Second right: Gennady Pechnikov, People's Artist of the RSFSR, director of the Poverty is not a Vice play, staged based on the play of the same name by Russian playwright Alexander Ostrovsky, during a meeting with actors of the Mongolian People's Republic at the Central Children's Theatre (now the Russian Academic Youth Theater).25.12.2024#8836093
Action of the Monolith Foundation to save Vera Mukhina's monument Worker and Kolkhoz Woman. The sculptural group was dressed in the colors of the Russian flag to draw public attention to the plight of the great monument.28.03.1998#8286954
A manifestation marking the fourth anniversary of the October 3-4, 1993 events in Moscow. At that time, a constitutional crisis caused a domestic political conflict in the Russian Federation. The conflict triggered mass riots, followed by armed clashes on the streets of Moscow and subsequent uncoordinated military operations that killed at least 157 people and wounded 384 more.04.10.1997#8469108
A manifestation marking the fourth anniversary of the October 3-4, 1993 events in Moscow. At that time, a constitutional crisis caused a domestic political conflict in the Russian Federation. The conflict triggered mass riots, followed by armed clashes on the streets of Moscow and subsequent uncoordinated military operations that killed at least 157 people and wounded 384 more.04.10.1997#8469107
A manifestation marking the fourth anniversary of the October 3-4, 1993 events in Moscow. At that time, a constitutional crisis caused a domestic political conflict in the Russian Federation. The conflict triggered mass riots, followed by armed clashes on the streets of Moscow and subsequent uncoordinated military operations that killed at least 157 people and wounded 384 more.04.10.1997#8469106
A manifestation marking the fourth anniversary of the October 3-4, 1993 events in Moscow. At that time, a constitutional crisis caused a domestic political conflict in the Russian Federation. The conflict triggered mass riots, followed by armed clashes on the streets of Moscow and subsequent uncoordinated military operations that killed at least 157 people and wounded 384 more.04.10.1997#8469104
A manifestation marking the fourth anniversary of the October 3-4, 1993 events in Moscow. At that time, a constitutional crisis caused a domestic political conflict in the Russian Federation. The conflict triggered mass riots, followed by armed clashes on the streets of Moscow and subsequent uncoordinated military operations that killed at least 157 people and wounded 384 more.04.10.1997#8469103
A ZIS-110 car of the highest and representative class of the Joseph Stalin First State Automobile Plant (now the Likhachev Plant), the first post-war car of the USSR automobile industry, presented as an exhibit at the Auto Exotic 1997 show on Tushinsky airport in Moscow.22.06.1997#8285940
A car of the German company Opel is presented as an exhibit at the Auto Exotic 1997 show at the Tushino airfield in Moscow.22.06.1997#8285939
A rally on Kaluzhskaya Square in Moscow timed to coincide with anniversary of the March 17, 1991 referendum on the preservation of the USSR.17.03.1996#5851424
A rally on Kaluzhskaya Square in Moscow timed to coincide with anniversary of the March 17, 1991 referendum on the preservation of the USSR.17.03.1996#5851420
Rally on Kaluzhskaya Square in Moscow timed to coincide with the anniversary of the ll-Union referendum on March 17, 1991, on the preservation of the USSR.17.03.1996#5850468
Rally on Kaluzhskaya Square in Moscow, timed to the anniversary of the All-Union referendum on March 17, 1991 on the preservation of the USSR.17.03.1996#5850466
Rally on Kaluzhskaya Square in Moscow timed to the anniversary of the All-Union referendum on March 17, 1991 on the preservation of the USSR.17.03.1996#5850465
Worker and Kolkhoz Woman, piece of monumental art located near the North Entrance to the Russian Exhibition Center (now the Exhibition of Achievements of the National Economy). Created by architect Boris Iofan and sculptor Vera Mukhina.29.09.1995#8263048
Moscow residents werlcome Russian servicemen who arrived back from East Germany due to the final withdrawal of the Western Group of Forces on August 30-31, 1994.04.09.1994#6315603
The 37th Brothers Znamensky Memorial international track and field competition at Moscow's Lokomotiv Stadium (currently RZHD Arena), June 5, 1994. US track and field athlete Harry Reynolds receives congratulations after winning the 400m running event.05.06.1994#8739299
The 37th Brothers Znamensky Memorial international track and field competition, June 5, 1994. Russian track and field athlete, pole vaulter Igor Trandenkov during the events at Moscow's Lokomotiv Stadium (currently RZHD Arena).05.06.1994#8739300
