Large-scale military drills and exhibitions, high profile meetings, tragic incidents, spectacular sport events and ceremonies as well as vibrant images of ordinary life - through the eyes of TASS photographers.
TASS pictures of the year 2015
The most impressive photographs of 2015 in this photo gallery by TASS
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Fireworks go off over a Christmas tree during a celebration marking Father Frost's birthday at his residence in the town of Veliky Ustyug, November 18, 2015
© Vladimir Smirnov/TASS Tourists seen in the oasis in the Taklamakan Desert, China, July 21, 2015
© Yuri Smityuk/TASS A tank biathlon semi-final competition at Alabino Firing Range at the 2015 Army Games, organised by Russian Defense Ministry, August 13 2015
© Sergei Bobylev/TASS Wreckage at the site where a Russian Airbus A321 crashed in Egypt's Sinai Peninsul as it traveled from Sharm el-Sheikh to St Petersburg, killing all 217 passengers and 7 crew members on board, November 1, 2015
© Maxim Grigoryev/TASS A portrait of Russian politician Boris Nemtsov murdered in central Moscow, March 1, 2015
© Yevgeny Kurskov/TASS Italy's Elisa Di Francisca and Russia's Inna Deriglazova fight in the women's team foil match at the 2015 FIE World Fencing Championships, July 19, 2015
© Artyom Korotayev/TASS People celebrating Maslenitsa, Russian folk holiday, marking the end of winter and the arrival of spring, February 15, 2015
© Vladimir Smirnov/TASS Helicopter aerobatic team of the Indian Air Force 'Sarang display their skills during at Aero India 2015, February 18, 2015
© Marina Lystseva/TASS Margarita Mamun of Russia competing to win silver in the women's individual ball final at the 2015 European Rhythmic Gymnastics Championships, May 3, 2015
© Viktor Drachev/TASS Rescue workers of the Russian emergency situations ministry participate in demonstration field training exercises at a range in Moscow region, May 20, 2015
© Sergei Fadeichev/TASS A woman looking out of a bus window covered with frost in Novosibirsk, January 25, 2015
© Yevgeny Kurskov/TASS People carrying portraits of their relatives who fought in World War II, seen at the Immortal Regiment march in Vladivostok, May 9, 2015
© Yuri Smityuk/TASS Belarus' President Alexander Lukashenko, Russia's President Vladimir Putin, Germany's Chancellor Angela Merkel, France's President Francois Hollande and Ukraine's President Petro Poroshenko posing for a group photograph during Normandy format Ukraine peace talks at the Palace of Independence in Minsk, February 11, 2015
© Viktor Drachev/TASS Russian priests participating in a religious procession from the Dormition Cathedral of the Moscow Kremlin to the Vysokopetrovsky Monastery, September 6, 2015
© Sergei Bobylev/TASS An aerial view of a cable-stayed bridge across the Eastern Bosphorus strait to Russky Island, off Far Eastern city of Vladivostok, May 31, 2015
© Yuri Smityuk/TASS The Frecce Tricolori aerobatic display team of the Italian Aeronautica Militare performing at the 2015 Dubai Airshow, November 12, 2015
© Marina Lystseva/TASS Michal Navratil of the Czech Republic dressed as Superman competing in the men's 27m high diving final at the 16th FINA World Championships, August 5, 2015
© Artyom Korotayev/TASS Livadia mountain, Shkotovsky district in Primorye region, October 15, 2015
© Yuri Smityuk/TASS A person on a bridge across a snow-covered pond in Moscow park, December 12, 2015
© Anton Novoderezhkin/TASS Transaero Boeing 747-400 with a face of an Amur tiger painted on its nose cone at Vladivostok International Airport, September 26, 2015
© Yuri Smityuk/TASS A view of the Artemovskaya Central Heating and Power Plant, a branch of the Far Eastern Generating Company in Primorye region, November 6, 2015
© Yuri Smityuk/TASS Fireworks go off over Baku’s Olympic Stadium during the opening ceremony of the first ever European Games in Azerbaijan, June 28, 2015
© Mikhail Japaridze/TASS Blacksmith Alexander Lysyakov minting a souvenir coin bearing an image of Russia's President Vladimir Putin and reading "Everything will be alright", at his workshop, February 20, 2015
