Mikhail Simonov, General Designer of the Sukhoi Experimental Design Bureau and one of the main designers of the Sukhoi Su-27 Flanker fighter.10.09.1993#6292071
The Emba testing site in Kazakhstan. An S-300 mobile and multi-channel surface-to-air missile system (export version, S-300PMU-1) for defending highly important administrative, industrial and military facilities from all types of aerial weapons during all of their conceivable operating modes.01.08.1993#8722127
Soviet and foreign journalists visit the Semipalatinsk Nuclear Testing Site in the Kazakh SST after the latest test.01.10.1991#8234600
Director of the Semipalatinsk Test Site in the Kazakh SSR, Lieutenant General Arkady Ilyenko at a news conference with Soviet and foreign journalists.01.10.1991#8601073
Soviet and foreign journalists visit the site of the last underground nuclear test at the Semipalatinsk Test Site in the Kazakh SSR. Photojournalist Yury Kuidin, creator of an exhibition about the Nevada Semipalatinsk International Anti-Nuclear Movement.01.10.1991#8601071
Soviet and foreign journalists visit the site of the last underground nuclear test at the Semipalatinsk Test Site in the Kazakh SSR.01.10.1991#8601070
Soviet and foreign journalists visit the site of the last underground nuclear test at the Semipalatinsk Test Site in the Kazakh SSR. Two years before the journalists' visit, a 75 kiloton explosion was conducted 600 m underground.01.10.1991#8601069
A statue of Igor Kurchatov, one of the founders of the Semipalatinsk Test Site and creator of a nuclear bomb, outside the Central Headquarters in Kurchatov, Kazakhstan.01.10.1991#8601068
The Kazakh SSR. Soviet and foreign journalists visit the location of the last nuclear test, conducted on October 19, 1989, at the Semipalatinsk Nuclear Testing Site.30.09.1991#8280343
Zhukovsky in the Moscow Region. Soviet and foreign guests watch an air show marking Soviet Air Fleet Day at a local airfield.18.08.1991#8609352
Zhukovsky in the Moscow Region. The crew of a Tupolev Tu-114 turboprop passenger airliner Soviet and foreign guests at a local airfield.18.08.1991#8609351
Zhukovsky in the Moscow Region. An air show marking Soviet Air Fleet Day at a local airfield. From left: Soviet test pilots Alexander Beschastnov and Anatoly Kvochur near a Mikoyan-Gurevich MiG-29 Fulcrum multirole fighter-bomber.18.08.1991#8609350
Implementing the Treaty between the United States and Soviet Union on the Elimination of their Intermediate-range and Shorter-range Missiles (INF Treaty), signed on December 8, 1987. Photo: Soviet and US flags at the Kapustin Yar Testing Site in the Astrakhan Region.31.05.1991#8193036
Implementing the Treaty between the United States and Soviet Union on the Elimination of their Intermediate-range and Shorter-range Missiles (INF Treaty), signed on December 8, 1987. Photo: The last missile at the Kapustin Yar Testing Site in the Astrakhan Region.31.05.1991#8193034
A TNA-57M transceiver antenna for tracking man-made near-Earth satellites, part of the Medvezhy Ozyora (Bear Lakes) Space Communications Center, affiliated with the Special Design Bureau of the Moscow Energy Institute.02.07.1990#8309832
Implementing the Treaty Between the United States of America and the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics on the Elimination of Their Intermediate-Range and Shorter-Range Missiles, signed on December 8, 1987. From right: Colonel S. Petrenko, Head of the Center to Monitor the Elimination of Shorter-Range Missiles, and US Navy Captain John C. Williams, Head of the Group of US Inspectors, during the elimination of the last missiles at the Saryozek testing site in the Kazakh SSR.27.10.1989#8171346
An RSD-10 (SS-20) intermediate-range ballistic missile unit is eliminated in accordance with USSR-USA Treaty on the Elimination of Their Intermediate-Range and Shorter-Range Missiles (INF Treaty), which was signed on December 8, 1987. US military inspector Laurenzo Kelly speaks to journalists at the Kapustin Yar test site.04.08.1988#6548550
An RSD-10 (SS-20) intermediate-range ballistic missile unit (SS-20) is eliminated in accordance with USSR-USA Treaty on the Elimination of Their Intermediate-Range and Shorter-Range Missiles (INF Treaty), which was signed on December 8, 1987. Head of operations to eliminate missiles, Col. Oleg Medvedev, gives comments to foreign observers at the Kapustin Yar test site.04.08.1988#6548549
An RSD-10 (SS-20) intermediate-range ballistic missile complex is eliminated in accordance with USSR-USA Treaty on the Elimination of Their Intermediate-Range and Shorter-Range Missiles (INF Treaty), which was signed on December 8, 1987. Soldiers push the bus carrying foreign observers that went into a skid at the Kapustin Yar test site in the Astrakhan Region.04.08.1988#6548548
