An employee of the National Guard of Russia stands on guard as military vehicles drive along Tverskaya street before a night rehearsal for the military parade marking the 76th anniversary of the victory over Nazi Germany in World War II, in Moscow, Russia.04.05.2021#6535784
WWII veteran Captain 1st Rank Luka Kuzin, right, accepts congratulations during a personal parade for him in the courtyard of his residence in Sevastopol.04.05.2020#6234053
Russian Ka-52 Alligator attack helicopters fly in formation during the rehearsal for the Victory Day parade in Moscow, Russia. A dome of St. Basil's Cathedral is in the centre.04.05.2020#6233932
Captain of the Volgo-Don 185 bulk freighter Andrei Chibisov pilots a bulk freighter convoy through an ice barrier on the way along the Volga-Baltic Waterway.04.05.2018#5490448
Golan 400 multiple launch rocket systems during fighting in a street near the former Yarmouk camp for Palestinian refugees in the southern outskirts of Damascus.04.05.2018#5489881
Visitors of the Other Shores exhibition at the Manege central exhibition hall in St. Petersburg.04.05.2018#5489780
Russia's Yevgeny Kuznetsov and Ilya Zakharov performing synchronized 3m-springboard dives at the final leg of the FINA Diving World Series 2018 in Kazan.04.05.2018#5489757
The drill to evacuate an aircraft plane that overran the runway in an emergency landing at Khrabrovo International Airport in Kaliningrad.04.05.2018#5489600
Sukhoi Su-25BM Frogfoot fighters during the rehearsal of the Victory Parade flyovers in Moscow.04.05.2018#5489111
A view of the lock of the dam and the St. Petersburg Ring Road off Kotlin Island (Finnish: Retusaari, Swedish: Reitskär) in the Gulf of Finland, Baltic Sea.04.05.2017#3091074
Russian national team player Sergei Mozyakin during a training at Lanxess Arena before the World Hockey Championship.04.05.2017#3090901
Cleaning a stone lion sculpture on the fence of the Museum of Russian Modern History.04.05.2017#3090872
A Moscow metro employee and Star Wars antagonist Darth Vader on the Star Wars day at the ticket hall area of the Moscow metro's Lermontovsky Prospekt station.04.05.2017#3090676
Russian Knights aerobatic team after a rehearsal of the Victory Day parade air part.04.05.2017#3090660
Russian servicemen near a Sukhoi Su-30 fighter aircraft at the Khmeimim airbase in Syria.04.05.2016#2839886
Servicemen of the Moscow Garrison Orchestra during a trial show ahead of a military parade in Moscow.04.05.2016#2838308
The An-148 aircraft of the Russian Emergency Ministry, carrying nationals of Russia, Belarus and Nepal evacuated from quake-stricken Nepal, is seen at Moscow's Domodedovo Airport.04.05.2015#2618101
Lugansk residents bring flowers at the city administration building to mourn the victims of the military clashes in Odessa.04.05.2014#2422366
Patriarch of Moscow and All Russia Kirill with the Holy Fire during the Easter service at Christ the Savior Cathedral in Moscow.04.05.2013#1462854
Cadets in the Moscow M.A. Sholokhov Cossack cadet corps remove the banners from the busts at the opening ceremony of a gallery of busts of War of 1812 heroes as part of the "Alley of Russian Glory" on Poklonnaya Hill in Moscow.04.05.2012#1111855
Population is evacuated from the 30-km exclusion zone around the Chernobyl nuclear power plant. Kiev region residents say farewell to each other and their houses, 1986.04.05.1986#1101741
World Chess Federation president Kirsan Ilyumzhinov, right, and Tatarstan's state counselor Mintimer Shaimiyev attend the time capsule laying ceremony for the International Chess Academy building in Kazan.04.05.2011#907012
Anti communist rally participants in front of the Presidium of the Supreme Council of the Latvian SSR after the adoption of the "Declaration of the Re-Institution of the State Independence of the Latvian Republic".04.05.1990#891768
Moscow, Russia. A lesson at specialized boarding school No. 76 for children with scoliosis.04.05.1979#877248
State delegation of the Republic of Nicaragua visiting the USSR. Chairman of the USSR Council of Ministers Nikolai Tikhonov, first row, left, and head of the arrived delegation member of the Joint National Administration of Sandinista National Liberation Front, coordinator of Managing Council of Nicaraguan National Revival Government Daniel Ortega, first row, right.04.05.1982#870081
