Dr. Leonid Keldysh, an outstanding Russian theoretical physicist and Fellow of the Russian Academy of Sciences, won the Lomonosov Award in 1964, the Lenin Prize in 1974, the Hewlett-Packard Prize of the European Physical Society in 1975, the Alexander von Humboldt Award in 1994, and the Triumph Prize for energy physics in 2001.30.03.2001#166360
Director of the Institute of Economics of the Transitional Period and leader of the movement Russia's Democratic Choice Yegor Gaidar.04.11.1999#804198
Poetry lovers at the grave of Russian poet Alexander Pushkin near the walls of the Svyatogorsky Monastery in the Pskov Region on his birthday.06.06.1994#8269242
Vasily Fedin, doctor of history, Deputy Director of the Social Sciences Academy under the USSR Communist Party, expert in party-building.13.12.1989#6633972
Pictures by Soviet Avant-Garde artist Kazimir Malevich on display at the Art of the 1920s and the 1930s exhibition at the State Russian Museum in Leningrad.01.11.1989#8226190
Center: UNESCO (United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization) Director-General Federico Mayor Zaragoza pays an official visit to the Soviet Union. He is seen here meeting with Anatoly Logunov, Rector of Lomonosov Moscow State University, Member of the Soviet Academy of Sciences and its Vice President, left.18.07.1989#6746942
Second right: UNESCO (United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization) Director-General Federico Mayor Zaragoza pays an official visit to the Soviet Union. He is seen here meeting with Anatoly Logunov, Rector of Lomonosov Moscow State University, Member of the Soviet Academy of Sciences and its Vice President.18.07.1989#6748471
May 25-June 9, 1989. The First Congress of USSR People's Deputies in the Kremlin Palace of Congresses, now the State Kremlin Palace. Photo: People's Deputy Andrei Sakharov, Member of the Soviet Academy of Sciences, speaks from the rostrum.25.05.1989#8274964
Pictures by Soviet Avant-Garde artist Kazimir Malevich on display at the Art of the 1920s and the 1930s exhibition at the State Russian Museum in Leningrad.01.02.1989#8226191
Briefing on the 15th anniversary of the Arab-Israeli War (also known as the Yom Kippur War) for Arab correspondents. The conflict was fought on October 6-25, 1973, between Israel and a coalition of Arab states led by Egypt and Syria. Colonel General Makhmud Gareyev, Deputy Head of the General Headquarters on Research and Operational Training.06.10.1988#6624655
An embroidered star of St. George's Order that belonged to Russian military commander Alexander Suvorov from collection of orders of the State History Museum.08.05.1988#5871216
The World Chess Championship played in Seville, Spain between October 12 and December 19, 1987. Argentinian International Grandmaster Miguel Najdorf, center right, and Grandmaster Eduard Gufelf, a special correspondent with the Sovetsky Sport newspaper, talk during a game.15.10.1987#5788919
Soviet stage director Vsevolod Meyerhold was born in this house and spent his childhood here. The Meyerhold State Art Museum has been located here since 1984.07.10.1987#5870663
Every June 6, the people of Russia celebrate the birth anniversary of Alexander Pushkin. On that day, people lay flowers at the Alexander Pushkin Monument in Moscow in an impressive setting. Hundreds of people admiring his talent come here to honor the great poet and to hear his immortal verses once again. Photo: A young Moscow resident lays flowers at the Alexander Pushkin Monument on the poet's birth anniversary and on Russian Language Day.06.06.1987#8352933
Artist P. Belousov. Portrait of Friedrich Engels [1820-1895]. 1986. Reproduction of drawing.01.01.1987#834005
Artist P. Belousov. Portrait of Karl Marx [1818-1883]. 1986. Reproduction of drawing.01.01.1987#834004
Young chess player Sergei Tivyakov, a student of a school run by international grandmaster Vasily Smyslov, right, for children from all over the Soviet Union.10.09.1981#5965417
Young chess player Sergei Tivyakov, a student of a school run by international grandmaster Vasily Smyslov for children from all over the Soviet Union.10.09.1981#5965416
Young chess player Sergei Tivyakov, a student of a school run by international grandmaster Vasily Smyslov, right, for children from all over the Soviet Union.10.09.1981#5965414
Young chess player Sergei Tivyakov, a student of a school run by international grandmaster Vasily Smyslov, right, for children from all over the Soviet Union.10.09.1981#5965410
Young chess player Sergei Tivyakov, a student of a school run by international grandmaster Vasily Smyslov, right, for children from all over the Soviet Union.10.09.1981#5965409
Young chess player Sergei Tivyakov, a student of a school run by international grandmaster Vasily Smyslov for children from all over the Soviet Union.10.09.1981#5965405
In the Novosibirsk science campus, from left to right: Academician of the USSR Academy of Sciences, Director of the Institute of Economics and Organization of Industrial Production of the Siberian branch of the USSR Academy of Sciences Abel Aganbegyan, Chairman of the Siberian branch and Vice President of the USSR Academy of Sciences Gury Marchyuk and Honorable Chairman of the Siberian branch of the USSR Academy of Sciences Mikhail Lavrentyev.01.07.1979#875123
