Russian Swimming Federation's Kliment Kolesnikov, at the foreground, and Pavel Samusenko compete during the men's 50m backstroke event at the World Swimming Championships (25m), in Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates.19.12.2021#6725499
Russia's Pavel Karnaukhov, centre, scores a goal during the Channel One Cup match of the Euro Hockey Tour between Russia and Finland, in Moscow, Russia.19.12.2021#6725494
December 19, 2018. Russian President Vladimir Putin wishes Sovremennik Theater artistic director Galina Volchek a happy birthday.19.12.2018#5736496
Election campaigning banner which reads 'Puigdemont - our president' in Rambla Street, Barcelona ahead of the December 21 Catalan parliamentary election.19.12.2017#3261341
A visitor views Portrait of Nicholas Roerich by S. Roerich at the opening of the exhibition Nicholas Roerich: Ascension at the Museum of the Roerichs in Moscow.19.12.2017#3261217
December 19, 2017. Russian President Vladimir Putin and Serbian President Aleksandar Vucic, from right foreground, during a meeting.19.12.2017#3261069
The Yaroslav Mudry destroyer escort vessel seen here in the Baltiysk naval harbor after a long ocean mission.19.12.2016#2998408
Finnish Santa Claus Joulupukkithe and Russian Father Frost meeting at the Nuijamaa border crossing.19.12.2016#2998246
A Christmas tree is assembled at the entrance to the Gorky Central Park of Culture and Recreation.19.12.2016#2998191
Russia's Yegor Yakovlev celebrates his team's victory in the second stage match of the 2015/16 Euro Hockey Tour's Channel One Cup between the national teams of Finland and Russia.19.12.2015#2762215
A boy leaves a message to members of the Russian national football team on the wall of fans at the FIFA World Cup 2018 Park which was opened on the premises of the Luzhniki Olympic complex, Moscow.19.12.2015#2762161
Olympic champion Natalya Ischenko performs during a show presented by Olympic champions in synchronized swimming at the Olympiysky Sports Complex.19.12.2014#2546332
A biathlete during the men's sprint event at the 3rd stage of the 2014/15 Biathlon World Cup in Pokljuka, Slovenia.19.12.2014#2546223
Channel One Cup is seen here during a training ahead of Sweden vs. Russia match of Channel One Cup, the 3rd round of the 2013-14 Euro Hockey Tour.19.12.2013#2340245
President Vladimir Putin seen on the TV camera monitor at the annual Q&A session in the World Trade Center, Krasnaya Presnya, Moscow, December 19, 2013.19.12.2013#2340093
Launch of a Soyuz-FG rocket with a manned Soyuz TMA-07M spacecraft and the 34/35 ISS crew from Baikonur cosmodrome.19.12.2012#1319487
Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin on the observation platform of the Sayano-Shushenskaya Hydroelectric Plant's shore spillway on December 19, 2011.19.12.2011#1006390
Galina Volchek and Moscow Fashion House director Vyacheslav Zaitsev at a birthday party.19.12.1994#805535
People's Artist of RSFSR, choreographer of M.R.Raukhverger's opera-ballet "Snow Queen", ballet master Asaf Messerer and ballerina Yelena Ryabinkina during rehearsal.19.12.1967#671170
Natalia Ragozina from Russia knocked out Pamela London from Guyana in the eight round to win the WIBF super-middleweight world champion title.19.12.2009#534231
Academician Dmitry Likhachyov, first chairman of the board of the Soviet (Russian since November 1991) Cultural Foundation, at the Kremlin Palace of Congresses. The 4th Congress of People's Deputies of the USSR.19.12.1990#422795
Russian Soviet mathematician and theoretical physicist, Member of the Soviet Academy of Sciences Nikolai Bogolyubov [1909-1992] and his son Pavel at home.19.12.1958#396944
Experts of the All-Russian State Television and Radio Broadcasting Corporation [VGTRK] at the Kremlin television-and-radio complex providing technical support for Russian President Vladimir Putin's online news conference on ORT and Rossia TV channels and Radio Russia and Mayak radio stations.19.12.2002#312258
Artur Gachinsky, 14, pupil of Olympic star Alexei Mishin, in the Ice Show of Moscow and St. Petersburg19.12.2007#176837
Snowball fight in the yard of the restored St.Simeon of Verkhoturye Church in the Saraktash village. 19.12.1998#138149
Siamese twins Masha and Dasha Krivoshlyapov, Professor Andrei Anokhin and Nadezhda Gorokhova, the twins' step-mother.19.12.1965#39093
The Kommunar plant's worker handling the operation of the clampshell-type mechanism in the crane-assembling shop19.12.1971#36707
Limnologists from the Soviet Academy of Sciences dipping research equipment under the ice of Lake Baikal19.12.1981#18337
Vladimir Krutov (left) during the USSR vs. Sweden match, International 'Izvestia' ice-hockey tournament.19.12.1982#14600
