A fan during the men's individual race at the 2015-16 Biathlon World Cup 5 in Ruhpolding, Germany.13.01.2016#2772728
Russia's Anton Shipulin during the preliminary shooting before the men's individual race at the 2015-16 Biathlon World Cup 5 in Ruhpolding, Germany.13.01.2016#2772747
Visitors at the Ancient Costume in Films exhibition of the Gorky Film Studios in GUM shopping centre in Moscow.05.10.2015#2712697
Participants in the Alfa Future People Festival of Electronic Music and Modern Technology in the village of Bolshoye Kozino near Nizhny Novgorod.18.07.2015#2661352
Participants in the Alfa Future People Festival of Electronic Music and Modern Technology in the village of Bolshoye Kozino near Nizhny Novgorod.18.07.2015#2661394
Participants in the Alfa Future People Festival of Electronic Music and Modern Technology in the village of Bolshoye Kozino near Nizhny Novgorod.18.07.2015#2661381
A model of a Moscow Metro train car displayed at the opening of the 88th movie market and presentation of the Metro movie on the beach at the Zhemchuzhina hotel. Kinotavr Film Festival in Sochi.07.06.2012#1149151
Members of the national youth ensemble "Koritev" dance at the "Alhalalalai" festival. The holiday gives thanks to nature associated with the end of summer and autumn activities.24.09.2011#965065
September 24, 2010. President Dmitry Medvedev visiting the Sosnovy Bor recreation center for war and labor veterans.24.09.2010#766205
Russian President Dmitry Medvedev speaking at the London School of Economics on April 2, 2009.02.04.2009#384647
Russian President Dmitry Medvedev speaking at the London School of Economics on April 2, 2009.02.04.2009#384646
From right: Georgian President Mikheil Saakashvili, and Kazakh President Nursultan Nazarbayev meeting in Georgia. Photo courtesy of Nino Meliya.02.10.2005#484313
Romanian President Ion Iliescu, on a visit to Georgia, and Georgian President Eduard Shevardnadze. Photo courtesy of Nino Meliya.25.04.2001#447850
An actor as Peter the Great during a staged performance at the stone-laying ceremony for a new commercial port in Ust-Luga, Leningrad Region.15.06.1993#6743827
The funeral of People's Artist of the USSR Sergei Obraztsov at the Novodevichy Cemetery in Moscow on May 10, 1992. Farewell to People's Artist of the USSR Sergei Obraztsov. The funeral speech is given by theater and film actor Kirill Lavrov, right.10.05.1992#8784992
Patriarch of Moscow and All Rus Alexy II greets children from Sunday schools at a charity Christmas tree in the Hall of Columns.07.01.1992#8237944
Meeting of the Congress of People's Deputies on the inauguration of Russian President Boris Yeltsin. Kremlin Palace of Congresses. July 10, 1991. Soviet President Mikhail Gorbachev (right) congratulates Yeltsin on taking the office of the Russian President.10.07.1991#2891926
Meeting of the Congress of People's Deputies on the inauguration of Russian President Boris Yeltsin. Kremlin Palace of Congresses. July 10, 1991. Russian President Boris Yeltsin and Soviet President Mikhail Gorbachev (right).10.07.1991#2891923
Meeting of the Congress of People's Deputies on the inauguration of Russian President Boris Yeltsin. Kremlin Palace of Congresses. July 10, 1991. Russian President Boris Yeltsin and Soviet President Mikhail Gorbachev (right).10.07.1991#2891922
Meeting of the Congress of People's Deputies on the inauguration of Russian President Boris Yeltsin. Kremlin Palace of Congresses. July 10, 1991. Yeltsin and Chairman of the RSFSR Supreme Soviet Ruslan Khasbulatov during the ceremony of taking an oath to become Russian president.10.07.1991#2891921
Meeting of the Congress of People's Deputies on the inauguration of Russian President Boris Yeltsin. Kremlin Palace of Congresses. July 10, 1991. Russian President Yelthin takes an oath on his accession to the presidential office.10.07.1991#2891919
Meeting of the Congress of People's Deputies on the inauguration of Russian President Boris Yeltsin. Kremlin Palace of Congresses. July 10, 1991. Russian President Yeltsin takes an oath on his accession to the presidential office.10.07.1991#2891918
Meeting of the Congress of People's Deputies on the inauguration of Russian President Boris Yeltsin. Kremlin Palace of Congresses. July 10, 1991. Yeltsin and Chairman of the RSFSR Supreme Soviet Ruslan Khasbulatov (sitting) during the ceremony of taking an oath to become Russian president.10.07.1991#2891917
