A paratrooper of Avialesookhrana (Forest Aviation Guard) state airborne firefighting service works to extinguish a forest fire in the Khangalassky Ulus area south-west of Yakutsk, in Republic of Sakha (Yakutia), Russia.09.08.2021#6623554
Russian athletes go to Red Square to take part in the welcoming ceremony after returning from the Tokyo 2020 Olympic Games, in Moscow, Russia.09.08.2021#6623344
Lifting the Ilyushin Il-2 ground-attack plane dating back to the Great Patriotic War from the bottom of Lake Kulonga, the Murmansk Region.09.08.2018#5607194
Construction of a roadway bridge across the Volga in Dubna. The bridge will connect Dubna's river banks.09.08.2018#5607032
An Il-76MD plane before the third semi-final of the Tank Biathlon 2018 event held as part of the International Army Games at the Alabino training ground outside Moscow.09.08.2018#5606928
Servicemen of the Krasnodar newly launched diesel submarine upon arriving in Sevastopol.09.08.2017#3168785
Iran's, right, and Russia's service persons before the relay race, which is the final stage in the Seaborne Assault 2017 international competition held at Klerk training area of the Pacific Fleet. The Primorye Territory.09.08.2017#3168702
Tonia Couch and Lois Toulson (Great Britain) during the women's 10m platform synchronized diving at the XXXI Summer Olympics.09.08.2016#2908586
Aliya Mustafina (Russia) performs her uneven bars routine during the women's team all-around artistic gymnastics competition at the XXXI Summer Olympics.09.08.2016#2908538
Russian athletes, winners of the silver medals in the women's all-around artistic gymnastics competition at the XXXI Summer Olympics, during the medal ceremony. From left: Seda Tutkhalyan, Darya Spiridonova, Maria Paseka, Angelina Melnikova and Aliya Mustafina.09.08.2016#2908473
Personnel of the Russian Armed Forces, winners of the first place in the Engineering Formula competition for engineer corps in the Volgograd Region.09.08.2016#2908241
August 9, 2016. Russian President Vladimir Putin, right, and Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan at a news conference on the results of the Russian-Turkish talks in Constantine Palace.09.08.2016#2908195
International rugby tournament for the prize of the Socialist Industry newspaper. A match between Yugoslavia's "Nado Split" and Poland's SKRA. Moscow, August 1974.09.08.1974#2856067
Performances at the closing ceremony for the 2015 FINA World Championships in Kazan.09.08.2015#2677830
Lithuania's Rūta Meilutytė in the women's 50m breaststroke finals at the 16th FINA World Championships in Kazan.09.08.2015#2677520
A smokejumper from the Central Base for aerial forest protection "Avialesookhrana" inspects the site of wildfire in the Republic of Sakha (Yakutia) from a paraglider.09.08.2014#2475246
Consequences of wildfires in the Republic of Sakha (Yakutia) seen from a helicopter.09.08.2014#2475240
9 August 2014. Russian President Vladimir Putin, center, at the awards ceremony for participants in the Plotforma S-70 annual international combat sambo tournament. From left: Russian boxer Alexander Povetkin, Sochi Mayor Anatoly Pakhomov, Jean-Claude Killy, who served as chairman of the IOC Coordination Commission for the Sochi Games, and Russian Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev.09.08.2014#2474663
Athletes during the final heat of the men's 5000m Kayak 1 at the 2014 ICF Canoe Sprint World Сhampionships held on Grebnoi Canal in Krylatskoye.09.08.2014#2474594
A crew member from Belarus on a T-72B tank at the Tank Biathlon 2014 World Championships at a training center of the Second Guards Taman Motorized Rifle Division in the town of Alabino.09.08.2014#2474401
A gala marking the 60th birthday of one of the greatest goalkeepers of Soviet and world football, Lev Yashin. Mozambican-born Portuguese football player Eusébio (Eusébio da Silva Ferreira) congratulates Lev Yashin. Dynamo Palace of Sports.09.08.1989#2473112
