Photo archive of Itar Tass. Nine decades of "TASS newsreel
As the main edition of photo information.
The agency was best known as TASS Photo Chronicle, since it had this name for several decades. In everyday speech, it often bore the name "Photochronicle", denoting one of the largest agencies that creates a photo chronicle of the internal life of the USSR for use in domestic publications. Photochronika TASS was the largest supplier of news photo information for Soviet print media and had an extensive network of correspondent points that made it possible to receive photographs from any corner of the Soviet Union. The second major photo agency in the country was the Photo Service of the Novosti Press Agency (APN, now RIA Novosti), which produced mainly photo information for foreign publications.
Agency history
The beginning of the history of TASS Photochronicles can be considered 1926, when a workshop was created at the ROSTA agency for the production of typographical photographs for central print publications. Over time, the workshop grew into a full-fledged photo service and turned into an independent editorial office that collected information, created photo reports and individual photographs and distributed them. During the years of the Great Patriotic War, Photochronicle reporters made the most significant contribution to the creation of a documentary chronicle of military operations. During these years, such well-known photojournalists as Yevgeny Chaldei, who removed the hoisting of the Soviet flag over the Reichstag, Emmanuil Evzerikhin, Mark Redkin, Max Alpert and others, worked on the staff of the editorial office. In addition, the agency carried out a centralized collection of photographic documents, collaborating with photographers from other publications.
In the post-war years, the agency became the country's central body for photo information, receiving the name "Main editorial office of TASS photo information under the Council of Ministers of the USSR". The editorial office was located in a building on 25th October Street, house 4, now Nikolskaya Street, and later - on Bolshaya Dorogomilovskaya House 12, in the building of a former school. For the Moscow Olympics, Photochronicle received another building in the neighborhood: on Bryanskaya Street, house 7, where it was located until recently. In the building on Bolshaya Dorogomilovskaya there were workshops for exhibition photo printing, warehouses and workshops for the repair of photographic equipment. In the mid-2000s, the agency abandoned the building on Dorogomilovskaya, and at the moment it is abandoned and uninhabited. The coverage of congresses CPSU and the official chronicle became practically a monopoly of TASS Photochronicles, which supplied photographs for all domestic and foreign publications. Particularly important state events in the regions were covered on-line with the use of photographic telegraph transmission, which was gradually equipped with all bureaus. Since February 7, 1957, the phototelegraph was used by the agency to transfer finished photographs to the largest foreign consumers of photographic information. By the end of the stagnation, the agency's main product was semi-official photo reports on party events and the achievements of the socialist economy. Central and local newspapers and magazines were obliged to publish the materials of the "Photochronicles", deductions for which brought a guaranteed income to the agency.
With the beginning of Perestroika, the ideological ban on covering many aspects of public and political life was lifted, and the agency's reporters received a much greater degree of freedom in choosing topics. In addition, there was a demand for photographs showing reality from unusual points of view, spurring the professional growth of Photochronicles. However, hard times soon came for the agency, because, despite the rapid development of print media and the opening of many new newspapers and magazines, the monopoly on their supply of photographic information was lost. The largest photo information agencies, such as Reuters (Eng. Reuters), Associated Press (Eng. Associated Press) and others with worldwide coverage of correspondent networks and advanced technical equipment, have gained access to the domestic market of Russia. The advent and development of the Internet and the methods of instant delivery of photographic images to any consumer forced Photochronicle to develop the latest methods of distribution. Thanks to a cooperation agreement with the photo service of the Reuters agency, an operational photo information feed was created in the mid-1990s, and foreign partners got access to Photochronicles photos from the regions. Since 1992, after the head agency TASS was renamed into ITAR-TASS, TASS Photo Chronicle was renamed into the ITAR-TASS Photo Agency. Currently, the agency has its own technical equipment for creating a photo news feed and is one of the five largest suppliers of photo information for Russian news publications.
Significance for domestic photojournalism
Despite the ideological nature of the activity of "Photochronicle", its professional level was maintained at a high level for many years in order to ensure the competitiveness and image of the Soviet school of journalistic photography abroad. Not only Moscow photojournalists could cooperate with the agency, but also reporters from the regions, while improving their skills. In fact, "Photochronicle" until the end of the 1990s was the country's main photo bank, working with many freelance authors in the country and abroad. The vast majority of well-known Russian photojournalists, one way or another, have ever collaborated with Photochronicle. Many current employees of foreign photo agencies, who are of Russian origin, also come from the walls of the TASS Photo Chronicle. Agency reporters have repeatedly received prizes from prestigious international photo contests, including World Press Photo, in which Photochronicle was a regular participant, along with its foreign competitors.
