Moscow residents actively debate national developments near the building of the Moscow news editorial office. Samizdat publications hanging on the building's wall always rivet the attention of local dwellers.14.10.1990#6651132
On September 16, 1990, Moscow hosted an anti-government demonstration, with the protesters demanding that the Soviet Government resign and supporting the 500 Days program that stipulated a conversion to a free-market economy. Far right: People's Deputy of the RSFSR Sergei Yushenkov, Head of the Radical Democrats Parliamentary Party. Third right: Moscow Mayor Gavriil Popov. Fourth right: People's Deputy of the RSFSR Boris Nemtsov. In this photo, the protesters are marching on Zubovsky Boulevard.16.09.1990#8303054
An anti-government rally in Moscow, on September 16, 1990, demanding for the resignation of the Union government and in support of the 500 Days Market Transition Program. About 20,000 took part in the protest. Protestors on Krymsky Bridge.16.09.1990#8303543
An anti-government rally in Moscow, on September 16, 1990, demanding for the resignation of the Union government and in support of the 500 Days Market Transition Program. Manezhnaya Square during the rally.16.09.1990#8303531
An anti-government rally in Moscow, on September 16, 1990, demanding for the resignation of the Union government and in support of the 500 Days Market Transition Program. About 20,000 took part in the protest. Protesters on the Garden Ring and Krymsky Bridge.16.09.1990#8303529
An anti-government rally in Moscow, on September 16, 1990, demanding for the resignation of the Union government and in support of the 500 Days Market Transition Program. Protesters on the Garden Ring.16.09.1990#8303528
An anti-government rally in Moscow, on September 16, 1990, demanding for the resignation of the Union government and in support of the 500 Days Market Transition Program. A column of protesters is moving along Tverskaya Street towards Manezhnaya Square.16.09.1990#8303524
Asya Lashchiver, member of the liberal democratic faction of the Democratic Union party (leader of the party: Valeria Novodvorskaya).17.08.1990#8341644
2nd Congress of People's Deputies of the USSR. Kremlin Palace of Congresses (now State Kremlin Palace), December 12 - December 24, 1989. Electronic vote counting system.24.12.1989#8253831
An official visit by Prime Minister of the Polish People's Republic Tadeusz Mazowiecki to the USSR. Tadeusz Mazowiecki, 2nd right, People's Deputy of the USSR and academician Andrei Sakharov, right, and People's Deputy of the USSR and Rector of the Moscow State Institute for History and Archives (now Russian State University for the Humanities) Yury Afanasyev, left, during the celebratory dinner.24.11.1989#6630472
A citywide party rally in Leningrad in November 1989 organized by the Soviet People's Deputy, First Secretary of the Leningrad Regional Communist Party Committee Boris Gidaspov. The Leningrad party leaders had concerns about perestroika, condemned the reforms policy and tried to reinstate the Communist Party authority. The slogans at the rally were "We will not let perestroika hit communism," "No anti-Leninism," "Gorbachev, pay attention to the party."22.11.1989#6622300
An anti-perestroika party rally in Leningrad in 1989, organized by Boris Gidaspov, USSR People's Deputy and First Secretary of the Leningrad Regional Committee of the Soviet Communist Party. Leningrad party leaders were particularly concerned with the process of perestroika, condemning the reforms and trying to restore the party's authority.22.11.1989#6747592
An anti-perestroika party rally in Leningrad in 1989, organized by Boris Gidaspov, USSR People's Deputy and First Secretary of the Leningrad Regional Committee of the Soviet Communist Party. Leningrad party leaders were particularly concerned with the process of perestroika, condemning the reforms and trying to restore the party's authority.22.11.1989#6747587
Mavriks Vulfsons, Soviet and Latvian journalist, politician and member of the USSR Supreme Soviet. In 1988, he was actively involved in founding the Latvian Popular Front.01.11.1989#6565243
Deputy of the Seimas of the Polish People's Republic, Editor-in-Chief of Gazeta Wyborcza of the Solidarity trade union (published since 1989) Adam Michnik, a prominent Polish dissident, one of the opposition leaders in socialist Poland and adviser to the pro-democracy Solidarity movement.25.10.1989#6558222
Counting votes during a foundation conference of the Shield Russian Union of Social Protection of Military Personnel and Their Families (October 21-22, 1989).22.10.1989#6625924
The Solovetsky Forum public movement (1989) that focuses on the exoneration of political prisoners who were victims of the system and preserving the memory of those killed during the years of political repression. The first issue of the Trudovik newspaper published by the Solovetsky Correction Labor Camp.21.10.1989#6551977
Discussing the program during the foundation conference of the Shield Russian Union of Social Protection of Military Personnel and Their Families (October 21-22, 1989).21.10.1989#6625937
Member of the coordination council, retired colonel Vitaly Urazhtsev during a foundation conference of the Shield Russian Union of Social Protection of Military Personnel and Their Families (October 21-22, 1989).21.10.1989#6625920
