China's and Olympic flags flutter during the opening ceremony of the Beijing 2022 Winter Olympic Games at the National Stadium, also known as the Bird's Nest, in Beijing, China.04.02.2022#8104862
Fireworks explode above the National Stadium, also known as the Bird's Nest, during the opening ceremony of the Beijing 2022 Winter Olympic Games in Beijing, China.04.02.2022#8104790
Medical personnel wearing personal protective equipment (PPE) are seen during the women's ice hockey preliminary round group A match between the Russian Olympic Committee's team and Switzerland at National Indoor Stadium in Beijing, China.04.02.2022#8104571
Russia's fans wearing protective face masks cheer their team during the Eurobasket Women 2021 qualifying game between Russia and Estonia in Orenburg, Russia.04.02.2021#6453533
Participants in the rally "Macedonia is Greece" in Athens protest against the use of "Macedonia" for the name of the former Yugoslav republic. Protesters believe that the term is essentially Greek.04.02.2018#3287635
Valentin Smirnov, winner of the 1-mile race at the Russian Winter track and field competition in Moscow, after finishing the race.04.02.2018#3287576
Team Russia's Vadim Shipachyov during the friendly hockey match between Team Russia and Spartak.04.02.2018#3287290
Herman Titiov of Russia, left, at the 2017 Riders Cup Moscow ice cross downhill competitions in the Moscow Region.04.02.2017#3021722
Tiger cub Shere Khan, whose parents are the well-known Amur and Ussuri, during a morning walk in an enclosure of the Primorye Territory's safari park.04.02.2017#3021603
The State Academic Bolshoi Theater of the USSR in evacuation in the city of Kuibyshev (November 1941 - summer of 1943) during the Great Patriotic War. A rehearsal of the ballet "Crimson Sails" composed by V. Yurovsky and based on the novel by Alexander Grin, at the Kuibyshev Palace of Culture.25.12.1942#2807950
Participants in the opposition march For Fair Election on Bolotnaya Square in Moscow.04.02.2012#1029760
A man with a poster that runs "I am for Putin" leans out of the window during For Fair Elections march in St Petersburg.04.02.2012#1029581
Participants of the opposition rally For Fair Election on Bolotnaya Square in Moscow.04.02.2012#1029424
Operation of the Flight Control Center of the Federal Space Agency in Korolyov, Moscow Region, during Znamya-2 space project.04.02.1993#882029
People on the Tahrir Square watching the news projected on an improvised screen in the street.04.02.2011#855486
Izolda Nikulina holding her son Maxim (right). Family members of staff of USSR embassy in China arrive to Sheremetyevo airport after leaving Beijing due to anti-Soviet campaign and increased attacks and infliction of injury on staff of Soviet establishments.04.02.1967#785053
German cargo plane crashed into the building. Buda district. The Great Patriotic War of 1941-1945.04.02.1945#615445
Commander of the 62nd Army Vasily Chuikov, second right, addressing a meeting dedicated to the liberation of Stalingrad from Nazis. February 4, 1943.04.02.1943#596352
Soviet pianist Viktor Yeresko, sitting at the grand piano, and Norwegian conductor Odd Gruner-Hegge performing in the Column hall of the House of Unions.04.02.1964#592805
Lighting of the Olympic Flame in Innsbruck at the Opening Ceremony of the XII Winter Olympic Games.04.02.1976#553795
A nuclear-powered submarine of the same Project 949A class as the Kursk lost at sea in an accident in 2000.01.01.2000#487534
An authorized rally and march staged by the bloc of democratic forces. Krymsky Bridge.04.02.1990#477665
A representative of the Angolan youth who took an active part in the workers' rally commemorating the 15th anniversary of the beginning of the armed struggle for Angolan independence.04.02.1976#429985
Military cadets during a break between classes at the Cadets' boarding school for girls No. 9 in Moscow.04.02.2009#372417
Russian Prime Minister Viktor Chernomyrdin and his wife, Valentina, visiting the Qutb Minar complex in the outskirts of Delhi. 04.02.1995#188590
Grozny resident with cat in hand, awaiting evacuation from the zone of armed hostilities04.02.1995#172135
The "Lenin", the world's first nuclear-propelled icebreaker, is docked in a ship repair yard to make it into the Arctic and North Sea Route Opening-Up Museum04.02.2005#114445
Rehearsal of a performance at the children's theater of the Pushkin Fine Arts Museum. The theater's actors, scene and costume designers and scenario authors are schoolchildren. Performance plots are often based on the subjects of the museum's paintings. 04.02.1984#103072
Russian Prime Minister Viktor Chernomyrdin and the United States Vice-President Albert Gore in the operations room of the New York Stock Exchange. 04.02.1996#40537
A skier on the giant slalom track in the vicinity of Gudauri, a mountain ski resort in the Caucasus. 04.02.1984#34417
Winter swimmers dive into the ice-hole at one of Moscow ponds - 'Vivacity and Health Olympiad' sports festival.23.02.1982#13930
Reindeer-breeder Yevgeny Vylla with his herd close to the tundra's Sugmutskoye oil-field04.02.2004#12339