The 37th Brothers Znamensky Memorial international track and field competition, June 5, 1994. From right: United States' Harry Reynolds and Kenya's Simon Kemboi compete in the 400m running event at Moscow's Lokomotiv Stadium (currently RZHD Arena).05.06.1994#8739302
The 37th Brothers Znamensky Memorial international track and field competition, June 5, 1994. From right: Kenyan track and field athletes Ismael Kirui and Wilson Omwoyo compete in the 400m running event at Moscow's Lokomotiv Stadium (currently RZHD Arena).05.06.1994#8739301
The 37th Brothers Znamensky Memorial international track and field competition, June 5, 1994. Russian track and field athlete, world and European champion Anna Biryukova competes in the events at Moscow's Lokomotiv Stadium (currently RZHD Arena).05.06.1994#8739297
The 37th Brothers Znamensky Memorial international track and field competition, June 5, 1994. Russian track and field athlete Yelena Gulyayeva competes in the events at Moscow's Lokomotiv Stadium (currently RZHD Arena).05.06.1994#8739298
The 37th Brothers Znamensky Memorial international track and field competition, June 5, 1994. Russian track and field athlete Yelena Topchina competes in the events at Moscow's Lokomotiv Stadium (currently RZHD Arena).05.06.1994#8739296
The domestic political conflict in the Russian Federation (September 21-October 4, 1993) and the disbanding of the Congress of People's Deputies and the Supreme Soviet (Parliament). Photo: This 14-year old boy was killed during the attack on the House of the Soviets (White House).04.10.1993#6292070
Internal political conflict in the Russian Federation on September 21 - October 4, 1993. The House of Soviets (White House) was shelled with the Taman division tank guns.04.10.1993#6292069
The domestic conflict in the Russian Federation (September 21-October 4, 1993), namely, the disbanding of the Congress of People's Deputies and the Russian Supreme Soviet (Parliament). Photo: A riot police outpost near Ulitsa 1905 Goda metro station in Moscow.04.10.1993#6293681
The domestic conflict in the Russian Federation (September 21-October 4, 1993), namely, the disbanding of the Congress of People's Deputies and the Russian Supreme Soviet (Parliament). Photo: Acting President of the Russian Federation and Russian Vice President Alexander Rutskoi.04.10.1993#6293680
The domestic conflict in the Russian Federation (September 21-October 4, 1993), namely, the disbanding of the Congress of People's Deputies and the Russian Supreme Soviet (Parliament). Photo: Evacuating wounded persons under fire during an assault on the House of the Soviets (White House).04.10.1993#6293677
The domestic conflict in the Russian Federation (September 21-October 4, 1993), namely, the disbanding of the Congress of People's Deputies and the Russian Supreme Soviet (Parliament). Photo: Barricades of defenders of the House of the Soviets (White House) on Kalininsky, now Novoarbatsky, Bridge near Kutuzovsky Prospekt.04.10.1993#6293676
The domestic conflict in the Russian Federation (September 21-October 4, 1993), namely, the disbanding of the Congress of People's Deputies and the Russian Supreme Soviet (Parliament). Foreground: Deputy Russian Interior Minister Lieutenant General Anatoly Kulikov, Commander of the Russian Interior Ministry's Troops and a supporter of Russian President Boris Yeltsin.04.10.1993#6293675
The domestic conflict in the Russian Federation (September 21-October 4, 1993), namely, the disbanding of the Congress of People's Deputies and the Russian Supreme Soviet (Parliament). Photo: Moscow residents provide soldiers with sandwiches, tea and coffee.04.10.1993#6295699
The domestic conflict in the Russian Federation (September 21-October 4, 1993), namely, the disbanding of the Congress of People's Deputies and the Russian Supreme Soviet (Parliament). Photo: A tank division near the Moscow Government building.04.10.1993#6295698
The domestic conflict in the Russian Federation (September 21-October 4, 1993), namely, the disbanding of the Congress of People's Deputies and the Russian Supreme Soviet (Parliament). Photo: Protesters near the House of the Soviets (White House) building,04.10.1993#6295697
The domestic conflict in the Russian Federation (September 21-October 4, 1993), namely, the disbanding of the Congress of People's Deputies and the Russian Supreme Soviet (Parliament). Photo: Evacuarting wounded persons under fire during an assault on the House of the Soviets (White House).04.10.1993#6295695
The domestic conflict in the Russian Federation (September 21-October 4, 1993), namely, the disbanding of the Congress of People's Deputies and the Russian Supreme Soviet (Parliament). Photo: An assault on the House of the Soviets (White House).04.10.1993#6295694
