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The ussr pavillion at the 1939 world's fair in new york at night.

The ussr pavillion at the 1939 world's fair in new york.

The ussr pavillion at the 1939 world's fair in new york.

Detail of an aluminum model of the magnitogorsk steel works at the ussr pavillion of the 1939 world's fair in new york.

Monument to joseph stalin in front of the mechanization pavillion of the all-union agricultural exhibit in moscow, 1941, people's commissar of agriculture of the ussr, i, benediktov, spoke at the meeting during the inauguration which had an attendance of in excess of 50,000 people.

The entrance hall of the ussr pavillion at the 1939 world's fair in new york.

A family strolling under the benificent gaze of a sculpture of josef stalin, 'the great continuer of lenin's cause' on one of the central thoroughfares of stalinogorsk, in the moscow coal basin, ussr, 1950.

50 meter high monument to josef stalin erected in the armenian capital of yerevan, 1951, the monument was built by sculptor and people's artist of the ussr, s, merkurov and architect, r, izraelian who were both awarded the stalin prize for their efforts.

A monument to josef stalin, designed by sculptor sergei merkurov, standing at the entrance to the moskva-volga canal.

Monument to joseph stalin in front of the mechanization pavillion of the all-union agricultural exhibit in moscow, 1941.

Worker figure being assembled out of stainless steel as part of a giant statue designed by v,i, mukhin also featuring a collective farm girl, the statue is being built for the soviet pavillion at the world exposition in paris, 1937.

A statue of joseph stalin on the grounds of the mariupol steel mill, ukraine, ussr, 1940.

Youth of the world' a part of the sculptural composition, cast in bronze, 'the struggle for peace' produced in the studios of the academy of arts of the ussr under the guidance of people's artist of the rsfsr, m, manizer, 1951.

A monument to sergei mironovich kirov in leningrad, 1939.

Monument to joseph stalin at the entrance to the nevinnomisk canal, 1950.

Monument to joseph stalin erected at the entrance to the lenin volga-don shipping canal, 1952.

A crowd gathered for the unvailing of a new monument to joseph stalin erected in front of the baltic railway station in leningrad, november 1949.

A monument to sergei mironovich kirov in kazan, tatar autonomous republic, it stands in front of the building of the chemical technological institute bearing his name, this building once housed a technical school that kirov attended, october 1949.

A crowd at the unveiling ceremony of a monument dedicated to vladimir mayakovsky in moscow, july 29, 1958, the monument was made by sculptor a, kibalnikov.

Detail of the sculpture 'cobblestone - weapon of the proletariat' by ivan shadr (ivanov), in plaster, 1927, at the tretyakov gallery.

Monument to alexander lli in znamenskaya square in st, petersburg, russia, 1907.

A worker' bronze sculpture by v, sokolov at the all-union art exhibition, 1950.

Soviet socialist realism, painting of heroic women workers shoveling coal in a rail yard, ussr, 1950s.

All union art exhibition, 1950, sculpture of shamama casanova, woman collective farmer and twice hero of socialist labor, by z, bazhenova, 1951.

The all-union agricultural exhibition in moscow, august 1939, visitors to the exhibition examining specimens of a couch-grass / wheat hybrid (developed by member of the academy of sciences, tsitsin) at the demonstration field of the grain pavillion, in the background is a newly erected statue of stalin.

Behind the scenes at the grand opera and ballet theater of the ussr, soviet ballet dancer, g, ulanova, in her dressing room, january 1947.

Joseph stalin, september 1939, moscow, ussr.

Joseph stalin, around 1939, in his office in the kremlin, moscow, ussr.

Sergei mironovich kirov, the study of kirov's apartment in leningrad, ussr, 1939.

Sergei mironovich kirov, kirov's study at the smolny in leningrad, ussr, 1939.

Marshal mikhail n, tukhachevsky, assistant people's commissar for defense of the ussr, 1933.

People's comissariat of home trade of ussr on kirov street in moscow, october 1935.

Inside the studio of materials, volume, and construction (the former academy of arts) in petrograd, 1920s.

The monument to the third international (tatlin's tower) by vladimir tatlin, the model of the proposed tower in the studio of materials, volume, and construction (the former academy of arts) in petrograd, 1920.

The monument to the third international (tatlin's tower) by vladimir tatlin, the model of the proposed tower in the studio of materials, volume, and construction (the former academy of arts) in petrograd, 1920.