Uzbek SSR. A rally on Lenin Square in Tashkent, organized by the Birlik (Unity) informal association, a right-wing opposition group and unregistered party that advocated Uzbekistan's independence from the USSR, democratic changes and Uzbek language as the official one.21.10.1989#8132538
Uzbek SSR. A rally on Lenin Square in Tashkent, organized by the Birlik (Unity) informal association, a right-wing opposition group and unregistered party that advocated Uzbekistan's independence from the USSR, democratic changes and Uzbek language as the official one.21.10.1989#8132536
Viktor Girshenfeld, Representative of the Public Diplomacy Group at the Organizing Committee of the Moscow Popular Front, a local public-political organization that was established for overhauling the Soviet Union and which functioned in 1988-1990.03.10.1989#6566942
Margarita Bunkina, an economist working at the Institute of Social Sciences of the Soviet Communist Party Central Committee and author of textbooks for university students, including National Economy, Macroeconomics, Monetarism and others.03.10.1989#6566940
The logo of the 1989 Peace Caravan pan-European festival of street theaters organized by independent theaters of the Soviet Union, Eastern Europe and Western Europe. The festival was coined by Vyacheslav Polunin, Director of the Litsedei pantomime theater in Leningrad.01.07.1989#6746937
Unauthorized rally of supporters of the Democratic Union party (led by Valeria Novodvorskaya) on Pushkin Square in Moscow. About 70 out of 300 protesters were arrested.23.04.1989#8253801
Tbilisi events or the Tragedy of April 8 imply a special operation to disperse an unauthorized opposition rally near the Government House of the Georgian SSR in Tbilisi in the early hours of April 9, 1989. The operation involved units of the Soviet Interior Ministry's troops and the Soviet Army. In all, 18 people were killed while clashing with government forces, and over 200 more were injured. Photo: |The funeral of victims of civil unrest.16.04.1989#6739252
Tbilisi events or the Tragedy of April 8 imply a special operation to disperse an unauthorized opposition rally near the Government House of the Georgian SSR in Tbilisi in the early hours of April 9, 1989. The operation involved units of the Soviet Interior Ministry's troops and the Soviet Army. In all, 18 people were killed while clashing with government forces, and over 200 more were injured. Photo: The funeral of victims of civil unrest.16.04.1989#6739244
Tbilisi events or the Tragedy of April 8 imply a special operation to disperse an unauthorized opposition rally near the Government House of the Georgian SSR in Tbilisi in the early hours of April 9, 1989. The operation involved units of the Soviet Interior Ministry's troops and the Soviet Army. In all, 18 people were killed while clashing with government forces, and over 200 more were injured. Photo: Laying flowers near the Government House in memory of the deceased.16.04.1989#6739243
Tbilisi events or the Tragedy of April 8 imply a special operation to disperse an unauthorized opposition rally near the Government House of the Georgian SSR in Tbilisi in the early hours of April 9, 1989. The operation involved units of the Soviet Interior Ministry's troops and the Soviet Army. In all, 18 people were killed while clashing with government forces, and over 200 more were injured. Photo: The funeral of victims of civil unrest.16.04.1989#6739242
Tbilisi events or the Tragedy of April 8 imply a special operation to disperse an unauthorized opposition rally near the Government House of the Georgian SSR in Tbilisi in the early hours of April 9, 1989. The operation involved units of the Soviet Interior Ministry's troops and the Soviet Army. In all, 18 people were killed while clashing with government forces, and over 200 more were injured. Photo: A soldier on a street in Tbilisi.12.04.1989#6739257
Tbilisi events or the Tragedy of April 8 imply a special operation to disperse an unauthorized opposition rally near the Government House of the Georgian SSR in Tbilisi in the early hours of April 9, 1989. The operation involved units of the Soviet Interior Ministry's troops and the Soviet Army. In all, 18 people were killed while clashing with government forces, and over 200 more were injured. Photo: Tbilisi residents on city streets.12.04.1989#6739240
Tbilisi events or the Tragedy of April 8 imply a special operation to disperse an unauthorized opposition rally near the Government House of the Georgian SSR in Tbilisi in the early hours of April 9, 1989. The operation involved units of the Soviet Interior Ministry's troops and the Soviet Army. In all, 18 people were killed while clashing with government forces, and over 200 more were injured. Photo: A police patrol receives instructions due to the declaration of a curfew following the tragic events of April 9.12.04.1989#6739239
On January 8, 1989, the exhibition From Unofficial Art to Perestroika opened at the Lenexpo Exhibition Center in Leningrad. Photo: Pictures by Avant-Garde artists from Georgia.08.01.1989#6739966
On January 8, 1989, the exhibition From Unofficial Art to Perestroika opened at the Lenexpo Exhibition Center in Leningrad. A separate display featured masterpieces by Group of Eight artists who defended freedom of creativity and independence from socialist concepts.08.01.1989#6739965
