Car are parked outside an airport as a parking lot is flooded after a heavy rain, in Vladivostok, Russia.28.08.2019#5988566
April 3, 2018. Russian President Vladimir Putin attends a meeting of the Russia-Turkey High-Level Cooperation Council in Ankara.03.04.2018#5468683
April 3, 2018. Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan attends a meeting of the Russia-Turkey High-Level Cooperation Council in Ankara. Left: Chief of General Staff of the Turkish Army General Hulusi Akar.03.04.2018#5468685
April 3, 2018. Russian President Vladimir Putin and Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan attend a meeting of the Russia-Turkey High-Level Cooperation Council in Ankara.03.04.2018#5468687
April 3, 2018. From right in the center: Russian President Vladimir Putin and Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan at a joint conference on the results of their meeting at the presidential palace in Ankara.03.04.2018#5468682
House in the town of Ishim, Tyumen Region, flooded as a result of a strong rise of water in the rivers Ishim and Karasul. The source of the flood in Ishim was a large volume of water discharged from a reservoir in Kazakhstan, and the actual discharge was much higher than the declared one, according to the region's Governor Vladimir Yakushev.11.05.2017#3096873
Houses in the town of Ishim, Tyumen Region, flooded as a result of a strong rise of water in the rivers Ishim and Karasul. The source of the flood in Ishim was a large volume of water discharged from a reservoir in Kazakhstan, and the actual discharge was much higher than the declared one, according to the region's Governor Vladimir Yakushev.11.05.2017#3096871
A rise of water in the rivers Ishim and Karasul in the town of Ishim, Tyumen Region. The source of the flood in Ishim was a large volume of water discharged from a reservoir in Kazakhstan, and the actual discharge was much higher than the declared one, according to the region's Governor Vladimir Yakushev.11.05.2017#3096868
Rescuer of the Emergencies Ministry in the city of Ishim, Tyumen Region, flooded as a result of a strong rise of water in the rivers Ishim and Karasul. The source of the flood in Ishim was a large volume of water discharged from a reservoir in Kazakhstan, and the actual discharge was much higher than the declared one, according to the region's Governor Vladimir Yakushev.11.05.2017#3096861
Local residents in the city of Ishim, Tyumen Region, flooded as a result of a strong rise of water in the rivers Ishim and Karasul. The source of the flood in Ishim was a large volume of water discharged from a reservoir in Kazakhstan, and the actual discharge was much higher than the declared one, according to the region's Governor Vladimir Yakushev.11.05.2017#3096859
Rescuers of the Emergencies Ministry in the city of Ishim, Tyumen Region, flooded as a result of a strong rise of water in the rivers Ishim and Karasul. The source of the flood in Ishim was a large volume of water discharged from a reservoir in Kazakhstan, and the actual discharge was much higher than the declared one, according to the region's Governor Vladimir Yakushev.11.05.2017#3096858
A rescuer of the Emergencies Ministry evacuates cats in the city of Ishim, Tyumen Region, flooded as a result of a strong rise of water in the rivers Ishim and Karasul. The source of the flood in Ishim was a large volume of water discharged from a reservoir in Kazakhstan, and the actual discharge was much higher than the declared one, according to the region's Governor Vladimir Yakushev.11.05.2017#3096857
Rescuers of the Emergencies Ministry in the city of Ishim, Tyumen Region, flooded as a result of a strong rise of water in the rivers Ishim and Karasul. The source of the flood in Ishim was a large volume of water discharged from a reservoir in Kazakhstan, and the actual discharge was much higher than the declared one, according to the region's Governor Vladimir Yakushev.11.05.2017#3096856
A house in the city of Ishim, Tyumen Region, flooded as a result of a strong rise of water in the rivers Ishim and Karasul. The source of the flood in Ishim was a large volume of water discharged from a reservoir in Kazakhstan, and the actual discharge was much higher than the declared one, according to the region's Governor Vladimir Yakushev.11.05.2017#3096854
Local residents evacuate furniture and belongings from a house in the city of Ishim, Tyumen Region, flooded as a result of a strong rise of water in the rivers Ishim and Karasul. The source of the flood in Ishim was a large volume of water discharged from a reservoir in Kazakhstan, and the actual discharge was much higher than the declared one, according to the region's Governor Vladimir Yakushev.11.05.2017#3096848
