Head of the TsNIIMASH Institute Georgy Uspensky at a news conference on the Martian expedition slated for 2009. 09.04.2004#56178
Vadim Chernobrov, head of the Kosmopoisk research association, during a press conference devoted to the results of the expedition to the place of fall and explosion of the Vitimsky meteorite.01.07.2003#92328
The news conference with participants in the Wind of the Planet transglobal sailing expedition, to take place along Russia's Arctic coast, at Moscow's Press Club. Head of the expedition, Georgy Karpenko.25.01.1995#8423745
Left: Director of the State Hermitage Boris Piotrovsky, Soviet and Russian archaeologist, doctor of historical sciences Vadim Masson with an Indian colleague. Turkmen SSR.17.09.1990#8366601
Chukotka Autonomous District. The Bering Bridge Soviet-American polar expedition led by Dmitry Shparo and Paul Schurke. Some 12 skiers left Anadyr on March 7, 1989, covered over 1,200 miles via 16 Chukotka villages, the Bering Strait and 14 communities in Alaska to finish their journey in the Alaskan town of Kotzebue on May 11, 1989. Left: Paul Shurke, the American head of the expedition, received a gift from Alaskians: a model of an Eskimo boat. Center: Dmitry Shparo.03.05.1989#6565249
Chukotka Autonomous District. The Bering Bridge Soviet-American polar expedition led by Dmitry Shparo and Paul Schurke. Some 12 skiers left Anadyr on March 7, 1989, covered over 1,200 miles via 16 Chukotka villages, the Bering Strait and 14 communities in Alaska to finish their journey in the Alaskan town of Kotzebue on May 11, 1989. Right: an expedition member, US Eskimo woman (Alaska) Darline Alangoluk.25.04.1989#6565258
Chukotka Autonomous District. The Bering Bridge Soviet-American polar expedition led by Dmitry Shparo and Paul Schurke. Some 12 skiers left Anadyr on March 7, 1989, covered over 1,200 miles via 16 Chukotka villages, the Bering Strait and 14 communities in Alaska to finish their journey in the Alaskan town of Kotzebue on May 11, 1989. Crossing the Bering strait on kayak (traditional fishing and trasportation boat of coastal Chukchas, Aleuts, Koryaks and Eskimos made of seal skins).25.04.1989#6565256
Chukotka Autonomous District. The Bering Bridge Soviet-American polar expedition led by Dmitry Shparo and Paul Schurke. Some 12 skiers left Anadyr on March 7, 1989, covered over 1,200 miles via 16 Chukotka villages, the Bering Strait and 14 communities in Alaska to finish their journey in the Alaskan town of Kotzebue on May 11, 1989. Checkpoint at the Soviet border.25.04.1989#6565253
Chukotka Autonomous District. The Bering Bridge Soviet-American polar expedition led by Dmitry Shparo and Paul Schurke. Some 12 skiers left Anadyr on March 7, 1989, covered over 1,200 miles via 16 Chukotka villages, the Bering Strait and 14 communities in Alaska to finish their journey in the Alaskan town of Kotzebue on May 11, 1989. Ratmanov Island in the Bering Strait (Big Diomede), the easternmost point of Russia.25.04.1989#6565250
Chukotka Autonomous District. The Bering Bridge Soviet-American polar expedition led by Dmitry Shparo and Paul Schurke. Some 12 skiers left Anadyr on March 7, 1989, covered over 1,200 miles via 16 Chukotka villages, the Bering Strait and 14 communities in Alaska to finish their journey in the Alaskan town of Kotzebue on May 11, 1989. Sledge dogs are seen resting during a break.30.03.1989#6565246
Chukotka Autonomous District. The Bering Bridge Soviet-American polar expedition led by Dmitry Shparo and Paul Schurke. Some 12 skiers left Anadyr on March 7, 1989, covered over 1,200 miles via 16 Chukotka villages, the Bering Strait and 14 communities in Alaska to finish their journey in the Alaskan town of Kotzebue on May 11, 1989. Expedition members Zoya Ivanova, left, and Alaskan Eskimo woman Darline Alangoluk.30.03.1989#6565245
Chukotka Autonomous District. The Bering Bridge Soviet-American polar expedition led by Dmitry Shparo and Paul Schurke. Some 12 skiers left Anadyr on March 7, 1989, covered over 1,200 miles via 16 Chukotka villages, the Bering Strait and 14 communities in Alaska to finish their journey in the Alaskan town of Kotzebue on May 11, 1989. Snow-covered reaches of Chukotka.30.03.1989#6565244
Chukotka Autonomous District. The Bering Bridge Soviet-American polar expedition led by Dmitry Shparo and Paul Schurke. Some 12 skiers left Anadyr on March 7, 1989, covered over 1,200 miles via 16 Chukotka villages, the Bering Strait and 14 communities in Alaska to finish their journey in the Alaskan town of Kotzebue on May 11, 1989. Journalists, television and film crews are seen interviewing expedition members in a village along the way.30.03.1989#6565242
Chukotka Autonomous District. The Bering Bridge Soviet-American polar expedition led by Dmitry Shparo and Paul Schurke. Some 12 skiers left Anadyr on March 7, 1989, covered over 1,200 miles via 16 Chukotka villages, the Bering Strait and 14 communities in Alaska to finish their journey in the Alaskan town of Kotzebue on May 11, 1989.30.03.1989#6565240