The monument to the third international (tatlin's tower) by vladimir tatlin, the model of the proposed tower in the studio of materials, volume, and construction (the former academy of arts) in petrograd, 1920.

Admiral n,g, kuznetsov, people's commissar of the navy, soviet minister of the navy, 1950s, ussr.

Soviet cosmonaut yuri gagarin with khrushchev on the rostrum on lenin's tomb in red square, moscow, ussr, 1961.

S, budenny, s, timoshenko, and k, voroshilov, a group portrait from 1919, at that time, voroshilov was a member of the military council of the first mounted army (cavalry), budenny was the commander of that army, and timoshenko was division commander in the army.

Rear admiral ivan pananin, chief administrator of the northern sea route, 1944, world war 2, ussr, famous leader of 1930s soviet polar expeditions.

Joseph stalin (front, left) sits with k,e, voroshilov at a conference of best combine workers and soviet government, left to right, back: a,a, andreyev, l,m, kaganovich, v,j, chubar, ussr, 1930s.

A meeting of the working people of the molotov election district of moscow, held here on the occasion of vyacheslav molotov's consent to stand for elections in this district, ussr, february 1950.

Participants in the annual physiacal culture parade standing under a portrait of joseph stalin near red square in moscow, ussr, 1930s.

Post-war donbass heals it's wounds, setting up a cylindrical head-frame, designed by engineer zherbin, at the dzerzhinsky colliery no, 12 in donbass, ussr, 1940s.

M, marushko, a 66 year-old peasant from the village of dobroshin in the zhukov district of western ukraine, sees a picture of joseph stalin for the first time in his life, october 1939.

Sergei mironovich kirov, the study of kirov's apartment in leningrad, ussr, 1939.

A rd-107 rocket booster engine on display at the cosmos pavillion of the ussr exhibition of economic achievement (vdnkh) in moscow, 1967.

Crime and punishment' novel by fyodor dostoyevsky, feodor konstantinov's illustration (woodcut), 1945.

Illustration of gogol's 'dead souls,' chichikov (left) visits puyushkin (plushkin), woodcut by agin, 1846.

Moscow, 1952, the foreign ministry building in smolenskaya square.

Cabbages growing in a kitchen garden in front of st, isaac's cathedral in leningrad during the siege of the city, world war 2, ussr.

Grigoriy konstantinovich ordzhonikidze (sergo ordzhonikidze), chairman of the supreme economic council of the ussr, 1920s.

Soviet ballet dancer, natalia dudinskaya, as bayadere at the leningrad theater of opera and ballet, 1930s.

Behind the scenes at the grand opera and ballet theater of the ussr, ballet dancers at a rehearsal, january 1947.

St, isaac square and st, isaac's cathedral, st, petersburg, russia, 1911-1914.

A group of school children in gori, georgia in the 1890s, stalin is on the lower right.

Russian theater, dance, and art impresario, sergei diaghilev in the 1920s.

A statue of joseph stalin in the garden of victory square in the industrial city of stalinsk, the iron and steel plant is in the background, spewing smoke, early 1950s.

Soviet ballerina, r, struchkova, as princess aurora in a new production of tchaikovsky's 'sleeping beauty', april 1952, conducted by y, faier, choreographed by a, messerer and m, gabovich, scenery by m, obolensky.

Delegates to 11th young communist league (komsomol) congress at the kremlin palace of congresses, moscow, ussr, 1949.

Portrait of russian revolutionary writer and philosopher, alexander radishchev (1749 - 1802), by a, laktionov.

An amateur folk chorus singing in manezh square in moscow on the occasion of j,v, stalin's 70th birthday, december 21, 1949, 'glory to the great stalin' written in lights behind them.

Nikolai alekseyevich voznesensky, vice-chairman of the council of ministers and chairman of the state planning committee of the ussr, march 1948.

Russian civil war, kalinin and s, budonny (budenny), commander of the first cavalry army, at the vrangel front in october 1920, with cavalry troops.

Two women looking at coats and hats on display in a window of the central department store in moscow, 1940s.

Nina lobkovskaya in war and peace, like all young girls, nina loves pretty clothes, here she is trying on a dress during a shopping trip, if it were not for her uniform with its decorations hanging nearby, no one would guess that she has been through the war, 1940s.

The most popular business suit this season is worn with a warm vest of harmonizing color,' moscow, ussr, late 1950s or early 1960s.

Communist leaders from two continents at the bolshoi theater in moscow at a meeting in honor of josef stalin's 70th birthday on december 21, 1949, (left to right: suslov, mao zedong, bulganin, stalin, vassilevsky, and khrushchev).

