The descent module of Vostok 1 spacecraft, which delivered the first cosmonaut, Yury Gagarin to Earth, on display at the Cosmonautics and Aviation Center of the renovated Cosmos pavilion, the National Exhibition of Economic Achievements (VDNKh).

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Participants of a rally against the military operations in Donbass outside the OSCE building in Lugansk.

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Prince of the Netherlands Constantijn Christof Frederik Aschwin before the official 2018 World Press Photo awards ceremony in Amsterdam.

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Young woman in national costumes at the Krasnoyarsk Economic Forum.

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People in the streets in the Western part of Mosul liberated from Islamic State fighters (IS is an organisation banned in Russia) by Iraq State army.

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Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov, left, and U.S. Secretary of State Rex Tillerson during the joint news conference following their talks in Moscow.

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A banner with the portrait of Yuri Gagarin before the Kontinental Hockey League's Gagarin Cup playoff final match between SKA St. Petersburg and Metallurg Magnitogorsk.

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Military veteran Gennady Loshkaryov addresses the ceremony to unveil a monument to Dmitry Karbyshev, a Hero of the Soviet Union, Lieutenant General of Engineer Corps, on the premises of the separate marine engineering battalion of the Black Sea Fleet in Yevpatoriya.

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Monk from the Trinity-Sergius Lavra Hegumen Hilarion, right, during the completion of the chrism-preparation rite at the Smaller Cathedral of the Donskoi Monastery of the Mother of God.

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Building the Barneo expedition drift ice camp near the North Pole in the Arctic.

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Raise Your Head flash mob marking the 55th anniversary of Yuri Gagarin's spaceflight in Moscow.

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Balloons for the Raise Your Head flash mob marking the 55th anniversary of Yuri Gagarin's spaceflight, at the Kazan National Research Technical University.

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Moscow. Detail of monument "Conquerors of Space" in Moscow near the main entrance to the National Exhibition of Economic Achievements.

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Believers during Easter service in the Church of the Transfiguration in the village of Bronnitsa, Novgorod region.

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Ultra-radical football fans rally in Kharkov to support the Euromaidan.

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Students' and youth rally "For affordable, charge-free quality higher education, against ill-conceived reforms", at the House of the Government of the Russian Federation.

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Valentina Tereshkova, first woman cosmonaut and Deputy Chairman of the State Duma Committee on International Affairs, at a State Duma plenary session.

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Military operations on the territory of the Chechen Republic and North Caucasus frontiers. Women of Grozny.

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From left: Lev Belousov, CEO of the Russian International Olympic University RIOU and Russian Deputy Prime Minister Aleksandr Zhukov, president of the Russian Olympic Committee, at the signing ceremony.

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Aleksei Leonov, a member of the first detachment of cosmonauts, and Yury Gagarin's widow Valentina seen in the State Kremlin Palace, attending the gala on the occasion of 50 years since Yury Gagarin's spaceflight.

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The 7th National Film Festival. April 12-19, 1974. Participants in the film festival Uzbek actresses Tamara Shakiyeva, Aida Yunusova and film producer Ali Khamrayev.

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Pupils of the Albatross Children's Marine Center at the ceremony opening the 2002 navigation season on the Moscow River.

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Participants of the International Coordination Group for Implementation of the Cospas-Sarsat Satellite Search and Rescue System Project. In the Space Pavilion, VDNKh. From left: Eg. Anderson (Great Britain), G. Brachet and D. Ludwig (France).

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Participants of the 7th International conference of restorers from Socialist countries planting a "Tree of friendship" at the central square of Samarkand.

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Chairman of the International Lenin Peace Prize Committee, Academician Dmitry Vladimirovich Skobeltsin is awarding Indian political and public figure Aruna Asaf Ali the International Lenin Prize for Strengthening Peace Among Peoples.

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Lyudmila Turishcheva, Merited Master of Sports of the USSR (1970) and holder of the 1971 USSR artistic gymnastics cup. The Yubileiny sports palace in Leningrad.

