Russian Prime Minister Mikhail Kasyanov (right) visiting an outdoors national and ethnographic museum In the Gorno-Knyazevskoe settlement.01.11.2002#32963
A sculptural copy on a craniological basis of a portrait of the indigenous inhabitants of Chukotka in the Chukotka Regional Museum of Local Lore.01.03.1994#8722709
Professor Rudolf Its, Deputy Director of the Leningrad part of the Miklukho Maklay Institute of Ethnography of the USSR Academy of Sciences, Doctor of History, accompanies Professor Ratma Handurukande, right, a specialist in Sanskrit from Sri Lanka, during a visit to the halls of the Peter the Great Museum of Ethnography and Anthropology.30.09.1990#8363404
A wealthy peasant's home at the Open-Air Lithuanian Ethnographic Museum in the village of Rumsiskes.01.09.1990#8215254
Tourists at the Kizhi State Historical-Architectural and Ethnographic Museum-Reserve in the Karelian ASSR.02.07.1990#8321861
The Church of St. Nicholas Miracle Worker that was built in the mid-18th century in Veliky Ustyug, the Vologda Region is now part of the Veliky Ustyug Museum-Reserve, and exhibition of the Ethnography Museum is located there.01.02.1989#8228367
The Vitoslavitsy Museum of Folk Wooden Architecture. The open-air museum has the oldest wooden architectural monuments of the 16th century in Russia, and residential and industrial buildings of the 18th-19th centuries.01.12.1988#6575477
Federal Republic of Nigeria. The National Museum of Nigeria on Lagos Island in Lagos.25.10.1988#6575161
Exhibits of the exhibition dedicated to the peoples of the North in the Marble Hall of the State Museum of Ethnography of the Peoples of the USSR (now the Russian Ethnographic Museum) in Leningrad.11.10.1988#8317404
Exhibits of the exhibition dedicated to the peoples of the North in the Marble Hall of the State Museum of Ethnography of the Peoples of the USSR (now the Russian Ethnographic Museum) in Leningrad.11.10.1988#8317403
Exhibits of the exhibition dedicated to the peoples of the North in the Marble Hall of the State Museum of Ethnography of the Peoples of the USSR (now the Russian Ethnographic Museum) in Leningrad.11.10.1988#8317402
The State Museum of USSR Nations' Ethnography, now the Russian Museum of Ethnography, is hosting the exhibition 'Children of Northern ethnic groups: life and creative work'. Sociologist R. Zvereva helps organize the exhibition.05.05.1988#5497008
The State Museum of USSR Nations' Ethnography, now the Russian Museum of Ethnography, is hosting the exhibition 'Children of Northern ethnic groups: life and creative work'. Linoleum carving 'In the North.'05.05.1988#5497006
Opening of personal exhibition of arts and crafts artist Ivan Machnev at the State Museum of Ethnography of the Peoples of the USSR in Leningrad (currently the Russian Museum of Ethnography).24.04.1988#5477952
Visitors of the State Museum of Ethnography of the Peoples of the USSR in Leningrad (currently the Russian Museum of Ethnography) examine works by arts and crafts artist Ivan Machnev.24.04.1988#5477951
The Malye Korely open-air museum is a state museum of wooden architecture and folk art in the Arkhangelsk Region. The museum covers an area of 139.8 hectares which is divided into several sectors, such as Kargopolsko-Onezhsky, Dvinskoy, Pinezhsky and Mezensky. The Kargopolsko-Onezhsky sector boasts a windmill with a tent-shaped roof, from the village of Bor in the Kholmogory District (front and centre); (left to right) a bell tower (1854), the Ascension Church (1669) from the village of Kusherevka in the Onezhsky District and a bell tower (late 16th century).31.05.1987#2707305
US music band Paul Winter Consort led by saxophonist Paul Winter, second left, visit the Taltsy wooden architecture museum on the bank of Angara River in the Irkutsk Region during their tour in the USSR.01.04.1987#8551370
A hall of the Museum of History and Reconstruction of Moscow. Photograph of a sculptural portrait of Tsar Ivan the Terrible (left), recreated by anthropologist Mikhail Gerasimov in the Laboratory of Anthropological Plastic Reconstruction of the Miklouho-Maclay Institute of Ethnography Academy of Sciences of the USSR in Moscow (now the Miklouho-Maclay Institute of Ethnology and Anthropology of RAS).10.03.1987#8534745
The Ukrainian Soviet Socialist Republic. The Lunyov History and Art Museum in Parkhomovka Village, Krasnokutsky District, Kharkov Region. The museum was founded on the initiative of school teacher Afanasy Lunyov who was an old culture and art lover. An 18th century architectural monument.01.01.1987#5927600
"The Ulyanov Family" exposition. The Memorial Museum-Apartment of the Ulyanov in Saratov.01.01.1986#743188
The Popular Life Museum of Lithuanian SSR showcases Lithuanian crafts in the open-air.01.07.1985#783043
A hipped-roof windmill from the early 20th century on the territory of the Open Air Museum of Folk Life of the Lithuanian SSR in the village of Rumshiskes.01.06.1985#8338867
