Tass photo chronicle. The best photos from the archives of the Tass Army and Defense Industry Agency
As the chief editor of photo information.
The agency became best known as TASS Photo Chronicle, since it bore this name for several decades. In everyday speech it often bore the name “Photochronicle,” denoting one of the largest agencies creating a photo chronicle of the internal life of the USSR for use in domestic publications. TASS Photo Chronicle was the largest supplier of news photographic information for Soviet printed publications 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 photographic information for foreign publications.
Agency history
The beginning of the history of TASS Photo Chronicles can be considered in 1926, when a workshop was created at the ROSTA agency for the production of typographic cliché photographs for central printed publications. Over time, the workshop grew into a full-fledged photographic service and turned into an independent editorial office that collected information, created photo reports and individual photographs, and distributed them. During the Great Patriotic War, Photo Chronicle reporters made the most significant contribution to the creation of a documentary photo chronicle of military operations. During these years, the editorial staff included such famous photojournalists as Evgeniy Khaldei, who photographed the hoisting of the Soviet flag over the Reichstag, Emmanuel Evzerikhin, Mark Redkin, Max Alpert and others. 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 central body of photographic information in the country, receiving the name “The 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 Oktyabrya Street, building 4, now Nikolskaya Street, and later on Bolshaya Dorogomilovskaya Building 12, in a former school building. For the Moscow Olympics, Fotochronika received another building in the neighborhood: on Bryanskaya Street, building 7, where it was located until recently. Exhibition photo printing workshops, warehouses and photographic equipment repair shops remained in the building on Bolshaya Dorogomilovskaya. In the mid-2000s, the agency abandoned the building on Dorogomilovskaya, and at the moment it is abandoned and uninhabited. Coverage of CPSU congresses and the official chronicle became a virtual monopoly of TASS Photo Chronicle, which supplied photographs for all domestic and foreign publications. Particularly important state events in the regions were covered online using a phototelegraph to transmit images, which was gradually equipped at all news desks. Since February 7, 1957, the phototelegraph was used by the agency to transmit finished photographs to the largest foreign consumers of photographic information. By the end of the stagnation, the agency's main product was official photo reports about party events and the achievements of the socialist economy. Central and local newspapers and magazines were obliged to publish Photo Chronicle materials, royalties for which brought guaranteed income to the agency.
With the beginning of Perestroika, the ideological ban on covering many aspects of social and political life was lifted, and the agency’s reporters received a significantly 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 Photo Chronicle. However, difficult times soon came for the agency, because, despite the rapid development of printed publications 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, Associated Press and others, with worldwide coverage of correspondent networks and advanced technical equipment, gained access to the Russian domestic market. The emergence and development of the Internet and methods of instant delivery of photographic images to any consumer forced Photo Chronicle to develop the latest methods of distribution. Thanks to a cooperation agreement with the Reuters photo service, an operational photo information feed was created in the mid-1990s, and foreign partners gained access to Photo Chronicle photographs from the regions. Since 1992, after the renaming of the head agency TASS to ITAR-TASS, TASS Photo Chronicle was renamed to the ITAR-TASS Photo Agency. Currently, the agency has its own technical equipment for generating photo news feeds and is one of the five largest suppliers of photo information for Russian news publications.
Importance for domestic photojournalism
Despite the ideological nature of the activities of Photo Chronicle, 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, but also reporters from the regions could collaborate with the agency, improving their skills at the same time. In fact, Photo Chronicle was the country's main photo bank until the late 1990s, working with many freelance writers at home and abroad. The vast majority of famous Russian photojournalists have, in one way or another, ever collaborated with Photochronicles. Many current employees of foreign photo agencies of Russian origin also come from the walls of TASS Photo Chronicles. The agency's reporters have repeatedly received prizes in prestigious international photo competitions, including World Press Photo, in which Photochronicle was a regular participant, along with its foreign competitors.
Notes
- Photo by ITAR-TASS (Russian). Ruspress Photo. Retrieved January 1, 2013.
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- Zatravkina Tatyana Yurievna. Telegraph Agency of the Soviet Union during the Great Patriotic War (Russian) (unavailable link). Course work. Moscow State Humanitarian University named after. M.A. SHOLOKHOV (2007). Retrieved December 16, 2013. Archived 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 approval of the regulations of the Telegraph Agency of the Soviet Union under the Council of Ministers of the USSR (Russian). Resolution of the USSR Council of Ministers No. 927. Library of normative legal acts (December 3, 1966). Retrieved January 1, 2013. Archived January 30, 2013.