A rally by the Labor Moscow movement on the anniversary of the 1991 August Coup. Participants march on Novy Arbat.20.08.1993#6418136
A rally by the Labor Moscow movement on the anniversary of the 1991 August Coup. Participants outside the Government House (House of the Soviets of RSFSR).20.08.1993#6418131
Representatives of the Russian Federal Tax Service hold a rally at the statue of Vladimir Mayakovsky on Triumfalnaya Square in Moscow on the poet's 100th birth anniversary. Center: the statue of Vladimir Mayakovsky. Unveiled in 1958. By sculptor Alexander Kibalnikov.19.07.1993#6414566
Moscow. Concert Rock on the Barricades near the House of Russian Soviets, now the Russian Government House, on the first anniversary of defeating the State Committee for the State of Emergency.28.08.1992#6740031
Moscow. Concert Rock on the Barricades near the House of Russian Soviets, now the Russian Government House, on the first anniversary of defeating the State Committee for the State of Emergency.28.08.1992#6739885
Larisa Latynina, Soviet artistic gymnast, nine-time Olympic champion and Merited Master of Sports of the USSR, and her husband Yury Feldman take a walk on Arbat Street in Moscow.26.07.1992#6739883
International Labor Day. Signing the petition on holding a referendum on President Boris Yeltsin's resignation.01.05.1992#6537202
A playbill advertising a show by acclaimed circus artist Alexander Rodina, in Madrid, Spain.01.03.1992#6536771
Moscow. American Internationally Acclaimed Speaker and Preacher Rick Amato delivers a fiery speech at the Kremlin Palace of Congresses, now the State Kremlin Palace.24.11.1991#8609043
Moscow. American Internationally Acclaimed Speaker and Preacher Rick Amato delivers a fiery speech at the Kremlin Palace of Congresses, now the State Kremlin Palace.24.11.1991#8609042
Moscow. American Internationally Acclaimed Speaker and Preacher Rick Amato signs his books after a fiery speech at the Kremlin Palace of Congresses, now the State Kremlin Palace.24.11.1991#8609041
A bus with an advertising banner on Sverdlov Square (now Teatralnaya Square) in Moscow.15.11.1991#6686501
Transportation of the monument to the revolutionary Felix Dzerzhinsky from Lubyanka Square to the open-air sculpture museum in Moscow (now the Muzeon art park), dismantled by order of the Moscow Soviet in August 1991 after a failed coup by members of the State Committee for the State of Emergency in order to stop the collapse of the USSR and prevent signing of the Union Treaty.03.09.1991#8591048
A monument to the leader of the USSR Joseph Stalin in the open-air sculpture museum in Moscow (now the Muzeon art park), dismantled in August 1991 after a failed coup by members of the State Committee for the State of Emergency in order to stop the collapse of the USSR and prevent the signing of the Union Treaty.03.09.1991#8591047
A monument to the revolutionary Felix Dzerzhinsky in the open-air sculpture museum in Moscow (now the Muzeon art park), dismantled in August 1991 after a failed coup by members of the State Committee for the State of Emergency in order to stop the collapse of the USSR and prevent the signing of the Union Treaty.03.09.1991#8591046
Moscow. August 19-31, 1991. The First Congress of Compatriots involved about 700 compatriots from non-Soviet foreign countries. In this photo, the delegates are visiting the Presentation of the Virgin Optina Hermitage Monastery near Kozelsk in the Kaluga Region.24.08.1991#8595741
Moscow. August 19-31, 1991. The First Congress of Compatriots involved about 700 compatriots from non-Soviet foreign countries. In this photo, the delegates are standing near military equipment, abandoned not far from Red Square after an abortive by members of the State Committee for the State of Emergency . The coup's perpetrators tried to stop the breakup of the Soviet Union and to prevent the signing of the Union Treaty.23.08.1991#8595742
Moscow. August 19-31, 1991. The First Congress of Compatriots involved about 700 compatriots from non-Soviet foreign countries. In this photo, the delegates are watching the Grand Prince performance near the Dormition of the Holy Virgin Church at Krutitsa Town Residence. The performance narrates the events of 1210 during the reign of Prince Vsevolod III Big Nest.23.08.1991#8595740
Norwegian students visit Red Square, Moscow's biggest landmark, during their visit to the Soviet Union.10.08.1991#8227646
View of the Lenin Central Stadium (now the Luzhniki Olympic Complex) from the observation deck on the Lenin Hills (now Vorobyovy Gory) in Moscow.10.08.1991#8589255
View of the Lenin Central Stadium (now the Luzhniki Olympic Complex) from the observation deck on the Lenin Hills (now Vorobyovy Gory) in Moscow.10.08.1991#8589254
