Russian soldiers in action near Riga, Latvia, 1944. Riga was recaptured by the Red Army on 13 October 1944.
This is the historic meeting of Roosevelt, Churchill, and Stalin at Yalta in the Crimea, February 1945.
The RDS-6s device, the first Soviet test of a thermonuclear weapon on August 12, 1953. Found in the collection of © The Lebedev Physics Institute ,...
Laika, the Soviet Satellite dog in the specially designed space equipment in Sputnik II. The capsule will probably burn up on re-entry.
The Solovki prison camp , 1927-1928. Found in the collection of Memorial, historical and civil rights society.
China established the Lop Nur Nuclear Test Base on 16 October 1959 with Soviet assistance in selection of the site, with its headquarters at Malan,...
The Soviet War in Afghanistan was a nine-year conflict involving the Soviet Union, supporting the Marxist government of the Democratic Republic of...
Russian Intercontinental Missile crossing Red Square during the military parade in Moscow marking the 20th Anniversary of the end of the war in...
Port bow view of the Soviet guided missile destroyer Vitse Admiral Kulakov underway. Mediterranean Sea, June 1988.
Crowds in Riga, the capital of Latvia, hailing the incorporation of the country into the Soviet Union.
Female workers of the Trekhgornaya Manufaktura factory in the process of linen production addressed to Red Army. 1920.
Govt. Soldier w. Soviet tank at mil. Outpost, calm re non aggression protocol between bribed Mujahedeen & army, at Wajjan Gorge overlooking Logar,...
Pavlov, Leonid I. Brezhnev , Nikolai V. Podgorny , East German chief Walter Ulbricht , CPSU figure Mikhail A. Suslov , and Mongolian leader Yumzhagin...
Operation August Storm . A Soviet tank unit crossing the Great Khingan Mountain in Manchuria. August 1945.
Lockheed u2 spy plane like the one piloted by gary frances powers that was shot down over soviet territory in 1960.
Des créateurs soviétiques ont inventé les designs de multiples transistors de petite taille en octobre 1963 en Russie.
The Battle of Khalkhyn Gol was the decisive engagement of the undeclared SovietÐJapanese Border War fought between the Soviet Union, Mongolia and the...
Group of Soviet soldiers hoists the Red Banner at Battle of Lake Khasan 1938. The Battle of Lake Khasan , also known as the Changkufeng Incident, was...
Two young Soviet women crouch under cover during a battle, waiting for an opportunity to move up with their stretcher and retrieve a wounded soldier.
Scottish actor Sean Connery plays the leading role in director Terence Young's 1963 James Bond movie From Russia With Love, known in French as Bons...
Zweiter Weltkrieg, Russlandfeldzug 1941 - Ostfront'Unternehmen Barbarossa'Deutscher Angriff auf die Sowjetunion ab - Zerstoerungen im Stadtbild von...
Zweiter Weltkrieg, Russlandfeldzug 1941 - Ostfront'Unternehmen Barbarossa'Deutscher Angriff auf die Sowjetunion ab - gefangene Russen werden von Riga...
The Soviet Union's second operational aircraft carrier, the 'Minsk', is photographed by US Navy surveillance aircraft in the Mediterranean Sea, March...
Chancellor Willy Brandt and Soviet state president Leonid Brezhnev meet on a boat in the Soviet Union on the 17th of September in 1971.
Russia: Cheering Communist youths leading the way for this huge portrait of Josef Stalin tramp past the honor tribune at right background.
Russian soldiers flying the Red Flag, made from table cloths, over the ruins of the Reichstag in Berlin.
The Soviet Faces West. Moscow, U.S.S.R.: Alarmed at the proximity of the European war to their own borders, Soviet leaders have ordered hundreds of...
The Soviet Union football team before the start of their World Cup quarter - final match with Hungary Sunderland. The Soviet Union went on to qualify...
And Soviet flags fly side-by-side in Moscow, an unlikely sight from that era, during the Nixon-Brezhnev, USA-USSR Summit Meeting.