Notes
- Photo ITAR-TASS (Russian). Ruspress Photo. Retrieved January 1, 2013.
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- Zatravkina Tatyana Yurievna. Telegraph Agency of the Soviet Union during the years of the Great Patriotic War (Russian) (unavailable link). Course work. Moscow State University for the Humanities M.A. SHOLOKHOVA (2007). Date of treatment December 16, 2013. Archived from the original on December 16, 2013.
- Chaldean (Russian). LiveJournal (October 28, 2013). Retrieved November 11, 2013.
- Photographers (Russian). Photos of World War II and Great Patriotic War. "War Album" Retrieved December 16, 2013.
- On the approval of the Regulations on the Telegraph Agency of the Soviet Union under the Council of Ministers of the USSR (Russian). Decree of the Council of Ministers of the USSR No. 927. Library of legal acts (December 3, 1966). Retrieved January 1, 2013. Archived from the original on January 30, 2013.
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According to the digitization of TASS photo chronicles. And now the first photos have appeared in the public domain (link to the news).
The section of the TASS photo archive where you can see these photos is. Let's hope that over time all 850 thousand images will appear there.
Well, so as not to run twice :): let me remind you that in the summer the Associated Press posted a huge collection of historical videos on YouTube ().
On July 22, 2015, an unprecedented collection of videos provided by the Associated Press in conjunction with British Movietone was uploaded to the well-known video hosting. 550,000 files and more than 1 million minutes of archived video - this is a gift the international agency has presented to YouTube users.
The video archive includes recordings of the most important historical events since 1895. Among them are the bombing of Pearl Harbor, video footage with celebrities (Marilyn Monroe, Elvis Presley, Muhammad Ali, etc.), as well as stories on a wide range of topics, including politics, sports, fashion, culture, etc.
It is reported that this unloading of historical archives is the largest in the history of video hosting. “Bringing this video content to YouTube is a great initiative by AP and British Movietone that will breathe new life into the archives and inspire users around the world: students working on history projects, cultural connoisseurs and millions more with a wide range of interests.” ," commented Stephen Nuttall, director of YouTube Europe, the Middle East and Africa.
We present a selection of the brightest works of ITAR-TASS photojournalists for 2014.
Politics
February 23. International Olympic Committee President Thomas Bach, Russian President Vladimir Putin and Russian Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev before the closing ceremony of the XXII Olympic Winter Games in Sochi
© ITAR-TASS/Dmitry Astakhov
March 18. Crimean Prime Minister Sergei Aksyonov, Russian President Vladimir Putin and Sevastopol Mayor Alexei Chaly after the signing of an interstate agreement on the admission of the Republic of Crimea and the city with a special status of Sevastopol to the Russian Federation, Moscow
© ITAR-TASS/Mikhail Metzel
June 6th US President Barack Obama, Queen Elizabeth II of Great Britain, German Chancellor Angela Merkel and French President Francois Hollande before the start of the celebration of the 70th anniversary of the Allied landings in Normandy, at the Benouville castle
© ITAR-TASS/Mikhail Metzel
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June 6th President-elect of Ukraine Petro Poroshenko at the ceremony marking the 70th anniversary of the landing of allied forces in Normandy, Ouistreham |
October 26th. Prime Minister of Ukraine Arseniy Yatsenyuk during a press conference on the results of the parliamentary elections, Kyiv |
June 18th. Chairman of the agricultural production cooperative "Russia" Sergei Pyanov and Russian President Vladimir Putin during a visit to the agricultural production cooperative "Russia" in the Stavropol Territory
© ITAR-TASS/Mikhail Klimentiev
16 of September. Member of the State Duma Committee on Culture, opera singer Maria Maksakova-Igenbergs and First Deputy Chairman of the Duma Committee on Culture Iosif Kobzon during the performance of the Russian anthem at the first meeting of the autumn session of the lower house of parliament