Makeup artist Maria Meyerhold from the Gorky Moscow Academic Art Theater of the USSR.15.03.1990#8214710
Actor Lev Durov as dirty cop Kum, head of the correctional facility's operating unit, on the set of the criminal drama film Anarchy directed by Igor Gostev and produced at the Mosfilm Studio in 1989.01.07.1989#8814689
The First Congress of People's Deputies of the Soviet Union. The Kremlin Palace of Congresses. May 25-June 9, 1989. Mikhail Gorbachev, general secretary of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union and chairman of the presidium of the USSR Supreme Soviet, center, with Vitaly Vorotnikov, chairman of the presidium of the RSFSR Supreme Soviet, left, and Anatoly Lukyanov, first deputy chairman of the USSR Supreme Soviet, right, during the opening of the congress.25.05.1989#2891961
Merited Artist of the RSFSR Sergei Shakurov as Beria and Yevgeny Platokhin as Momulov in the play "Executor," staged at Moscow's Detective experimental theater led by Vasily Livanov.20.03.1989#8198852
Valentin Smirnitsky as Kobulov in the play "Executor," staged at Moscow's Detective experimental theater led by Vasily Livanov.20.03.1989#8198842
Merited Artist of the RSFSR Sergei Shakurov as Beria in the play "Executor," staged at Moscow's Detective experimental theater led by Vasily Livanov.20.03.1989#8198839
The amateur circus group Velozavodets People's Circus was organized at the Kharkov Bicycle Plant. Creator and director: circus artist Savely Verteim, on the right in the group. Second left: Circus performer, People's Artist of the USSR Yury Nikulin congratulates the creative team of the Ulybka (Smile) children's circus group of the Kharkov Palace of Pioneers and Schoolchildren and the Velozavodets People's Circus on their 25th anniversary.11.06.1988#8454321
A scene from Mikhail Bulgakov's play "The crimson island," staged by theater director Alexander Dzekun at Karl Marx Saratov Drama Theater, now Slonov Saratov State Academic Drama Theater.15.05.1988#6548847
A scene from the play "The Master and Margarita," based on the eponymous novel by Mikhail Bulgakov and staged by theater director Alexander Dzekun at Karl Marx Saratov Drama Theater, now Slonov Saratov State Academic Drama Theater.15.05.1988#6548846
Actress Natalya Merts in a scene from Andrei Platonov's play "Fourteen little red huts," staged by theater director Alexander Dzekun at Karl Marx Saratov Drama Theater, now Slonov Saratov State Academic Drama Theater.15.05.1988#6548844
A scene from the play "The Master and Margarita," based on the eponymous novel by Mikhail Bulgakov and staged by theater director Alexander Dzekun at Karl Marx Saratov Drama Theater, now Slonov Saratov State Academic Drama Theater.15.05.1988#6548843
A scene from Mikhail Bulgakov's play "The crimson island," staged by theater director Alexander Dzekun at Karl Marx Saratov Drama Theater, now Slonov Saratov State Academic Drama Theater.15.05.1988#6548842
Actor Alexander Galko in a scene from Andrei Platonov's play "Fourteen little red huts," staged by theater director Alexander Dzekun at Karl Marx Saratov Drama Theater, now Slonov Saratov State Academic Drama Theater.15.05.1988#6548841
A scene from the play "The Master and Margarita," based on the eponymous novel by Mikhail Bulgakov and staged by theater director Alexander Dzekun at Karl Marx Saratov Drama Theater, now Slonov Saratov State Academic Drama Theater.15.05.1988#6548840
A scene from Andrei Platonov's play "Fourteen little red huts," staged by theater director Alexander Dzekun at Karl Marx Saratov Drama Theater, now Slonov Saratov State Academic Drama Theater.15.05.1988#6548839
A scene from Mikhail Bulgakov's play "The crimson island," staged by theater director Alexander Dzekun at Karl Marx Saratov Drama Theater, now Slonov Saratov State Academic Drama Theater.15.05.1988#6548838
Theater director Alexander Dzekun, center, and actors at the end of the play "The Master and Margarita," based on the eponymous novel by Mikhail Bulgakov and staged by Alexander Dzekun at Karl Marx Saratov Drama Theater, now Slonov Saratov State Academic Drama Theater.15.05.1988#6548837