An RSD-10 (SS-20) intermediate-range ballistic missile complex is eliminated in accordance with USSR-USA Treaty on the Elimination of Their Intermediate-Range and Shorter-Range Missiles (INF Treaty), which was signed on December 8, 1987. Soviet and foreign observers walk to the demolition station at the Kapustin Yar test site.04.08.1988#6548545
Preparations for dismantling an RSD-10 intermediate-range ballistic missile complex by launch in accordance with USSR-USA Treaty on the Elimination of Their Intermediate-Range and Shorter-Range Missiles (INF Treaty), which was signed on December 8, 1987. The Kapustin Yar test site in the Astrakhan Region.04.08.1988#6548544
An RSD-10 intermediate-range ballistic missile complex is eliminated in accordance with USSR-USA Treaty on the Elimination of Their Intermediate-Range and Shorter-Range Missiles (INF Treaty), which was signed on December 8, 1987. First Deputy Chief Commander of Main Headquarters of Strategic Missile Troops Igor Sergeyev at the Kapustin Yar test site in the Astrakhan Region.04.08.1988#6548543
An RSD-10 intermediate-range ballistic missile complex is eliminated in accordance with USSR-USA Treaty on the Elimination of Their Intermediate-Range and Shorter-Range Missiles (INF Treaty), which was signed on December 8, 1987. Head of operations to eliminate missiles, Col. Oleg Medvedev, gives comments to foreign observers at the Kapustin Yar test site in the Astrakhan Region.04.08.1988#6548542
An RSD-10 (SS-20) intermediate-range ballistic missile complex is eliminated in accordance with USSR-USA Treaty on the Elimination of Their Intermediate-Range and Shorter-Range Missiles (INF Treaty), which was signed on December 8, 1987. Colonel Nikolai Kushko at the Kapustin Yar test site in the Astrakhan Region.04.08.1988#6548541
An RSD-10 (SS-20) intermediate-range ballistic missile complex is eliminated in accordance with USSR-USA Treaty on the Elimination of Their Intermediate-Range and Shorter-Range Missiles (INF Treaty), which was signed on December 8, 1987. Miljan Komatina, former permanent representative of Yugoslavia to the UN and Secretary-General of the Conference on Disarmament, at the Kapustin Yar test site in the Astrakhan Region.04.08.1988#6548540
An RSD-10 (SS-20) intermediate-range ballistic missile complex is dismantled in accordance with USSR-USA Treaty on the Elimination of Their Intermediate-Range and Shorter-Range Missiles (INF Treaty), which was signed on December 8, 1987. Soviet and foreign journalists on the observation deck at the Kapustin Yar test site in the Astrakhan Region.04.08.1988#6548470
An RSD-10 (SS-20) intermediate-range ballistic missile complex is dismantled in accordance with USSR-USA Treaty on the Elimination of Their Intermediate-Range and Shorter-Range Missiles (INF Treaty), which was signed on December 8, 1987. Head of the US inspector group, Brig. Gen. Roland Lajoie, speaks to Soviet and foreign journalists at the Kapustin Yar test site.04.08.1988#6548467
US inspectors before the elimination of SS-20 self-propelled rocket launchers in accordance with USSR-USA Treaty on the Elimination of Their Intermediate-Range and Shorter-Range Missiles (INF Treaty), which was signed on December 8, 1987. The Kapustin Yar test site in the Astrakhan Region.04.08.1988#6548465
A bunch of three RSD-10 missiles prepared for destruction as part of the implementation of the Treaty between the USSR and the USA on the elimination of their intermediate and shorter range missiles (INF), which was signed on December 8, 1987. Kapustin Yar test site in the Astrakhan Region.01.08.1988#8447128
Disarmament of the missile system in accordance with the Treaty between the USSR and the United States on the elimination of their medium and shorter range missiles (INF), which was signed on December 8, 1987. An American observer gives an interview to a Soviet journalist at the Saryozek training ground in the Kazakh SSR.01.08.1988#8355663
Disarming missiles under the Treaty Between the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics and the United States of America on the Elimination of Their Intermediate-Range and Shorter-Range Missiles that was signed on December 8, 1987. Photo: Soviet and foreign journalists interview Colonel S. Petrenko, Head of the Center for Monitoring the Elimination of Shorter-Range Missiles, far right, and military inspector/US Force Lieutenant Colonel M. Frietzek in Saryozek, the Kazakh SSR.01.08.1988#8355661
Disarmament of the missile system in accordance with the Treaty between the USSR and the United States on the elimination of their medium and shorter range missiles (INF), which was signed on December 8, 1987. Warehouse of missiles of the OTR-22 and OTR-23 classes at the Saryozek test site of the Kazakh SSR.31.07.1988#8355664
An RSD-10 (SS-20) intermediate-range ballistic missile complex is dismantled in accordance with USSR-USA Treaty on the Elimination of Their Intermediate-Range and Shorter-Range Missiles (INF Treaty), which was signed on December 8, 1987. The Kapustin Yar test site in the Astrakhan Region.30.06.1988#6548468