Leon trotsky, people's commissar for military and naval affairs, at a military parade in red square in honor of the third congress of the communist interantion (third international), moscow, soviet union, 1920.

Lev landau, scientist, participants at scientific conference on high energy particles, left to right: prof, jack steinberger, columbia university (usa); prof, l, riddiford (uk); lev landau of ussr, moscow, may 1956.

Struga's evenings of poetry' a festival featuring some 50 poets from yugoslavia, ussr, czechoslovakia, gdr, italy, greece, romania, and bulgaria that takes place in the town of struga on the shore of ohrid lake in macedonia, august 26-29, 1965, yevgeny yevtushenko performing at st, sophia church in the town of ohrid.

Propaganda photo of josef stalin as benevolent father figure with eleven year old mamlakat nakhangova, a schoolgirl from the lakhuti collective farm, stalinabad region, tajikistan soviet republic, kremlin palace, moscow, ussr, december 1935.

Soviet health spa, the dancing pavillion at the ivanovo textile workers' rest home, september 1949.

Nikolai alekseyevich voznesensky, chairman of the state planning commission of the ussr, speaking at the joint session of the supreme soviet of the ussr and the soviet of nationalities, seated behind him on the presidium are (l to r): ch, aslanova and p, levitsky, vice-chairmen of the soviet of nationalities, a, zhdanov, chairman of the soviet of the union, t, lysenko and n, undasynov, vice-chairmen of the soviet of the union.

Unveiling The Statue Of Catherine Ii At St. Petersburg

Unveiling The Statue Of Catherine Ii At St. Petersburg

Kv-1 (klement voroshilov) tank, a group of civilians and red army men watch a new kv-1 tank that has just left the factory and will soon be on its way to the front, ussr, world war 2.

Spasso house, the residence of the us ambassador to the soviet union, walter b, smith, in moscow, ussr, late 1940s.

Chairman s, muromtsev, a member of the constitutional-democratic party, speaking at a sitting of the first state duma (russian parliament) in 1906.

New growth on an old tree 20 km to the east of the blast center that was burnt and damaged in 1908 by the tunguska meteorite, prior to that, it was dense forest, this picture was taken during professor leonid kulik's 1938 expedition to investigate the event.

L, beria, g, malenkov, and a,mikoyan on the rostrum on lenin's tomb during a may day demonstration in red square, moscow, ussr, may 1, 1949.

Solomon mikhoels in the title role in 'tevya the dairyman' by shalom aleichem, staged at the national jewish theater, ussr, may 1939, rotbaum is playing the role of tevya's daughter.

The first soviet steam-and-internal combustion locomotive with it's inventor and chief builders, november 1939, (left to right) d, lvov, l, maizel (inventor), and p, soroka.

The house of architect konstantin melnikov, in 10 krivoarbatsky pereulok, which he designed in the late 1920s, moscow, ussr.

I,v, rusakov workers' club, in stromynskaya square, moscow, ussr, designed by konstantin s, melnikov, 1927-29, transport workers club, 'school of communism'.

War time restoration of the krasnodar machine tool manufacturing plant is under way, a vertical boring and turning machine, assembled by a, bershadsky and his crew, is completed 20 days ahead of schedule, ussr 1940s.

A general view of kurejka (1939) in the turukhansk district of the krasnoyarsk territory, where joseph stalin was exiled by the tsarist government 1913 - 1917.

Automobiles (1929 ford type) leaving the assembly line of the molotov auto plant in gorky, ussr, 1930s.

Members of the diplomatic corps with friends and family in red square, watching a demonstration, mrs, joseph davies, wife of the american ambassador to the ussr, is in the center (w/ light hat & cape), 1930s.

Sergei mironovich kirov, kirov's apartment in leningrad (view from the dining room, through the library,towards the study), 1939.

The international buisiness machines (ibm) display at the communications usa exhibition in moscow, ussr, early 1960s (1961?).

Portrait of joseph stalin painted by p, vasilyev during the great patriotic war.

The house in the village of kurejka (1939) in the turukhansk district of the krasnoyarsk territory, where joseph stalin lived during the years of his exile by the tsarist government 1913 - 1917.

The book palace, nevsky prospect, leningrad, ussr, august 1947.

Semen pen, palace of the press, 1932, baku, azerbaijan, ussr.

British hawker hurricanes in the ussr during world war 2.

