Gold medalist Russia’s Evgeny Rylov wearing a protective face mask poses during an awarding ceremony after the men’s 200m backstroke final swimming competition at the European Aquatics Championships in Budapest, Hungary.22.05.2021#6552891
A master works on a sculpture during preparations for the opening of the sand sculpture festival in St. Petersburg.22.05.2018#5508702
Metropolitan Platon of Feodosia and Kerch blesses the Crimean Bridge. He conducted the ceremony from the sail catamaran MERI II during the Around Crimea research and educational expedition.22.05.2018#5508522
Goznak Director General Arkady Trachuk demonstrates a memorable banknote of the Bank of Russia issued for the 2018 FIFA World Cup at a news conference in Moscow.22.05.2018#5508004
Head of the Center for Study and Conservation of Marine Mammals of Fresh Water Provider St. Petersburg Vodokanal Vyacheslav Alekseyev releases Kroshik the baby seal into Lake Ladoga from Valaam Island.22.05.2017#3107749
May 22, 2017. Russian Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev during the welcome ceremony by Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan, left, for the heads of the delegations from the member countries of the Organization of the Black Sea Cooperation (BSEC).22.05.2017#3106791
Worshipers stand in line to venerate a reliquary containing a fragment of the relics of St. Nicholas the Wonderworker in the Cathedral of Christ the Savior.22.05.2017#3106732
Sweden's team at the awards ceremony at the 2017 IIHF World Championship in Cologne.22.05.2017#3106631
The Russian team player Alexander Ovechkin after the victory in the 2016 IIHF World Championship bronze medal match between the Russian and US national teams.22.05.2016#2854000
Nina Sublatti (Georgia) at the final rehearsal of the Eurovision Song Contest 2015 in Vienna.22.05.2015#2629982
Russian super-heavyweight boxer Alexander Povetkin who won a WBC Silver title fight against Cuban boxer Mike Perez.22.05.2015#2629936
Russian boxer Rakhim Chakhkiev, left, who won an IBO cruiserweight title fight against US boxer Junior Anthony Wright.22.05.2015#2629855
An 80-year-old resident of the village of Semyonovka, near Slaviansk, by her ruined house after shelling by the Ukrainian army.22.05.2014#2434783
School leavers attend an assembly during the Farewell Bell ceremony in Chita's School No. 9.22.05.2013#1474309
CSKA's players and coaches with Russia's Cup after the victory in the 2010-11 Russian Football Premier League final match between FC CSKA (Moscow) and FC Alania (Vladikavkaz).22.05.2011#913773
Supporters of the People's Assembly blocking the traffic near the building of the Public TV of Georgia in central Tbilisi.22.05.2011#913699
From left: Boris Yeltsin (1931-2007), Soviet economist and Russian politician Gavriil Popov and Russian cellist and conductor Mstislav Rostropovich (1927-2007) at a political rally in Luzhniki.22.05.1989#861789
General Secretary of the CPSU CC Mikhail Gorbachev, right, and Prime Minister of the Republic of India Rajiv Gandhi after signing the Agreement on the main lines of economical, trade and scientific-technical collaboration between the USSR and Republic of India for the period up to 2000 and the Agreement of economical and technical collaboration between the two countries. Kremlin.22.05.1985#762732
Departure of Leonid Brezhnev, General Secretary of the Central Committee of CPSU, member of the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet of the USSR from German Federal Republic, Köln/Bonn airdrome.22.05.1973#735021
Delegates to the 4th Congress of the Soviet Writers prior to a sitting in the Grand Kremlin Palace. 1967.22.05.1967#726036
A participant attending the meeting staged by the Russian Federation of Car Owners and the Blue Bucket Community at Moscow's Taras Shevchenko embankment to protest against amendments to the mandatory car insurance regulations and the Law on Public Gatherings.22.05.2010#671551
Chairman of the USSR Supreme Soviet’s Presidium Nikolai Podgorny, left, meeting U.S. President Richard Nixon, foreground second left. Vnukovo Airport.22.05.1972#580695
Soviet Foreign Minister Andrei Gromyko, right, with his British counterpart Michael Stewart at the Sheremetyevo Airport.22.05.1968#540311
Mikheil Saakashvili, center, at a rally in Tbilisi. November 22-23. Photo courtesy of Nino Meliya.22.05.2003#462732
Italian Prime Minister Giulio Andreotti arrived in Moscow May 21 on a brief working visit at the invitation of Mikhail Gorbachev, Secretary General of the CPSU Central Committee and President of the USSR. 22 May Mikhail Gorbachev and Giulio Andreotti took part in the unveiling of a famous Italian monumentalist Arnaldo Pomodoro's sculpture "Sun Disk" set at the Youth Palace in Moscow. The monument is a gift from Italian Prime Minister to the President of the USSR and the Soviet capital.22.05.1991#419026
A vagabond looking for food at a trash dump in Russia's Kemerovo Region. A smoking chimney in the background supplements this sad picture of a human and environmental disaster.22.05.1994#369574
Berlin rally supporters and opponents of US foreign policy, organized by the Party of Democratic Socialism on the eve of US President George Bush's visit to Germany. Slogans "We don't want your wars, Mr.President!" are up in the air.22.05.2002#358420
Indian Prime Minister and Foreign Minister [since 1947] Jawaharlal Nehru [1889-1964] showing the first, 1936, edition of his auto-biography to daughter Indira. Still from documentary "Nehru" shot by Soviet and Indian film-makers. Script by V. Zimyanin, Y. Aldokhin and S. Benegal. Music by V. Bhatia and A. Kozlov. Produced by Tsentrnauchfilm Studio [USSR] and Films Division with the involvement of V/O Sovinfilm foreign-trade association.22.05.1984#313839
Muscovites reading a newspaper with an announcement from the TASS news agency on the launch of the third Earth-orbiting satellite. 1958. 22.05.1958#152479
Sergeant V.Zasekin (center) being examined at a field hospital after Chernobyl accident. 22.05.1986#77649
New Yorkers signing a petition to the U.S. administration demanding the immediate opening of a second front during World War Two. 22.05.1942#75610
Voronezh school students signing an agreement stipulating the achievement of better results by the 20th anniversary of the Young Communist League.22.05.1938#49639
President of the People's Democratic Republic of Vietnam Ho Chi Minh engrafting a Tree of Friendship in the city of Sochi, Black Sea resort. 22.05.1959#24653
A cleaning point, 10 kilometers from Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant. Cars radiation measuring and decontamination. 22.05.1986#24630