6 September. Deputies at the plenary session of the State Duma
© ITAR-TASS/Stanislav Krasilnikov
October 9th. Russian President Vladimir Putin is photographed with the winners of the II Summer Youth Olympic Games 2014 in Nanjing, Cheboksary
© Mikhail Metzel/TASS
12 October. Russian Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev, Minister of Sports Vitaly Mutko and Chairman of the Board of Gazprom Alexei Miller at the Sochi Autodrom stadium during the Russian stage of the Formula 1 World Championship in circuit racing
© Mikhail Metzel/TASS
16 October. Russian President Vladimir Putin and Serbian President Tomislav Nikolic at the Victorious Step military parade in honor of the 70th anniversary of the liberation of Belgrade from Nazi invaders
© Mikhail Metzel/TASS
October 21. Prosecutor of the Republic of Crimea Natalya Poklonskaya at a meeting of the Crimean Council of Ministers in Simferopol
© Ruslan Shamukov/TASS
October 21. State Duma Chairman Sergei Naryshkin takes part in a relay race in the swimming pool of the North Caucasian State Humanitarian and Technological Academy during a working visit to Karachay-Cherkessia, Stavropol Territory
© Anna Isakova/TASS
November 4th. Russian President Vladimir Putin and Patriarch Kirill of Moscow and All Rus' at an exhibition about Russia's first royal dynasty, My History. Rurikovichi" in the Central Exhibition Hall "Manege", Moscow
© Mikhail Metzel/TASS
Sport
February 7th. One of the scenes of the solemn opening ceremony of the XXII Olympic Winter Games at the Fisht Stadium in Sochi. The ceremony was remembered for one unopened of the five Olympic rings, the “dreams about Russia” of the girl Lyubov, deputy Nikolai Valuev in the role of a policeman Uncle Styopa, the completion of a large-scale Olympic torch relay
February 7th. Italian figure skaters Stefania Berton and Ondřej Gotarek during their short program in the team figure skating competition at the XXII Olympic Winter Games in Sochi. Team figure skating competitions made their debut in the Olympic program at the Games in Russia
© ITAR-TASS/Sergey Fadeichev
February 9th. Russian athletes Yekaterina Bobrova, Dmitry Solovyov, Tatyana Volosozhar, Maxim Trankov, Ksenia Stolbova, Fedor Klimov, Yulia Lipnitskaya, Elena Ilyinykh, Nikita Katsalapov and Evgeni Plushenko (from left to right), who won gold medals in the team figure skating competition at the XXII Olympic Winter Games in Sochi. Thanks to this success, Plushenko became a two-time Olympic champion.
© ITAR-TASS/Artem Korotaev
February, 15. Canadian athlete Lukas Makovsky after the men's 1500m speed skating at the XXII Olympic Winter Games in Sochi. Speed skating competitions were held at the Adler Arena, which can accommodate 8,000 people
© ITAR-TASS/Vladimir Smirnov
February, 15. Athletes during the 1500m race in women's short track speed skating at the XXII Olympic Winter Games in Sochi. Short track competitions at the Olympics were held at the Iceberg Ice Palace, where figure skaters also competed
© ITAR-TASS/Vladimir Smirnov
18th of Febuary. Dutch athlete Bob de Jong during the men's 10,000m speed skating event at the XXII Olympic Winter Games in Sochi. The Dutchman won the Olympic bronze at this distance
© ITAR-TASS/Vladimir Smirnov
February 20th. Jumping from a large springboard in the team event in Nordic combined at the XXII Olympic Winter Games in Sochi. The Olympic competitions in ski jumping and Nordic combined were held on the ski jumps of the Russian Hills complex
© ITAR-TASS/Vladimir Smirnov
February 21st. Athletes during the women's ski cross in the freestyle competition at the XXII Olympic Winter Games in Sochi. Freestyle skiing competitions at the Olympics were held on the track of the Rosa Khutor Extreme Park
© ITAR-TASS/Stanislav Krasilnikov
February 23. During the awards ceremony for Russian athletes Alexander Legkov, Maxim Vylegzhanin and Ilya Chernousov, who won the men's 50 km mass start cross-country skiing at the XXII Olympic Winter Games in Sochi. Traditionally, the winners of the last day of the competition are awarded during the closing ceremony of the Olympics.
