Elizaveta Tuktamysheva holds her portrait after her women's free skating during the 2022 Russian Figure Skating Championships at the Yubileyny Sports Palace in St. Petersburg, Russia.25.12.2021#6731547
Local residents attend a memorial event in Sochi, where a Tu-154 plane of the Russian Defense Ministry crashed into the Black Sea.25.12.2016#3003529
A rescue operation on the Black Sea coast at the crash site of Russian Defense Ministry's TU-154 aircraft.25.12.2016#3003396
New Year's light show on the building of the General Headquarters in St Petersburg.25.12.2015#2766608
December 25, 2015. President Vladimir Putin (center in the foreground) at the New Year's reception in the Kremlin. On the left: Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev with wife Svetlana Medvedeva. From right to left: Patriarch of Moscow and All Russia Kirill and Federation Council Speaker Valentina Matviyenko.25.12.2015#2766583
The Great Patriotic War of 1941-1945. December 1941. The tank crews under the command of Colonel Sakhno of the Moscow Proletarian Motorized Rifle Division near Narofominsk.25.12.1941#2566795
A visitor at the opening of the Interactive Moscow Map hall in the Mosstroinform information and analytics center of the Moscow Urban Development and Construction Complex.25.12.2014#2549016
Torchbearers Andrei Golovanov and Dmitry Ramzayev, right, during the Olympic torch relay in Samara.25.12.2013#2342520
Musicians of Bolshoi Theater Symphony Orchestra perform on the stage of Moscow's State Academic Bolshoi Theater, in the concert marking the 200th anniversary of Russia's victory in the Patriotic War of 1812.25.12.2012#1324423
On December 25, 1969, the Soviet Union launched the "Interkosmos-2" artificial Earth satellite to study the characteristics of the Earth's ionosphere.25.12.1969#875222
Tanks built on donations of the farmers of the "Moskovsky" state farm, Moscow Region, handed over to the army. 1942. Reprophoto.25.12.1942#840727
Lokomotiv Novosibirsk's players during the awarding ceremony celebrating their win in the 2010 Russian Volleyball Cup final match.25.12.2010#832889
State Academic Folk Dance Ensemble of USSR, currently the Igor Moiseyev State Academic Folk Dance Ensemble. Ukrainian suite "Vesnyanki".25.12.1965#672150
December 25, 2009. Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin, center, touring Sochi airport facilities. From right: Governor of the Krasnodar Territory Alexander Tkachyov and Presidential Envoy Plenipotentiary to the Southern Federal District Vladimir Ustinov. Minister of Transport Igor Levitin, fourth left.25.12.2009#539151
President Vladimir Putin awarding writer Vasily Belov the Order of Service to the Fatherland, 4th Class, at St. Catherine's Hall in the Kremlin.25.12.2003#395544
The Catholic diocese in European Russia, Bishop Paulo Pezzi during a Christmas service in the Virgin Mary's Immaculate Conception Cathedral in Moscow.25.12.2008#366018
Natalia Durova, People's Artist of the Russian Federation, is being presented the State Prize of the USSR. 25.12.1987#87058
U.S.S.R. President Mikhail Gorbachev (right) and Chairman of the R.S.F.S.R. Supreme Council Boris Yeltsin (left) talking with each other during the 4th Congress of People's Deputies. 25.12.1990#28638
Prime Minister of the USSR Nikolai Ryzhkov (right) and Prime Minister of Zimbabwe Robert Mugabe (left) at the airport. 25.12.1985#25345