A scene from Andrei Platonov's play "Fourteen little red huts," staged by theater director Alexander Dzekun at Karl Marx Saratov Drama Theater, now Slonov Saratov State Academic Drama Theater.15.05.1988#6549729
A scene from Mikhail Bulgakov's play "The crimson island," staged by theater director Alexander Dzekun at Karl Marx Saratov Drama Theater, now Slonov Saratov State Academic Drama Theater.15.05.1988#6549723
A scene from Mikhail Bulgakov's play "The crimson island," staged by theater director Alexander Dzekun at Karl Marx Saratov Drama Theater, now Slonov Saratov State Academic Drama Theater.15.05.1988#6549721
A scene from Mikhail Bulgakov's play "The crimson island," staged by theater director Alexander Dzekun at Karl Marx Saratov Drama Theater, now Slonov Saratov State Academic Drama Theater.15.05.1988#6549720
Actors Natalya Merts and Alexander Galko in a scene from Andrei Platonov's play "Fourteen little red huts," staged by theater director Alexander Dzekun at Karl Marx Saratov Drama Theater, now Slonov Saratov State Academic Drama Theater.15.05.1988#6549719
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart's opera Don Giovanni staged by Boris Pokrovsky at the Moscow Chamber Musical Theater (now the Boris Pokrovsky Chamber Stage at the Bolshoi Theater). Alexei Mochalov as Don Giovanni.13.04.1988#5751519
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart's opera Don Giovanni staged by Boris Pokrovsky at the Moscow Chamber Musical Theater (now the Boris Pokrovsky Chamber Stage at the Bolshoi Theater).13.04.1988#5750907
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart's opera Don Giovanni staged by Boris Pokrovsky at the Moscow Chamber Musical Theater (now the Boris Pokrovsky Chamber Stage at the Bolshoi Theater). Alexei Mochalov as Don Giovanni.13.04.1988#5750905
The Byelorussian Soviet Socialist Republic. First Secretary of the Frunzensky District Committee of the Communist Party of Belarus in Minsk Leonid Radkevich and musicians of Pryamaya Rech rock ensemble.18.03.1988#5474730
An anniversary concert dedicated to the 60th anniversary of the Moscow State Academic Operetta Theatre. The program includes the brightest fragments of the anniversary evening with the participation of leading conductors.24.11.1987#8362662
Estonian SSR. A song festival in Tallinn. Chorus conductor Ants Uleoja, left, and composer Rene Eespere after performing at the festival.16.07.1987#5701174
Still from film War Began Tomorrow based on the story by Boris Vasilyev and directed by Yury Kara at Gorky Studio. Starring actor Sergei Nikonenko as Nikolai Grigoryevich Romakhin and actress Vera Alentova as Valendra.05.05.1987#6572377
The visit by a British delegation to the USSR, March 28- April 1, 1987. Prime Minister of the United Kingdom Margaret Thatcher, center, General Secretary of the Communist Party of the USSR Mikhail Gorbachev, and Soviet First Lady Raisa Gorbachyova before watching Pyotr Tchaikovsky's ballet Swan Lake at the State Academic Bolshoi Theater of the USSR.29.03.1987#8585872
Soviet poet, radio and television presenter, editor-in-chief of the Yunost magazine Andrei Dementyev during a speech in Moscow.10.03.1987#8530978
People's Artist of the USSR Mikhail Ulianov and People's Artist of the USSR Vasily Lanovoy in Mikhail Shatrov's play "The Treaty of Brest-Litovsk".01.01.1987#423779
Preparation for the performance “Seven Wives of Bluebeard” based on the play by Alexander Volodin, directed by Vladimir Bushler on the stage of the Mayatnik theater studio of Tashkent State University (now the National University of Uzbekistan named after Mirzo Ulugbek).27.09.1986#8556541
Preparation for the performance “Seven Wives of Bluebeard” based on the play by Alexander Volodin, directed by Vladimir Bushler on the stage of the Mayatnik theater studio of Tashkent State University (now the National University of Uzbekistan named after Mirzo Ulugbek).27.09.1986#8556425
Performers of the Mayatnik theater studio of Tashkent State University (now the National University of Uzbekistan named after Mirzo Ulugbek).27.09.1986#8556424
A moment from a variety show of the Mayatnik theater studio of Tashkent State University (now the National University of Uzbekistan named after Mirzo Ulugbek).27.09.1986#8556422