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90 years ago, a press cliché department was organized within TASS. Today, the editorial office of TASS photo information (formerly TASS Photo Chronicle) is the oldest photo agency in Russia and the CIS, specializing in the production of photo news in real time.
The beginning of the history of TASS Photo Chronicles can be considered in 1926, when a workshop was created at the ROSTA agency for the production of printing cliches of photographs for central printed publications. Over time, the workshop grew into a full-fledged photographic service and turned into an independent editorial office that collected information, created photo reports and individual photographs, and distributed them.
During the Great Patriotic War, Photo Chronicle reporters made the most significant contribution to the creation of a documentary photo chronicle of military operations. During these years, the editorial staff included such well-known photojournalists as Evgeniy Khaldei, Grigory Lipskerov, Mark Redkin, Leonid Velikzhanin, Sergei Loskutov, Naum Granovsky, Emmanuil Evzerikhin, Nikolai Sitnikov. Their photographs went down in history and form the golden fund of Russian photography, as does the shooting of the Victory Parade, the memory of which was immortalized for posterity by the shots of Tassov photojournalists.
In the post-war period, Photo Chronicle occupied a strong position in the domestic information field and actively entered the international market. And here the leading photojournalists are the masters of political reporting, whose leaders were Vadim Kovrigin, Vasily Egorov, Vladimir Savostyanov, Valentin Mastakov, Viktor Koshevoy, Valentin Sobolev, and later Vladimir Musaelyan, Viktor Badan, Eduard Pasov, Alexander Chumichek.
Since the mid-60s, TASS began to master color photography. In the 70s, the agency’s photographic archive was already actively replenished with color negatives, and at the same time color production was in full swing at Photochronicle.
The 80s were the peak in terms of circulation of TASS photo information. Not only central, republican, regional, regional publications of the former USSR, but also regional and even large-circulation newspapers received TASS photographs in their editorial offices. Photo chronicles had a monopoly in the production of official, government photographic information and covered all aspects of the country's life: the economy, social spheres, culture and sports. In those years, the winners of prestigious international photo competitions were Valentin Kuzmin, Vitaly Sozinov, Valery Zufarov, Viktor Velikzhanin, Igor Utkin, Roman Denisov, Valery Khristoforov, Boris Kavashkin, Igor Zoin, Anatoly Morkovkin.
Special correspondents of the agency witnessed many historical events and talked about them in their reports: Vasily Egorov - from the capital of revolutionary Cuba and from the drifting station "SP-1", Lev Porter and Valentin Sobolev - from the fighting Vietnam, orders marked the brilliant long-term work of Albert Pushkarev , filming literally “from under the hooves” of fiery spaceships. The Golden Eye winner was Valery Zufarov for photographs taken above the crater of the fourth block of the Chernobyl nuclear power plant in May 1986.
The names of famous but younger reporters coincided with a turning point in our lives. Perestroika ended, the Soviet Union collapsed, and the era of war correspondents came again, but now in a different, post-perestroika time. Andrey Solovyov, Gennady Khamelyanin, Sergey Zhukov, Anatoly Morkovkin worked in “hot” spots many times. This includes Nagorno-Karabakh, Tajikistan, Abkhazia, the 1991 coup and the 1993 confrontation, and later Chechnya. In 1993, ITAR-TASS photojournalist Andrei Solovyov, who was posthumously awarded the Order of Courage, died in Abkhazia; in 2000, Vladimir Yamina went missing in Chechnya.
With the beginning of perestroika, the ideological ban on covering many aspects of social and political life was lifted, and the agency’s reporters received O greater freedom in choosing topics. In addition, there was a demand for photographs showing reality from unusual points of view. This contributed to the professional growth of Photo Chronicle. However, difficult times soon came for the agency, because, despite the rapid development of printed publications 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, Associated Press and others, with worldwide coverage of correspondent networks and advanced technical equipment, gained access to the Russian domestic market. The emergence and development of the Internet and methods of instant delivery of photographic images to any consumer forced Photo Chronicle to develop the latest methods of distribution. Thanks to a cooperation agreement with the Reuters photo service, an operational photo information feed was created in the mid-1990s, and foreign partners gained access to Photo Chronicle photographs from the regions. Since 1992, after the head agency TASS was renamed ITAR-TASS, TASS Photo Chronicle was renamed the ITAR-TASS Photo Agency. Currently, the agency has its own technical equipment for generating photo news feeds and is one of the five largest suppliers of photo information for Russian news publications.
