Alik Aluwihare, minister of information and mass communications of the Democratic Socialist Republic of Sri Lanka, visits the USSR. Aluwihare's stay in Leningrad. Outside Smolny Cathedral.15.10.1990#6645400
Alik Aluwihare, minister of information and mass communications of the Democratic Socialist Republic of Sri Lanka, visits the USSR. Aluwihare's stay in Leningrad. A stroll along the Neva embankment near the Aurora cruiser.15.10.1990#6645396
Alik Aluwihare, minister of information and mass communications of the Democratic Socialist Republic of Sri Lanka, visits the USSR. Aluwihare is seen here at the Peter the Great "The Bronze Horseman" monument on Senate Sqaure in Leningrad. Background: St. Isaac's Cathedral.15.10.1990#6645389
Alik Aluwihare,right, minister of information and mass communications of the Democratic Socialist Republic of Sri Lanka, visits the USSR. Aluwihare's stay in Leningrad. On Arts Square outside the building of the State Russian Museum.15.10.1990#6645388
Alik Aluwihare, minister of information and mass communications of the Democratic Socialist Republic of Sri Lanka, visits the USSR. Aluwihare's stay in Leningrad. On Arts Square at the Pushkin monument. Background: the State Russian Museum.15.10.1990#6645387
Alik Aluwihare, minister of information and mass communications of the Democratic Socialist Republic of Sri Lanka, visits the USSR. Aluwihare is seen here on Dvortsovaya Square in Leningrad.15.10.1990#6645386
Alik Aluwihare, minister of information and mass communications of the Democratic Socialist Republic of Sri Lanka, visits the USSR. Aluwihare's stay in Leningrad. On Vasilyevsky Island spit.15.10.1990#6645385
Ratna Handurukande, professor and Sanskrit expert from Sri Lanka, left, and instructor of Leningrad State University Yelena Gabriel write a textbook.30.09.1990#8363407
Ratna Handurukande, professor and Sanskrit expert from Sri Lanka, left, at Peter the Great Museum of Anthropology and Ethnography (the Cabinet of Curiosities). USSR Academy of Sciences (now Russian Academy of Sciences).30.09.1990#8363406
Professor, Sanskrit specialist from Sri Lanka Ratma Handurukande studying Sri Lankan manuscripts during a visit to Leningrad.30.09.1990#8363405
A delegation from Sri Lanka visits the USSR. Left: Secretary of the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet of the RSFSR Stepan Chistoplyasov at a meeting with members of a delegation from Sri Lanka.01.08.1990#8301310
A delegation from Sri Lanka visits the USSR. Delegation members are seen near the Russian government building in Moscow.01.08.1990#8301308
Lomonosov Moscow State University. Mr. Vikramage from Sri Lanka defended his thesis on the topic: "The role of the media in shaping public opinion in Sri Lanka." He was awarded the degree of candidate of philological sciences.18.07.1990#8342412
Lomonosov Moscow State University. Dissertation student Mr. Vikramage from Sri Lanka (in the foreground on the right) accepts congratulations after defending his thesis on the topic: "The role of the media in shaping public opinion in Sri Lanka."18.07.1990#8342399
A visit by a delegation of the Democratic Socialist Republic of Sri Lanka to the USSR.01.04.1988#5681351
Extraodinary and plenipotentiary ambassador of the Democratic Republic of Sri Lanka Rodney Clement Austen Vandergert and alternate member of the Politbureau of the CPSU CC, First Deputy Chairman of the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet of the USSR Pyotr Demichev, right, during a delivery presentation of credentials in the Kremlin.15.12.1987#3033892
A visit by a delegation of the Democratic Republic of Sri Lanka to the USSR. Head of the delegation W. Dissanayake, center, with workers of Moscow Tyre Plant.16.11.1987#5765354
A visit by a delegation of the Democratic Republic of Sri Lanka to the USSR. Member of the delegation Madoluwawe Sobita speaks at the official meeting held to mark the 30th anniversary of establishing diplomatic relations between the USSR and Sri Lanka at Moscow Tyre Plant.16.11.1987#5765353
Nanda Mathew, political and state figure from the Democratic Socialist Republic of Sri Lanka, during his visit to the USSR.01.06.1987#8542600
The funeral rally on Moscow's Red Square during the funeral service for Yury Andropov, General Secretary of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of the USSR and Chairman of the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet of the USSR. Members of the Sri Lankan delegation are seen at the rostrum of Lenin's Mausoleum. Foreground, 2nd right: Foreign Minister of Sri Lanka Abdul Cader Shahul Hameed.14.02.1984#8216655
Mr. Punyasena from Sri Lanka won the contest of distributors of Novosti Press Agency's magazine (now Rossiya Segodnya International News Agency) Soviet Life ("Country of Soviets"). The Lankan guest in the Armenian SSR during a visit to he Mesrop Mashtots Institute of Ancient Manuscripts in Yerevan.10.05.1982#6693087
