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
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: 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
The Lomonosov diamond deposit near the town of Pomorye in the Arkhangelsk Region. Photo: Geologist Oleg Aronov.20.04.1990#8301206
The Yakut Autonomous Soviet Socialist Republic. Geologists taking core samples by drilling.01.06.1987#5765438
The Kazakh SSR. An aerial photo of Ustyurt Plateau in western Central Asia. Members of a geological prospecting expedition, including Pilot-Cosmonaut of the USSR and Two-Time Hero of the Soviet Union Valentin Lebedev, are working there.01.07.1983#8492629
The Kazakh SSR. Left: Pilot-Cosmonaut of the USSR and Two-Time Hero of the Soviet Union Valentin Lebedev, a member of a geological prospecting expedition on Ustyurt Plateau, western Central Asia, and his colleagues discuss their future route.01.07.1983#8492628
The Kazakh SSR. Second left: Pilot-Cosmonaut of the USSR and Two-Time Hero of the Soviet Union Valentin Lebedev, a member of a geological prospecting expedition on Ustyurt Plateau, western Central Asia, and his colleagues discuss their future route.01.07.1983#8492626
The Kazakh SSR. From left: Pilot-Cosmonaut of the USSR and Two-Time Hero of the Soviet Union Valentin Lebedev and Nikolai Derevyanko, both members of a geological prospecting expedition on Ustyurt Plateau, western Central Asia, fly over the territories that are being explored.01.07.1983#8492625
The Kazakh SSR. Second left: Pilot-Cosmonaut of the USSR and Two-Time Hero of the Soviet Union Valentin Lebedev, a member of a geological prospecting expedition on Ustyurt Plateau, western Central Asia, and his colleagues discuss their future route.01.07.1983#8577137
The Kazakh SSR. Second left: Pilot-Cosmonaut of the USSR and Two-Time Hero of the Soviet Union Valentin Lebedev, a member of a geological prospecting expedition on Ustyurt Plateau, western Central Asia, and his colleagues discuss their future route.01.07.1983#8577136
The Kazakh SSR. An aerial photo of Ustyurt Plateau in western Central Asia. Members of a geological prospecting expedition, including Pilot-Cosmonaut of the USSR and Two-Time Hero of the Soviet Union Valentin Lebedev, are working there.01.07.1983#8577134
The Kazakh SSR. An aerial photo of Ustyurt Plateau in western Central Asia. Members of a geological prospecting expedition, including Pilot-Cosmonaut of the USSR and Two-Time Hero of the Soviet Union Valentin Lebedev, are working there.01.07.1983#8577133
The Kazakh SSR. Second left: Trust Chief Soltan Zhukmenov tells Pilot-Cosmonaut of the USSR and Two-Time Hero of the Soviet Union Valentin Lebedev, a member of a geological prospecting expedition on Ustyurt Plateau, western Central Asia, about the work of a prospecting well.01.07.1983#8577132
Drilling an exploratory well at the Varandeiskoye oil field in the northeastern section of the Timano-Pechorskaya oil-bearing province.15.04.1976#5545024
Geotechnical exploration of Yamal. Engineer geologist V. Sechin having a break. The Yamalo-Nenets National Area.13.07.1975#5588795
Geotechnical exploration of Yamal. Brigade of geotechnicians at work. The Yamalo-Nenets National Area.13.06.1975#5588794
Geotechnical exploration of Yamal. Prospecting borehole. The Yamalo-Nenets National Area.13.05.1975#5588797
Geotechnical exploration of Yamal. Engineering-geological mapping. The Yamalo-Nenets National Area.13.05.1975#5588793
Buryat Automous Soviet Socialist Republic. A geologist encampment of the Buryat Territorial Geological Administration.01.08.1973#3141527
The Kazakh SSR. Geological surveying expedition of Kazakhstanneft association conducts drilling operations on Mangyshlak Peninsula.01.06.1973#5802136
Kurile Islands. Head of the prospecting expedition on Iturup Island Alexei Gonchar (left) and engineer Ivan Dobrenko.01.06.1972#5742360
The Kuril Islands. Geologist Mikhail Kuznetsov on a prospecting mission on Iturup Island.17.05.1972#5755011
Exploration of new oil and gas deposits in the Tyumen Region. Head of the geological team Farit Sungutallin.09.02.1970#5584411
The Azerbaijani SSR. Students from the German Democratic Republic have come to study at the Azizbekov Azerbaijani Oil and Gas Institute. A group of students from the Geological Prospecting Department during fieldwork.12.04.1967#8662260
Members of a geologists' team leave on another assignment in the Chukotka Autonomous Area.01.02.1967#6140315
The Yakut ASSR. Geologists arrive at the area where the Aikhal kimberlite pipe was discovered.29.01.1967#5795170
The Yakut ASSR. Geologists in the area where the Aikhal kimberlite pipe was discovered.29.01.1967#5795169
A geological prospecting expedition. Photo: A helicopter has delivered foodstuffs to Soviet geologists.15.07.1966#6100318
The Turkmen SSR. Photo: Prospecting for commercial oil and gas deposits in the Kara Kum Desert.01.06.1966#6088979
Karlovo town was built in the Krasnoyarsk Territory for members of the Sayany geological-prospecting expedition.09.07.1965#5776302
A Soviet geological expedition in Sayany mountain range. Photo: Geologists take a short break.08.07.1965#5774877
Soviet geological expedition in Sayany mountain range. Photo: The expedition's chief geologist L. Shutov and Y. Prokofyev in charge of its engineering-geological team.08.07.1965#5774875
Ordzhonikidze Moscow Geological Prospecting Institute (now Ordzhonikidze Russian State Geological Prospecting University). Graduate student of the institute's geodesy department Rauf Rostot defending his dissertation.16.01.1965#5902109
A ZIV-15-A self-propelled drilling rig with diamond tools for prospecting drilling.17.07.1964#5754211
