Naval officers seen near the monument to Gennady Lyachin, commander of the Kursk submarine, during a ceremony at St. Petersburg's Serafimovskoye Cemetery marking 13 years since the Kursk nuclear powered submarine explosion that killed 118 seamen.12.08.2013#2262679
Chief of the Russian General Staff General Nikolai Makarov appears in the Public Chamber of Russia during a hearing on "The New Face of the Russian Army: Results, Problems and Prospects".17.11.2011#989964
Chief of the Russian General Staff General Nikolai Makarov appears in the Public Chamber of Russia during a hearing on "The New Face of the Russian Army: Results, Problems and Prospects".17.11.2011#989948
Chief of the Russian General Staff General Nikolai Makarov appears in the Public Chamber of Russia during a hearing on "The New Face of the Russian Army: Results, Problems and Prospects".17.11.2011#989946
Chief of the Russian General Staff General Nikolai Makarov appears in the Public Chamber of Russia during a hearing on "The New Face of the Russian Army: Results, Problems and Prospects".17.11.2011#989945
Chief of the Russian General Staff General Nikolai Makarov appears in the Public Chamber of Russia during a hearing on "The New Face of the Russian Army: Results, Problems and Prospects".17.11.2011#989942
Air defense troops commander of Russia's Air Forces Major General Sergei Popov at the Kapustin Yar state firing range.16.02.2011#862797
Left: Captain First Class Ildar Akhmerov, commander of a Russian Pacific Fleet unit, set to sail from Zolotoi Rog [Golden Horn] Harbor. The unit comprising the Admiral Panteleyev, the MK-37 ocean-going tug and the tankers Irkut and Izhora is sailing from Vladivostok to the Gulf of Aden.29.03.2009#383439
Vice-Admiral Konstantin Sidenko, Commander of the Russian Navy's Pacific Fleet, saying goodbye to the personnel of a fleet unit in Zolotoi Rog [Golden Horn] Harbor. The unit comprising the anti-submarine warfare [ASW] ship Admiral Panteleyev, the MK-37 ocean-going tug and the tankers Irkut and Izhora is sailing from Vladivostok to the Gulf of Aden.29.03.2009#383444
Captain Second Class Sergei Sobokar, commander of the anti-submarine warfare [ASW] ship Admiral Panteleyev, before departure of a Russian Pacific Fleet unit from Zolotoi Rog [Golden Horn] Harbor. The unit comprising the Admiral Panteleyev, the MK-37 ocean-going tug and the tankers Irkut and Izhora is sailing from Vladivostok to the Gulf of Aden.29.03.2009#383442
Left: Captain First Class Ildar Akhmerov, commander of a Russian Pacific Fleet unit, set to sail from Zolotoi Rog [Golden Horn] Harbor. The unit comprising the Admiral Panteleyev, the MK-37 ocean-going tug and the tankers Irkut and Izhora is sailing from Vladivostok to the Gulf of Aden.29.03.2009#383440
Foregrouind, from left: Mikhail Shepilov, Commander of the Russian Interior Ministry's North Caucasian Task Force, Police Colonel General Arkady Yedelev, Head of the Command Center in the Chechen Republic and Deputy Russian Interior Minister, Father-Superior Varlaam [Ponomaryov] of the Grozny-based Archangel Michael Church of the Chechen-Ingush Diocese, and Bishop Feofan of Stavropol and Vladikavkaz during opening of the Heart of Chechnya mosque named after Akhmad Kadyrov, the first Chechen President, in Grozny. The huge mosque can accommodate 10,000 believers.17.10.2008#352755
Russian President Vladimir Putin [background] and Russia's Defense Minister Sergei Ivanov [foreground] attending a conference of senior officers of the Russian armed forces.17.11.2004#112923
Russian President Vladimir Putin [background] and Russia's Defense Minister Sergei Ivanov [foreground] attending a conference of senior officers of the Russian armed forces.17.11.2004#112922
Russian President Vladimir Putin [background] and Russia's Defense Minister Sergei Ivanov [foreground] attending a conference of senior officers of the Russian armed forces. 17.11.2004#112921
Senior officers of the Russian Armed Forces before a collegium meeting of the Defense Ministry.19.05.1998#112394
Artist Ivan Rozen "Russian Naval Guards in Paris in 1814," 1905. The Central Navy Museum in St. Petersburg.10.09.1996#339744
The Presidential Regiment of the Moscow Kremlin Commandant's Office of the Main Protection Administration of the Russian Federation. An officer epaulet of the full dress uniform.01.05.1996#3141538
Ryazan Higher School of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Russia (now Academy of Law and Administration of the Federal Penitentiary Service). The head of the school, PhD (law), full professor, major general of the internal service Sergei Ponomaryov.25.11.1992#8283027
Right: Y. Radhakrishnan, banker and head of State Bank of India's representative office in Moscow, during a business meeting at Promstroybank (Industrial and Construction Bank, renamed Promstroybank of Russia in 1993).15.06.1991#8752379
Investigation of corrupt authorities in Uzbek Soviet Socialist Republic. Investigators detain a woman for possession of stolen money and jewelry.20.06.1988#6536935