People's assessor of the supreme court of the ussr, major-general alexander zakharov, he played a prominent role in trial of u2 spy plane pilot francis gary powers, ussr, 1960.

A post-war meeting of workers at the kirov factory discussing plans for production necessary to complete the five-year-plan in four, this factory has been decorated three times, leningrad, ussr, 1946.

Young moscow women in a beauty salon, moscow, ussr, 1958.

Soviet sailors swimming with floats with portraits of stalin in celebration of ussr navy day, sevastopol, ussr, july, 1950.

Plan for the central square in novorossisk drawn by stalin prize winner and academician b, m, iofan, 1944.

The bed bug' by vladimir mayakovsky, act 1, scene 9, 1929 production by vsevolod meyerhold at the meyerhold gosteatr (state theater), moscow, ussr.

Soviet writer and satirist, mikhail zoshchenko in the early 1950s.

Workers of the krasny oktyabr iron and steel works back at work at the restored plant in stalingrad, ussr, 1940s.

Boris pasternak (1890-1960), russian poet and novelist, author of 'doctor zhivago'.

Alexander ostrovsky, famous russian playwright.

Russia;Moscow;The Peter the Great Statue in Moscow was designed by the Georgian designer Zurab Tsereteli to commemorate 300 years of the Russian Navy

Moscow, late 1930s, a trolley-bus going past the french embassy building.

Street scene with moscow hotel on the right, moscow, 1930s.

The church of christ the savior in moscow, 1920s.

Housing construction in moscow in the 1950s, ussr.

Nikolai alekseyevich voznesensky, chairman of the state planning commission and vice-chairman of the council of people's commissars, january 1938.

People's artist of the republic, raphael adelheim, ussr, march 1938.

Joseph stalin giving a speach at a session of the commission for studying the project of the model constitution of agricultural artels during the second all-union congress of collective farm shock-workers, april 1935.

Alexander kerensky's last speech at the pre-parliament on november 6, 1917, the day before the break-out of the socialist revolution.

Pavel ivanovich chichikov, a character in gogol's 'dead souls', illustration by a, leptev, 1952.

Alexander kerensky, leader of the provisional government, in his office in the winter palace, petrograd, 1917.

Major-general of artllery, dmitri vorobyov, people's assessor of the supreme court of the ussr, he played a prominent role at the trial of u2 spy plane pilot francis gary powers, 1960.

Sergei mironovich kirov, the library of kirov's apartment in leningrad, ussr, 1939.

The arch of triumph on kutuzovskiy prospect in moscow, 1934.

Prince of kiev, yaroslav the wise (1019 1054), sculpture reconstructed from the skull by m,m, gerasimov, the anthropologist, from the collection of the state historical museum in moscow, 1957.

Sam 2 missiles (guideline) on parade in red square, moscow, ussr, november 7th, 1957.

Workers brigades removing grain hidden by kulaks in stavropol, ussr, 1930.

Workers laying track for the 400-mile abakan-taishet railroad through the sayan mountains in siberia, 1960.

Workers laying track for the 400-mile abakan-taishet railroad through the sayan mountains in siberia, 1960.

Workers laying track for the 400-mile abakan-taishet railroad through the sayan mountains in siberia, 1960.

A steam locomotive on the trans-siberian railroad in the krasnoyarsk region of russia in the 1890s, the first train in krasnoyarsk.

Joseph stalin at a may day celebration with first grade student vera kondakova, may 1, 1952, she stepped out of a column of pioneers and presented the premier with a bouquet of flowers.

A young family passing by the windows of the lyudmila shop in tchkalov street in moscow, 1950s.

Baron roman feodorovich ungern-sternberg, white russian commander of anti-bolshevik forces in mongolia and lake baikal region, 1886-1921, captured in irkutsk and executed by the bolsheviks, the mad baron, the bloody baron, russian civil war.

Lenin's funeral, members of the politburo (joseph stalin, left front) carrying the casket into the crypt near the kremlin wall in red square, moscow, january 1924.

Lenin's funeral, members of the politburo carrying the casket into the crypt near the kremlin wall in red square, moscow, january 1924.

Women drying grain on a kolkhoz (collective farm) in the soviet union, 1930s.

Panorama (1 of 3) of the l, kaganovich oil fields in baku, azerbaijan ssr, 1930s.

Panorama (2 of 3) of the l, kaganovich oil fields in baku, azerbaijan ssr, 1930s.

Panorama (3 of 3) of the l, kaganovich oil fields in baku, azerbaijan ssr, 1930s.

