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Anton Chekhov with actors of the Moscow Art Theatre, 1899

Writer Leo Tolstoi tells his grandchildren Sonya and Ilya a fairytale, 1909

The Romanov royal family, 1913

Worl War I, western front, 1914

City transport of pre-revolutionary Russia. A sleeping horse-cab driver, 1910

Homeless children playing cards on the street, 1918

Vladimir Lenin delivering a speech at the Sverdlov Square during a parade of troops on their way to the Polish front, 1920

Civil war. Fighters of the First cavalry army of Budyonny at a rally, 1920

First electric lighting bulb, 1925

Street children in a pioneer's column at a demonstarion on May 1 (Labor Day), 1927

Writer Maxim Gorky at the radio lab in Nizhny Novgorod, 1928

Children in a kindergarten drawing a poster to celebrate the 12th anniversary of the October revolution, 1929

Delegates of the All-Union Congress of Soviets are heading to the congress on a Dobrolyot company's plane, 1929

Originator of contemporary cosmonautics Konstantin Tsiolkovsky, 1930

The first testing Moscow subway train making a test drive from the Komsomolskaya station to the Sokolniki station, 1934

A parade on May 1 (Labor Day) in Moscow, 1932

Tractor driver Praskovya Angelina, 1933

Central Park of Culture and Leisure. A two-headed eagle taken off from the Kremlin tower, and one of the four stars installed on the Kremlin towers in 1935

A gymnasts' parade on Red Square, 1936. On the Lenin's Mausoleum tribune (L-R): V. Molotov, N. Khrushchev, Iosif Stalin and other officials

Continuous flight Moscow - North Pole - USA, 1937

The arrival of North Pole conquerors Papanin, Shirshov, Krenkel and Fyodorov in Moscow. The cars are driving the Kirov Street under a rain of greeting leaflets, 1938

Construction of the Big Channel of Fergana, 1939

Moscovites hearing the message about Germany's attack on USSR, 1941

Women with children at the Mayakovskaya subway station during an air alert, 1941

Great Patriotic War, 1942

Meeting of Soviet and American soldiers on the Elbe, 1945

The Yalta Conference on February 11, 1945. British Prime Minister Winston Churchill, US President Franklin D. Roosevelt and General of the USSR Iosif Stalin before one of the sessions. Standing: British Foreign Secretary Anthony Eden, US Secretary of State Edward Stettinius and Public Commisioner for Foreign Affairs of the USSR Vyacheslav Molotov

Victory Banner over Berlin, 1945

Young constructors of the Dnieper Hydroelectric Station, 1947

Pioneers' summer in Crimea, 1950s

At the Moscow mini-car plant, 1950s

Farewell event before sending people to virgin soil, 1955

Performance in the areas of clearing, 1950s. Performance of solo dancer of the Leningrad Theater of Opera and Ballet named after S. M. Kirov, A. Smirnova, at the field camp of the tractor brigade

VI International Festival of Youth and Students in Moscow, 1957. British delegation during the festival parade

Stalingrad. The construction of Volga Hydroelectrostation named after V.I. Lenin. Aerial ropeway and pedestrial bridge over Volga, 1957

Academician Alexander Bakulev during a surgery operation in the Chest Surgery Institute of the Medical Science Academy of the USSR, 1957

Trowler "Valery Chkalov", 1959

Graduates of Moscow schools at Red Square, 1961

II International Moscow Film Festival. Italian actress Gina Lollobrigida kissing Soviet cosmonaut Yuri Gagarin, 1961

City of Gorky. Construction of a bridge over the Oka River, 1961

Krasnodar Krai. Grain crop harvesting, 1961

Krasnoyarsk Krai. A helicopter brings hunters to the hunting area, 1962

Nikita Khrushchev at his countryhouse in Zavidovo with a delegation from Czechoslovakia, 1963

Yamalo-Nenets Autonomous Region. A deer rig, 1964

First woman cosmonaut Valentina Tereshkova (C) after landing, 1963

Moscow. Clients of a beauty shop, 1963

Krasnoyarsk Krai. Young constructors at work, 1964

Yakutia SSR. Woman reindeer-breeder, 1965

Alpinists climbing the Engilchek Glacier near the Merzbacher Lake, 1966

Moscow. A lesson at the choreography school, 1967

Moscow. Clown Oleg Popov, 1968

Vilnius. Young fathers with their children outdoors, 1969

Welcoming the first train at the Kolomenskaya subway station, 1969

Working model of the Lunokhod-2 moon rover at a testing range, 1973

Festive illumination at Kalininsky Avenue, 1976

Dancer of the Bolshoi Theater Maya Plisetskaya playing Odetta in Swan Lake ballet by Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky, 1976

CPSU Central Committee Secretary General Leonid Ilyich Brezhnev hunting in Moscow region, 1977

Poet, singer and actor Vladimir Vysotsky performing in Yaroslavl, 1979

The city of Kostomuksha, 1980

Festive closing ceremony of the XXII Summer Olympic Games at the Central stadium named after V. I. Lenin in Moscow, 1980

On a border-guarding ship, 1981

Part of the Urengoy - Uzhgorod gas pipeline in Tambov, 1982

Yakutia SSR. Opening of the bridge over the Lena River on the Baikal-Amur mainline construction, 1984

Chernobyl NPP. Construction of a case over the fourth energy unit, 1986

Rostov region. Women protesting against non-payment of pensions and poverty in the city of Shakhty, 1988

Mikhail Gorbachev, Ronald Reagan and George Bush in the admiral's house on Governors Island, 1988

Rally in Baku, 1989

MP Andrei Sakharov at the I Congress of Public Deputies of the USSR, 1989

Withdrawal of Soviet troops from Afghanistan, 1989. A column of an airborne unit is crossing the border

Chairman of the Supreme Council of RSFSR Boris Yeltsin and USSR President Mikhail Gorbachev at the VI Congress of Public Deputies of the USSR, 1990

Soviet Union icebreaker, 1990

White House, Moscow, October 4, 1993

Nobe Prize winner Alexander Solzhenitsyn with son Yermolai travelling from Vladivostok to Moscow, 1994

Open concert devoted to the 100th anniversary of Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky. Conductor Mstislav Rostropovich, 1997

Symbols of the past on the scrapyard of history, 1998