Investigation of corrupt authorities in Uzbek Soviet Socialist Republic. Interrogating a suspect.20.06.1988#6536934
Investigation of corrupt authorities in Uzbek Soviet Socialist Republic. Investigator Bakhtiyar Abdurakhimov during a meeting on the cotton case.20.06.1988#6536933
Investigation of corrupt authorities in Uzbek Soviet Socialist Republic. Investigators from the USSR Prosecutor General's Office Vladimir Kalinichenko and Nikolai Ivanov, left to right, at the site of an alleged hiding spot.20.06.1988#6536931
Investigation of corrupt authorities in Uzbek Soviet Socialist Republic. Interrogating a suspect.20.06.1988#6536930
Investigation of corrupt authorities in Uzbek Soviet Socialist Republic. Location of an alleged hiding spot.20.06.1988#6536929
Investigation of corrupt authorities in Uzbek Soviet Socialist Republic. Relatives of these women were arrested during the investigation.20.06.1988#6536928
Investigation of corrupt authorities in Uzbek Soviet Socialist Republic. Investigator from the USSR Prosecutor General's Office Nikolai Ivanov.20.06.1988#6536926
Investigation of corrupt authorities in Uzbek Soviet Socialist Republic. A visit by an investigative group to an Uzbek village is a big event for locals.01.06.1988#6536932
Left: Karen Khachaturov, Deputy Board Chairman of Novosti Press Agency (now Rossiya Segodnya International Information Agency), publicist, expert in Latin America studies and public figure, during the ceremony to sign a protocol on cooperation between the agency and the Yug magazine.15.05.1988#6549859
Chukotka Autonomous Area. Head of the Innuit Department of the Anadyr Radio Nina Enmynkau.02.04.1988#6575469
Third left: Admiral Konstantin Makarov, Chief of the Sovirrt Navy's Main Headquarters, at a reception marking the 70th anniversary of the Soviet Armed Forces.23.02.1988#6374698
Bulgarian Colonel Kh.Kostov, Soviet Colonel N.Ivanov and Soviet Lieutenant-Colonel V.Gorbatenkov during the joint exercises of the armed forces of the Warsaw Treaty member-states "Shield'82" (September 25 - October 1, 1982). The People's Republic of Bulgaria.01.10.1982#863296
Bulgarian Colonel Kh.Kostov, Soviet Colonel N.Ivanov and Soviet Lieutenant-Colonel V.Gorbatenkov during the joint exercises of the armed forces of the Warsaw Treaty member-states "Shield'82" (September 25 - October 1, 1982). The People's Republic of Bulgaria.01.10.1982#863255
Air Marshal, Hero of the Soviet Union, Hero of the Mongolian People's Republic and People's Hero of Yugoslavia Vladimir Sudets [1904-1981].25.06.1975#406479
Chair of the Forestry Department at Timiryazev Moscow Agricultural Academy (present-day Russian State Agrarian University - Timiryazev Moscow Agricultural Academy) Valentin Nesterov, right, and senior research officer of the department Mikhail Rozanov, left, at the wood collection storage.01.03.1974#5489570
A physical therapy room at a retirement home for senior citizens and disabled persons.01.01.1973#5493173
Blind and deaf writer and defectologist Olga Skorokhodova, left, holds a colleague by the hand to understand what he is saying and feel the sound of his voice. The latter is Alexander Meshcheryakov, senior researcher at the Institute of Defectology of the Academy of Pedagogical Sciences of the USSR.01.12.1972#5489505
Blind and deaf writer and defectologist Olga Skorokhodova, left, holds a colleague by the hand to understand what he is saying by the phone. The latter is Alexander Meshcheryakov, senior researcher at the Institute of Defectology of the Academy of Pedagogical Sciences of the USSR.01.12.1972#5489502
Members of the veterans council of Lenin Moscow Electrical Engineering Plant meet at the corporate committee of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union.15.08.1972#5976150
The Kazakh Soviet Socialist Republic. The F. E. Dzerzhinsky Alma-Ata Military Command College of Frontier Troops (present-day Committee of Natioal Security Academy of Frontier Service of the Republic of Kazakhstan). Cadets during a lecture.01.06.1970#5606073
Anatoly Markusha (real name - Arnold Lurye), Soviet writer, fighter pilot who participated in Great Patriotic War.14.06.1967#5633680
The Uzbek SSR. Photo: Senior citizens talk to an officer of the republican Public Order Protection Ministry near the 15th century Bibi-Khanym Mosque in Samarkand.10.06.1967#6160427
The Military Academy of the USSR Armed Forced General Headquarters (now Military Academy of the Russian Armed Forces General Headquarters). Foreign officers and students of the academy with the department head, Colonel General Ivan Lyudnikov, Hero of the Soviet Union (left).14.03.1967#6418179
The Great Patriotic War of 1941 - 1945. 1945. Commander of the 1st Guards Tank Army Col. Gen. Mikhail Katukov. Mart 1945.01.03.1945#2960462
Army General Konstantin Rokossovsky, Commander of the Red Army's First Belarusian Front, foreground, Member of the Front's Military Council Lieutenant General Telegin, right, and Head of the Front Headquarters' Operations Department Major General Baikov, left, at a command center in 1944.05.07.1944#401737