Cheap meals being distributed among moscow workers in the early 1920s.

Soviet ballet dancer, marina kondryateva, in the title role in laurencia, alexander krein's ballet based on a play by lope de vega, 1950s (?).

Afghan air force mikoyan-gurevich mig-15 fighters and ilyushin il-28 bombers at kabul, afghanistan, during the visit of the u,s, president dwight d, eisenhower, 9-14 december 1959.

Joseph stalin standing on lenin's tomb in red square, reviewing the may day parade in 1952.

Soviet leader nikita khrushchev (left) and u,s, vice-president richard nixon at the opening of the u,s, trade and technology exhibition in moscow, ussr, 1959, the famous kitchen debate, leonid brezhnev, second from right, front.

Anti-religious demonstration called the komsomol christmas organized by the young communist league (komsomol), moscow, ussr, 1923.

Scene from 'ivan the terrible' (1944-45), film by sergei eisenstein, nikolai cherkassov (left) as tsar ivan the terrible, ussr.

Moscow residents lining up at a canteen of the moscow public catering committee in 1921.

Ceremony at the bolshoi theater celebrating joseph stalin's 70th birthday, seated, from left to right, are togliatti, budenni, kaganovich, suslov, mao tse-tung (zedong), bulganin, stalin, vassilevsky, khrushchev, ibarruri, georgiu-dej,shvernik, and malenkov, december 1949.

A party meeting at the 'paris commune' plant in moscow during the campaign to cleanse the communist party of hostile elements, september 1933.

Sargeant andrei lavenkov training new sharpshooters during the battle with finland, 1940s (late?).

10th century, a prince and his bodyguard gathering tribute from the people, the prince's servant kept account and recorded the amount of tribute brought in on a tablet.

Painting 'the knight at the crossroad' by v,m, vaznetsov, ilya of murom, according to legend, in service of vladimir of kiev, 1953.

Tunguska meteorite, the valley of the churgima stream, 4km south of where the meteorite fell in 1908, the hills are covered with fallen and burnt trees and young growth, this picture was taken during professor leonid kulik's 1938 expedition to investigate the event.

A british hawker hurricanes landing in the ussr during world war 2.

Scene from 'ivan the terrible' (1944-45), film by sergei eisenstein, nikolai cherkassov (left) as tsar ivan the terrible, ludmilla tselikovskaya as the tsarina, ussr.

Museum workers at the hermitage museum in leningrad work to save the priceless art treasures damaged by nazi shelling of the building, seige of leningrad, world war 2.

The boiko's tank unit receives new js-122 (joseph stalin 122) heavy tanks, 1942, tank commander, junior lieutenant alexandra boiko and her husband, driver/mechanic ivan boiko.

Joseph stalin with two young women collective farm workers from tadjikistan soviet republic at a conference of cotton farm workers, january 1936, ussr.

Women workers at the stalingrad tractor works, ussr, 1940s.

Unemployed men at the hitrov market in moscow in the 1890s.

Solomon mikhoels in the title role in 'tevya the dairyman' by shalom aleichem, staged at the national jewish theater, ussr, february 1939, rom is playing the role of golda, tevya's wife.

Unemployed day laborers in front of an employment agency in moscow in the 1890s.

State prosecutor, andrei vyshinsky reading the charges at a purge trial in the late 1930's.

St, basil's cathedral in red square, moscow, ussr sometime in the 1940s.

Statue Of Peter The Great Russia

A tar worker at the market in lyskovo, russia in 1898.

Leipzig, east germany, gdr, 1986, crowds attend the annual leipzig spring fair.

Bolshevik leader sergei mironovich kirov speaking at the 17th congress of the all-union communist party of bolsheviks in february 1934.

The bath house' by vladimir mayakovsky, a scene from act 6, produced by v, meyerhold at the meyerhold state theatre, moscow, ussr, 1930.

The bed bug' by vladimir mayakovsky, act 1, 1929 production by v, meyerhold at the meyerhold gostheatr (state theater), moscow, ussr.

Les soirs' by emile verhaeren, staged by v, meyerhold and bebutov at the first rsfsr theatre, art director: v, dmitriev, premiered november 7, 1920, ussr.

Tank commander, junior lieutenant alexandra boiko, speaking to attendees of the fourth soviet women's anti-fascist meeting on august 20, 1944 at the tchaikovsky concert hall in moscow.

Nina shmeleva, the first woman working as a railshoe-brakeman at the leningrad railroad yards, ussr, 1940.