© ITAR-TASS/Vladimir Smirnov
April 13th. During the Russian Football Championship match: Lokomotiv (Moscow) - Anzhi (Makhachkala) in Moscow. The game ended in a goalless draw. According to the results of the championship of the 2013/14 season, Lokomotiv won bronze medals, and Anji dropped out of the Premier League
2 June. Dane Patrick Nielsen and Russian Dmitry Chudinov during the fight for the interim WBA world middleweight title as part of The Golden Gloves 2: Black Energy show, Moscow Region. The Russian won the opponent in 12 rounds
© ITAR-TASS/Valery Sharifulin
June 25th. A passenger in the fan zone of Afonso Pena International Airport during the 2014 FIFA World Cup, Curitiba, Brazil. Curitiba hosted five matches of the tournament, including the game between Russia and Algeria (1:1)
© ITAR-TASS/Valery Sharifulin
July 19. Russian athlete Dmitry Rigin and French athlete Enzo Lefort during the preliminary round of the men's individual foil fencing competition at the 2014 World Championships in Kazan. The Russian team won the team standings of the tournament, winning three gold medals
© ITAR-TASS/Vladimir Smirnov
26 July. CSKA player Akhmed Musa after winning the match for the Russian Football Super Cup: CSKA (Moscow) - Rostov (Rostov-on-Don) - 3:1, Krasnodar. Pontus Wernbloom, Zoran Tosic and Seydou Doumbia scored goals for the winners, Hrvoe Milic scored for the losers
© ITAR-TASS/Valery Sharifulin
October 24th. Cameroonian boxer Carlos Takam and Russian Alexander Povetkin during the fight for the WBC Silver title in Luzhniki. The Russian knocked out the Cameroonian in the tenth round
© Valery Sharifulin/TASS
November 23rd. Indian chess player Viswanathan Anand and Norwegian chess player Magnus Carlsen during a World Chess Championship match in Sochi. The Norwegian retained the world title, beat Anand with a score of 6.5:4.5
© Nina Zotina/TASS
5th of December. Participants of the Siberian Cup in winter kiting 2014 during the course-race competition, Novosibirsk. The competition was held on the ice of the Ob reservoir. 93 athletes from all over Russia competed in two disciplines - course-race and freestyle. The winners this year were the participants of the competitions from Petrozavodsk, Novosibirsk, Surgut, Chelyabinsk and Yekaterinburg
© Evgeny Kurskov/TASS
culture
January 23. Press screening of the diorama "Standing on the Ugra" in the workshop of the Studio of Military Artists named after M. B. Grekov in Moscow
© ITAR-TASS/Artem Geodakyan
April 28th. Ballet dancer Yoel Careño performs the pas de deux from the ballet Esmeralda directed by choreographer Agrippina Vaganova at the closing of the 13th Dance Open International Ballet Festival at the Alexandrinsky Theater in St. Petersburg. The festival was held from 23 to 28 April as part of the Cross Year of Culture of Russia and Great Britain
© ITAR-TASS/Ruslan Shamukov
The 1 of May. Dancer Irina Perren during the pre-premiere rehearsal of the one-act ballet "White Darkness" at the Mikhailovsky Theater in St. Petersburg. The performance was staged by the Spanish choreographer Nacho Duato, who previously worked as artistic director of the Mikhailovsky Theater ballet troupe, to music by composer Carl Jenkins
© ITAR-TASS/Ruslan Shamukov
5 May. Participants from Russia Nastya and Masha Tolmacheva at the rehearsal of the first semi-final of the 59th international song contest "Eurovision-2014" in Copenhagen, Denmark. According to the results of the competition, the Tolmacheva sisters took seventh place
may 13. Actor Naeem Khayat as Hamlet in a scene from the play "Hamlet" by Shakespeare's Globe Theatre. The performance was presented at the opening of the festival of the best theaters in Great Britain as part of the cross-year of culture of Russia and Great Britain on the stage of the Mayakovsky Theater in Moscow
© ITAR-TASS/Valery Sharifulin
June 4th. A scene from the one-act Scottish ballet Silhouette at the Mossovet Theatre, brought to Moscow as part of the Chekhov Theater Festival
© ITAR-TASS/Artem Geodakyan
June 14th. British director Terry Gilliam presented his fantastic thriller The Zero Theorem at the Barvikha Luxury Village concert hall near Moscow. According to the director, his film is "a quick look at the world we live in today." The Zero Theorem stars two-time Academy Award winner Christoph Waltz, Melanie Thierry, Matt Damon and Tilda Swinton.
© ITAR-TASS/Zurab Javakhadze
July 29. A museum of optical illusions has opened in Moscow on Stary Arbat. More than a hundred expositions are located on an area of about a thousand square meters, each of which is interactive.