Mikhail Ivanovich Kalinin in the presidium of the 1st congress of the Uzbek Communist Party. The city of Bukhara. 1925. A reproduction of the photograph. The archive of the Museum of the history of the peoples of Uzbekistan (now the State History Museum of the Academy of Sciences of the Republic of Uzbekistan).06.02.1925#864772
The Chairman of the Council of Ministers of the USSR Alexei Kosygin, second right, talking with journalists after a press conference held for the Soviet and foreign journalists in connection with the invasion of the American troops into Cambodia.04.05.1970#779706
First Secretary of the United Party of Cuban Socialist Revolution (PURSC) Fidel Castro, fifth from right, visiting the Mamayev Kurgan Memorial in Volgograd.03.05.1963#677928
Lyaisan Utyasheva, member of the Russian national rhythmic gymnastics team, performing with batons at the Russian Rhythmic Gymnastics Championships.04.05.2001#667714
(Foreground, from left) Estonian President Toomas Hendrik Ilves offering welcome to his Finnish counterpart Tarja Halonen during her official visit to Estonia.04.05.2010#643120
Space Training Center named after Yuri Gagarin. "Soyuz-14" spaceship commander Pavel Popovich is in centrifuge before medical test. Flight engineer Yuri Artyukhin is watching him.04.05.1974#622829
The Great Patriotic War of 1941 - 1945. A burning German plane shot down by the pilots of the Chkalov Squadron. May 1943.04.05.1943#616026
Nikolai Patolichev, USSR Foreign Trade Minister (left), during a meeting with the French Minister of Economy and Finance Valéry Giscard d'Estaing (right).04.05.1972#605313
Novosti Press Agency's Board Deputy Chairman G. Fedyashin, right, presenting Marshal of the Soviet Union G. Zhukov's book "Reminiscences and Reflections" to the President of the Czechoslovak Socialist Republic Ludvik Svoboda, left.04.05.1969#582925
FRG Inspector-General Dieter Wellershoff, visiting the USSR on invitation of the USSR General Staff Head Army General Mikhail Moiseyev, inspects the MIG-29 war plane at the Kubinka air force base.04.05.1989#475128
Consecration of Easter cakes in the Voskresensky New Jerusalem Stauropegial Monastery on Easter.04.05.2002#459152
Belgium's Queen Elizabeth at the piano which Peter Chaykovsky played. At the Chaykovsky House-Museum in Klin.04.05.1962#418149
Fire fighters from the Emergencies Ministry's Novgorod department extinguishing fire at the wood-working plant in Veliky Novgorod.04.05.2009#391281
A show of rope-walkers directed by the People's Artist of the RSFSR Volzhansky in Moscow circus.04.05.1971#377908
The Great Patriotic War of 1941-1945. The Cavalry Corps of Lieutenant General Nikolai Oslikovsky meeting troops of the 3rd US Army on the River Elbe in May 1945.04.05.1945#364389
A mussel catcher in the Teriberskaya Bay of the Barents Sea, in the Russian northwest04.05.2008#310452
Armenian Grandmaster Levon Aronian, FIDE World Cup winner, to the left, and absolute world champion Vladimir Kramnik having a match in Yerevan, the Armenian capital.04.05.2007#152328
Indian Prime Minister Lal Bahadur Shastri in the Kzyl Uzbekistan collective farm during his visit to the USSR. Uzbekistan, 1965. 04.05.1965#148506
Reindeer Breeder Day celebrations in the Russian Far North. Reindeer race across the snow-clad tundra in Gydy, Nentsi village on the Gyda Peninsula east coast 04.05.2006#127224
The Russkie Vityazi (Russian Knights) and Strizhi (Martins) squadrons make a training flight at the Kubinka airfield04.05.2005#116495
Nikita Khrushchev (left), first secretary of the Communist party of Ukraine, and Vladimir Mishchenko, the Vinnitsa region's Communist party leader, talking on collective farm field04.05.1940#73633
Members of the soldier mothers' committee and the parents whose children died while being on the army service, picketing the building of the State Duma (Russian parliament)04.05.1994#60346
Romanian President Ion Iliesku (left) and USSR President Mikhail Gorbachev after the signing of Soviet-Romanian documents in the Kremlin. 04.05.1991#43678
U.S. veterans of WWII Charles Forster (right) and Lumir Sabrt (left) talk near a ruined mill.04.05.1985#33375
Chairman of the U.S.S.R. Council of Ministers Alexei Kosygin (left) talking with Yasser Arafat (right), chairman of the Palestine Liberation Organization. 04.05.1975#31466
Members of the Military History Club dressed as Russian commissioned officers check the documents of a nobleman descendent. Meeting of the Union of the Russian noble families descendents. 04.05.1999#21302
