Vsevolod Pudovkin, eminent Soviet film director and actor, right, on the shooting site01.07.1950#101455
People's Artist Vera Pashennaya (left) and People's Artist Igor Ilyinsky (right) in Ostrovsky's "A Profitable Position" staged at the Moscow Academic Maly Theater. 01.01.1949#100013
Sergei Zholus, an underwater swimming instructor, teaches his son Kolya (2.5 years) how to swim. 12.07.1979#80411
Viktor Kalmykov has come to the Magnitogorsk Iron-and-Steel Works construction site for employment01.11.1930#79760
A comic photo- writer Maxim Gorky (left) threatening singer Feodor Chaliapin (right) with a broom.01.07.1905#72938
Photo correspondents surround Ethiopian athlete Miruts Yifter, who won the 10,000-meter run during the Twenty-Second Summer Olympics in Moscow. 01.08.1980#61781
General Secretary of the Soviet Communist Party's Central Committee Mikhail Gorbachev speaking at the congress of people's deputies of the USSR25.05.1989#61690
General- secretary of the Soviet Communist Party central committee and Chairman of the U.S.S.R. Supreme Soviet Mikhail Gorbachev sitting on the panel of the 2nd Congress of People's Deputies of the U.S.S.R. 22.12.1989#61581
A Congolese in irons. Between 1884 and 1915 about 15 million people were transported out of Belgian Congo as slaves. 01.04.1915#55103
Mikhail Kalinin (right) with participants of Kazakhstan 15th anniversary celebrations.05.11.1935#55033
Boris Yeltsin after the third round of voting and approving him as chairman of the RSFSR Supreme Soviet.29.05.1990#52357
An alpinist restorer treating parts of the "Motherland Calls" sculpture with a protective agent.21.06.1986#50201