Preparations for dismantling an RSD-10 (SS-20) intermediate-range ballistic missile complex is eliminated in accordance with USSR-USA Treaty on the Elimination of Their Intermediate-Range and Shorter-Range Missiles (INF Treaty), which was signed on December 8, 1987. The Kapustin Yar test site. in the Astrakhan Region.30.06.1988#6548464
Eliminating stockpiles of chemical weapons. Preparing to demonstrate a process for eliminating a chemical munition at the Shikhany military facility. At the invitation of the Soviet Government, representatives of the UN, delegations from 45 countries, parties to the talks, and observer states at the Shikhany military chemical facility.01.10.1987#8352936
The Institute for Space Research of Natural Resources of the Academy of Sciences of the Azerbaijani SSR. Photo: The Institute's mobile laboratory operates together with a specially equipped helicopter.01.06.1987#8356962
The Institute for Space Research of Natural Resources of the Academy of Sciences of the Azerbaijani SSR. Photo: The Institute's mobile laboratory operates together with a specially equipped helicopter.01.06.1987#8356961
The Ukrainian SSR. Photo: Launching a weather balloon from the Zhovtnevoye testing site of the Ukrainian Research and Development Institute of Hydrometeorology.01.04.1987#5912300
Soviet-American project to monitor underground nuclear tests at the Semipalatinsk test site in the Kazakh SSR. Participants in the experiment at a seismic station deployed in the vicinity of Karkaralinsk.01.12.1986#8545966
Soviet-American project to monitor underground nuclear tests at the Semipalatinsk test site in the Kazakh SSR. Jonathan Berger, Scripps Institution of Oceanography, University of California, San Diego, at a seismic station deployed in the vicinity of Karkaralinsk.01.12.1986#8545965
The vicinity of Karkaralinsk in the Kazakh SSR, where a Soviet-American seismic station was deployed for an experiment to monitor underground nuclear tests.01.12.1986#8545964
Soviet-American project to monitor underground nuclear tests at the Semipalatinsk test site in the Kazakh SSR. Seismologist from the University of California at San Diego Holly Eissler at a seismic station in the vicinity of Karkaralinsk.01.12.1986#8545963
Soviet-American project to monitor underground nuclear tests at the Semipalatinsk test site in the Kazakh SSR. Participants in the experiment discussing planned work in the vicinity of Karkaralinsk.01.12.1986#8545962
University of California Professor James Brune, participant of the Soviet-American project to monitor underground nuclear tests during a visit to a seismic monitoring station in the Karaganda Region, Kazakh SSR.20.08.1986#8334379
The Desna Testing Site of the Electrodynamics Institute at the Academy of Sciences of the Ukrainian SSR. Photo: Stepan Kudrya, head of a sector of the Research and Development Department for Accumulating Energy from Renewable Sources.01.07.1986#8356007
Moscow Region, Dmitrovsky District. Test site of the Central Scientific Research Automobile and Automotive Engines Institute (NAMI). A crash test.01.06.1980#3195171
Moscow Region, Dmitrovsky District. Test site of the Central Scientific Research Automobile and Automotive Engines Institute (NAMI). Heavy trucks are tested on a special cobbled pavement.01.06.1980#3195170
Moscow Region, Dmitrovsky District. Test site of the Central Scientific Research Automobile and Automotive Engines Institute (NAMI). Vaz-2121 "Niva" cross-country motor car.01.06.1980#3195168
Moscow Region, Dmitrovsky District. Test site of the Central Scientific Research Automobile and Automotive Engines Institute (NAMI).01.06.1980#3195166
Moscow region, Dmitrovksy District. Test site of the Central Scientific Research Automobile and Automotive Engines Institute (NAMI).01.06.1980#3171168
Moscow region, Dmitrovksy District. Test site of the Central Scientific Research Automobile and Automotive Engines Institute (NAMI).01.06.1980#3171167
Indian specialists inspect the launch vehicle intended for the Indian satellite Bhaskara-1 from the Kapustin Yar cosmodrome on June 7, 1979. The first experimental remote sensing satellite. It carried television and microwave cameras.28.05.1979#8807262
AvtoVAZ, the Volga Automobile Plant, in Togliatti. Construction of the second phase of AvtoVAZ with a capacity of 220,000 vehicles per year.01.03.1973#2753055
The launch vehicle Cosmos 11K63 carrying the Intercosmos-7 artificial Earth satellite blasting off. A project within the socialist nations' cooperation program. The Kapustin Yar launch site (now the Fourth State Central Test Site of the defense ministry of the Russian Federation).30.06.1972#879585
The launch vehicle Cosmos 11K63 carrying the Intercosmos-7 artificial Earth satellite blasting off. A project within the socialist nations' cooperation program. The Kapustin Yar launch site (now the Fourth State Central Test Site of the defense ministry of the Russian Federation).30.06.1972#879584
