Athletes compete during the women's 10 km pursuit race at the Biathlon World Cup in Hochfilzen, Austria.

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Dynamo's Daniil Fomin and Zenit's Daler Kuzyaev struggle for a ball during the Russian Premier-League soccer match between Dynamo Moscow and Zenit St. Petersburg, in Moscow, Russia.

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Zenit's Claudinho, Dynamo's goalkeeper Anton Shunin, and Dynamo's Guillermo Varela struggle for a ball during the Russian Premier-League soccer match between Dynamo Moscow and Zenit St. Petersburg, in Moscow, Russia.

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Norway's Sturla Holm Laegreid shoots his rifle during a zeroing before the men's 4x7.5 km relay event at the Biathlon World Cup in Hochfilzen, Austria.

12.12.2021#6719661

Visitors to the Egyptian Museum in Cairo.

12.12.2017#3271226

Participants in the 2nd International Kremlin Cadet Ball marking the Heroes of the Fatherland Day and Constitution Day, at Gostiny Dvor in Moscow.

12.12.2017#3255406

The State Russian Museum technical staff dismantle and replace the Frina at Poseidon's Festival painting by Henryk Siemiradzki at the Russian Museum.

12.12.2017#3255090

Decorating the main New Year tree in Grozny.

12.12.2017#3255068

Anastasia Ladeishchikova (Perm) in the finals of the 22nd Beauty of Russia beauty pageant in Moscow.

12.12.2016#2993111

Visitors look at the items displayed at the exhibition "Russia 21st Century: Challenges and Priorities" at the Museum of Contemporary Russian History.

12.12.2016#2993045

Prior to the UEFA Euro 2016 final draw ceremony in France.

12.12.2015#2757237

The Admiral Kasatonov frigate float out ceremony at the Severnaya Verf Shipyards, St. Petersburg.

12.12.2014#2542854

Japan's Nozomi Komuro during training before the competitions at the 3rd stage of the World Cup in Bobsleigh and Skeleton in Lake Placid.

12.12.2013#2337162

Ingo Metzmacher conducts the Russian National Orchestra during a concert at the Grand Hall of the Moscow Conservatory.

12.12.2012#1318337

Cameramen broadcast the annual Russian presidential address to the Federal Assembly at the Kremlin's St. George Hall.

12.12.2012#1312500

A goal scored against "Neftyanik" in the regular season Vishy Hockey League match between "Lokomotiv" (Yaroslavl) and HC "Neftyanik" (Almetyevsk).

12.12.2011#1003749

Deputy Director of the Institute of State and Law, USSR Academy of Sciences, Doctor of Law, O. Bogdanov speaks at a news conference on the involvement of Soviet public in the worldwide campaign against the neutron bomb. The Soviet Peace Committee.

12.12.1977#835910

Participants of the Annual Santa Claus Round getting ready for the start at a Riga street.

12.12.2010#823208

An all-union conference of peace lovers in the Column Hall of the House of the Unions, Moscow. 1979.

12.12.1979#796906

The General Secretary of the CPSU CC Mikhail Gorbachev received the Chairman of the French National Assembly Louis Mermaz, left. The Grand Kremlin Palace. Extreme right - the Chairman of the Council of Nationalities of the Supreme Soviet of the USSR Augusts Voss.

12.12.1985#768090

"Grandpa Durov's corner" in Moscow (Vladimir Durov Animal Theatre). A performing pelican.

12.12.1966#690524

Sochi 2014 Organizing Committee president Dmitry Chernyshenko awards super model Natalia Vodyanova Sochi 2014 Ambassador diploma at the International Paralympic Day celebration.

12.12.2009#527902

A Russian language course in Karachi in the Societ library opened in Karachi, Pakistan.

12.12.1965#377099

Rodion Shchedrin and Maya Plisetskaya at a concert dedicated to conductor Yury Temirkanov's 70th birthday at the Grand Hall of the Shostakovich State Academic Philharmonic Hall.

12.12.2008#363980

Soldier of the Israeli Army during an exercise.

12.12.2007#176053

Young people going to the polls to elect the USSR Supreme Soviet [Parliament] on December 12, 1937. Photo from the USSR Central State Film, Photo and Sound Recording Archive.

12.12.1937#172118

The Beloyarsky district. In winter a reindeer drawn sleigh is the only means of transport in taiga.

12.12.1998#143725

Based in the Dmitrov District near Moscow, the 750 kilowatt Bely Rast power substation has been modernized and enlarged to provide sufficient electricity for the Moscow Region north and northwest. It was re-commissioned after six months' reconstruction works.

12.12.2006#140179

Hawking paintings round the streets in Tsaritsyno.

12.12.2005#121505

Participants in the festive show staged at the Dyushambe Olympic Stadium on the Day of Turkmenistan's Neutrality carrying the Russian and Turkmen state flags.

12.12.2004#113301

Young players of the "Golden Puck" ice hockey tournament among youth teams sitting on the substitutes' bench.

12.12.1986#77659

Soviet parliament deputies Yulia Drunina (left), a writer, and Tatiana Zaslavskaya, a member of the USSR Academy of Sciences, talking in the intermission between the sittings of the second congress of the people's deputies of the USSR.

12.12.1989#76825

Major-General Lev Dovator (right) with his adjutant on the Western front during the WWII years.

12.12.1941#58603

A worker of the Rustavi Iron-and-Steel Works

12.12.1971#43115

Vladimir Zhirinovsky voting in the election of deputies of the Federation Council, State Duma of the Russian Federal Assembly, and Moscow Municipal Duma.

12.12.1993#23359

A Stalingrad soldier sending a letter home.

12.12.1942#23121

A photo by Vladimir Vyatkin, the "Girls as Fish and Birds" photo series. The school of synchronized swimming at the Moscow Institute of Physical Culture.

12.12.2003#8131

On a skating rink (left to right): Tatiana Pitskhelauri, Irina Solovyeva, Valentina Tereshkova and Valentina Ponomaryova.

28.02.1969#7365