Communist leaders from two continents at the bolshoi theater in moscow at a meeting in honor of josef stalin's 70th birthday on december 21, 1949, (left to right: politburo member l,m, kaganovich; chairman mao zedong; armed forces minister marshal n,a, bulganin; stalin; walter ulbricht, deputy premier of the east german government; j, cedenbal; n,s, khrushchev, chief of the ukrainian council of ministers; i, koplenig).

Deported peasants and political prisoners used as slave labor to build the white sea - baltic canal (belomarkanal) in northern european russia, ussr, 1932.

Communist leaders from two continents at the bolshoi theater in moscow at a meeting in honor of josef stalin's 70th birthday on december 21, 1949, (left to right: chairman mao zedong; armed forces minister marshal n,a, bulganin; and stalin).

Banquet hall of the catherine palace (ekaterina palace), tsarskoe selo, leningrad region, ussr, destroyed by nazis, german army, world war 2.

World war 2, returning soviet soldiers being greeted at the rzhev railway station, ussr, 1945.

A model of the bratsk hydro-electric power plant on display at the ussr agricultural exhibition and the ussr industrial exhibition in moscow, 1957, the plant has a capacity of 204,000 kw, at the time, the world's most powerful.

Cathedral of christ the savior, moscow, ussr, early 1930s, shell of the cathedral blown up as part of anti-religion campaign, later site of moskva municipal swimming pool.

Sculptor peter flade, one of many craftsmen working on the restoration of the semper opera house in dresden, germany which was destroyed by bombing, 1978, this is part of an on-going effort to rebuild the city after it's destruction during world war 2.

U2 spy plane pilot francis gary powers at his trial in moscow, ussr, august 1960, with guards.

German minister for foreign affairs, joachim von ribbentrop (left), arrives at the central airport in moscow for the signing of the treaty of non-aggression between germany and the union of soviet socialist republics on august 23, 1939, greeting him is v, potemkin, vice commissar for foreign affairs for the ussr.

Night by g, vinogradov, 1928.

Portrait of joseph stalin, oil painting by alexander gerasimov, 1944.

Stakhanov peace watch, y, motorov, steel melter of the sickle and hammer mill in moscow, ussr, 1950.

Gorky street in moscow, ussr, october 1955.

Moscow, october 7, 1939, chairman of the presidium of the ussr supreme soviet mikhail kalinin awards heroes of the battles on the khalkhin-gol river, from left to right: heroes of the soviet union s, p, denisov, i, n, dushkin, k, n, abramov, n, s, gerasimov, v, i, shevchenko and i, a, lakeyev.

New York, New York: c. 1939 The Statue of Liberty in NY harbor

M, i, kalinin, president of the central executive committee of the ussr, awarding the order of the red banner of labor to grigoriy konstantinovich ordzhonikidze (sergo ordzhonikidze), the people's commissar of heavy industry, for over-fulfilling the production plan of 1935.

A portrait of leo tolstoy's wife, sofia andreyevna, at the time of their engagement.

Trial of u2 spy plane pilot francis gary powers in house of unons' hall of columns, moscow, ussr, 1960, powers siting in the dock at right.

Ekaterina dzhugashvili, joseph stalin's mother.

Technicians in protective suits lift empty case of chemical air bomb out of a discharge chamber after the chemical agent was drained, soviet military base of shikhany, saratov region, ussr, october 4th 1987, diplomats and military experts from 45 countries witnessed a mass decommiss-ioning of chemical weapons.

Lt, general viktor borisoglebsky, chairman of the military collegium of the supreme court of the ussr, he played a prominent role at the trial of u2 spy plane pilot francis gary powers, 1960.

Leipzig spring fair 1958, walter ulbricht and a,n, kosygin (3rd from left) looking over the exhibits in the nuclear techniques pavillion.

Leo tolstoy with his wife sofia andreyevna in the garden at yasnaya polyana in 1910.

Refugee children at school in the USSR.

Kirghiz red army cavalrymen bringing soviet power to central asia, 1930s.

Tsar ivan lli (ivan the great).

August kirchenstein, chairman of the presidium of the supreme soviet of the latvian ssr receiving visitors on the occasion of the 10th anniversary of soviet latvia, june 1950.

Berlin, east germany, gdr, 1979, the new palace hotel with restaurant and shopping complex nears completion.

Admiral arseni grigoryevich golovko, commander of the northern fleet, soviet navy, world war 2.