American traveler and journalist Paul Schurke at a meeting of representatives and organizers of the Bering Bridge Arctic Soviet-American expedition in Moscow.01.11.1988#8317992
From left: Soviet traveler, polar explorer Dmitry Shparo and American traveler and journalist Paul Schurke at a meeting of representatives and organizers of the Bering Bridge Arctic Soviet-American expedition in Moscow.01.11.1988#8317991
Third left: Soviet traveler, polar explorer Dmitry Shparo and American traveler and journalist Paul Schurke, fifth left, at a meeting of representatives and organizers of the Bering Bridge Arctic Soviet-American expedition in Moscow.01.11.1988#8317990
The international transpolar skiing expedition USSR-North Pole-Canada (March 3-June 1, 1988). Expedition head Dmitry Shparo, foreground, with flowers. The meeting ceremony in Ottawa (Canada).02.06.1988#5705334
A rhyton (drinking vessel) with Head of Pegasus dating to the late 5th century BC made of gilded silver from Ulyap Hills of the Adyghea Autonomous Region and displayed at an exhibition of artifacts from the collection of the State Hermitage and other Soviet museums in Japan.10.05.1988#5874030
The Tajik SSR. Preparations for the international skiing expedition USSR-North Pole-Canada. Head of the Soviet-Canadian expedition, Merited Master of Sports of the USSR Dmitry Shparo during a training trip in the Tian Shan mountain range. August-September, 1987.19.08.1987#5736349
A complex seismological expedition in the Garm Region of the Tajik SSR, in which Soviet and American scientists take part. Seismologist scientist, director of the Institute of Earthquake-Resistant Construction and Seismology of the Academy of Sciences of the Tajik SSR (now the Institute of Geology, Earthquake-Resistant Construction and Seismology of the Academy of Sciences of the Republic of Tajikistan) Sobit Negmatullayev during a discussion of the creation of an earthquake forecasting system.15.08.1987#8559055
International expedition under the UNESCO flag Trans-Europe-Nevo-Viking for a comprehensive study of the Varangian-Greek route led by oncology surgeon Yuri Zhvitashvili. Participants in the journey sailing on the Nevo rook in the Vyborg Bay, Leningrad Region.01.07.1987#8567289
UNESCO-sponsored TransEurope-Nevo-Viking project to explore the ancient river way "from the Varangians to the Greeks," led by surgical oncologist Yury Zhvitashvili. Participants during the consecration and keel-laying of the planned boat, the Nevo.01.04.1987#8225964
Surgical oncologist Yury Zhvitashvili, head and initiator of the UNESCO-sponsored TransEurope-Nevo-Viking project to explore the ancient river way "from the Varangians to the Greeks," (left) during the consecration and keel-laying of the planned boat, the Nevo.01.04.1987#8225962
Valery Shubin, chairman of the Historical Geography and Local Studies at the Sakhalin regional branch of the Russian Geographical Society, head an organizer of an archeological expedition to Urup Island of the southern Kuril Islands.02.09.1986#5786474
Turkmen SSR. Scientific-sports expedition Human and Desert is a hike in the Karakum desert in July-August 1984. The expedition was organized by the Institute of Biomedical Problems of the USSR Ministry of Health. Nikolai Kondratenko is the leader and doctor of the expedition, a sports physician by education and a traveler by vocation.01.08.1984#8400840
Galina Golodnyak, chief geologist of Novosibirsk Geological Expedition, and her daughter at home.01.11.1983#6341245
Galina Golodnyak, chief geologist of Novosibirsk Geological Expedition, before leaving for a work trip.01.01.1983#6341246
Right: Galina Golodnyak, chief geologist of Novosibirsk Geological Expedition, during her leisure time with friends.01.01.1983#6341241
Vladimir Alexeyev, Head of the Hydrographic Station on Dikson Island, now the Dikson Hydrographic Base, a division of the State Unitary Hydrographic Enterprise, Ministry of Transport of the Russian Federation.18.09.1982#8520156
Soviet-Indian seminar of archaeologists in the city of Allahabad in February 1982. Meeting with Indira Gandhi. On the right is Vadim Masson, a Soviet and Russian archaeologist, doctor of historical sciences. India17.02.1982#8366602
Dmitry Shparo, head of the Komsomolskaya Pravda high-latitude scientific and sports expedition, during a radio communication session. 16.03.1979#18513
Professor Vadim Masson, head of the Karakum expedition by Archeology Institute of the Soviet Academy of Sciences [front row], at excavation site.01.08.1975#30191
Kurile Islands. Head of the prospecting expedition on Iturup Island Alexei Gonchar (left) and engineer Ivan Dobrenko.01.06.1972#5742360
Soviet and Russian scientist, archaeologist, doctor of historical sciences Vadim Masson at the excavations of the ancient settlement Altyn-depe. Turkmen SSR, 196917.09.1969#8366603
Vasiliy Shlyakhov, head of the air meteorological unit of the Antarctic expedition, Mirny Soviet Antarctic station.25.01.1964#5942606