Museum of Folk Life of the Lithuanian SSR in the open air in the village of Rumshiskes. Filming of the Dalia musical film on the territory of the estate from the Samogitia Region. Folklore dance group performs the Lithuanian national dance, Groisveras.01.06.1985#8338865
Museum of Folk Life of the Lithuanian SSR in the open air in the village of Rumshiskes. Aukstai farm of the 19th century. In the foreground is a memorial pillar decorated with wooden carvings.01.06.1985#8338864
The Arkhangelsk State Open-Air Museum of Wooden Architecture and Folk Art Malyye Korely.01.03.1985#3250316
A view of the Peter the Great Museum of Anthropology and Ethnography (the Kunstkammer) from the Neva river in Leningrad.01.06.1983#6701815
Foreign tourist view the items on display at the Peter the Great Museum of Anthropology and Ethnography (the Kunstkammer) in Leningrad.01.06.1983#6701810
R. Lyapunova, a senior researcher of the Department of America at the Peter the Great Museum of Anthropology and Ethnography (the Kunstkammer).01.06.1983#6701802
Visitors view exhibits at the Peter the Great Museum of Anthropology and Ethnography in Leningrad.01.06.1983#6701796
Employees of the Peter the Great Museum of Anthropology and Ethnography in Leningrad.01.06.1983#6701795
E. Fradkin, a custodian at the Peter the Great Museum of Anthropology and Ethnography (the Kunstkammer).01.06.1983#6701787
This windmill was built in 1890 and moved to the Open Air Museum of Lithuania in Rumsiskes in 1974.01.07.1982#891236
This windmill was built in 1890 and moved to the Open Air Museum of Lithuania in Rumsiskes in 1974.01.07.1982#891234
This Orthodox church was built in the 1850s and moved to the Open Air Museum of Lithuania in Rumsiskes in 1970.01.07.1982#891233
The Okunevskaya archeological culture in South Siberia provides an insight into the life of Bronze Age cattle-breeders. This stele depicting a solar deity and dating to the early second millennium BC was unearthed near Onkhakov village. From collection of the Khakasia Regional History Museum, now the L. R. Kyzlasov Khakasia National Regional History Museum.05.06.1981#6720202
The Okunevskaya archeological culture in South Siberia provides an insight into the life of Bronze Age cattle-breeders. Photo: The Shira sculpture, located on a Tatar mound near Shira town. From collection of the Khakasia Regional History Museum, now the L. R. Kyzlasov Khakasia National Regional History Museum.05.06.1981#6720201
A hall of the State Museum of Soviet Nations' Ethnography, now the Peter the Great Museum of Anthropology and Ethnography/Kunstkamera of the Russian Academy of Sciences.03.03.1981#8382518
City of Lvov. A sculptural group on the upper facade of the building of the State Museum of Ethnography and Artistic Crafts of the Academy of Sciences of the Ukrainian SSR (now the Museum of Ethnography and Artistic Crafts of the Institute of Ethnology of the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine). The building was built in 1891 for the Central Monopoly Savings Bank. The author of the sculptural group, Leonard Marconi, embodied in the stone female figure - Liberty - a symbol of thrift and prosperity, and in the male statues that surround her - success in agriculture and industry.09.08.1980#8250528
Construction team of students of Lomonosov Moscow State University takes part in the restoration of the Kizhi State Historical-Architectural and Ethnographic Museum-Reserve, Karelian Autonomous Soviet Socialist Republic.09.06.1980#8713097
Construction team of students of Lomonosov Moscow State University takes part in the restoration of the Kizhi State Historical-Architectural and Ethnographic Museum-Reserve, Karelian Autonomous Soviet Socialist Republic.09.06.1980#8713093
Construction team of students of Lomonosov Moscow State University takes part in the restoration of the Kizhi State Historical-Architectural and Ethnographic Museum-Reserve, Karelian Autonomous Soviet Socialist Republic.09.06.1980#8713096
Exposition at the Museum of Anthropology and Ethnography of the USSR Academy of Sciences (present-day Peter the Great Museum of Anthropology and Ethnography (Kunstkamera)).01.07.1974#5511900
"Shameful shackles" used to punish guilty peasants; on view in the Latvian Ethnography Museum.01.07.1974#65380
The open-air Malye Korely Arkhangelsk State Museum of Wooden Architecture and Folk Art.01.08.1973#3008000
Spice cakes made by Russian bakers in the 19th century. An exhibition of a collection of Russian spice cakes and fancy biscuits from the funds of the State Museum of Ethnography of the Peoples of the USSR. Leningrad. 1973.01.01.1973#786913
A memorial plaque on the building of the Polytechnic Museum, where on April 29 and August 23, 1918, the Russian revolutionary, theorist of Marxism, the founder of the Russian Social Democratic Labor Party (Bolsheviks) Vladimir Lenin talked.15.06.1970#6638538
