Swans swim in Lebedinoye (Swan) Lake at the Lebediny Nature Reserve in the Altai region, Russia. Each year birds come here to spend winter as the lake does not freeze over.28.01.2022#8111702
Medalists in the team relay of the FIL European Luge Championships in Sigulda, Latvia, from left: German athletes (silver), Russian athletes (gold) and Latvian athletes (bronze).28.01.2018#3282709
Participants in an unauthorized rally staged on Pushkinskaya Square in Moscow as part of the Voters' Strike.28.01.2018#3282671
Ivan Verkhovykh as Merkur, right, during the run-through of Moliere's play Amphitryon directed by Christophe Rauck at Pyotr Fomenko Studio Theater.28.01.2017#3017831
Medalists in the men’s skating competition at the European Figure Skating Championship in Ostrava, Czech Republic, during the medal ceremony, from left: silver medalist Maxim Kovtun (Russia), gold medalist Javier Fernandez (Spain), and bronze medalist Mikhail Kolyada (Russia).28.01.2017#3017814
Performances at the celebrations in Sochi to mark 500 days to 2018 FIFA World Cup in Russia.28.01.2017#3017571
Participants in the Paryzh-Mosar tractor rally (called so in the name of two villages in the Vitebsk Region) ride in a central street in Paryzh, Belarus.28.01.2017#3017471
A hockey fan wearing a historic costume during the Kontinental Hockey League's regular season match between SKA St. Petersburg and Slovan Bratislava.28.01.2015#2562553
Singer Dmitry Khvorostovsky (baritone) as the Demon during a rehearsal of The Demon by Anton Rubinstein at the Tchaikovsky Concert Hall.28.01.2015#2562201
Torpedo goalkeeper Vitaly Koval in the regular season Kontinental Hockey League match between hockey teams Lokomotiv (Yaroslavl) and Torpedo (Nizhny Novgorod).28.01.2013#1355987
Victoria Azarenka of Belarus, winner of the 2012 Australian Open by defeating Maria Sharapova in the final, at the awarding ceremony.28.01.2012#1023683
Russian figure skaters Ekaterina Bobrova and Dmitry Solovyov (silver), French Nathalie Pechalat and Fabian Bourzat of France (gold) and Russians Elena Ilinykh and Nikita Katsalapov (bronze) (left to right) at the awards ceremony after winning medals in competition ice dancing at the European Championships in figure skating.28.01.2012#1023340
Serbia's Novak Djokovic rejoices over his victory in the men’s semifinal against Andy Murray at the 2012 Australian Open Tennis Championships.28.01.2012#1022999
Leonid Brezhnev, General Secretary of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of the USSR and member of the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet of the USSR, arrived in the Republic of Cuba.28.01.1974#860943
Russian Prime Minister Viktor Chernomyrdin's official visit to Italy. Viktor Chernomyrdin meets with Pope John Paul II. Viktor Chernomyrdin presents John Paul II with a gift from the Russian government.28.01.1994#859844
Soyuz-U carrier rocket with Progress M-09M cargo spacecraft carrying 2.7 tons of different cargoes for International Space Station before being launched from Baikonur Cosmodrome.28.01.2011#849658
German figure skaters Aliona Savchenko and Robin Szolkowy, right, who won gold medals at the 2011 European Figure Skating Championships, during the awards ceremony. Left: Russian figure skaters Yuko Kawaguchi and Alexander Smirnov, who won silver medals.28.01.2011#849514
Winner of I International beauty contest "Miss Commonwealth-99" Goar Arutyunyan (Republic of Armenia).28.01.1999#841415
A "round table" on mentoring at the Moscow M.Frunze Cotton Factory. Presentation of scarlet ribbons to the winners of socialist competitions. 1977.28.01.1977#807951
Yevgeny Grishin (born in 1931), Soviet speed skater and Merited Master of Sports, at the Medeo high-mountain skating rink near the city of Alma-Ata, the Kazakh Soviet Socialist Republic.28.01.1963#674359
A meeting of the USSR Academy of Sciences. From left: A.Bakh, A.Ioffe, Y.Tarle, A.Orlov. January 28, 1939. Moscow.28.01.1939#607196
Pre-election matryoshka doll depicting Ukrainian presidential candidate Yulia Tymoshenko.28.01.2010#559006
The International Theatre Conference in honor of Anton Chekhov's 150th birthday opened on January 28, 2010 in Moscow's Pashkov House (Russian State Library).28.01.2010#558898
Famous Georgian photographer Alexander Saakov (1937-2007). Photo courtesy Nino Meliya.28.01.1993#558667
Georgian cameraman Igor Nagorny, left, and People's Artist of the USSR, Soviet actor Frunze Mkrtchyan, 1930-1993. Photo courtesy Nino Meliya.28.01.1980#558596
Alisa Freindlich, People's Artist of the USSR, Prize and Statuette winner (year 2001), with artistic coordinator of Triumf Charity Foundation, Zoya Boguslavskaya (right). The 10th ceremony of awarding the Russian Independent Triumf Prize for high achievements in literature and art.28.01.2002#522540
From right: Metropolitan Kirill of Smolensk and Kaliningrad, who heads the Russian Orthodox Church's External Relations Department, and Russia's Chief Rabbi Berl Lazar.28.01.2004#370728
Couturier Valentin Yudashkin, one of the designers of new Russian military uniforms, at the General Staff of the Defense Ministry during a uniform show28.01.2008#180344
Truck lines exceeding 10 kilometres between Poland and Ukraine, between Poland and Belarus) before the Korczowa customs on the Schengen zone border crossing 28.01.2008#180291
Russian fishing vessel near Habomai Island of the South Kurile archipelago in the Sakhalin Region. 28.01.2006#143456
Irkutsk cobbler Viktor Bazhenov has been making extra-small and extra-large shoes for five years now. His collection includes one-millimeter and even size 120 shoes. 28.01.2007#143288
Group A match between Russian and Norwegian teams during Bendi-2007 world ball hockey championship. The Russians won 18 : 2. 28.01.2007#143284
A ceremony marking the 60th anniversary of liberation of the Oswiecim concentration camp by Soviet troops. 28.01.2005#113889
Omar Geguladze, amateur drama company director of Zestafoni, Georgia, left, conducts a rehearsal28.01.1987#55777
