Soloist dancer Yekaterina Tikhonova performs the Mongolian Figurine dance during the rehearsal of the Tango "Del Plata" concert at the Tchaikovsky Concert Hall, Moscow.15.05.2018#5501698
May 15, 2018. Russian President Vladimir Putin drives a Kamaz truck on the newly opened motor road section of the Kerch Strait (Crimean) Bridge.15.05.2018#5501338
From left: Russian national team player Sergei Plotnikov, and Latvia's players Teodors Blugers, Kaspars Daugavins at the IIHF World Championship 2017 group stage match between Russia and Latvia.15.05.2017#3099737
May 15, 2017. Russian President Vladimir Putin before the welcome ceremony by Chinese President Xi Jinping for the heads of the delegations participating in the Belt and Road Forum, at the Yanqi Lake International Convention Center.15.05.2017#3098901
Participants in a rally marking the fifth anniversary of the 15-M protest movement (Indignados), in Madrid.15.05.2016#2849115
PBC CSKA's Aaron Jackson during the award ceremony following the Euroleague Basketball Final Four final match between PBC CSKA Moscow (Russia) and BC Fenerbahçe Istanbul (Turkey).15.05.2016#2848336
Zenit's goalkeeper Vyacheslav Malafeyev after the Russian Football Premier League's Round 29 match between Zenit St. Petersburg and Lokomotiv Moscow.15.05.2016#2848280
Participants in the Believe in Yourself Marathon in Kazan. This year's event is dedicated to HIV prevention. Back: Soyembika Tower of the Kazan Kremlin, left, and the Qolsarif Mosque.15.05.2016#2847679
Cellist Mstislav Rostropovich performs in the Grand Hall of the Tchaikovsky Moscow Conservatory during the Young Performers Competition, 1947.15.05.1947#2780241
Artyom Belov (Espada) and Alina Shteinberg (street dancer) in a scene fron the ballet Don Quixote during the opening of the 28th Rudolf Nureyev International Festival of Classical Ballet.15.05.2015#2625886
CSKA's head coach Leonid Slutsky celebrates his team's victory at the Russian Premiere League championship's 30th round match between PFC CSKA Moscow and FC Lokomotiv Moscow.15.05.2014#2430149
A gala show performed at the flame of the 27th Summer Universiade 2013 installed on Pimenov Square in Novosibirsk.15.05.2013#1469000
President of the Chechen Republic Ramzan Kadyrov, left, and Kuwaiti Quranic nasheeds reciter Mishari Rashid after his recitation in Grozny.15.05.2012#1123785
Dealing with the consequences of the Chernobyl accident. Protivodozhdevaya defense. Meteorological airplane"AN-30" loads containers.15.05.1986#1102041
The troops of the Limited Soviet Contingent returning home from Afghanistan. First meetings at home.15.05.1988#877290
Soviet and Russian poet Bella (Izabella) Akhmadulina (1937-2010), left, and Soviet and Russian ballet dancer, actress, People's Artist of the USSR Maya Plisetskaya, center.15.05.1985#849192
Secondary Special School No. 4 in the Oktyabrsky district. School children singing in English.15.05.1978#839424
Russia. A physical training lesson for children with scoliosis at Moscow's specialized boarding school No. 76.15.05.1979#826106
Participants of the 4th Soviet Afro-Asian People's Solidarity Conference toured fields of Zavety Ilyicha sovkhoz (Khachmassky district, Azerbaijan SSR).15.05.1976#825820
"Studio of the old photographer". Design-engineer, photographer and writer Vladimir Lashkov.15.05.2004#794978
Russian speakers in Estoinia staging a protest rally against the latest legislative acts of the Supreme Council of Estonia aimed at breaking up relations with the USSR.15.05.1990#793992
The unusual Ball Fountain is a place to make a wish: one only has to touch the stone ball with his or her palm and set it spinning. A public garden in Ostrovsky Square in St Petersburg.15.05.2003#776625
Academician Dmitry Skobeltsyn (USSR Academy of Sciences) presents a medal and diploma of winner of the International Lenin Prize for Strengthening Peace Among Peoples to the Nigerian journalist and public man Peter Ayodele Curtis Joseph.22.04.1966#730999
Members of the crew of the Swedish Dragon squadron arrived in the USSR at the invitation of the USSR Air Force.15.05.1972#700262
A rally under the slogan 'The Baltic way' on the Town Hall Square in Tallinn, Estonia. Active days of the Baltic Assembly of informal organizations of Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania.15.05.1989#698020
Bakiev family's house in Teyit village. The house was burnt down on May 15 early morning during riots in Jalal-Abad.15.05.2010#664813
Actress Lyubov Sokolova receives the Russian Film Actors Guild award for outstanding contribution to profession at the 7th Sozvezdiye International Film Festival.15.05.1995#634050
Settler from a village to the city of Magnitogorsk Viktor Kalmykov. Photo of 1930. Reproduction.15.05.1930#619919
From left: Alexei Mishin, coach if Russian figure skater Yevgeny Plushenko, famous Soviet figure skater and coach Yelena Vodorezova and prominent Russian figure skating coach Tatyana Tarasova, at World Championships in Moscow.15.05.2005#596538
Explorers at the North Pole-27 Station meeting the icebreaker "Sibir." A days-long high latitude expedition on the nuclear powered icebreaker "Sibir."15.05.1987#505370
Lecturer of Moscow Planetarium shows the orbit of the fourth satellite of the Sputnik series.15.05.1960#469767
Residents of Moscow reading TASS report of the launch of a third Soviet satellite in the Vechernyaya Moskva daily.15.05.1958#469746
Celebrations of the 118th anniversary of Mikhail Bulgakov's birthday in his museum in Moscow's 10 Bolshaya Sadovaya Street.15.05.2009#394828
The 14th international exhibition EXPOCOMM-2002 in Moscow. Nearly 800 participants from Russia, the United States, Germany, South Korea, the Commonwealth of Independent States and the Baltic republics show the latest achievements in information technology and telecommunications.15.05.2002#356913
A production engineer at the sterilization workshop of the Temryuk canned-fish factory in Russia's Krasnodar Territory.15.05.1959#351550
Fans greeted the Zenit soccer team at the Petersburgsky sports and concert center, where the UEFA Cup winners showed the award to an enthusiastic gathering.15.05.2008#312655
King Juan Carlos I of Spain and Queen Sofia at the Russian Museum following their official visit to Leningrad.15.05.1984#141927
Joseph Stalin, general secretary of the CPSU Central Committee, speaking at a session in the Column Hall of the Trade Unions, celebrating the commission of the first Moscow metro line14.05.1935#55929
Attending a lecture in the oldest classroom, the Anatomy Rotunda, at Tartu State University15.05.1977#51641
A post-graduate student from Sudan defending her thesis at the U.S.S.R. Academy of Sciences' Africa Institute.20.06.1974#35147
Ex-companions from a bomber crew, Hero of the USSR, pilot Marina Chechneva, left, engineer, Lieut. Col. Yekaterina Oksentyuk, center, and aircraft weapons engineer Nina Karaseva meet by the Bolshoi Theater.15.05.1970#30335