Fragments of the architectural ensemble of Gostiny Dvor and shopping malls of the late 19th century, made of beautiful red brick. Until now, shopping arcades perform their main function, they house many shops and warehouses. City of Kashin, Tver Region.25.06.2023#8471829
A family of third-generation Don Cossacks seen here on their farm in a village of the former Cherkassky district (an area of the Don Cossack Host).01.06.1993#6403550
Komsomolskaya Square (the Square of Three Railway Stations) is always crowded with passengers. Back left: the spire and tower of the Kazansky Railway Station.21.05.1993#6398930
On June 19-21, 1992, Kazan was the venue for the 1st World Congress of Tatars. Photo: Congress participants visit the Bulgar State Historical-Architectural Museum-Reserve at the site of the ancient Bulgar settlement in the Spassky District of Tatarstan.21.06.1992#8265475
Moscow school students and Japanese guests before the flower-laying ceremony held at the gravesite of Japanese communist Sen Katayama at the Kremlin Wall on Red Square to celebrate his 130th birthday.26.12.1989#6723668
This stone figurine, circa 3,000-2,000 BC, was found at an ancient South Ural settlement in a nature-landscape and historical-archeological reserve, a subsidiary of the Lenin Ilmensky State Reserve, the Ural Branch of he Soviet Academy of Sciences, now the Ilmensky State Reserve, affiliated with the South Ural Research Center, Ural Branch of the Russian Academy of Sciences.16.08.1988#6722566
An aerial view of the Arkaim ancient settlement in the South Ural area. The Middle Bronze Age, circa 3,000-2,000 BC. This nature-landscape and historical-archeological reserve is a subsidiary of the Lenin Ilmensky State Reserve of the Ural Branch of the Soviet Academy of Sciences, now the Ilmensky State Reserve, the South Ural Research Center of the Ural Branch of the Russian Academy of Sciences.16.08.1988#6722560
Leningrad.Duke Dmitry Shakhovskoi (France) and corresonding member of the USSR Academy of Sciences Yaroslav Shchapov (left) at the third international church scientific conference devoted to the millennium of the Rus Christianity.01.02.1988#3318125
Participants in the meeting at the third international church scientific conference devoted to the millennium of the Rus Christianity.01.02.1988#3318124
Leningrad. The third international church scientific conference devoted to the millennium of the Rus Christianity. On the photo: Bishop Neophyte01.02.1988#3318123
Leningrad. US historian James Hadley Billington (left) speaks with hizstorian and archeologist Sergei Belyayev (right) at the in the third international church scientific conference devoted to the millennium of the Rus Christianity.01.02.1988#3318122
Leningrad, Archbishop Savva from the Polish People's Republic at the third international church scientific conference devoted to the millennium of the Rus Christianity.01.02.1988#3318119
Ukrainian SSR. The Bulgarian-Soviet Forum of Twin Cities Varna - Odessa is held in Odessa. A ceremonial farewell ceremony for the Bulgarian guests at the Odessa seaport. Concert of the Bulgarian guests.14.07.1985#8788818
Ukrainian SSR. The Bulgarian-Soviet Forum of Twin Cities Varna - Odessa is taking place in Odessa. The official ceremony of seeing off the Bulgarian guests in the Odessa seaport.14.07.1985#8788767
Ksenia Sharlygina (right), chief architect of the Lenzhilproekt research and design institute for housing in Leningrad (now LenzhilNIIproekt), visiting her architect colleague Vladimir Smirnov.06.04.1985#8794289
The Kurzeme historical region in the Latvian SSR. V. Kleinberg, Chair of the Council of the Talsi City Agro-Industrial Association, Deputy of the Talsi City Soviet (Council) of People's Deputies.01.07.1982#6710647
The Ushguli architectural ensemble, an architectural and historical site in the Georgian SSR.08.05.1980#8897136
Members of an expedition from the Archeology Institute of the Soviet Academy of Sciences discovered, under the guidance of Otto Bader, DSc. (History), a burial site dating to the Upper Paleolithic period at the Sungir camp near the eastern outskirts of the city of Vladimir on the bank of the Klyazma River01.06.1977#8930574
Right: Otto Bader, DSc. (History), an expert on Stone Age archeology and the founder of the Permian school of archeology, takes part in the Crimean archeological expedition.01.06.1977#8930573
French Prime Minister Jacques Chirac visits the Soviet Union. Jacques Chirac talks to journalists during his flight to the Irkutsk Region.22.03.1975#6528612
Still from film When a Woman Saddles a Horse directed by Khodzhakuli Narliyev at Turkmenfilm Studio. Starring actress Maya-Gozel Aimedova as Artykgul and Khodzhakuli Narliyev as her husband.15.06.1974#6503730
Still from film When a Woman Saddles a Horse directed by Khodzhakuli Narliyev at Turkmenfilm Studio. Starring actress Maya-Gozel Aimedova as Artykgul.15.06.1974#6503727
Moscow Imperial Postal Office, an architectural ensemble of the early 1910s, designed by architect Oscar Muntz, Leonid and Alexander Vesnin, and engineer Vladimir Shukhov. Myasnitskaya Street in Moscow.01.06.1974#8485420
Gus-Khrustalny town and the Gusevsky Cut Glass Plant as seen from the local reservoir at night.03.10.1972#6213158
The Uzbek SSR. The Samarkand Archeology Institute of Academy of Sciences of the Uzbek SSR, now the Gulyamov Institute of Archeological Studies of the Academy of Sciences of the Republic of Uzbekistan. Photo: The Institute's employees clean 6th-7th century paintings on the walls of an ancient palace.27.07.1972#5960366
The Uzbek SSR. The Samarkand Archeology Institute of Academy of Sciences of the Uzbek SSR, now the Gulyamov Institute of Archeological Studies of the Academy of Sciences of the Republic of Uzbekistan. Photo: A special structure reliably shields unique 6th-7th century paintings, found during excavation work at an ancient palace, from sunlight and cave-ins.27.07.1972#5960365
The Uzbek SSR. The Samarkand Archeology Institute of Academy of Sciences of the Uzbek SSR, now the Gulyamov Institute of Archeological Studies of the Academy of Sciences of the Republic of Uzbekistan. Photo: The Institute's employees conduct excavation work at the Afrasiab ancient community site.27.07.1972#5960364
The Uzbek SSR. The Samarkand Archeology Institute of Academy of Sciences of the Uzbek SSR, now the Gulyamov Institute of Archeological Studies of the Academy of Sciences of the Republic of Uzbekistan. Photo: Ther Institute's Director Ahmadali Askarov.27.07.1972#5960362
The building of the Central Post Office on Mira Street in Volgograd. The building was constructed in 1955 upon the project by architect Yefim Levitan.26.09.1966#6056935
A delegation of the Workers Party of Vietnam toured the Vladimir Lenin Central Museum (currently Vladimir Lenin Museum) as part of the visit to the USSR.10.07.1963#5584750
Institute of Marxism-Leninism at the Central Committee of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union.24.03.1963#6178214
