Avangard's players celebrate the team's goal during the Kontinental Hockey League final ice hockey match between CSKA Moscow and Avangard Omsk, in Moscow, Russia. Avangard's Corban Knight, right.

26.04.2021#6528816

Koyashskoye Salt Lake in Crimea.

26.04.2018#5489102

Rehearsal of the military parade marking the 73rd anniversary of victory in the Great Patriotic War on Red Square in Moscow.

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A passer-by takes pictures of combat hardware before the rehearsal of the military parade on Red Square, devoted to the 73rd anniversary of the Victory in the Great Patriotic War.

26.04.2018#5485040

Vladimir Zhirinovsky, head of the Liberal Democratic Party's deputies, during the closing ceremony of the 40th Moscow International Film Festival.

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Before the start of the closing ceremony of the 40th Moscow International Film Festival.

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Ozeleneniye flower nursery in Moscow.

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Participants place candles to shape a radiation sign in memory of the victims of the Chernobyl disaster on Kiev's Mikhailovskaya Square on International Day of Radiation Accidents and Catastrophes.

26.04.2017#3084146

CSKA's Sergei Ignashevich, right, and Lokomotiv's Ari during the Russian Football Premier League's Round 25 match between CSKA Moscow and Lokomotiv Moscow.

26.04.2017#3084081

Russian tennis player Maria Sharapova during a training session at Porsche Arena.

26.04.2017#3083303

Lokomotiv-Kuban's Ryan Broekhoff, right, and Barcelona's Tomas Satoransky during the Euroleague Basketball's quarterfinal match between Lokomotiv-Kuban Krasnodar and Barcelona Basquet.

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Personnel at a rehearsal of military parade to mark the 71st anniversary of Victory in 1941-1945 Great Patriotic War on Palace Square in St. Petersburg.

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Painting a graffiti portrait of the Soviet Marshal Georgy Zhukov on a wall of a residential building as part of the project Heroes of the Russian Federation, in Saransk.

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Rescue paratroopers landing near the epicentre of a pretend forest fire in the Kochenesky district of the Novosibirsk Region.

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Members of the military-patriotic detachment "Veche" at a rally in memory of the 30th anniversary of the Chernobyl nuclear power station disaster, at the commemorative sign "To the Victims of Radiation Disasters" in Veliky Novgorod.

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The Sochi Autodrom is to host the Russian stage of the Formula One World Championship in Sochi.

26.04.2016#2832512

Baltic Fleet navy seals during their performance ahead of the Race of Heroes military-sports game marking the 70th anniversary of Victory in the Great Patriotic War, at the Khmelyovka military training center.

26.04.2015#2615628

Police officers by a checkpoint in the village of Dolina, Donetsk Region.

26.04.2014#2418142

RIA Novosti photo correspondent Sergey Guneyev's work, winner of the World Press Photo 1985 First Prize "The Golden Eye," on display at the exhibition of the World Press Photo Laureates from Russia and the Soviet Union in Amsterdam.

26.04.2013#1459048

A Soviet soldier, one of the liberators of Austria, with residents of the village of Lekengauz.

26.04.1945#1148115

Singer of the Scorpions band Klaus Meine performing in Crocus City Hall as part of a farewell tour.

26.04.2012#1105460

April 26, 2011. Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin, center, touring the A.P.Moller Maersk headquarters with A.P.Moller Maersk CEO Nils Smedegaard Andersen, right, acting as guide. At left is Danish Prime Minister Lars Lekke Rasmussen.

26.04.2011#904018

President of Poland Lech Wałęsa paying a friendly visit to Vilnius, the capital of Lithuania. President of Lithuania Algirdas Brazauskas and Lech Wałęsa, left, signing joint Lithuanian-Polish documents.

26.04.1994#874464

Russian President Boris Yeltsin's official visit to China.

26.04.1996#861856

Treating the Chernobyl Nuclear Plant site with a decontaminating solution.

26.04.1986#805903

A team of miners of a cleaning coal-face at the "Nagornaya" mine of the "Gidrougol" Production Association after a shift. Center is the team's leader Yegor Drozdetsky. Kemerovo Region. 1984.

26.04.1984#789600

Consequences of the earthquake that took place in Tashkent on 26 April 1966.

26.04.1966#725075

Spartak (Moscow) vs. Dynamo (Minsk) at the USSR championships in football of 1969. Kick in fall by Oleg Volokh, Minsk.

26.04.1969#687309

Rescuers with "Spitak" squad on the slopes of Aragats in Armenia.