© ITAR-TASS/Vyacheslav Prokofiev
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June 28th. Models demonstrate the Venus and Adonis collection by Elena Badmayeva during the Anglomania theatrical defile staged by Vasily Barkhatov, Artistic Director of the Mikhailovsky Theater Opera, as part of the Association project at the Tsarskoe Selo State Museum-Reserve, Pushkin |
August 17th. Spectators during the performance of the German band Scooter at the KUBANA-2014 festival in the village of Veselovka, Krasnodar Territory |
August 23. Visitors to the international music festival "KaZantip-2014" on the Black Sea coast. This year the festival was held for the first time in the Georgian city of Anaklia
© ITAR-TASS/Mikhail Pochuev
September 29th. Petersburg Academic Theater of Boris Eifman for the first time presented in Moscow a new version of the ballet "Requiem". The premiere performance took place on the new stage of the Bolshoi Theater as part of the Cherry Forest open art festival. In 1991, Boris Eifman staged the one-act ballet of the same name to the music of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart's Requiem. Last year, the choreographer added another act based on the poem by Anna Akhmatova to the music of the chamber symphony "In Memory of the Victims of Fascism and War" by Dmitry Shostakovich
© ITAR-TASS/Valery Sharifulin
2 October. Director of the Pushkin Museum Pushkina Marina Loshak at the exhibition "British Design: From William Morris to the Digital Revolution". In 2014, the Pushkin Museum announced long-term plans to create its own design collection. This area of activity of the Pushkin Museum will be called "Pushkin Design"
© Pavel Smertin/TASS
October 15th. Artist Alexander Grigoriev at his work "Object of Interpenetration, 1976" at the exhibition "Movement Time" as part of the opening of the Artstory gallery in Moscow. The exhibition featured about 200 works from the collections of former members of the Movement collective and collectors. The works of the members of the "Movement" combine electronic musical works, mimic scenes, geometric painting and graphics, and kinetic sculpture.
© Pavel Smertin/TASS
November 5. The Stanislavsky and Nemirovich-Danchenko Moscow Academic Musical Theater (MAMT) presented for the first time the ballet Tatyana based on Eugene Onegin staged by the world famous choreographer John Neumeier. The role of Tatyana was played by the prima ballerina of the Mariinsky Theater Diana Vishneva, and the soloist of MAMT Dmitry Sobolevsky became her partner.
© Valery Sharifulin/TASS
November 9. British singer and musician Elton John performed at a concert at the Ice Palace in St. Petersburg as part of a tour dedicated to the re-release of the cult album Goodbye Yellow Brick Road, recorded in 1973
© Ruslan Shamukov/TASS
Army and defense industry
April 12th. Guardsmen of the special guard company of the Presidential Regiment during the ceremony of disengaging foot and horse guards on Cathedral Square in the Kremlin
© ITAR-TASS/Mikhail Metzel
June 6th A serviceman at the Innovation Day exhibition of the Western Military District on the territory of the Levashovo military airfield, St. Petersburg
© ITAR-TASS/Ruslan Shamukov
July 25th. Large anti-submarine ship "Admiral Vinogradov" of the Pacific Fleet during the naval parade on the Day of the Russian Navy, Vladivostok
© ITAR-TASS/Yuri Smityuk
August 4th. During the international stage of the "Tank Biathlon-2014" at the Alabino training ground, Moscow region
August 9th. Demonstration performances of the aerobatic team "Falcons of Russia" at the military-patriotic festival "Open Sky" at the Severny airfield, Ivanovo
© ITAR-TASS/Vladimir Smirnov
August 16th. Tank T-90A during the demonstration program at the second international forum "Technologies in mechanical engineering-2014" at the airfield LII named after Gromov (Ramenskoye), Zhukovsky
© ITAR-TASS/Sergey Savostyanov
August 28. The third diesel-electric submarine "Stary Oskol" project 636.3 "Varshavyanka" during the launching ceremony at the JSC "Admiralty Shipyards", St. Petersburg
© ITAR-TASS/Yuri Belinsky
September 5th. Transfer of fuel from a tanker to a missile boat by wake method during the offshore phase of the exercise of the logistics system of the Eastern Military District, Primorsky Krai
