Rostov Region Governor Vasily Golubev, left, and PepsiCo's Eastern Europe Region President Ramon Laguarta attending the opening ceremony of PepsiCo's food manufacturing plant in the town of Azov, Rostov Region.08.12.2010#819938
Russian United Energy Systems Chief Antoly Chubais at the opening ceremony of the new (ninth) power units' construction of the Novocherkassk power plant. The unit will be the Russia's first coal power-generating unit based on a circulating fluidized bed.24.05.2007#154644
Duma Speaker Boris Gryzlov (right) and Leningrad Region Governor Valery Serdyukov (left) attending the ceremony of laying the first stone of the new regional city of Kudrovo 25.12.2006#141326
Duma Speaker Boris Gryzlov (right) and Leningrad Region Governor Valery Serdyukov (left) attending the ceremony of laying the first stone of the new regional city of Kudrovo 25.12.2006#141267
Duma Speaker Boris Gryzlov (left) and Leningrad Region Governor Valery Serdyukov (right) attending the ceremony of laying the first stone of the new regional city of Kudrovo 25.12.2006#141266
Duma Speaker Boris Gryzlov (left) and Leningrad Region Governor Valery Serdyukov (right) attending the ceremony of laying the first stone of the new regional city of Kudrovo25.12.2006#141264
An actor as Peter the Great during a staged performance at the stone-laying ceremony for a new commercial port in Ust-Luga, Leningrad Region.15.06.1993#6743827
Laying the cornerstone of the Kazan Cathedral, on Red Square, over 50 years since its destruction in 1936.04.11.1990#8214701
Moscow residents with candles and portraits of Stalin-era prison camps' victims, as well as surviving GULAG inmates, at a ceremony of unveiling the Solovetsky Stone memorial near the Soviet State Security Committee (KGB) building on Lubyanskaya Square on Soviet Political Prisoners Day.30.10.1990#8214706
Ukrainian SSR. Ewelina Hanska's estate in the Verkhovnya village, 18th-19th century. Her husband, French author Honore de Balzac, lived in this room in 1847-1848 and 1848-1850.10.07.1987#5842813
Ukrainian SSR. Ewelina Hanska's estate in the Verkhovnya village, 18th-19th century. A stone bridge in the old estate park.10.07.1987#5842811
The southern wall of the Solovetsky Monastery. Founded in 1420-1430. Solovetsky Islands.01.07.1971#527754
Walls of the Svyatogorsk Assumption Monastery for men. The Pushkin State Museum-Preserve (now Mikhailovskoye Pushkin State Memorial Museum-Preserve of History, Literature and Natural Landscape).01.06.1967#565007
Burma, now Myanmar. Under the 1962 Soviet-Burmese Treaty, the Soviet Union provided Burma with loans for building a dam and a reservoir in Chemoltau and an irrigation system in the Mu River valley and in Titso and also sent its specialists and equipment there. Building a dam in Chemoltau, designed by Soviet engineers.20.02.1963#6173434