated deep drilling geological survey expedition, Volgokamsgeologia company, is seen here with samples of deep earth material from the Kola superdeep borehole. The experimental Kola Superdeep Borehole (SG-3), the deepest borehole in the world drilled exclusively for the study of the lithosphere. A tool used for drilling the borehole.08.04.1984#6006054
Senior drilling rig operator Alexander Zhukov, a Hero of Socialist Labor, from the Buzuluk oil and gas prospecting expedition of the Orenburggeologiya production and Geological Association.01.03.1984#6347174