© ITAR-TASS/Yuri Smityuk
12-th of September. The personnel of the marine brigade before being loaded onto the landing ships of the Pacific Fleet during a sudden check of combat readiness at the amphibious assault range in the Desantnaya Bay, Primorsky Krai
© ITAR-TASS/Yuri Smityuk
16 of September. Paratroopers of the 83rd Separate Air Assault Brigade in the plane before parachute jump as part of the combat readiness check of the troops of the Eastern Military District at the Vozdvizhenka airfield, Primorsky Krai
© ITAR-TASS/Yuri Smityuk
29th of October. Landing of naval tactical assault forces from large landing ships at rest and afloat of the district on an unequipped coast during a battalion tactical exercise of the Marine Corps of the Pacific Fleet at the Klerk amphibious assault range, Vladivostok
© Yuri Smityuk/TASS
November 7th. On the march dedicated to the 73rd anniversary of the military parade on November 7, 1941, on Red Square in Moscow
© Ilya Pitalev/TASS
Weekdays and holidays in Russia
January 18th. Epiphany bathing at the source of St. Seraphim of Sarov in the village of Diveevo. More than 90,000 people took part in Epiphany bathing in Moscow. In total, almost 3 thousand places for mass Epiphany bathing were equipped in Russia
© ITAR-TASS/Sergey Bobylev
19 April. View of the Black Sea coast from Mount Ai-Petri in Crimea. This year, 3.6 million tourists rested on the peninsula. Of these, 3 million are Russians
© ITAR-TASS/Stanislav Krasilnikov
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19 April. The consecration of Easter cakes and Easter eggs before the start of the celebration of Holy Easter at the Transfiguration Cathedral in Ivanovo. This year, the celebration of the Resurrection of Christ coincided with the Orthodox, Catholics and Protestants, which happens once every few years. |
May 7th Snowfall in Moscow. The Hydrometeorological Center noted that wet snow in early May is not abnormal for the Moscow region. The last time a similar phenomenon could be observed six years ago, in May 2008 |
May 8 A monument at the memorial cemetery of the city of Kineshma (Ivanovo region), where a funeral ceremony was held for the remains of unknown soldiers found who died during the Second World War in the Pskov region
© ITAR-TASS/Vladimir Smirnov
9th May. During the celebration of the 69th anniversary of the Victory in the Great Patriotic War, Moscow. 11,000 military parades, fireworks and other celebrations took place in Russia, in which more than 14.3 million people took part
© TASS/Artem Geodakyan
12 June. Mowing competition in the vicinity of Lukh, Ivanovo region
© ITAR-TASS/Vladimir Smirnov
12 June. Festive concert in honor of the Day of Russia on Red Square in Moscow. The country's main public holiday commemorates the historic declaration of sovereignty, which is 24 years old this year
© ITAR-TASS/Vyacheslav Prokofiev
12 June. Fireworks in Moscow in honor of the Day of Russia. Festive events took place throughout the country and for the first time - in the Crimea
© ITAR-TASS/Marina Lystseva
July 2nd The bell tower of the Holy Trinity Sergius Lavra and the Assumption Cathedral at sunset, Moscow region. On July 16, a religious procession dedicated to the 700th anniversary of St. Sergius of Radonezh took place in the Moscow region. The solemn procession, in which more than 30 thousand people took part, was led by Patriarch Kirill of Moscow and All Rus'
© ITAR-TASS/Vladimir Sayapin
3 July. Children play football in the village of Shchelykovo, Kostroma Region
© ITAR-TASS/Vladimir Smirnov
5'th of July. Celebration of Ivan Kupala Day as part of the festival “Great Rus'. Ivan Kupala" on Russky Island. The festival was held on the territory of the historical monument of the Powder Cellar No. 13 of the Vladivostok Fortress
© ITAR-TASS/Yuri Smityuk
18 July. Preparation for a hot air balloon flight as part of the XII Russian Hot Air Balloon Festival "The Sky of St. Sergius" during the celebration of the 700th anniversary of St. Sergius of Radonezh in Sergiev Posad, Moscow Region
July 19. Participants of the Five Bridges tweed bike ride in the center of St. Petersburg. Up to 1,000 people gather for the bike ride every year. This year's theme is Paris in the 1940s. The very first tweed bike ride was held in January 2009 in London.