26.04.2004#676710

Guards of honor at the grave of the USSR pilot-cosmonaut, twice Hero of the Soviet Union, colonel-engineer Vladimir Komarov. Necropolis at the Kremlin Wall on Red Square, Moscow.

26.04.1967#642655

During the opening of the Museum of Soviet Nations' Friendship on April 26, 1976.

26.04.1977#641622

The flag raising ceremony on the eve of second anniversary of the Saur (April) revolution in Afghanistan.

26.04.1980#641461

Soldiers on Manezhnaya Square taking part in the first rehearsal of the Victory Parade.

26.04.2010#637890

Institute for Bioorganic Chemistry named after Mikhail Shemyakin at the USSR Academy of Sciences (now Institute for Bioorganic Chemistry named after Academicians Mikhail Shemyakin and Yury Ovchinnikov at the Russian Academy of Sciences). Molecule model of rhodopsin, a substance providing eyesight.

26.04.1982#637575

Opening ceremony for the country`s first Islamic university in Kabul.

26.04.1988#637130

International crew of space ship "Soyuz-36" practicing landing operations in taiga. Cosmonaut-researcher of People's Republic of Hungary Bertalan Farkas and space ship commander, twice Hero of the Soviet Union Valery Kubasov (right).

26.04.1979#621671

A rally sympathising with the fighting people in Vietnam. A port in Vladivostok.

26.04.1972#573195

Bishop of Washington and San Francisco Basil (Rodzianko), Head of the pilgrim mission The Unquenchable Icon Lamp (right) and Father Berke (left).

26.04.1992#481871

Soap bubble flash mob, for the first time in Novosibirsk. The Siberian capital has become the tenth Russian town to pick up the tradition. leisure, youngsters

26.04.2009#389611

Patriarch of Moscow and all Russia Alexeiy II blessing believers in Moscow streets

26.04.1999#376300

A meeting-cum-concert in solidarity with the people of Israel organized by the Russian Jewish Congress at the Choral Synagogue in Moscow. It was attended by creative intelligentsia.

26.04.2002#361644

New Wave 08 Graffiti Festival dedicated to New Wave Heroes in Kolomenskaya Street Moscow.

26.04.2008#309315

On Leningrad's Nevsky Avenue during the German blockade. 1942.

26.04.1942#178397

Belarusian opposition stages protest "Path of Chernobyl" in Minsk to mark the 21st anniversary of the Chernobyl nuclear power plant disaster.

26.04.2007#151586

Opening of Russia's and East Europe's biggest oceanarium (4.700 square meters) in St.Petersburg's Admiralteisky district.

26.04.2006#126643

The action Fasten St.George Ribbon, timed to the 60th Victory anniversary, continues. RIA Novosti hosted a meeting between veterans of the Great Patriotic War (1941-1945) and young people.

26.04.2005#116319

Minsk residents marching through the city streets in support of Chernobyl victims.

26.04.1997#106109

Ukrainian parliament pickets demand that the U.S.S.R. Nuclear Energy Ministry pay back misspent 65 million rubles from Chernobyl relief donations.

26.04.1990#103764

The USSR People's Artist Irina Arkhipova.

26.04.2001#88184

Commissioner general of Congo national pioneer movement Gerard Bolansie (right) talking to composer Alexandra Pakhmutova (2nd left) and poet Nikolai Dobronravov (left).

26.04.1978#82389

The Soyuz TMA-2 standby American astronaut Michael Foale (second left) and cosmonaut Valentina Tereshkova (second left) on the Baikonur cosmondrome.

26.04.2003#68383

People's Artist of the U.S.S.R. Mikhail Zharov reading a story by Anton Chekhov.

26.04.1960#55089

WWII veterans welcoming each other during the celebrations of the 30th anniversary of liberating Lithuania from Nazis.

26.04.1974#47886

The USSR Foreign minister Andrei Gromyko (third from left) is meeting Finnish President Mauno Koivisto at the Leningradsky railway station.

26.04.1984#32497

Scientists dismantle a bio-satellite model after one of the final pre-launch preparation stages - Kosmos-1667 bio-satellite.

26.04.1985#14391

Young communists, the first builders of Komsomolsk-on-Amur.

14.06.1934#11906

"Diamond Arm". Leonid Gaidai, director. Yury Nikulin, left, and Stanislav Chekan on the shooting site.

26.04.1970#10523

The premiere of "Shylock" adapted from William Shakespeare's drama "The Merchant of Venice" and staged at the Et Cetera Theater with Alexander Kalyagin (left) as Shylock and Alexander Filippenko (right) as Antonio.

26.04.2000#5264