Emergency rescuers evacuate residentseager to leave their homes and their dogs form the flooded village of Vladimirovka five kilometres far from Blagoveshchensk.09.08.2013#2289816
August 9, 2013. President Vladimir Putin after a farewell ceremony for Merited Judo Coach Anatoly Rakhlin at the Turbostroitel sports center in St. Petersrburg.09.08.2013#2260633
Russian athlete Natalya Vorobieva rejoices in victory in the final bout with Bulgarian athlete Stanka Zlateva Hristova in women's freestyle 72 kg wrestling competitions at the 2012 Olympic Games in London.09.08.2012#1208498
A woman protests against Madonna's concert at the Peterburgsky Concert Hall in St. Petersburg.09.08.2012#1208377
Forcing a special obstacle zone during a water exercise at Baikal. Russian MHA's internal troop divers train at the Severobaikalsk marine training center.09.08.2011#942607
Moscow taxi drivers participating in the action against the law regulating their business.09.08.2011#942380
August 9, 2010. Russian President Dmitry Medvedev speaking to residents and farmers of the village of Maly Shaplak.09.08.2010#737412
A page from the Agreement Banning Nuclear Weapon Tests in the Atmosphere, in Outer Space and Under Water with signatures of authorised persons.09.08.1963#726682
Left to right: S. Lyapin, Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs of the USSR, Y. Osman, Ambassador of the Republic Sudan to the USSR, and F. Jacobsen, Ambassador of the Kingdom of Norway to the USSR, after signing the Agreement Banning Nuclear Weapon Tests in the Atmosphere, in Outer Space and Under Water.09.08.1963#726680
Terek Grozny's coach Vyacheslav Grozny during a Russian Football Premier League round 17 match against Dynamo Moscow, which was beaten 0-1.09.08.2009#423034
Passenger ship entering canal lock near the Gorky hydropower plant, renamed the Nizhny Novgorod hydropower plant since 1991.09.08.1973#401503
August 9, 1996. Kremlin Palace of Congresses. Inauguration of the newly-elected President Boris Yeltsin.09.08.1996#349455
Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin meeting with Russian athletes in the Olympic village in Beijing. August 9, 2008.09.08.2008#329056
Activists from the Young Guard, Eurasian Youth Union, Young Russia movements and the Communist party protesting the Georgian authorities' military actions against South Ossetia outside the Georgian Embassy in Moscow.09.08.2008#329054
Merited Master of Sports and eight-time Soviet tennis champion Alexander Metreveli swings at the ball. 09.08.1974#141290
An explosives technician examines a contraption resembling an explosive device found attached to the door of the headquarters of the Belarusian Popular Front opposition party.09.08.2006#132464
Teacher and pupil at the piano: Dmitry Shostakovich, classic Soviet composer, right, with Azeri composer Kara Karayev, Moscow, 196809.08.1968#128309
Academician Ivan Pavlov, right, talks to Leon Orbeli before the 25th International Congress of Physiologists opening ceremony. Leningrad09.08.1935#90290
Residents of Moscow greeting pilot-cosmonaut German Titov at Vnukovo Airport after his flight on board the Vostok 2. 09.08.1961#68775
Muscovites at the demonstration meeting Pilot-Cosmonaut German Titov after his Vostok-2 mission success.09.08.1961#67211
Protective camouflage on the building of the Bolshoi Theater in the years of the Great Patriotic War (1941-1945). 09.08.1942#42402
Military correspondents of the army newspaper Zaschitnik Rodiny writing articles for a new issue.27.07.1941#23047
The "Trubnik" club yachts at the spot-check. The October Revolution Nikolopolsk Yuzhnotrubny Plant. 01.07.1985#22447
Berliners viewing the remaining fragment of the Berlin Wall painted by artist Dmitri Vrubel (Berlin, Germany).09.08.1990#20178
