Cool pictures of the Union from the beginning to the end. Individual stories in the history of the country.
Street photographer, 1920.
«Songs not sing. Vodka drink. Keep quiet. " The fight in the yard doss-house, 1895 | Photo: Mikhail Dmitriev
In Russia - the first Russian revolution. Writer Maxim Gorky pokes broom opera singer Feodor Chaliapin, 1905.
Futurist poet Vladimir Mayakovsky, 1920 | Photo: Abram Shterenberg
Cabby watered with water horse 1924
Gym class at the Uzbek school, 1935 | Photo: George Zelma
And fun, and scary. Comrade Stalin welcome young pioneers, 1935 | Photo: Ivan Shahin
"Are we to stand still?" The parade of athletes on Red Square, 1936 | Photo: Ivan Shahin
Uzbek athletes parade? No, it's the builders of the Great Fergana Canal, 1939 | Photo: Max Alpert
Trams on Nevsky rose, people with smiles on their faces fleeing to the shelter. One of the first bombing of Leningrad, June 24, 1941 | Photo by Gregory Devil
A little more than three months before the beginning of the occupation of Kharkov by the Germans. Service in one of the churches in the city, 1941 | Photo: Simon Friedland
The farmers are considering a downed German plane, 1944 | Photo: George Zelma
The end of the war. Victory Salute to the Red Square in Moscow on May 9, 1945 | Photo: Boris Kudoyarov
Footballers Moscow "Dynamo" in London, November 1945 | Photo: Ivan Shahin
Assembling cars ZIS-110 at the Moscow Automobile Plant, 1946 | Photo: Ivan Shahin
Marshal Semyon Budyonny on parade November 7, 1947 on Red Square
Leningrad Avenue near the stadium "Dinamo" before a football match, 1949 | Photo: Ivan Shahin
The famous football goalkeeper Alex Khomich, 1950 | Photo: Michael Botashev
Stalin died - someone crying, someone happy. The funeral of the leader on the Red Square, 1953 | Photo: Peter Chernov
The theme of the decade - the development of virgin lands. Tselinnik preparing dinner on the field camp, 1955 | Photo: Isaac Tunkel
An unprecedented event - a week of French film in Moscow! Philip Gerard, the famous Tulip Fanfan, among Muscovites, 1955 | Photo: Yakov Berliner
Hunter with a wounded duck, 1956 | Photo: Nikolai Kozlovsky
Torah reading in a Moscow synagogue, 1956 | Photo: Yakov Berliner
Another incredible event for Moscow in those years - Youth Festival 1957. In virtually closed to foreign countries came thousands of delegates of the festival from all over the world. It was fun and unusual | Photo: Ivan Shahin
In this photo RIAN archive signed simply: "Students in the classroom." However, if you look closely, the students do a writing assignment in Hindi - in the late fifties we strongly friends with India and, apparently, in some cases even begun to teach children the language of a friendly state | Photo: Vladimir Minkevich
The boys call on street phone, 1961 | Photo: Oleg Neelov
Incomparable Maya Plisetskaya. That it was in 1963 | Photo by Alexander Tikhanov
Physics and lyrics - the theme early 60s. Famous, iconic picture of Vladimir Tarasevich "Duel», 1963.
Photo beautiful, but the date makes me doubt. I think this scene took off for a couple of years earlier. Schoolboy, 1963 | Photo: Mikhail Ozerskiy
Severe everyday life of the Baltic occupation. Students Vilnius Art School playing football after school, 1964
Vilnius, 1965. Miniskirts there appeared a couple of years before | Photo: Marius Baranauskas
Dmitri Shostakovich, 1965 | Photo: Mikhail Ozerskiy
Fantastic photo hunter from Kyrgyzstan, 1966 | Photo: Edward Wilczynski
"Prague Spring". Hard dialogue on the street, 1968. | Photo: Valeriy Shustov
Trainer Stepan Isaakyan (right) on the Black Sea beach, 1967 | Photo: Yuri Somov
The word "auto repair" will go down in the lexicon of Soviet man a little later. And in 1969, a broken-down car on the road need to repair their own | Photo by Alexey Shcherbakov
In the late 60's Lyudmila Tourischeva knew the whole country. At 16, she became the Olympic champion at the Games in 1968 in Mexico City | Photo: Dmitry Donskoy
70 - the heyday of Soviet aviation | Photo: Alex Polikashin
Military pilots at the airport, 1970
Rocketry before the parade on Red Square November 7, 1970.
Great doctor Nikolai Amosov, 1973 | Photo: Max Alpert
CPSU General Secretary Leonid Brezhnev, 1973 | Photo by Vladimir Malyshev
Mirror of the soul of Soviet man late 70's - Alla Pugacheva, 1979 | Photo: Andrew Naidenov
On a farm in the village of losevodcheskoy Sumarokovo Kostroma Region, 1979 | Photo: Vyacheslav Bobkov
Friends, 1981 | Photo: Victor Chistyakov
Grandmaster Mikhail Tal, 1982 | Photo: Dmitry Donskoy
Restoration work on the Mamaev Hill, 1986 | Photo: Vitaly Arutyunov
Soldiers return from Afghanistan, 1986 | Photo: Yuri Somov
Earthquake in Spitak, 1988 | Photo: Alexander Makarov
Moscow, August 22, 1991 | Photo by Alexey Fedoseyev