Players struggle for a ball during the Russian Premier-League soccer match between Rostov and Spartak Moscow, in Rostov-on-Don, Russia.04.04.2021#6507097
Referee Nikita Vilyugin separates Bogdan Kiselevich, left, from Ska's Artyom Shvets-Rogovoi during the Kontinental Hockey League ice hockey match between CSKA Moscow and SKA Saint Petersburg, in Moscow, Russia.04.04.2021#6506746
Fireworks illuminate the sky over Victory Park on Moscow's Poklonnaya Hill marking the 75th anniversary of the liberation of Bratislava from Nazi invaders, in Moscow, Russia.04.04.2020#6213969
Angry Parents' March in Riga against Latvian President Raimonds Vejonis's decision to declare a law on Latvian as the only language of instruction in schools.04.04.2018#5469464
Angry Parents' March in Riga against Latvian President Raimonds Vejonis's decision to declare a law on Latvian as the only language of instruction in schools.04.04.2018#5469459
Ksenia Rappoport as Gertrude and Danila Kozlovsky as Hamlet in a scene from Hamlet at the Golden Mask festival, at the Pyotr Fomenko Workshop Theater in Moscow.04.04.2017#3065607
A woman at the Tekhnologichesky Institut metro station in St. Petersburg where a bomb exploded on a train.04.04.2017#3065300
Fighters of a special ops unit of the Chechen Republic's Ministry of the Interior during a drill near the North Pole.04.04.2016#2827201
A two-month-old brown bear cub in the apartment of Olga Shchetinina, in Blagoveshchensk. The cub was left at the Ostrov Spaseniya animal shelter and later taken home by Shchetinina.04.04.2016#2819291
Nationals of Russia and other countries evacuated from Yemen leave the plane after arrival in Moscow.04.04.2015#2600196
A scene from the Princess Turandot play staged at the State Academic Vakhtangov Theater. Nikolai Gritsenko as Tartaglia, Yuri Yakovlev as Pantalone, Mikhail Ulyanov as Brighella, and Ernst Zorin as Truffaldino.04.04.1963#2563015
Ilze Liepa sings the song "Meeting" set to the music of Michel Legrand at a gala evening dedicated to the 30th anniversary of her creative work in the Oktyabrsky Grand Concert Hall in St. Petersburg.04.04.2014#2408093
Russian Industry and Trade Minister Denis Manturov, 2nd left, Venezuelan Science and Technology Minister Jorge Arreaza, center, and Venezuelan Foreign Minister Elías Jaua, right, visit the Hugo Chavez memorial in Caracas.04.04.2013#1435791
Russia's Denis Lebedev after he defeated Shawn Cox of Barbados in the fight for the WBA Champion title during the "Star Ring" show.04.04.2012#1084641
Director of the Moscow Institute of Emergency Children's Surgery and Traumatology Leonid Roshal, head of RKK Energia Vitaly Lopota and Nobel Prize in Physics in 2000 Jaures Alferov (left to right) at launch site No. 1 at Baikonur Cosmodrome, where a Soyuz-FG booster rocket was joined with the manned Soyuz TMA-21 spacecraft.04.04.2011#896521
Extraordinary and plenipotentiary ambassador of the Republic of Rwanda to the USSR J. Kananura and First Secretary of the Estonian Communist Party Central Committee, USSR Supreme Soviet Deputy Chairman Johannes Kabin, left to right, exchanging credentials. The Moscow Kremlin.04.04.1980#864104
Chairman of the Communist Party of Australia Richard Dixon among delegates to the 23rd Congress of the Soviet Communist Party at the Kremlin Palace of Congresses.04.04.1966#707252
From left: Vladimir Malyshkov, head of consumer market and services department in Moscow's government, Deputy Prime Minister, Agriculture Minister of Russian Alexei Gordeyev, Governor of the Moscow Region, Deputy of the Russian State Duma Boris Gromov and Chairman of Belaya Dacha's Supervisory Board Viktor Semyonov during the opening ceremony of the Belaya Dacha Market vegetables and fruit distribution center in Kotelniki. April 4, 2002.04.04.2002#638894
First Secretary of the Polish United Workers' Party laid a wreath at Piskariovskoye Memorial Cemetery. 24th CPSU Congress.04.04.1971#631425
Citizens of sieged Leningrad in Nevsky Prospekt. The Great Patriotic War of 1941-1945. The State Museum of the History of Leningrad. Copy.04.04.1942#601555
Visiting Soviet Prime Minister Aleksei Kosygin at the SKF engineering works in Goeteborg, Sweden04.04.1973#599565
The celebrated lyric tenor Ivan Kozlovsky (1900-1993), People's Artist of the Soviet Union, performing at a gala night in the Column Hall of the House of Unions dedicated to the 60th anniversary of the foundation of the Mikhailovskoye Estate museum.04.04.1982#478909
The rally of supporters of Lithuania's independence and its secession from the USSR arranged by the Lithuanian "Sajudis" political movement. Posters call for a dialog between Moscow and Lithuania.04.04.1990#444430
Georgian President Eduard Shevardnadze, left, at a summit of the Black Sea Economic Cooperation Organization in Yalta. Photo courtesy of Nino Meliya.04.04.1998#443563
Supporters of Young Russia political movement rallying outside the U.S. embassy in Moscow to protest NATO extension on the day of the alliance's 50th anniversary.04.04.2009#385105
From left: St. Petersburg Deputy Governor Sergei Tarasov and Jiang Xiaoyu, executive vice president of the Beijing Olympics Organizing Committee meeting the Olympic flame at Pulkovo Airport.04.04.2008#304892
The Correspondences program of the National Center for Contemporary Arts, Moscow, included the exhibition Number as Image in 2003 - an arrangement of visual artefacts inspired by Kazimir Malevich's "Black Square", three-dimensional installations of suprematist virtual objects and digital images. Alexander Pankin, one of the artists who stood at the cradle of the Russian Neo-Avantgarde in the 1960s, at the exhibition opening gala04.04.2003#177600
Workers of the Russian Ministry of Emergency Situations distribute humanitarian aid to people in Grozny. 04.04.2000#173214
Governor of the Primorye Territory Sergei Darkin, State Duma deputy Vasily Usoltsev, First Deputy Prime Minister Sergei Ivanov and CEO of Progress Yury Denisenko visiting Arsenyev-based Sazykin Progress Central Aircrraft Design Bureau.04.04.2007#149212
Teacher and composer Dmitry Shostakovich with students of Moscow Tchaikovsky Conservatory at a composition class.04.04.1943#157610
A protest against the recent flawed parliamentary elections at the building of Verkhovna Rada (parliament) of Ukraine.04.04.2006#125285
Miss World, Peruvian Maria Julia Mantilla Garcia (left) and Russian Beauty Tatiana Sidorchuk (right) at a press conference in RIA Novosti04.04.2005#115695
International grand master Tigran Petrosyan resting at the 50th USSR chess championship.04.04.1983#56169
Staff workers of the Ivanovo Machine-Tool Plant assembling the IR-1600MF4 processing center.01.01.1985#51009
The 100,000th К-700 produced by the Kirov factory, Leningrad (renamed St. Petersburg). 04.04.1975#35807
General Secretary of the CPSU Central Committee Leonid Brezhnev embracing Fidel Castro, Cuba's President, during his visit to Moscow.04.04.1977#27496
Alla Pugacheva (center) among Italian participants of a television concert San-Remo - Moscow.04.04.1986#22912
Inscription on the wall of 'Asmaral' stadium - 'Mama, I'm sorry. I was killed because I loved my Motherland!'. Memorial Day of October 1993 victims.04.04.1994#21329