© ITAR-TASS/Ruslan Shamukov
July 20. "GUM cycling" on the Kremlin embankment in Moscow. The event is dedicated to the celebration of the 120th anniversary of GUM
© ITAR-TASS/Anton Novoderezhkin
July 28th. Police during the solemn prayer of Muslims on the occasion of the holiday of Eid al-Fitr (breaking the fast) at the Cathedral Mosque in Moscow. In Russia, Islam is the second largest religion in terms of the number of believers. According to the data of the head of the Council of Muftis of Russia Ravil Gainutdin for 2013, at least 23 million Muslims representing 38 nations live in the Russian Federation. There are about 2 million Muslims in Moscow
© ITAR-TASS/Valery Sharifulin
August 2. Muscovites flee from the heat at the fountain in Muzeon Park. This day was the hottest summer day in Moscow, the air warmed up to +32.9°C. The history of meteorological observations shows that August in the capital was rarely hot, the average monthly temperature is +16.4°C
© ITAR-TASS/Pavel Smertin
8 August. The son of the Chief Rabbi of Russia Sholom Lazar (right) during an ethnographic expedition in a mobile synagogue (mitzvah mobile) on a street in Novosibirsk. Rabbis from Israel, the USA and Europe arrived in Novosibirsk on mobile synagogues as part of an expedition to Russian cities
© ITAR-TASS/Evgeny Kurskov
August 17th. Preparing a biology classroom for the new academic year in a secondary school in the city of Ivanovo. On September 1, 2014, about 43 thousand schools opened their doors. 1.5 million children went to the first grade, and in total 14 million schoolchildren sat at their desks
© ITAR-TASS/Vladimir Smirnov
12-th of September. Employees of the laboratory for the study of extreme light fields and their applications in a laser system for generating second pulses at the Nizhny Novgorod State University named after N. I. Lobachevsky
© ITAR-TASS/Vladimir Smirnov
September 14th. I. V. Stalin's double is watching the elections to the Moscow City Duma in one of the sections of the city
© ITAR-TASS/Ilya Pitalev
1October 0 Fireworks as part of the IV Moscow International Festival "Circle of Light" in Moscow. Its main theme this year was "Around the World"
© Marina Lystseva/TASS
20 November. A visitor to the Skypark extreme entertainment complex on the world's highest swing, SochiSwing, 170 m high. The main part of the complex is the world's longest suspension bridge equipped with a bungee jumping system. The total weight of the structure is 120 tons
© Nina Zotina/TASS
1918
Homeless children play cards on the street.
1920
Vladimir Lenin delivers a speech on Sverdlov Square at the parade of troops leaving for the Polish front.
1920
Civil War. Soldiers of the First Cavalry Army of Budyonny at a rally.
1925
The first electric light bulb.
1927
Homeless children in the column of pioneers at the May Day demonstration.
1928
Writer Maxim Gorky at the Nizhny Novgorod radio laboratory.
1929
Children in kindergarten draw a poster for the celebration of the 12th anniversary of the Great October Revolution.
1929
The delegates of the All-Union Congress of Soviets are flying to the congress on the plane of the Dobrolet Society.
1930
The founder of modern cosmonautics Konstantin Tsiolkovsky.
1932
May Day demonstration in Moscow.
1933
Tractor driver Praskovya Angelina.
1934
The first test train of the Moscow Metro, which made a test trip from the Komsomolskaya station to the Sokolniki station.
1935
Central Park of Culture and Leisure. A double-headed eagle taken from the Kremlin tower and one of the four stars installed in 1935 on the Kremlin towers.
1936
The parade of athletes on Red Square, On the podium of the Lenin Mausoleum: V. M. Molotov, N. S. Khrushchev, I. V. Stalin (from left to right) and other officials.
1937
Non-stop flight Moscow - North Pole - America.
1938
Arrival in the capital of the conquerors of the North Pole Papanin, Shirshov, Krenkel and Fedorov. Cars with heroes drive along Kirov Street in the rain of welcome leaflets.
1939
Construction of the Great Ferghana Canal.
1941
Muscovites listen to a message about the attack of Nazi Germany.
1941
Women with children at the Mayakovskaya metro station during an air raid.
1942
Fight during the Great Patriotic War.
1945
Yalta conference, February 11, 1945. British Prime Minister W. Churchill, US President F. D. Roosevelt and Marshal of the Soviet Union I. V. Stalin before one of the meetings. Standing: British Foreign Secretary A. Eden, US Secretary of State E. Stettinius and People's Commissar for Foreign Affairs of the USSR V. M. Molotov
1945
Meeting on the Elbe of Soviet and American troops
1945
Banner of Victory over Berlin.
1947
Young builders of the Dneproges.
1950
Pioneer summer in Crimea.
1950s
At the Moscow plant of small cars.
1950
At the hotel "Ukraine" in Moscow.
1955
Wires to the ground.
Performance of artists in the areas of development of virgin lands, 1950s. Performance by a ballet soloist of the Leningrad Opera and Ballet Theater. S. M. Kirov E. A. Smirnova on the field camp of the tractor brigade.
Moscow. Evening in Gorky Park.
1957
I World Festival of Youth and Students in Moscow. British delegation during the festival procession.
I World Festival of Youth and Students in Moscow.
Stalingrad. Construction of the Volga hydroelectric power station named after. V. I. Lenin. Suspension cableway and pedestrian bridge across the Volga.
