New Year's lights on Tverskaya Square in Moscow.

21.12.2017#3264427

Actress Svetlana Nemolyayeva at the White Elephant National Prize of Film Critics and Film Press award ceremony at the Central House of Cinematographers in Moscow.

21.12.2017#3263121

The unofficial Catalan flag on a balcony in central Barcelona on the day of the special parliamentary elections in Catalonia.

21.12.2017#3262613

Figure skater warming up before the short program in the men's singles at the Russian Figure Skating Championships in St. Petersburg.

21.12.2017#3262197

A man with a boy feed birds in Sevastopol's Omega Bay.

21.12.2016#3005647

People in a park on Moscow's Tverskoi Boulevard.

21.12.2016#3000106

Commemorating murdered Russian Ambassador to Turkey Andrei Karlov near the Cathedral of Christ the Savior in Moscow.

21.12.2016#2999878

Students of the women's military academy in Damascus during combat training.

21.12.2015#2763745

Russia's recently-commissioned major photovoltaic solar plant named after A.A.Vlaznev, in the town of Orsk, Orenburg Region.

21.12.2015#2763281

Workers decorate a Christmas tree on Ala-Too Square in Bishkek.

21.12.2015#2763147

Russia's Danis Zaripov, left, and Denis Denisov after the 2014-15 Euro Hockey Tour Channel One Cup match between the Russian and Czech national teams.

21.12.2014#2547273

The semifinals of the Vladimir Paznikov Russian Individual Ice Racing Championships at the DOSAAF motordrome in Novosibirsk. A participant services his motorcycle in a garage.

21.12.2014#2547007

Children ride in a horse-drawn carriage near Veliky Novgorod's Kremlin.

21.12.2013#2341065

December 21, 2012. Russian President Vladimir Putin speaks at the news conference during the EU-Russia Summit in Brussels.

21.12.2012#1321553

Participants in the "Invasion of Ded Moroz's" on a street in Krasnodar.

21.12.2012#1321301

Honor guard at the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier in Alexander Garden.

21.12.2011#1007442

The Izvestia Cup Ice Hockey International Tournament. USSR vs.Sweden match. A face-off. Centre -Andrey Khomutov of the USSR national team.

21.12.1980#847267

Palace of Sport of Central Lenin stadium (currently called Luzhniki stadium). 1986 World and European ice hockey championship. Capitan of USSR ice hockey team Vyacheslav Fetisov with a prize.

21.12.1986#835228

Student of Emergency Ministry's schools at a showpiece of the exhibition dedicated to 20th anniversary of Russia's Emergency Ministry.

21.12.2010#829571

CSKA Palace of Sports. 29th International Ice Hockey Tournament for the Izvestiya Prize-96 (16-21 December 1996). Honoring Russian ice hockey veterans.

21.12.1996#818212

The 28th Moscow Izvestia Cup International tournament. Russian national hockey team' captain Ilya Byakin demonstrating the 1995 Izvestia Cup.

21.12.1995#818085

Participants of a meeting at Moscow Plekhanov Institute of People'sLibe Economy devoted to the 10th anniversary of the foundation of the National Liberation Front of South Vietnam.

21.12.1970#781415

Laying flowers and wreaths to Iosif Stalin's grave at the Kremlin wall on his 130th birthday

21.12.2009#535276

The celebrated Russian clown Yury Kuklachyov, People's Artist of the Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic.

21.12.1974#535118

Joint Soviet-French crew of the Soyuz TM-7 spacecraft accepting traditional gifts of Kazakhstan people - national clothes.

21.12.1988#439997

Cosmonaut Musa Khiramovich Manarov exiting Soyuz TM-7 descent vehicle.

21.12.1988#424142

Motorists rally in Russia's Yekaterinburg to protest the car import tariffs increase.

21.12.2008#365404

Soyuz-FG rocket vehicle carrying cargo transport spaceship Progress M-62 has been moved from the integration house to the launch set-up from which it is to take off on December 23.

21.12.2007#177142

The world's most renowned tenor Luciano Pavarotti gives his last concert on the stage pf the Grand Kremlin Palace in Moscow, thus beginning his fare-well tour about the European cities.

21.12.2003#154412

French Astronaut Jean-Loup Chretien has landed 180 km from Dzhezkazgan, Kazakhstan, after returning from Mir orbiter together with Soyuz-TM-7 space crew.

21.12.1988#143469

Emergency Situations Ministry holds exercise near Ostankino TV tower.

21.12.2006#141141

The Russian team after winning the 33rd Moscow international ice hockey tournament

21.12.2000#94884

60th USSR establishment anniversary gala concert. Performers on the Kremlin Palace of Congresses stage

21.12.1982#87649

A tank pulling infantrymen on skis during military exercises in the Siberian military district.

21.12.1974#42933

Valery Shustov, a press photographer, in Yakutia.

21.12.1967#42175

A hardening group in an open swimming-pool

21.12.1972#42083

Turners of an electric machine-building plant reading the Pravda daily

21.12.1972#42081

Minsk winter-swimmers sunbathing on the snow

21.12.1972#42084

Surgeon Nikolai Burdenko watching a film record of his operation.

21.12.1936#40320

Viktor Sonin, a sculptor from the Grekov's military artist studio, works on Vladimir Lenin bas-relief.

21.12.1969#39906

Soviet Foreign Minister Andrei Gromyko (left) and Norwegian Minister of Foreign affairs Knut Frydenlund (right) meeting at the aerodrome.

21.12.1980#34967

A frontier squad of the Far East frontier district gets out of a helicopter.

21.12.1984#20929

Alexander Shirvindt, Distinguished Actor of the R.S.F.S.R., conducting the New Year auction of Gzhel artists' paintings.

21.12.1987#11606

Academician Andrei Kolmogorov is getting ready to deliver a lecture in the Moscow State University Physics and Mathematics School.

21.12.1983#4756