Winners odf ht Nobel Prize in Physics Danish theoretical physicist Niels Bohr, left, and German physicist Professor Extraordinaire James Franck, center. The 1920s.15.03.1976#6491214
Director of the Moscow Academic School of Choreography (today's Moscow State Academy of Choreography) Sofia Golovkina, center, standing, receives a foreign delegation.10.07.1973#5802160
Pyotr Anokhin, professor at the Department of Normal Physiology at Sechenov First Moscow Medical Institute, author of the theory of functional systems.01.12.1972#5665455
Soviet scientist, the first Russian Nobel Prize winner and founder of the science of the higher nervous function Ivan Pavlov, center, with students, including physiologist and founder of the theory of functional systems, Pyotr Anokhin, left, at the State Institute of Medical Knowledge ( today's St. Petersburg Mechnikov State Medical Academy). Reproduction, 1924.01.12.1972#5665454
Polish astronomer who formulated the heliocentrical model of the world Nicolaus Copernicus reads "On Value of Coins." A copy.15.09.1972#5661901
A street named in honor Polish astronomer Nicolaus Copernicus, author of the heliocentric system,in Torun, Poland.15.09.1972#5661900
A monument to Polish astronomer Nicolaus Copernicus by the Danish sculptor Bertel Thorvaldsen erected in front of the Staszic Palace on on Krakowskie Przedmieście in Warsaw15.09.1972#5661899
The house of Nicolaus Copernicus located in two medieval buildings of the old town in Torun, Poland.15.09.1972#5661898
The Urals Scientific Center of the Academy of Sciences of the USSR. Professor Konstantin Sidorov, left, and academician at the Academy of Sciences of the USSR Sergei Vonsovsky, center.03.07.1971#5800768
A news conference at the Moscow House of Scientists on the flight of Luna 16 unmanned spacecraft which delivered samples of lunar soil to the Earth. President of the Academy of Sciences of the USSR Mstislav Keldysh gives a speech.28.10.1970#3012191
A news conference at the Moscow House of Scientists on the flight of Luna 16 unmanned spacecraft which delivered samples of lunar soil to the Earth. President of the Academy of Sciences of the USSR Mstislav Keldysh gives a speech.28.10.1970#3012189
Soviet chess player and international grand master Boris Spassky plays against grand master Tigran Petrosyan during a match of the 1969 World Chess Championships (April 14-June 17, 1969).05.06.1969#6242140
International grand master Tigran Petrosyan plays against Boris Spassky during a match of the 1969 World Chess Championships (April 14-June 17, 1969).05.06.1969#6242135
A monument honoring Karl Marx, the founder of Marxism and an activist of the international Communist movement.15.04.1968#6079764
The reading room of the Lenin Palace of Culture of the Bolshevik Plant, now Obukhovsky Plant, in Leningrad.09.04.1968#5842680
A page from Karl Marx's manuscript - the introduction to "The Communist Manifesto." The museum of Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels (closed in 1992).01.04.1968#2829392
Soviet physicist-theoretician, founder of a research school and recipient of the 1962 Nobel Prize in Physics Lev Landau celebrates his 60th birthday with his family.22.01.1968#6162280
A statue of Karl Marx, founder of Marxism, activist of the international Communist movement.10.09.1967#5802193
The grave of Russian poet Alexander Pushkin near Svyatogorsky Holy Dormition Monastery. The Pushkin State Memorial Historical-Literary and Nature-Landscape Museum-Reserve. The marble headstone was made by St. Petersburg sculptor A. M. Permogorov.04.09.1966#6093069
A monument to Vladimir Lenin on Privokzalnaya Square in Krasnodar. It was built in 1956 to a esign by sculptor Pinkhos Sabsai.18.06.1966#5882471
Red Square in Moscow. Left: Vladimir Lenin Mausoleum, Senatskaya Tower and the USSR Supreme Council (Grand Kremlin Palace). Center: State Historical Museum. Right: GUM department store.24.01.1965#6020585
Line to the Vladimir Lenin Mausoleum on Red Square in Moscow. Back right: the State Historical Museum.24.01.1965#6020118
The sculptural portrait of poet Friedrich von Schiller. It was made by Mikhail Gerasimov, an anthropologist, sculptor and archaeologist, who elaborated a method of restoring human image based on the skull (born in 1907).26.10.1963#726831
Staff at Bauman Moscow Higher Technical School (today's Bauman Moscow State Technical University) hold space studies.10.10.1963#5584757
The Tsiolkovsky's. Let to right: scientist's great granddaughter Lena Kostina, grandson V. Kiselyov, granddaughter M. Samburova, great grandson Andryusha Kiselyov, grandson A. Kostin and great grandson Seryozha Samburov.01.08.1963#720396
Konstantin Tsiolkovsky's daughter Maria Tsiolkovsky-Kostina. The world's first woman-cosmonaut sent her a picture with a commemorative inscription.01.08.1963#720395
A shot from the documentary 'Living Lenin' produced by Mikhail Romm and Maria Slavinskaya.10.01.1960#5625584
A shot from the documentary 'Living Lenin' produced by Mikhail Romm and Maria Slavinskaya.10.01.1960#5625581
The Tsiolkovsky House-Museum in Kaluga. Photo: The first version of a wind tunnel, developed by Russian scientist Konstantin Tsiolkovsky in 1897.17.03.1956#5815813
Ilya Selvinsky, Soviet poet, playwright, memoir and essay author. During the Great Patriotic War (1941-1945), Ilya Selvinsky served as a military journalist and political instructor in Crimea, North Caucasus and Kuban.11.05.1942#8543385
