CPSU Politburo member, Chairman of the USSR Council of Ministers Nikolai Ryzhkov (left) meets with representatives of the country's coal mines. The Kremlin.17.11.1989#867487
CPSU Politburo member, Chairman of the USSR Council of Ministers Nikolai Ryzhkov (left) meets with representatives of the country's coal mines. The meeting participants discussed the implementation of the USSR Council of Ministers' decree #608. The Kremlin.17.11.1989#867486
CPSU Politburo member, Chairman of the USSR Council of Ministers Nikolai Ryzhkov (left) meets with representatives of the country's coal mines. The Kremlin.17.11.1989#867485
A meeting between USSR President Mikhail Gorbachev and Syrian Arab Republic President Hafez al-Assad.01.05.1987#2871599
A meeting between member of the Political Bureau of the CPSU Central Committee, USSR Minister of Foreign Affairs Eduard Shevardnadze, second right, and Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Syrian Arab Republic Farouk al-Sharaa.24.04.1987#2871600
Participants of the Soviet-American project to monitor underground nuclear tests during a walk around the territory of the Miner, rest house in the Karaganda region of the Kazakh SSR.20.08.1986#8379033
An oil deposit in the Khanty-Mansi Autonomous Area - Yugra in the middle reaches of the Ob River. Photo: A town for seasonal workers. Drilling rig operators, geologists, oil and gas workers live inside warm insulated homes.10.10.1985#8789186
Ukrainian SSR. Kuzma Severinov, a foreman of Dimitrov Mine 5-6 is seen here with students of Vocational School 105 (currently Dimitrov Mining College No.105).20.08.1982#5605346
Maria, the widow of John (Ivan) Pinter, an American and a famous Donestk coal miner who came to the Soviet Union from the United States in 1921 and lived in Ukraine for the rest of his life. He was one of the first coal mine top performers in Donbass and a legend of the first Soviet five-year industrial plans. He worked at the Lidiyevka coal mine in Donetsk. The Donetsk American died in 1978 at the age of 85, survived by a big family, including 4 chidlren, 9 grandchildren and 17 great-grandchildren, many of which followed his suit and became coal miners. A street in Donetsk was named after John Pinter. Ukrainian Soviet Socialist Republic.14.06.1981#6672629
John (Ivan) Pinter was an American and a famous Donestk coal miner who came to the Soviet Union from the United States in 1921 and lived in Ukraine for the rest of his life. He was one of the first coal mine top performers in Donbass and a legend of the first Soviet five-year industrial plans. He worked at the Lidiyevka coal mine in Donetsk. The Donetsk American died in 1978 at the age of 85, survived by a big family, including 4 chidlren, 9 grandchildren and 17 great-grandchildren, many of which followed his suit and became coal miners. A street in Donetsk was named after John Pinter. In the photo: Ivan Pinter's oldest son, Igor, who was also a coal miner. Ukrainian Soviet Socialist Republic.14.06.1981#6672627
Second right: John (Ivan) Pinter, an American and a famous Donestk coal miner who came to the Soviet Union from the United States in 1921 and lived in Ukraine for the rest of his life. He was one of the first coal mine top performers in Donbass and a legend of the first Soviet five-year industrial plans. He worked at the Lidiyevka coal mine in Donetsk. The Donetsk American died in 1978 at the age of 85, survived by a big family, including 4 chidlren, 9 grandchildren and 17 great-grandchildren, many of which followed his suit and became coal miners. John Pinter with his family on the street in Donetsk named after him. Ukrainian Soviet Socialist Republic.14.06.1981#6672626
John (Ivan) Pinter, an American and a famous Donestk coal miner who came to the Soviet Union from the United States in 1921 and lived in Ukraine for the rest of his life. He was one of the first coal mine top performers in Donbass and a legend of the first Soviet five-year industrial plans. He worked at the Lidiyevka coal mine in Donetsk. The Donetsk American died in 1978 at the age of 85, survived by a big family, including 4 chidlren, 9 grandchildren and 17 great-grandchildren, many of which followed his suit and became coal miners. John Pinter's children on the street in Donetsk named after their father. Ukrainian Soviet Socialist Republic.14.06.1981#6672620
John (Ivan) Pinter, an American and a famous Donestk coal miner who came to the Soviet Union from the United States in 1921 and lived in Ukraine for the rest of his life. He was one of the first coal mine top performers in Donbass and a legend of the first Soviet five-year industrial plans. He worked at the Lidiyevka coal mine in Donetsk. The Donetsk American died in 1978 at the age of 85, survived by a big family, including 4 chidlren, 9 grandchildren and 17 great-grandchildren, many of which followed his suit and became coal miners. A street in Donetsk was named after John Pinter. John Pinter's friends, also retired coal miners. Ukrainian Soviet Socialist Republic.14.06.1981#6672618
John (Ivan) Pinter, an American and a famous Donestk coal miner who came to the Soviet Union from the United States in 1921 and lived in Ukraine for the rest of his life. He was one of the first coal mine top performers in Donbass and a legend of the first Soviet five-year industrial plans. He worked at the Lidiyevka coal mine in Donetsk. The Donetsk American died in 1978 at the age of 85, survived by a big family, including 4 chidlren, 9 grandchildren and 17 great-grandchildren, many of which followed his suit and became coal miners. A street in Donetsk was named after John Pinter. Ivan Pinter's big family often gets together. Ukrainian Soviet Socialist Republic.14.06.1981#6672616
John (Ivan) Pinter, an American and a famous Donestk coal miner who came to the Soviet Union from the United States in 1921 and lived in Ukraine for the rest of his life. He was one of the first coal mine top performers in Donbass and a legend of the first Soviet five-year industrial plans. He worked at the Lidiyevka coal mine in Donetsk. The Donetsk American died in 1978 at the age of 85, survived by a big family, including 4 chidlren, 9 grandchildren and 17 great-grandchildren, many of which followed his suit and became coal miners. A street in Donetsk was named after John Pinter. Retired John Pinter in his garden. Ukrainian Soviet Socialist Republic.14.06.1981#6672617
House of Friendship with Peoples of Foreign Countries (now RF Government Reception House). Members of the Youth Committee of the USSR-Netherlands friendship society and Dutch journalist Raymond Boogaard, center.01.04.1979#827776
Soviet scientists and their colleagues fro m Poland, the German Democratic Republic and Czechoslovakia worked together to design a number of devices to ensure occupational safety in coal mines. And they keep searching and suggesting new ideas.26.08.1976#6529332
Devices designed by Soviet scientists and their colleagues fro m Poland, the German Democratic Republic and Czechoslovakia to ensure occupational safety in coal mines.26.08.1976#6529324
The People's Republic of Bulgaria. Employees of the Devnya chemical plant built with Soviet experts' participation to manufacture chemical fertilizers.22.08.1973#5981205
The People's Republic of Bulgaria. Soviet experts participating in the construction of the Devnya Chemical Plant for manufacturing mineral fertilizers. Mounting air blast breakers.22.08.1973#5981192
Delegate of the 15th USSR Trade Unions Congress, "Torezantrazit" Mine Administration Chief Engineer Assistant Alexey Grigorievich Stakhanov, center, in the Kremlin Palace of Congresses.01.03.1972#2834091
The Ugolnye Kopi miners' community in the Anadyr district of the Chukotka national area. 01.04.1970#44992
The Neftyaniye Kamni (Oil Rocks) oil deposit in the Azerbaijani SSR. Photo: Radio transceiver operator Anna Kovalchuk communicates with the mainland.01.06.1953#8132209