Today, the photobank tassphoto.com is the largest database of photographs among all media in Russia and the CIS. It contains more than 10 million contemporary and archival images of different genres and themes. There are about 1 million historical photographs and negatives here alone. In 2015, the photo bank was replenished with another 3 million 621 thousand 853 photographs.
In the anniversary year, TASS will delight Muscovites and guests of the capital with many interesting events and exhibitions. For example, in the White Hall of the Moscow Union of Journalists, a meeting was recently held with a veteran of TASS photo chronicles, a member of the SJM, Vladimir Musaelyan, who has served in TASS for more than half a century. He worked with all the secretaries general, and was Leonid Brezhnev’s personal photographer for 14 years. When I started at the main news agency of the country, there were only military correspondents who had returned from the front. I learned philanthropy and work ethic from those whose photographs went down in history.
“We believed that if a profession chose us, we should serve it. And they served faithfully,” says Vladimir Musaelyan.
On March 8, the photo exhibition “Spring in Moscow in the 60s” opened at the Fili Park. It presents previously unknown photographs from the archives of the Russian news agency TASS.
Despite the fact that the photographs are devoid of color, they perfectly convey the bright picture and atmosphere of Moscow in the 1950s-1960s of the twentieth century. Visitors to PKiO “Fili” will see what the central streets, embankments and parks were like in those years, how holiday festivities were organized, what kind of transport the capital’s residents used, what young Muscovites played, and a lot of other interesting details.
The exhibition, which will last until the end of April this year, presents the works of famous TASS reporters - masters of Soviet and Russian photojournalism. Among them are Naum Granovsky, Lev Porter, Victor Budan, Vladimir Savostyanov, Sergei Preobrazhensky, Valentin Mastyukov, Nikolai Akimov and others.
A photo exhibition dedicated to the anniversary is also displayed in the windows of TASS.
1918
Street children play cards on the street.
1920
Vladimir Lenin gives a speech on Sverdlov Square at the parade of troops leaving for the Polish front.
1920
Civil War. Soldiers of Budyonny's First Cavalry Army at a rally.
1925
The first electric light bulb.
1927
Homeless children in a 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
Delegates of the All-Union Congress of Soviets fly 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 run 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
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 of the North Pole explorers Papanin, Shirshov, Krenkel and Fedorov in the capital. Cars with heroes drive along Kirov Street under the rain of welcome leaflets.
1939
Construction of the Great Fergana 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 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 J. V. Stalin before the start of 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 Dnieper hydroelectric station.
1950
Pioneer summer in Crimea.
1950s
At the Moscow Small Car Plant.
1950
At the Ukraina Hotel in Moscow.
1955
Farewell to the virgin lands.
Performance by artists in areas where virgin lands were developed, 1950s. Performance by the ballet soloist of the Leningrad Opera and Ballet Theater. S. M. Kirov E. A. Smirnova at the field camp of the tractor brigade.
Moscow. Evening in Gorky Park.
1957
I World Festival of Youth and Students in Moscow. The British delegation during the festival procession.
I World Festival of Youth and Students in Moscow.
Stalingrad. Construction of the Volzhskaya Hydroelectric Power Station named after. V.I. Lenin. Cable car 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 the teahouse.
Violator of discipline in a pioneer camp.
In the capital's metro.
In a 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.
Gorky city. Construction of a bridge across the Oka.
Krasnodar region. Grain harvesting.
1962
Krasnoyarsk region. The helicopter took the hunters to the fishing spot.
1963
Nikita Sergeevich Khrushchev at his dacha in Zavidovo during the stay of the 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. Visitors to a beauty salon.
1964
Yamalo-Nenets Autonomous Okrug. Reindeer sleigh.
Krasnoyarsk region. Young builders at a Komsomol shock construction site.
1965
Yakut ASSR. Girl-reindeer herder.
1966
Climbers on the Inylchek glacier in the area of 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 on a walk.
Meeting the first train on the platform of the Kolomenskaya metro station.
1970
Yashin has the ball.
1973
A working 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 CPSU Central Committee 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 performing at the European Figure Skating Championships. Sweden. Gothenburg.
1981
On a border patrol ship.
1982
Tambov section of the Urengoy-Uzhgorod gas pipeline.
