The Russian flag is raised during the opening ceremony of the Zapad-2021 joint Russian-Belarusian military exercises at the Obuz-Lesnovsky training ground in Belarus. Up to 200,000 military personnel, some 80 aircraft and helicopters, up to 15 ships and nearly 300 tanks will take part in the drills.09.09.2021#6647338
Servicemen march during "Rubezh-2021" joint military drills held by the Collective Rapid Response Forces of the Collective Security Treaty Organization member states, at the Edelweiss training ground, in Issyk-Kul region, Kyrgyzstan. Military personnel from Kazakhstan, Tajikistan, Russia and Kyrgyzstan gathered to take part in the drills.09.09.2021#6647172
Visitors in Moscow's Zaryadye Nature and Landscape Park. Middle ground: the Spasskaya Tower and St. Basil's Cathedral.09.09.2017#3190636
Participant in the super-final of Russian nationwide championship, Heroes Race, at the Sviyaga Hills resort city, Kazan.09.09.2017#3189620
Spartak head coach Massimo Carrera during the Russian Football Premier League's round 9 match between FC Spartak (Moscow) and FC Rubin (Kazan).09.09.2017#3189492
September 9, 2017. Russian President Vladimir Putin visits the Zaryadye landscape park in Moscow. Left: Moscow Mayor Sergei Sobyanin.09.09.2017#3189046
A woman next to the nuclear icebreaker "50 Years of the Victory" at the Geographic North Pole.16.07.2016#2932611
Servicemen train on a tactical trainer "Rubezh", manufactured by Logos", at the Army 2016 International Military and Technical Forum.09.09.2016#2932374
An athlete during a swimming race at the Russian Paralympic competitions in the Krugloye Ozero Olympic center.09.09.2016#2932353
Vladislav Barinov during the men's F37 category long jump event in athletics competitions at the Russian Paralympic competitions.09.09.2016#2932257
A Caspian Flotilla ship launches Kalibr missiles at the Kavkaz-2016 exercise. Maximum quality available (a screenshot from a video posted by the Russian Defense Ministry on its official YouTube channel).09.09.2016#2932203
A Russia airlines' Boeing 747-400 sporting a tiger livery at the Eleventh International Business Aviation Exhibition Jet Expo 2016 at Vnukovo airport Moscow.09.09.2016#2931912
Dancers of the Igor Moiseyev State Academic Folk Dance Ensemble perform at the opening of the 79th concert season dedicated to the 110th anniversary of choreographer Igor Moiseyev.09.09.2015#2696475
Participants of the Antiquity Day as part of the Crimean Military Historical Festival in Sevastopol.09.09.2014#2490964
Alexander Marchenko, an entrepreneur from the village of Cheryomushki, near his ship. Marchenko is building a replica of the Black Pearl pirate ship from the film "Pirates of the Caribbean", on the Yenisei River.09.09.2013#2281849
The Russian national football team at the awards ceremony after they won gold medals in the 7x7 football tournament at the 14th summer Paralympic games.09.09.2012#1234501
Visitor looks closely at the painting "Ecce Homo" (Behold Man) in the exhibition "Antonello da Messina. Masterpieces from the Sicily Museum" which opened at the Tretyakov Gallery.09.09.2011#956769
Residents of liberated Sofia greeting Red Army soldiers. The 1939-1945 WWII, the city of Sofia, Bulgaria. May 1945. Reproduction.09.09.1944#860468
Кorean schoolgirls during festivities to mark the proclamation of the republic. August 15, 194809.09.1948#767902
Celebrating the 25th anniversary of the socialist revolution in Bulgaria. A military parade in Sofia on September 9, 1969.09.09.1969#760043
Muslims during a festive prayer marking the end of the holy month of Ramadan (Eid ul-Fitr). The square in front of the Qolsharif Mosque.09.09.2010#755977
Soviet President Mikhail Gorbachev (2nd left) and Soviet first lady Raisa Gorbachyova (left) greeted by Finnish President Mauno Koivisto (4th right) and his wife at Helsinki airport upon their arrival to Finland.09.09.1990#689842
A ceremony unveiling the monument to singer and songwriter Vladimir Vysotsky in the city of Voronezh.09.09.2009#449309
Georgian President Eduard Shevardnadze, right, on a visit to Armenia. Photo courtesy of Nino Meliya.09.09.2001#448897
A scene from L.Minkus' ballet "Pakhita" at the opening of the Moscow International Ballet Festival "Grand Pas". Festival purpose is to show how ballet arts coryphaeuses combine their achievements with traditions of classical ballet.09.09.2002#380356
New artistic director of the Stanislavsky Drama Theater, People's Artist of Russia Alexander Galibin, right, at the theater company gathering.09.09.2008#339641
September 9, 2007. Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe [left], Canadian Prime Minister Stephen Harper [center] and Russian President Vladimir Putin [second from right] before a working luncheon in the Government House on the premises of the Royal Botanical Gardens in downtown Sydney. 09.09.2007#164996
Moscow trolley-bus drivers greet each other at the entrance to the third trolley-bus depot without leaving the cabin.09.09.1977#17223
Pilot-Cosmonaut Gagarin (right) and Nikolayev (center) during classes in the Hydraulics Laboratory of the Zhukovsky Air Force Academy.01.10.1964#15735
Leon Minkus' "Don Quixote" on at the Bolshoi Ballet. Leading dancers Natalya Bessmetrnova and Vladimir Tikhonov on stage.09.09.1970#10475
Nikolai Smirnov-Sokolsky (1898-1962), art director of the Moscow State Estrada Theater.09.09.1954#9891
Russian Deputy Culture Minister Tatyana Nikitina (right) and her husband, Sergei Nikitin, working on a new song. 09.09.1994#5801
Ivan Bilibin, Russian graphic and theater artist, at the sculptor Popova's studio with artists and tailors who made costumes and masks from his sketches for Igor Stravinsky's ballet "The Firebird." 09.09.1931#3621
Bolshoi ballet dancers Natalia Bessmertnova (left) and Nina Sorokina (right) outside the theater. 09.09.1963#3594
