Athletes during the women's pursuit race at the 2017–18 Biathlon World Cup 2 in Hochfilzen, Austria.09.12.2017#3253571
Murmansk Region students during the ceremony of joining the Yunarmy movement aboard the Fleet Admiral of the Soviet Union Kuznetsov heavy aircraft carrying cruiser.09.12.2017#3253422
An orca performs at "The Lost World" New Year show at the Mosquarium Center of Oceonography and Marine Biology at the VDNKh Exhibition Center, Moscow.09.12.2016#2991384
Alla Loboda and Pavel Drozd of Russia perform their free dance at the Junior Grand Prix of Figure Skating final in Marseille.09.12.2016#2991057
Actors in a scene from Alla Dymovskaya's play The Dissident directed by Gleb Cherepanov at the Central Academic Theater of the Russian Army.09.12.2016#2991001
Buducnost's head coach Igor Jovovic, left, and player Bojan Subotić during the Eurocup Basketball match between UNICS Kazan and Buducnost Podgorica.09.12.2015#2754508
Mezzo-soprano Nina Afanasyeva, winner of the fourth prize at the Glinka All-Union Contest of Vocalists. Moscow, December 1962.09.12.1962#2558958
The public art Christmas tree shaped like an ice cream cone that was created by the NOVOYE bureau architects and set up near the entrance to Gorky Park.09.12.2014#2541141
The wall erected by the military around President Mohamed Morsi's residence al-Ittihadiya in Cairo.09.12.2012#1310676
Russian team player Anna Sidorova in the final match for 3rd place in the European Curling Championship between Russia and Denmark, taking place in the Megasport arena.09.12.2011#1002027
Party meeting of N detachment during the Great Patriotic War of 1941-1945. Photographer Galina Sanko. Reproduction.09.01.1942#891800
December 9, 2010. Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin with his dog Baffi in Novo-Ogaryovo residence outside Moscow.09.12.2010#820938
The ceremony of awarding the Order of Friendship of Peoples to the Union of the Soviet Friendship Societies (Union of Soviet Societies of Friendship and Cultural Relations with Foreign Countries) during the 3rd All-Union USFS Conference.09.12.1974#744644
Russian President Dmitry Medvedev, center, addressing participants and guests at the opening ceremony of the European and Asian Media Forum organized by the RIA Novosti news agency at the Moscow International House of Music on December 9, 2009.09.12.2009#524925
A funeral divine liturgy for Patriarch of Moscow and All Russia Alexy II began at Christ the Savior Cathedral. The patriarch died on Friday.09.12.2008#362995
The skeleton of an herbivorous duckbill dinosaur, on display at the Soviet Academy of Sciences' Paleontology Museum, was found during the 1947-1951 expedition to the Mongolian People's Republic.09.12.1955#322777
Veteran Soviet/Russian and world ice-hockey teams met at the Red Square skating rink in Moscow in the evening December 9. The match ended with a draw, 10-10. Igor Larionov of the Russian team is interviewed after the game, in which he struck three goals. Larionov was national champion in 1982-89, world champion in 1982, 1983, 1986 and 1989, European champion in 1982, 1983, 1985-87 and 1989, and Winter Olympic champion in 1984 and 1988. He won the Canada Cup in 1981, and held the Stanley Cup three times.09.12.2006#139948
On December 10, 2005, Russia's first round-o'clock news English-language channel, Russia Today, goes on air via satellite.09.12.2005#121463
Rufina Nifontova (center) as Commissar and Vitaly Konyaev (left) as Bolshevik in a scene from the play "Optimistic tragedy"09.12.1967#38959