The nation-wide political strike of coal miners in Kuzbass which began back in 1989. The region's residents make donations to the strikers' assistance fund.15.03.1991#6691483
The Kalinin family with many children from Moscow Region. The father has instructed the boys to saw up old planks for further use.26.09.1990#8348097
The Kalinin family with many children from the Moscow Region. A boy helps his grandmother.26.09.1990#8348095
A warning campaign by cultural workers. Cultural workers and members of creative unions and organizations across the country held a campaign to support culture. Collecting signatures under a petition to the USSR President, the USSR Supreme Council and the supreme councils of union and autonomous republics.28.06.1990#8813998
Azerbaijani Soviet Socialist Republic. Ethnic pogrom involving mass violence against the Armenian population on January 13-20, 1990, in Baku. Armenian refugees waiting for evacuation by ferry to Krasnovodsk (now Turkmenbashi).17.01.1990#6669796
Azerbaijani Soviet Socialist Republic. Ethnic pogrom involving mass violence against the Armenian population on January 13-20, 1990, in Baku. Armenian refugees hide in the buildings protected by the Internal Troops of the USSR Ministry of Internal Affairs.17.01.1990#6669793
Viktor Novikov, left, leader of the Sobor public movement and professor at the Department of Social and Political Psychology at the Yaroslavl Demidov State University. Local residents request help with their problems.25.09.1989#5554533
Vorokhobov City Clinical Hospital No. 67 in Moscow. Professor Georgy Yumashev, Doctor of Medical Sciences, Head of the Department of Traumatology and Orthopedics, Laboratory of Spine and Spinal Cord Injuries at the Sechenov First Moscow Medical Institute, examines a Greek patient, Mr. Karathanasis.01.09.1989#8211049
Vorokhobov City Clinical Hospital No. 67 in Moscow. A patient of Professor Georgy Yumashev, Doctor of Medical Sciences, Head of the Department of Traumatology and Orthopedics, Laboratory of Spine and Spinal Cord Injuries at the Sechenov First Moscow Medical Institute.01.09.1989#8211047
Vorokhobov City Clinical Hospital No. 67 in Moscow. Professor Georgy Yumashev, Doctor of Medical Sciences, Head of the Department of Traumatology and Orthopedics, Laboratory of Spine and Spinal Cord Injuries at the Sechenov First Moscow Medical Institute, with his Greek patient, Mr. Karathanasis.01.09.1989#8211046
Vorokhobov City Clinical Hospital No. 67 in Moscow. A patient of Professor Georgy Yumashev, Doctor of Medical Sciences, Head of the Department of Traumatology and Orthopedics, Laboratory of Spine and Spinal Cord Injuries at the Sechenov First Moscow Medical Institute.01.09.1989#8211044
Viktor Novikov, leader of the Sobor public movement, professor at the Department of Social and Political Psycology at Demidov Yaroslavl State University, is seen with his wife.20.05.1989#8212864
Second left: Viktor Novikov, leader of the Sobor public movement, professor at the Department of Social and Political Psycology at Demidov Yaroslavl State University, is taking part in restoring a church in Yaroslavl.20.05.1989#8212863
Viktor Novikov, leader of the Sobor public movement, professor at the Department of Social and Political Psycology at Demidov Yaroslavl State University, at his country house.20.05.1989#8212862
Viktor Novikov, leader of the Sobor public movement, professor at the Department of Social and Political Psycology at Demidov Yaroslavl State University, is taking part in restoring a church in Yaroslavl.20.05.1989#8212860
The Belorussian Popular Front's For Children of Chernobyl Committee. Schoolgirl Larisa, who was affected by the Chernobyl disaster in 1986, returns to Minsk after a treatment in Germany.26.04.1989#8219701
Nadezhda Bykova, adept of Porfiry Ivanov’s treatment methods, has been successfully using cold-water treatments and moderate fasting techniques to treat children from various ills.10.03.1989#5927000
The All-Union Surgery Research Center of the Soviet Academy of Medical Sciences, now the Academician Petrovsky Russian Surgery Research Center, in Moscow. Photo: Doctors prepare for an operation at the microsurgery department.10.09.1988#8305352
A meeting of the Organizing Committee of the Memorial society (dissolved on February 28, 2022). Yury Samodurov, publicist and public figure, organizer of the first activist group for eternalizing the memory of victims of political repression, makes a speech.25.08.1988#8304772
Playwright Mikhail Shatrov (real name Marshak) and Chief Director of the Moscow Lenin Komsomol Theater Mark Zakharov, left to right, at a meeting of the Organizing Committee of the Memorial society (dissolved on February 28, 2022).25.08.1988#8304771
Soviet physicist and human rights activist Lev Ponomaryov, third left, with participants in a meeting of the Organizing Committee of the Memorial society (dissolved on February 28, 2022).25.08.1988#8304770
A meeting of the Organizing Committee of the Memorial society (dissolved on February 28, 2022). Yelena Zhemkova, postgraduate researcher of the All-Union Distance Learning Institute of Food Industry (now Moscow State University of Technology and Management), physicist and human rights activist Lev Ponomaryov, architects Yury Platonov and Vyacheslav Glazychev, left to right.25.08.1988#8304769
