A closing ceremony. The 3rd Goodwill Games. July 23-August 7, 1994 (25 sports; 2000 athletes from 75 countries). Russian Head of government Viktor Chernomyrdin giving a speech.01.08.1994#637454
Andrei Gromov, outstanding gladiolus breeder, doctor of agricultural sciences and honorary member of the Royal Horticultural Society and the North American Gladiolus Council.20.04.1990#8415327
The great Russian musician Sergey Vasilyevich Rakhmaninov stand in the Novgorod music school museum.01.01.1989#106284
May 15, 1988. Beginning of the gradual withdrawal of the limited contingent of Soviet forces from Afghanistan.15.05.1988#2891709
Nina Yurina, Professor at Patrice Lumumba Peoples' Friendship University (currently Patrice Lumumba Peoples' Friendship University of Russia), receives a honorary member certificate of the Czechoslovak Medical Society.03.09.1984#8789205
Vladimir Salnikov, Soviet swimmer, USSR distinguished master of sports, three times Olympic champion (1980), Druzhba-84 competitions winner (born 1966) receiving the 1983 Best Swimmer of the World award. The Olimpiysky sportscomplex pool. Druzhba-84 international competitions (August 16-30, 1984).25.08.1984#508101
Soyuz-40 spaceship international backup crew members: the USSR cosmonaut Yuri Romanenko (right) and cosmonaut-researcher of Romanian Socialist Republic Dumitru Dediu. Background - Monument to Yuri Gagarin.15.04.1981#629452
The Soyuz-40 spaceship's international crews (main and back-up) being photographed on the background of Yuri Gagarin's monument in Zvezdny Gorodok: (from left) research cosmonaut Dumitru Prunariu (Romania), main crew commander Leonid Popop, USSR pilot-cosmonaut, Hero of the Soviet Union, research cosmonaut Dumitru Dediu (Romania), and Yuri Romanenko, back-up crew commander, USSR pilot-cosmonaut, two times Hero of the Soviet Union01.04.1981#500367
Mother of partisan Volodya Kovalchuk Maria Kovalchuk and head of youth group of Korchagin's partisans Lavrenty Kukhaleyshvili in the Ostrovsky Museum. The village of Shepetovka.10.05.1980#481532
Newlyweds during the ceremony of laying flowers at the eternal flame at the Memorial of Glory memorial complex in the city of Alma-Ata, Kazakh SSR, erected in the park named after 28 Panfilov guardsmen for the 30th anniversary of the victory in the Great Patriotic War.08.09.1979#8709426
The USSR national heli-sport team on their return to Moscow after winning the first place in an unofficial team event at the 2nd World Championships in London.01.09.1973#695729
"Gladioli", by Anatoly Petritsky. Reproduction. The painting of Soviet Ukraine. The State Museum of Fine Arts of the Ukrainian SSR.01.02.1971#724684
Soviet government delegation visiting Hungary. Leonid Brezhnev, General Secretary of the CPSU Central Committee, and Alexei Kosygin, Chairman of the USSR Council of Ministers, with a group of Soviet tourists.07.09.1967#572377
Representative of the Indian-Soviet Cultural Society Kumar Padm Shivashankar Menon, second left, visits the USSR with his wife. They were welcomed by Yevgeny Ivanov, Deputy Chair of the Union of Soviet Societies of Friendship and Cultural Ties with Foreign Countries, second right, at Sheremetyevo Airport.30.09.1966#5933799