Vladimir Menshov's film “Moscow Doesn't Believe in Tears” wins an Academy Award. Irina Muravyova as Lyuda (pictured left) and Vera Alentova as Katya in a scene from the film.
1984
Yakut ASSR. Opening of a bridge across the Lena River on the route of the Baikal-Amur Mainline (BAM) under construction.
1986
Chernobyl nuclear power plant. Construction of a 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.
Withdrawal of Soviet troops from Afghanistan. A column of paratroopers crosses the border.
1990
Chairman of the Supreme Council of the RSFSR Boris Yeltsin and USSR President 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 Stalin's repressions (a mask crying with human faces).
Icebreaker "Soviet Union".
Selling goods using cards in stores.
1991
Rally on Manezhnaya Square in Moscow. The main slogans of the action are the resignation of Mikhail Gorbachev and 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 Ermolai during a trip from Vladivostok to Moscow.
1997
Open concert dedicated to the 100th anniversary of the memory of Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky. Mstislav Rostropovich is at the conductor's stand.
1998
Signs of the past.
1918
Street children play cards on the street.
1920
Vladimir Lenin gives a speech on Sverdlov Square at the parade of troops leaving for the Polish front.
1920
Civil War. Soldiers of Budyonny's First Cavalry Army at a rally.
1925
The first electric light bulb.
1927
Homeless children in a 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
Delegates of the All-Union Congress of Soviets fly 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 run 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
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 of the North Pole explorers Papanin, Shirshov, Krenkel and Fedorov in the capital. Cars with heroes drive along Kirov Street under the rain of welcome leaflets.
1939
Construction of the Great Fergana 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 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 J. V. Stalin before the start of 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 Dnieper hydroelectric station.
1950
Pioneer summer in Crimea.
1950s
At the Moscow Small Car Plant.
1950
At the Ukraina Hotel in Moscow.
1955
Farewell to the virgin lands.
Performance by artists in areas where virgin lands were developed, 1950s. Performance by the ballet soloist of the Leningrad Opera and Ballet Theater. S. M. Kirov E. A. Smirnova at the field camp of the tractor brigade.
Moscow. Evening in Gorky Park.
1957
I World Festival of Youth and Students in Moscow. The British delegation during the festival procession.
I World Festival of Youth and Students in Moscow.
Stalingrad. Construction of the Volzhskaya Hydroelectric Power Station named after. V.I. Lenin. Cable car 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 the teahouse.
Violator of discipline in a pioneer camp.
In the capital's metro.
In a 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.
Gorky city. Construction of a bridge across the Oka.
Krasnodar region. Grain harvesting.
1962
Krasnoyarsk region. The helicopter took the hunters to the fishing spot.
1963
Nikita Sergeevich Khrushchev at his dacha in Zavidovo during the stay of the 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. Visitors to a beauty salon.
1964
Yamalo-Nenets Autonomous Okrug. Reindeer sleigh.
Krasnoyarsk region. Young builders at a Komsomol shock construction site.
1965
Yakut ASSR. Girl-reindeer herder.
1966
Climbers on the Inylchek glacier in the area of 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 on a walk.
Meeting the first train on the platform of the Kolomenskaya metro station.
1970
Yashin has the ball.
1973
A working 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 CPSU Central Committee 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 performing at the European Figure Skating Championships. Sweden. Gothenburg.
1981
On a border patrol ship.
1982
Tambov section of the Urengoy-Uzhgorod gas pipeline.
Vladimir Menshov's film “Moscow Doesn't Believe in Tears” wins an Academy Award. Irina Muravyova as Lyuda (pictured left) and Vera Alentova as Katya in a scene from the film.
1984
Yakut ASSR. Opening of a bridge across the Lena River on the route of the Baikal-Amur Mainline (BAM) under construction.
1986
Chernobyl nuclear power plant. Construction of a 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.
Withdrawal of Soviet troops from Afghanistan. A column of paratroopers crosses the border.
1990
Chairman of the Supreme Council of the RSFSR Boris Yeltsin and USSR President 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 Stalin's repressions (a mask crying with human faces).
Icebreaker "Soviet Union".
Selling goods using cards in stores.
1991
Rally on Manezhnaya Square in Moscow. The main slogans of the action are the resignation of Mikhail Gorbachev and 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 Ermolai during a trip from Vladivostok to Moscow.
1997
Open concert dedicated to the 100th anniversary of the memory of Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky. Mstislav Rostropovich is at the conductor's stand.
1998
Signs of the past.
