International Olympic Committee (IOC) President Thomas Bach, in center, makes a speech during the closing ceremony of the Tokyo 2020 Olympic Games at the Olympic Stadium in Tokyo, Japan.08.08.2021#6622775
The Olympic Flame cauldron is seen during the closing ceremony of the Tokyo 2020 Olympic Games at the Olympic Stadium in Tokyo, Japan.08.08.2021#6622713
Flag-bearer Abdulrashid Sadulaev, of the Russian Olympic Committee team, carries a flag during the closing ceremony of the Tokyo 2020 Olympic Games at the Olympic Stadium in Tokyo, Japan.08.08.2021#6622661
Members of Russian Olympic Committee's team react after winning silver medals in the rhythmic gymnastics group all-around final at the Tokyo 2020 Olympic Games at Ariake Gymnastics Centre in Tokyo, Japan.08.08.2021#6622437
Arthur Abele (Germany), winner of the gold medal, after the men's decathlon 1500 m event at the 2018 European Athletics Championships in Berlin, Germany.08.08.2018#5606835
A tank of Mongolian Army's team in the semifinals of the tank biathlon competition of International Army Games 2018 at Alabino training field in the Moscow Region.08.08.2018#5606535
Renaud Lavillenie (France) during the men's pole vault finals at the 2017 IAAF World Championships in London.08.08.2017#3168321
A Russian Army tank crew takes part in semifinal relay race during tank biathlon competitions of the 2017 International Army Games at the Alabino training center near Moscow.08.08.2017#3167909
Francisco Barretto Junior (Brazil) performs his parallel bars routine during the men’s team all-around artistic gymnastics competition at the XXXI Summer Olympics.08.08.2016#2907708
Sofya Velikaya (Russia), left, and Yana Yegoryan (Russia) after the final match of the women's individual saber fencing competition against at the XXXI Summer Olympics.08.08.2016#2907561
Sofya Velikaya (Russia), left, and Yana Yegoryan (Russia) during the finals of the women's individual saber fencing tournament at the XXXI Summer Olympics.08.08.2016#2907515
Chinese soldiers who came second in the Open Water engineering troops competition in Murom.08.08.2015#2676818
A cat in Dolzhansky border crossing point on the border of Ukraine's Lugansk Region with Russia.taken over by Lugansk People's Republic rebels08.08.2014#2474284
Andrew Jones (USA) during a qualifying 27m platform event at the FINA High Diving World Cup in Kazan.08.08.2014#2474116
Yelizaveta Glinka, head of the Fair Aid foundation, helps carry a girl out of the Donetsk train at Moscow's Kursky Railway Station. Yelizaveta "Doctor Liza" Glinka has brought nine critically ill children from eastern Ukraine to Russia.08.08.2014#2473841
Russia's Alexey Denisenko after the match with Korean Lee Dae-hoon in the taekwondo 58 kg competitions at the XXX Summer Olympics in London.08.08.2012#1207233
Russia's Ilya Shtokalov in the 1,000m canoe sprint final of the 30th Summer Olympic Games in London. The athlete came eighth.08.08.2012#1206820
Berkut special forces arresting supporters of the Ukraine's ex-prime minister Yulia Tymoshenko on Kiev's Khreshchatyk in front of Pechersky Court. The court refused to set Tymoshenko free.08.08.2011#942248
The inscription on a fence of the town of Krustpils liberated form nazi invaders reads: "The regiment of Colonel Rudoy was the first to break into Krustpils. Glory to the brave soldiers!" The Great Patriotic War (1941-1945).08.08.1944#887714
Students at naval schools taking part in the festive ceremony held in front of the monument "300th Anniversary of the Russian Navy."08.08.2003#794212
The 1987 Moscow International Peace Marathon. Athlete Bert Holmes from the Great Britain.08.08.1987#787830
Trucks before the start of the round five of the FIA European Truck Racing Championship at the Smolensk Ring race track.08.08.2010#737251
Odessa residents brace for defense. A 1942 photo. The Great Patriotic War of 1941-45.01.08.1941#607033
Camels at a watering place. Devali village in northeastern Turkmenistan. Karakum Desert.08.08.1984#462868
The F1 Powerboat World Championship's Grand Prix of Russia race kicking off on the Neva River in downtown St. Petersburg.08.08.2009#422724
Weightlifter Leonid Ivanovich Zhabotinsky at the Third Spartakiad of the Peoples of the USSR gained 530 points in triathlon and came second.08.08.1963#416158
August 1988. Cameraman filming RSD-10 Pioneer [SS-20 Saber] missiles prior to their destruction by explosion at Kapustin Yar firing range in Russia's Astrakhan Region.08.08.1988#392274
Honor guard at the Eternal Flame at the Piskaryovskoye memorial cemetery in Leningrad (now St. Petersburg)08.08.1981#349201
Andrei Kirilenko, flag carrier of the Russian Olympic team, during the Beijing Olympics opening ceremony at the Bird's Nest stadium.08.08.2008#329012
The opening ceremony of the Beijing Olympic Games at the Bird's Nest stadium on August 8, 2008.08.08.2008#329007
The Olympic Flag, left, and the flag of the People's Republic of China at the opening ceremony of the Beijing Olympic Games at the Bird's Nest stadium on August 8, 2008.08.08.2008#328994
Athletes parade during the closing ceremony of the Second USSR Games at the Lenin central stadium, Moscow.16.08.1959#323063
A Soviet motor column crossing the Greater Hingan Range in August 1945 to rout Japan's Kwantung Army in one of the last operations of World War Two 09.08.1945#171532
Young artists, participants in the Children Paint project, on Tsvetnoi Boulevard. An open-air exhibition of children's paintings will take place on Moscow's boulevards August 8 - September 15. These are works by children of Moscow office workers and children from orphanages. The project is supported by the Family and Youth Policy Department, Moscow's Education Department and the Commission for Social Partnership and Entrepreneurs Union’s Social Programs under the Moscow mayor and the city's government. 08.08.2007#161833
Miner team going up after shift at the Gluboky mine, Priargunsky Industrial Mining and Chemical Association.08.08.2006#132446
Goalkeeper Lev Yashin of Dynamo Moscow holding the U.S.S.R. Cup after the final meet between Dynamo Moscow and Dynamo Tbilisi . 08.08.1970#58561
Red Army officer teaching Muscovites to demilitarize German incendiary bombs during the Great Patriotic War (1941-1945). 08.08.1941#42401
Flags of different countries whose scientists have come to work in Antarctica are hoisted above the Mirny observatory08.08.1962#31953
A mother and daughter walking near an old drinking-water well decorated with stone lions on Kopernik Street in Lvov. 08.08.1985#22462
Master of Sport Vladimir Trubnikov, leader of a climbing restoration, treats the "Native Land - Mother" monument with a special solution to protect it from the elements.21.06.1986#18956
A tourist looking at a rectangular shale plate in the center of Anikiev Island in Barents Sea - stone annals of seafaring.08.08.1992#18888