© Donat Sorokin/TASS A shell bursts in the sky over the city of Donetsk, Eastern Ukraine, February 5, 2015
© Alexander Sidorov/TASS Ai-Petri peak in the Crimean Mountains, August 15, 2015
© Vladimir Smirnov/TASS Firefighters of the aerial forest patrol by a helicopter during an emergency response drill at Mochishe aerodrome, in Novosibirsk, March 26, 2015
© Yevgeny Kurskov/TASS ISS Expedition 45/46 main crew member, Russian cosmonaut Sergei Volkov seen ahead of the launch of a Soyuz FG rocket booster with the Soyuz TMA-18M spacecraft at the Baikonur Cosmodrome, September 2
© Sergei Savostyanov/TASS Landing of a descent capsule of Russia's Soyuz TMA-14M spacecraft carrying ISS Expedition 41/42 crew members, Russian cosmonauts Yelena Serova, Alexander Samokutyayev and NASA astronaut Barry Wilmore, March 12
© Donat Sorokin/TASS The River Ayov breaks its banks and causes a flood in Bolshie Uki village, Omsk region, April 23
© Dmitry Feoktistov/TASS A worker standing among turkeys bred at the Trud poultry farm in the village in Leningrad region, February 10, 2015
© Ruslan Shamukov/TASS An anti-Maidan rally marking the one year anniversary of pro-EU protests in Ukraine that started in Kiev's Independence Square (widely known as Maidan), February 24, 2015
© Stanislav Krasilnikov/TASS Russia's Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov, US Secretary of State John Kerry, and Saudi Arabia's Foreign Minister Adel al-Jubeir seen during a trilateral meeting in Doha, Qatar, August 3, 2015
© Alexander Shcherbak/TASS FIFA President Joseph Blatter seen during an exclusive interview with the TASS news agency, October 28, 2015
© Mikhail Japaridze/TASS An aerial view of Muslims praying outside the Moscow Cathedral Mosque during Eid al-Adha, also known as the Feast of the Sacrifice, September 24, 2015
© Natalia Garnelis/TASS Russian businessman and farmer German Sterligov with farm owners who have decided to run for parliament
© Artyom Geodakyan/TASS Participants dressed as Red Army soldiers marching through Moscow's Red Square during a military parade. The event commemorated the 74th anniversary of the historical 1941 Red Square Parade when Red Army troops were leaving for the front lines of World War II, November 7, 2015
© Stanislav Krasilnikov/TASS A Mi-8AMTSh transport assault helicopter firing free flight rockets during tactical flight training exercises, September 24, 2015
© Yuri Smityuk/TASS Race winner British racing driver Lewis Carl Davidson Hamilton representing Mercedes AMG and Russia's president Vladimir Putin during the podium ceremony for the 2015 Formula 1 Russian Grand Prix at the Sochi Autodrom racing circuit in Olympic Park, October 11, 2015
© Mikhail Metzel/TASS A Syrian government army soldier with a national flag, October 27, 2015
© Valery Sharifulin/TASS Orthodox priest reading the last rites during a ceremony at Donetsk Airport where the bodies of Ukrainian government servicemen were handed over to Kiev's representatives, January 22, 2015
© Nikolai Muravyov/TASS Dam clearing works at the Sayano–Shushenskaya hydroelectric power station on the Yenisei River, November 3, 2015
© Marina Lystseva/TASS Russia's Anastasia Shchavlinskaya competing against Ukraine's Alla Belinska during a 69kg event at the Open Cup of European Nations, Alrosa Cup 2015, Freestyle, Greco-Roman and Women's Wrestling tournament in Moscow, November 7, 2015
© Sergei Savostyanov/TASS The Moskva icebreaker on the Neva River seen during an icebreakers festival marking the 70th anniversary of the Victory over Nazi Germany in World War II and the deeds of the WWII Arctic convoys which sailed from the United Kingdom, Iceland, and North America to northern ports in the Soviet Union, May 2, 2015
© Ruslan Shamukov/TASS People harvesting cranberries at the Polesskie Zhuraviny enterprise in Belarus, October 30, 2015
© Viktor Drachev/TASS The Northern Lights, or the Aurora Borealis, shining bright over a forest in Murmansk region, March 13, 2015
© Lev Fedoseyev/TASS