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Chairman of the Presidium of the USSR Supreme Soviet Nikolai Podgorny, left, and Mexican President Luis Echeverría Alvarez, who arrived in the USSR on an official visit, walking past the guards of honor at the Vnukovo Airport in Moscow.

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Yuri Gagarin, Pilot-Cosmonaut of the USSR, Hero of the Soviet Union, in the presidium of a meeting dedicated to the first anniversary of the manned space flight.

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Young visitor at Andrey Kuzkin's exhibition "Levitation Heroes" at Stella Art Foundation, Mytnaya Street, Moscow. The sculptures presented by Andrey Kuzkin are made of breadcrumbs.

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From left: Soviet Premier Alexei Kosygin, General Secretary of the CPSU Leonid Brezhnev and cosmonaut Vladimir Komarov.

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The Great Patriotic War of 1941-45, The Black Sea Fleet. Fighter planes of the Red Banner aviation regiment in the sky over Sevastopol, 1944.

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Skydivers seen during an air show marking Cosmonautics Day at the Kubinka Airfield outside Moscow.

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From left: HC Ak Bars player Danis Zaripov and captain Alexei Morozov seen during the awards ceremony after the KHL final match against HC Lokomotiv Yaroslavl in Kazan. Ak Bars beat Lokomotiv 1-0, winning the Gagarin Cup.

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Famous singer Muslim Magomayev. April 2006.

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The daughter of Sergei Korolyov, Natalya, left, and the first woman cosmonaut, Valentina Tereshkova, laying flowers to the tombs of the founder of the Russian rocket engineering, Sergei Korolyov, and the first cosmonaut, Yuri Gagarin, near the Kremlin Wall on Astronautics Day.

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A radio meteorological station on Dikson Island in the Taimyr Autonomous Area in the Russian Arctic

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People's Artist of the USSR Martiros Saryan (center) at an American graphics exhibition in Yerevan, Armenia.

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Coal miners of Shakhty in the Rostov Region blocking key Russian railroads in protest against back wages

12.04.1998#185114

President Vladimir Putin visiting the Mozhaisky Military Space Academy in St.Petersburg to observe Russia's Kosmos rocket carrier model. Left: Valentina Matviyenko, the president's plenipotentiary in the Nother-West district.

12.04.2003#175278

Pakistani Prime Minister Shaukat Aziz meets Russian Prime Minister Mikhail Fradkov [center].

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Navy cadets prayed at the Church of Mother of God, Joy of All Who Sorrow, Icon before official events of their traditional assembly.

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Students of school No. 5 in Troitsk town outside Moscow during intellectual games.

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Soviet cosmonaut Yuri Gagarin.

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Pilots-Cosmonauts of the U.S.S.R. Valery Bykovsky (left) and Alexei Leonov (right) open memorial plaque on house of Yuri Gagarin's parents.

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Politburo member Eduard Shevardnadze (right) laying flowers to commemorate victims of a national movement rally in Government House Square on April 9, 1989.

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Prime Minister Viktor Chernomyrdin (left) meets with cosmonauts Alexander Viktorenko, Yelena Kondakova (second right) and Vladimir Polyakov (right).

12.04.1995#71758

Bolshoi ballerina Nina Timofeyeva (right) rehearsing with People's Artist of the U.S.S.R. Galina Ulanova (left).

12.04.1966#63065

Turbine of Power Unit 2 of the South Ukrainian nuclear power station.

11.05.1984#54320

Russian President Boris Yeltsin (left) presenting Pilot-Cosmonaut Anatoly Solovyov (right) with the People's Friendship order.

12.04.1993#50217

Soviet submachine gunners reach the firing position.

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President of the USSR Academy of Art Boris Ugarov (right) talks to the U.S. artist James Whiten (left) at the exhibition opening.

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General of the Army Ivan Shkadov at his desk.

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First tractors ploughing the Golodnaya Steppe in the Syrdarya region.

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Gorky and Murom railroaders built a division of armored trains on their own money. Thus, the army got a new unit, the 31st special Gorky division of armored trains.

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