Local residents at a house in the city of Ishim, Tyumen Region, flooded as a result of a strong rise of water in the rivers Ishim and Karasul. The source of the flood in Ishim was a large volume of water discharged from a reservoir in Kazakhstan, and the actual discharge was much higher than the declared one, according to the region's Governor Vladimir Yakushev.11.05.2017#3096847
Rosa Khutor ski resort hotels in the Adler District of Sochi. The picture is compiled from several photos.03.04.2016#2820962
Russian President Vladimir Putin (right) and British Prime Minister Tony Blair (left) meeting at the out-of-town residence of Zavidovo. 11.10.2002#23863
USSR President Mikhail Gorbachev and French President François Mitterrand attending the final news conference on the results of Mikhail Gorbachev's official visit to France.31.10.1991#687696
USSR President Mikhail Gorbachev on an official visit to Japan. Having signed a joint Soviet-Japanese declaration with Prime Minister of Japan Toshiki Kaifu.20.04.1991#687681
Building an acceleration-accumulation facility or a proton particle collider with super-conducting magnets at the Institute of High Energy Physics, now the A. A. Logunov Institute of High Energy Physics, part of the National Research Center Kurchatov Institute, in Protvino. This photo shows the future particle accelerator's research facility. The project was not completed, due to the breakup of the Soviet Union.07.08.1989#6543895
Cotton (Uzbek) Case, a collective title for a series of criminal cases involving economic abuse and corruption exposed in the Uzbek Soviet Socialist Republic. Former senior officers of the USSR Ministry of the Interior on trial in Moscow. Tashtemir Kakhramanov, former deputy minister of the interior of the Uzbek SSR, after receiving a non-guilty verdict (only two people were acquitted).30.12.1988#6595087
Cotton (Uzbek) Case, a collective title for a series of criminal cases involving economic abuse and corruption exposed in the Uzbek Soviet Socialist Republic. Former senior officers of the USSR Ministry of the Interior on trial in Moscow. Khaidar Yakhyayev, former minister of the interior of the Uzbek SSR, could not hold back tears after receiving a non-guilty verdict (only two people were acquitted).30.12.1988#6595080
The outskirts of Ovsyanka village near Divnogorsk on the bank of the Yenisei River in the Krasnoyarsk Territory. Soviet writer Viktor Astafyev, recipient of the USSR State prize, spent his childhood years here. Local residents mostly fell trees and deliver log rafts to clients.07.07.1988#8364007
USSR Secretary-General Mikhail Gorbache, right, and his wife, Raisa, greet President of Finland Mauno Koivisto, left, during his official visit to the Soviet Union.05.10.1987#8305961
A delegation from the Kingdom of Tonga visits the Soviet Union. February 19-27, 1987. Crown Prince and Tongan Minister of Foreign Affairs and Defense Tupouto'a, third right, at the Eternal Flame of the Pacific Navy Combat Glory Memorial on the Korabelnaya Embankment in Vladivostok, Primorye Territory.25.02.1987#8539547
A delegation from the Kingdom of Tonga visits the Soviet Union. February 19-27, 1987. Vice Admiral Gennady Khvatov, Commander of the Pacific Navy, second right, and Crown Prince and Tongan Minister of Foreign Affairs and Defense Tupouto'a, third left, during talks at the USSR Pacific Navy Headquarters in Vladivostok, Primorye Territory.25.02.1987#8539544
A delegation from the Kingdom of Tonga visits the Soviet Union. February 19-27, 1987. Valentin Koptyug, President of the Siberian Branch of the USSR Academy of Sciences (now Russian Academy of Sciences), academician and Vice President of the USSR Academy of Sciences, right, and Crown Prince and Tongan Minister of Foreign Affairs and Defense Tupouto'a, left, during a meeting in the Novosibirsk Academic Town.24.02.1987#8539549
A delegation from the Kingdom of Tonga visits the Soviet Union. February 19-27, 1987. Crown Prince and Tongan Minister of Foreign Affairs and Defense Tupouto'a, third right, visits the monument to the heroic defenders of Leningrad during the Great Patriotic War.22.02.1987#8539548
A delegation from the Kingdom of Tonga visits the Soviet Union. February 19-27, 1987. Crown Prince and Tongan Minister of Foreign Affairs and Defense Tupouto'a writes an entry in the book of honorary guests in the underground memorial hall of the monument to the heroic defenders of Leningrad during the Great Patriotic War.22.02.1987#8539546
A delegation from the Kingdom of Tonga visits the Soviet Union. February 19-27, 1987. Crown Prince and Tongan Minister of Foreign Affairs and Defense Tupouto'a, second left, at the Hermitage in Leningrad.22.02.1987#8539545