The meeting between Mikhail Gorbachev, General Secretary of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of the USSR and Chairman of the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet of the USSR, and the youth of Moscow and the Moscow Region at Moscow Palace of Youth on October 29, 1988, timed to coincide with the 70th anniversary of the All-Union Leninist Young Communist League. Participants in the meeting listen to Mikhail Gorbachev's speech.29.10.1988#6577443
The meeting between Mikhail Gorbachev, General Secretary of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of the USSR and Chairman of the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet of the USSR, and the youth of Moscow and the Moscow Region at Moscow Palace of Youth on October 29, 1988, timed to coincide with the 70th anniversary of the All-Union Leninist Young Communist League. Participants in the meeting listen to Mikhail Gorbachev's speech.29.10.1988#6577437
The meeting between Mikhail Gorbachev, General Secretary of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of the USSR and Chairman of the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet of the USSR, and the youth of Moscow and the Moscow Region at Moscow Palace of Youth on October 29, 1988, timed to coincide with the 70th anniversary of the All-Union Leninist Young Communist League. Participants in the meeting listen to Mikhail Gorbachev's speech.29.10.1988#6577435
The meeting between Mikhail Gorbachev, General Secretary of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of the USSR and Chairman of the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet of the USSR, and the youth of Moscow and the Moscow Region at Moscow Palace of Youth on October 29, 1988, timed to coincide with the 70th anniversary of the All-Union Leninist Young Communist League. Participants during a break in the meeting.29.10.1988#6577433
The meeting between Mikhail Gorbachev, General Secretary of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of the USSR and Chairman of the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet of the USSR, and the youth of Moscow and the Moscow Region at Moscow Palace of Youth on October 29, 1988, timed to coincide with the 70th anniversary of the All-Union Leninist Young Communist League. Participants during a break in the meeting.29.10.1988#6577432
A historic meeting between the descendants of Russian explorer Vasily Golovnin and prominent Japanese merchant Takadaya Kahei in Leningrad. Pyotr Golovnin and Takada Kashichi review a samurai dagger in the Arsenal department of the Hermitage.10.10.1988#6584298
A historic meeting between the descendants of Russian explorer Vasily Golovnin and prominent Japanese merchant Takadaya Kahei in Leningrad. Pyotr Golovnin, back left, and Takada Kashichi, third left, in the Arsenal Department of the Hermitage.10.10.1988#6584292
A historic meeting between the descendants of Russian explorer Vasily Golovnin and prominent Japanese merchant Takadaya Kahei. Takada Kashichi presents an honorary diploma to the oldest Soviet Orientalist and Japan expert Olga Petrova.10.10.1988#6583828
A historic meeting between the descendants of Russian explorer Vasily Golovnin and prominent Japanese merchant Takadaya Kahei in Leningrad. Pyotr Golovnin and Takada Kashichi, right to left, with a Japanese newspaper.10.10.1988#6583826
A historic meeting between the descendants of Russian explorer Vasily Golovnin and prominent Japanese merchant Takadaya Kahei in Leningrad. Pyotr Golovnin, left, and Takada Kashichi, third left, at the Central Naval Archive.10.10.1988#6583824
A historic meeting between the descendants of Russian explorer Vasily Golovnin and prominent Japanese merchant Takadaya Kahei. Pyotr Golovnin and Takada Kashichi on the Neva embankment.10.10.1988#6583822
Stay of Secretary-General of the Communist Party Central Committee, Chairman of the USSR Supreme Soviet Presidium Mikhail Gorbachev in the Krasnoyarsk Territory (September 12-16, 1988). Meeting with employees of the Sayano-Shushenskaya Hydropower.15.09.1988#6567797
Mikhail Gorbachev, Chairman of the USSR Supreme Soviet Presidium, Secretary-General of the Soviet Communist Party's Central Committee, visits the Krasnoyarsk Territory (September 12-16, 1988). Meeting with agricultural industry workers.14.09.1988#6567811
Mikhail Gorbachev, Chairman of the USSR Supreme Soviet Presidium, Secretary-General of the Soviet Communist Party's Central Committee, visits the Krasnoyarsk Territory (September 12-16, 1988). Meeting with Norilsk residents.14.09.1988#6567805
A historic meeting between the descendants of Russian explorer Vasily Golovnin and prominent Japanese merchant Takadaya Kahei. The vice admiral's descendant Pyotr Golovnin, center, in Japan at the former site of a prison for Russian captives. From the personal archive.28.06.1988#6584293
Members of Soviet-Polish friendship society and veterans of fights for the liberation of Poland from fascists on the visit to Poland. Members of delegation at the monument to died soviet soldiers in Szczecin.01.09.1975#702624
Members of Soviet-Polish friendship society and veterans of fights for the liberation of Poland from fascists on the visit to Poland. Members of Soviet-Polish friendship society meeting with Chairman of the Council of Ministers of Poland Pyotr Jaroszcwicz (center).01.09.1975#702623
Members of Soviet-Polish friendship society and veterans of fights for the liberation of Poland from fascists on the visit to Poland. Former sub-lieutenant of Polish Armed Forces S. Gerasimov (left) and lieutenant-colonel of Polish Armed Forces G. Pazder at the meeting.01.09.1975#702622