Academician Alexander Bakulev during an operation at the Institute of Thoracic Surgery of the USSR Academy of Medical Sciences.
1958
Autumn off-road.
White nights in Leningrad.
In a tea house.
Violator of discipline in a pioneer camp.
In the metropolitan metro.
At the department store.
1959
Trawler "Valery Chkalov".
1960
The resting place is the jaw of a whale.
Four-legged cosmonauts Belka and Strelka after returning to Earth.
1961
Graduates of Moscow schools on Red Square.
Everyday life.
II International Film Festival. Italian film actress Gina Lollobrigida kisses Yuri Gagarin.
City of Gorky. Construction of a bridge across the Oka.
Krasnodar region. Grain harvesting.
1962
Krasnoyarsk region. The helicopter delivered the hunters to the place of fishing.
1963
Nikita Sergeevich Khrushchev at his dacha in Zavidovo during the stay of a delegation from Czechoslovakia.
People greet Fidel Castro (in the car on the left) and other Cuban guests. Fidel Castro's first visit to the USSR.
On Kotelnicheskaya embankment.
The first female cosmonaut Valentina Tereshkova (center) after landing.
Moscow. Beauty salon visitors.
1964
Yamalo-Nenets Autonomous Okrug. Reindeer harnesses.
Krasnoyarsk region. Young builders at the shock Komsomol construction site.
1965
Yakut ASSR. Reindeer girl.
1966
Climbers on the Inylchek glacier near Lake Merzbacher.
1967
Moscow. During classes at the choreographic school.
1968
Moscow. Clown Oleg Popov.
On the beach of Pitsunda.
1969
Vilnius. Young dads with children for a walk.
Meeting the first train on the platform of the Kolomenskaya metro station.
1970
Yashin has the ball.
1973
The current model of "Lunokhod-2" at the Lunodrome.
1976
Festive illumination on Kalininsky Prospekt.
Soloist of the Bolshoi Theater of the USSR Maya Plisetskaya as Odette in Pyotr Tchaikovsky's ballet "Swan Lake".
1977
General Secretary of the Central Committee of the CPSU Leonid Ilyich Brezhnev hunting in the Moscow region.
1979
Vladimir Vysotsky performs in Yaroslavl.
1980
City of Kostomuksha.
The Closing Ceremony of the XXII Olympic Games at the Central Stadium. V. I. Lenin.
Irina Rodnina and Alexander Zaitsev during their performance at the European Figure Skating Championships. Sweden. Gothenburg.
1981
On a border guard ship.
1982
Tambov section of the Urengoy-Uzhgorod gas pipeline.
Vladimir Menshov's painting "Moscow Does Not Believe in Tears" wins an Oscar. Irina Muravyova as Luda (pictured left) and Vera Alentova as Katya in a scene from the film.
1984
Yakut ASSR. The opening of the bridge across the Lena River on the route of the Baikal-Amur Mainline (BAM) under construction.
1986
Chernobyl nuclear power plant. The construction of the sarcophagus over the fourth power unit.
1988
Rostov region. Protest against non-payment of pensions and poverty in the city of Shakhty.
Mikhail Gorbachev, Ronald Reagan and George W. Bush at the Admiral's House on Governors Island.
1989
Rally for independence in Baku.
Deputy Andrei Sakharov at the First Congress of People's Deputies of the USSR.
The withdrawal of Soviet troops from Afghanistan. A column of parachute troops crosses the border.
1990
Chairman of the Supreme Soviet of the RSFSR Boris Yeltsin and President of the USSR Mikhail Gorbachev, at the IV Congress of People's Deputies of the USSR.
Sculptor Ernst Neizvestny at work on a three-meter copy of the monument to the victims of Stalinist repressions (a mask crying with human faces).
Icebreaker "Soviet Union".
Sale of goods on cards in stores.
1991
Rally on Manezhnaya Square in Moscow. The main slogans of the action are the resignation of Mikhail Gorbachev, the support of Boris Yeltsin.
All three days, August 19-21, while the putsch organized by the State Emergency Committee continued, supporters of Boris Yeltsin held mass demonstrations in Moscow. Action on August 20 on the square near the White House.
1993
1994
Nobel Prize winner Alexander Solzhenitsyn with his son Yermolai during a trip from Vladivostok to Moscow.
1997
Open concert dedicated to the 100th anniversary of the memory of Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky. At the conductor's stand Mstislav Rostropovich.
1998
Signs of the past.
