A staff member works at the Doping Control Station during the curling men's round robin session 1 of the Beijing 2022 Winter Olympic Games at National Aquatics Centre in Beijing, China.09.02.2022#8109551
Russian Olympic Committee's Denis Airapetian, in center, competes in the short track speed skating men's 1500 m semifinals during the Beijing 2022 Winter Olympic Games at Capital Indoor Stadium in Beijing, China.09.02.2022#8109376
Russian Olympic Committee's Artem Galunin competes in the nordic combined individual gundersen normal hill and 10 km ski jumping trial round during the Beijing 2022 Winter Olympic Games at the National Cross-Country Skiing Centre in Zhangjiakou, China.09.02.2022#8109161
A man watches the women's snowboard cross small final during the Beijing 2022 Winter Olympic Games at Genting Snow Park H & S Stadium in Zhangjiakou, China.09.02.2022#8109032
Russia's Lala Kramarenko perform during the exhibition gala at Rhythmic Gymnastics Grand Prix Moscow at Irina Viner-Usmanova Gymnastics Palace, in Moscow, Russia.09.02.2020#6160234
Performers during the opening ceremony of the XXIII Winter Olympic Games in Pyeongchang.09.02.2018#3292140
President of the International Olympic Committee (IOC) Thomas Bach speaks at the opening ceremony of the XXIII Winter Olympic Games in Pyeongchang.09.02.2018#3292115
Lighting the Olympic cauldron during the opening ceremony of the XXIII Winter Olympic Games in Pyeongchang.09.02.2018#3292038
Olga Podchufarova of Russia during the mixed relay at the IBU World Championships in Hochfilzen, Austria.09.02.2017#3024375
A performance at the countdown ceremony to mark one year to go until the start of the 2018 Winter Olympics in Pyeongchang, South Korea.09.02.2017#3024170
Metallurg's Chris Lee, center, during the Kontinental Hockey League's regular season match between Metallurg Magnitogorsk and CSKA Moscow.09.02.2015#2569460
Medalists in the men’s normal hill individual ski jumping event at the XXII Olympic Winter Games in Sochi during the flower ceremony, from left: silver medalist Peter Prevc (Slovenia); gold medalist Kamil Stoch (Poland); bronze medalist Anders Bardal (Norway).09.02.2014#2364226
Medalists in the team figure skating competition at the XXII Olympic Winter Games in Sochi during the flower ceremony, from left: the Canadian team (silver medalists), the Russian team (gold medalists) and the US team (bronze medalists).09.02.2014#2364107
Show "The Royal Tigers of Sumatra" directed by Nikolai Pavlenko at the Sochi Circus.09.02.2013#1370454
Buddhist monks carry out of the datsan the magic triangular cone "Zor" with a skull atop where they place evil spirits and spirits causing sufferings, diseases and premature death. It is burnt outside the monastery during the Dugzhooba (Cleansing Fire) ritual. In Chita datsan they began holding rituals of the festive cycle of Sagaalgan (White Month, Buddhist New Year).09.02.2013#1369372
Russia's Dmitry Malyshko finishes the men's sprint race during the Biathlon World Championships in the Czech town of Nové Město na Moravě.09.02.2013#1369309
Animal technician grooming Hereford beef cattle breed bulls weighing over 1 ton on the Pedigree farm named after Hero of Socialist Labor V.V.Kalyagin, the village of Krasochny.09.02.2010#569392
The Tenth Winter Olympic Games in Grenoble. Finnish fans on the stands during a speed skating competition.09.02.1968#553642
Russian Prime Minister Viktor Chernomyrdin, foreground second right, and Moldovan Prime Minister Andrei Sangheli, foreground second left, signing a trade and economic cooperation agreement.09.02.1993#427924
People's Artists of Russia Vladimir Matorin (center) as Boris Godunov in the Coronation Scene from Modest Mussorgsky's opera Boris Godunov at the gala performance marking the 225th anniversary of Moscow's Bolshoi Theatre.09.02.2001#409367
February 9, 2009. Russian President Dmitry Medvedev, foreground, speaking at the State Prize in Science and Innovation for Young Scientists awards ceremony in the Kremlin.09.02.2009#373185
Dikson Island in the Kara Sea, Weather station personnel preparing to make drinking water out of snow.09.02.1982#349934
The Mishki [Little Bears] child-and-youth movement gathered near the Estonian Embassy in Moscow to protest the relocation of the Bronze Soldier monument in Tallinn. The protest took on the form of a history lesson.09.02.2008#182177
Russian Deputy Prime Minister and Defense Minister Sergei Ivanov arrives in Seville, Spain, to participate in an informal meeting of the Russia-NATO Council.09.02.2007#144322
Over 100,000 amateur and trained skiers participating in the 22nd all-Russia massive ski race of 200409.02.2004#144162
Architect Shota Kavlashvili (left) at the workshop of sculptor Teimuraz Chkovania (right). 09.02.1986#70750
Sharp shooter Kulbertinov, a former hunter from Buryatia, is now involved in operations of the Fourth Ukrainian Front.24.03.1945#61682
Marchers hanging out placards outside the American embassy to protest American air raids on populated localities in the Democratic Republic of Vietnam. 09.02.1965#35184
A woman from Vilnius drops her voting ballot into the urn. Polling of the republic population on Lithuanian independence.09.02.1991#25781
Space pilots Vladimir Komarov (left) and Alexei Leonov (right) before parachute jumping.09.02.1963#16124