A delegation from the Kingdom of Tonga visits the Soviet Union. February 19-27, 1987. Vladimir Khodyrev, Chair of the Executive Committee of the Leningrad City Council of People's Deputies, second left, and Crown Prince and Tongan Minister of Foreign Affairs and Defense Tupouto'a, third right, during talks.22.02.1987#8539543
A delegation from the Kingdom of Tonga visits the Soviet Union. February 19-27, 1987. Crown Prince and Tongan Minister of Foreign Affairs and Defense Tupouto'a, third left, visits the Piskaryov Memorial Cemetery in Leningrad where the six-meter bronze sculpture of the Motherland is installed. The sculpture is designed as a woman holding a garland of oak leaves, a symbol of eternity.22.02.1987#8539542
A delegation from the Kingdom of Tonga visits the Soviet Union. February 19-27, 1987. From right: Crown Prince and Tongan Minister of Foreign Affairs and Defense Tupouto'a, and USSR Minister of Foreign Trade Boris Aristov before talks at the USSR Fishing Ministry in Moscow.20.02.1987#8500230
A delegation from the Kingdom of Tonga visits the Soviet Union. February 19-27, 1987. From left: Crown Prince and Tongan Minister of Foreign Affairs and Defense Tupouto'a, and USSR Foreign Minister Eduard Shevarnadze before the talks at the House of Friendship with Foreign Peoples (now the Government Reception House) in Moscow.20.02.1987#8500229
A delegation from the Kingdom of Tonga visits the Soviet Union. February 19-27, 1987. Crown Prince and Tongan Minister of Foreign Affairs and Defense Tupouto'a, third right, and Nikolai Kotlyar, USSR Minister of Fishing, third left, before talks in Moscow.20.02.1987#8500228
A delegation from the Kingdom of Tonga visits the Soviet Union. February 19-27, 1987. From left: Pyotr Demichev, First Deputy Chair of the Presidium of the USSR Supreme Soviet, and Crown Prince and Tongan Minister of Foreign Affairs and Defense Tupouto'a, during talks in Moscow.20.02.1987#8500227
A delegation from the Kingdom of Tonga visits the Soviet Union. February 19-27, 1987. Pyotr Demichev, First Deputy Chair of the Presidium of the USSR Supreme Soviet, fourth right, and Crown Prince and Tongan Minister of Foreign Affairs and Defense Tupouto'a, third left, during talks in Moscow.20.02.1987#8500226
A delegation from the Kingdom of Tonga visits the Soviet Union. February 19-27, 1987. Crown Prince and Tongan Minister of Foreign Affairs and Defense Tupouto'a at the wreath-laying ceremony outside Lenin Mausoleum on Red Square in Moscow.20.02.1987#8500225
High-level meeting between Leonid Brezhnev, Secretary General of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union and Chairman of the USSR Supreme Soviet, and President of France Valery Giscard d'Estaing, attended by Edward Gierek, First Secretary of the Central Committee of the Polish United Workers' Party. Leonid Brezhnev, left, and Edward Gierek at the Wilanow Palace in Warsaw, Polish People's Republic.19.05.1980#8183789
High-level meeting between Leonid Brezhnev, Secretary General of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union and Chairman of the USSR Supreme Soviet, and President of France Valery Giscard d'Estaing, attended by Edward Gierek, First Secretary of the Central Committee of the Polish United Workers' Party. Valery Giscard d'Estaing, second left, and Edward Gierek, second right, at the Wilanow Palace in Warsaw, Polish People's Republic.19.05.1980#8183788
High-level meeting between Leonid Brezhnev, Secretary General of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union and Chairman of the USSR Supreme Soviet, and President of France Valery Giscard d'Estaing, attended by Edward Gierek, First Secretary of the Central Committee of the Polish United Workers' Party. Journalists at the Wilanow Palace before the talks. Warsaw, Polish People's Republic.19.05.1980#8190079
Ninth-grade student Marina Tkachyova at a literature lesson at Moscow's School No.69 in the Kievsky District.20.09.1973#6317685
The Armenian Soviet Socialist Republic. Construction of the Arpa-Sevan tunnel to connect a reservoir on the Arpa River with the Lake Sevan and stop lowering of the lake water level.04.06.1972#5519065
Swedish Prime Minister Olof Palme visits the USSR, June 1970. Olof Palme, second on the lest, goes to the Mausoleum of Vladimir Lenin to lay flowers.17.06.1970#5577181
A music school in Rustavi, the Georgian SSR. Photo: Students listen to music pieces by composer Edward Grieg.08.07.1969#6011805
A Russian language seminar at Dyuny holiday hotel near Leningrad. Photo: Seminar participants and their instructor.13.06.1969#6163801
