The aerial view shows the Black Sea coast following an oil spill, outside Novorossiysk, in Russia. The oil spill was registered on August 7, when oil was pumped onto the Greek oil tanker Minerva Symphony from a loading device of the Caspian Pipeline Consortium.

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The night sky in Krasnodar Territory lit up by the Perseid meteor shower.

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From left: Janis Smedins (Latvia) and Alison Cerutti (Brazil) during the FIVB Beach Volleyball World Tour Moscow final match between the national teams of Latvia and Brazil.

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From left: Robin Faisz, Darius Beer and Dominik Muckenhausen (Germany) during the European Motoball Championship third place match between the national teams of Germany and Belarus in Kovrov, Russia.

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A participant in the Fontanka-SUP 2018 international festival on Fontanka River in St. Petersburg.

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Sculptor and artist Dashi Namdakov in his native village of Ukurik in the Trans-Baikal Territory.

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Participants in the Russian Paragliding Championship in Yutsa, Stavropol Territory.

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Usain Bolt (Jamaica) during the men's final 4x100 relay heat at the 2017 IAAF World Championships in London.

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Usain Bolt (Jamaica) who got injured during the men's final 4x100 relay heat at the 2017 IAAF World Championships in London.

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Participants of the theatralized performance, Fifth Empire, at an annual international bike-show Life-Saving Ark arranged by the Night Wolves bike club in Sevastopol.

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From left: Russia's Artur Akhmatkhuzin, Alexei Cheremisinov and Timur Safin after the final match against France of the men's team foil fencing tournament at the XXXI Summer Olympics.

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Anastasia Voinova and Darya Shmelyova (Russia) during the finals of the team sprint event of the women's track cycling competition at the XXXI Summer Olympics.

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The 2016 Perseid meteor shower.

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Diletta Carli (Italy) during the women's 200m medley at the Fina World Cup stage in Moscow.

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A memorial event on the Serafimovskoye Cemetery in St. Petersburg on the 15th anniversary of the Kursk nuclear submarine disaster. Kursk sank in the Barents Sea on August 12, 2000 during a military exercise of the Northern Fleet.

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Flash mob #Free Andrew in support of the Russia Today photograper Andrei Stenin who has got lost in Ukraine.

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The long-range passenger plane, Airbus A350 XWB, seen at the Sheremetyevo airport while being on its around the world testing tour.

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During the final round of the men's hammer throw competitions at the 2013 IAAF World Championships in Moscow.

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Germany's Christina Schwanitz seen in the shot put finals at the World Athletics Championshipin Moscow.

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Athletes during the women's 100m sprint semifinal at the 2013 IAAF World Championships in Moscow.

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Areas flooded by the Bureya River in the Amur Region.

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Athletes in the men's 3,000m steeplechase preliminary round at the IAAF World Championships in Athletics 2013 in Moscow.

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Actresses shake hands with athletes at the closing ceremony of the XXX Summer Olympic games in the Olympic stadium in London.

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Mayor of Rio de Janeiro Eduardo Paes during the ceremonial handover of the Olympic flag to the next Olympic capital at the closing ceremony of the 30th Summer Olympic Games in London's Olympic Stadium.

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Before the closing ceremony of the 30th Summer Olympic Games in London's Olympic Stadium.

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The Italian aerobatics team Frecce Tricolori performs at Zhukovsky Airfield, Moscow Region, during an air show to mark the 100th anniversary of the Russian Air Force.

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A detachment of Don Cossacks on Poklonnaya Hill, Moscow ahead of a horse march on Paris to mark the 200th anniversary of Russia's victory in the Patriotic War of 2012.

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Performers in the opening ceremony of the 26th Summer Universiade at the stadium in the "Shenzhen Bay" sport complex.

12.08.2011#943700

International rock festival in Luzhniki, Moscow

12.08.1989#871030

Baikal-Amur Mainline (BAM).

12.08.1984#849742

The playbill of the Soviet-Japanese movie "Moscow My Love", showing at the Ambassador cinema in Addis Ababa.

07.07.1976#800941

Residents of Dmitrovsk-Orlovsky welcoming soldiers of Soviet Army after The Battle of Kursk. The Great Patriotic War, 1943.

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The U.S. and Soviet Presidents George H. W. Bush, right, foreground, and Mikhail Gorbachev, left, foreground, respectively taking a ride around Camp-David after an official meeting.

12.08.1990#501740

An item on display at the All-Union Agricultural Exhibition in Moscow.

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Villagers.

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The 1958 GA-22 Soviet racing car. One of the first cars made especially for the circuit race.

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Jubilant Muscovites in Red Square after the breakthrough joint orbital flight of the Vostok 3 and Vostok 4 spacecraft

12.08.1962#62858

Geologists having dinner.

12.08.1979#49182

East Pakistani refugees cross the river Kapotakakha towards the Indian village of Boira.

12.08.1971#49047

Snowmobile for passenger transportation.

12.08.1968#45865

Top-up in the air, the most complicated move in flying technique.

12.08.1988#21009

A restorer applies a special compound to the Homeland-Mother monument to protect it from the elements.

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A member of a student team from Moscow Energy Institute building a power transmission line pylon on the virgin lands.

12.08.1960#18015

Restorers work on the dome coating renovation of Yekaterininsky cathedral.

12.08.1988#17871

Fishermen getting dainty fish in a tundra lake.

03.08.1991#11628

Soviet sailors firing mortar to back up the landing operation on the Korean coast.

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