Ukrainian SSR. Chief medical officer of Gorlovka Cardiological Center Alexander Milostein, right, and cardiologist Vladimir Eremin.29.07.1988#5621669
Czechoslovak Socialist Republic. Skoda automobile factory engineer V. Sopeistal, second right, gives a TV interview.01.06.1988#6288060
Right: Asgat Galimzyanov, philanthropist and owner of a small family farm, meets with Great Patriotic War veterans who decided to follow his example and start and animal farm. Tatar Autonomous Soviet Socialist Republic.31.05.1988#6561457
Asgat Galimzyanov, owner of a small family farm, is a long-time philanthropist helping children's homes in the Tatar Autonomous Soviet Socialist Republic, during a business visit to a state bank. He has donated around 50,000 Soviet rubles (around 37,000 US dollars at the 1988 exchange rate) and gifted a car.31.05.1988#6561454
Tatar Autonomous Soviet Socialist Republic.Asgat Galimzyanov, philanthropist and owner of a small family farm, with children at Chilren's Home No. 1 that he has taken care of for many years. He has donated around 50,000 Soviet rubles (around 37,000 US dollars at the 1988 exchange rate) and gifted a car.31.05.1988#6561449
Right: Asgat Galimzyanov, owner of a small family farm, with the Muslim community of Kazan whose members followed his example and collected donations for parentless children in the Tatar Autonomous Soviet Socialist Republic.31.05.1988#6561168
Asgat Galimzyanov, owner of a small family farm, is a long-time philanthropist helping children's homes in the Tatar Autonomous Soviet Socialist Republic. He has donated around 50,000 Soviet rubles (around 37,000 US dollars at the 1988 exchange rate) and gifted a car.31.05.1988#6561167
Left: Asgat Galimzyanov, owner of a small family farm, is a long-time philanthropist helping children's homes in the Tatar Autonomous Soviet Socialist Republic. Asgat Galimzyanov, his son Radik and uncle Tolgat at an animal farm in Kazan.31.05.1988#6561166
Schoolchildren take part in the renovation of the Church of the Dormition of the Theotokos in Kosino, Moscow Region.20.05.1988#8210344
Board meeting of the Soviet-French joint venture, Iris, created at the Eye Microsurgery research center for the treatment of eye diseases as a fee-based service. From left: the Center's General Director, ophthalmologist and eye microsurgeon Svyatoslav Fyodorov and managing director of the French industrial group Bouygues Jean-Pierre Combot.02.02.1988#6588185
Galina Ponomaryova, a worker of the artificial kidney assembly workshop at the Belgorod-Dnestrovsky Polymer Medical Device Plant (now Gemoplast). Ukrainian SSR.10.08.1987#8352802
Left: American fighter for the rights of the homeless Joseph Mowry, about whom the documentary film “The Man from Fifth Avenue” was shot in New York based on the script of Soviet journalist Genrikh Borovik in 1986, during the May Day demonstration on Red Square in Moscow as part of a visit to THE USSR.01.05.1987#8586799
Alexandra Shalkova, a patient of the Research Institute of Transplantology and Artificial Organs, after the first in the Soviet Union successful heart transplantation surgery performed on August 12, 1987.30.04.1987#8354764
Moscow physics teacher N.Artemyeva is among volunteers cleaning Donskoy monastery's territory.10.04.1987#5765223
Karima Fayyaz, student of the Sechenov First Moscow Medical Institute (now the Sechenov First Moscow State Medical University) from Afghanistan is studying the human circulatory system.10.02.1987#8523934
A volunteer from the National Society of Historical and Cultural Monument Preservation takes part in restoration works in the Kuskovo Museum and Estate.10.02.1987#8343528
Providing assistance to an injured player of the Soviet ice hockey team at a match between the national teams of the USSR and the Czechoslovak SSR.10.02.1987#8569846
The Sechenov First Moscow Medical Institute (now the Sechenov First Moscow State Medical University). Afghan student Karima Fayyaz (second left) and senior researcher A. Korchak (second right) from the All-Union Research Center of Surgery of the USSR Academy of Medical Sciences (now the Petrovsky National Research Center of Surgery) during a surgery.10.02.1987#8585310
Leonid Ferkelman, an ear, nose and throat specialist, conducted corrective on of a patient's nose at the Rostov Regional Hospital.10.01.1987#8450065
Residents of a new microdistrict in the village of Kirovo, Belorussian SSR, built for forced migrants from contaminated territories due to the accident at the Chernobyl nuclear power plant in the Ukrainian SSR in April 1986.11.08.1986#8380491
Construction of new housing in the village of Kirovo, Byelorussian SSR, for internally displaced persons due to the accident at the Chernobyl nuclear power plant in the Ukrainian SSR in April 1986.11.08.1986#8380490
The family of Valentina Gluz inspecting their new house in the village of Kirovo, Belorussian SSR, built for internally displaced persons from contaminated territories due to the accident at the Chernobyl nuclear power plant in the Ukrainian SSR in April 1986.11.08.1986#8380489
Local residents in Kirovo, Belorussian SSR, who took in the displaced persons evacuated after the Chernobyl Accident in the Ukrainian SSR in April 1986.11.08.1986#8380485
Building new housing in Kirovo, Belorussian SSR, for displaced persons evacuated after the Chernobyl Accident in the Ukrainian SSR in April 1986.11.08.1986#8380056
