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Gallery Package - RIA Novosti Photo Archive 1900-1940
Sovinformbureau 1941-1960 | Novosti Press Agency 1961-1990 | RIA Novosti 1991-2007

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Dmitry Debabov<br>The old and the new -  film camera crew - Eduard Tisse, Grigory Alexandrov and Mikhail Gomorov 1926.<br>Cinematographer Eduard Tissé was the favorite cameraman of Soviet director Sergei Eisenstein. Born in Latvia to a Russian mother and a Swedish father, he got his start during the Russian Revolution as a newsreel cameraman.<br>Russian filmmaker Grigori Alexandrov started out as an acrobat, entertaining Russian troops on the Western Front. Alexandrov then went to work as an actor and stage manager at Prolekult Theater in Moscow,

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Yevgeny Khaldei frontline photographer in the International Miltary Tribunal courtroom Nuremberg, during the trial of Hermann Goring at the Nuremberg trials, 1946.<br>Yevgeny Khaldei (March 23 [O.S. March 10] 1917 - October 6, 1997) was a world renowned Red Army photographer, best known for his World War II photograph of a Russian soldier placing the Soviet Union's Red flag atop the Reichstag building in Berlin, signifying the fall of Germany. Celebrated as the image is, it was a reconstruction of a moment that had happened earlier but had been missed by the camera.<br>©RIA Novosti / TopFoto

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Yury V. Abramochkin (11.12.36) RIA Novosti photographer in Britain 1989<br>©RIA Novosti / TopFoto

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Max Alpert<br>Rider 1936<br>©RIA Novosti / TopFoto

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Georgy Zelma<br>A collective farm amateur choir Ryazan Region 1932<br>©RIA Novosti / TopFoto

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Georgy Zelma<br>First speed boat test Moskva Volga Canal, 1937<br>The Volga Canal connects the Moskva River with the main transportation artery of European Russia, the Volga. It is located in Moscow and Tver Oblasts north of Moscow.  It was constructed by gulag prisoners during Stalin's term in office.<br>©RIA Novosti / TopFoto

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Georgy Zelma<br>A Bakulin miner at Coal Mine No 11 in Donbas 1931<br>©RIA Novosti / TopFoto

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Georgy Zelma<br>Grain Field in East Siberia 1936<br>©RIA Novosti / TopFoto

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Mikhail Ozersky<br>Nadezhda Shapovalova's team wins a women tractor drivers contest early 1930s<br>©RIA Novosti / TopFoto<br>

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Georgy Zelma<br>The Red Army soldiers get new horses in Turkmenistan 1930<br>©RIA Novosti / TopFoto

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Semyon Fridland<br>Threshing at a Ukrainian collective farm 1920<br>©RIA Novosti / TopFoto

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Georgy Petrusov<br>Harvest season at the Leninsky Put collective farm 1935<br>©RIA Novosti / TopFoto

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Mikhail Ozersky<br>Maxim Gorky sees Roman Rolland off after his visit to the Soviet Union, 1935.<br>Aleksei Maksimovich Peshkov (March 28 [O.S. March 16] 1868 - June 18, 1936), better known as Maxim Gorky  was a Soviet/Russian author, a founder of the socialist realism literary method and a political activist.<br>Romain Rolland (January 29, 1866 - December 30, 1944) was a French writer. His first book was published in 1902, when he was already 36 years old. Thirteen years later, he won the Nobel Prize for Literature 1915 &quotas a tribute to the lofty idealism of his literary production and to the sympathy and love of truth with which he has described different types of human beings."<br>©RIA Novosti / TopFoto

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Abram Sterenberg<br>Vladimer Mayakovsky 1919<br>Vladimir Vladimirovich Mayakovsky (July 19 [O.S. July 7] 1893 - April 14, 1930) was a Russian poet, among the foremost representatives of early-20th century Futurism.<br>©RIA Novosti / TopFoto

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Engelsina Markiziova  daughter of the Buryat Mongolian Autonmous Republic Agriculture Minister gives flowers to Joseph Stalin in the USSR Supreme Soviet Presidum Moscow 1936.<br>Joseph Vissarionovich Dzhugashvili  December 18 [O.S. December 6] 1878[1] - March 5, 1953), better known by his adopted name, Joseph Stalin (alternatively transliterated Josef Stalin), was General Secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union's Central Committee from 1922 until 1953. Despite his formal position being originally without significant influence, and his office being nominally but one of several Central Committee Secretariats, Stalin's increasing control of the Party from 1928 onwards led to him becoming the de facto party leader and the dictator of his country<br>©RIA Novosti / TopFoto

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Georgy Zelma<br>First lock on the Moskva Volga Canal, 1937<br>The Moscow Canal - until 1947 called Moscow-Volga Canal -  is a canal that connects the Moskva River with the main transportation artery of European Russia, the Volga. It is located in Moscow and Tver Oblasts north of Moscow.  The Moscow Canal, constructed by gulag prisoners during Stalin's term in office, begins in the Ivankovo Reservoir near the town of Dubna and connects with the Moskva River.<br>©RIA Novosti / TopFoto<br>

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Georgy Zelma<br>Volunteers come to work in Donbas Coalmines on a Young Communist League Appeal, Gorlovka, 1930.<br>Donbas is a historical, economic and cultural region of Ukraine.  The name of the region originates from the coal-field discovered in late 19th century which was named after the Donets river flowing across the region.<br>©RIA Novosti / TopFoto

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Max Alpert<br>The first Soviet car assembly plant in Nizhni Novgorod, 1929.<br>Nizhni Novgorod, Russia's third largest city, in previous centuries was a commercial hub of Russia, and today is the &quottest site" for democratic reform and free market initiatives.<br>©RIA Novosti / TopFoto

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Georgy Zelma<br>Metal Works in Donbas, 1934.<br>Donbas is a historical, economic and cultural region of Ukraine.<br>©RIA Novosti / TopFoto

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Max Alpert<br>Worker Viktor Kalmykov arrives at the Magnitogorsk Iron and Steel Combine construction site, 1930.<br>Magnitogorsk (Magnet mountain city) is a mining and industrial city by the Ural River in Chelyabinsk Oblast, Russia, with one of the largest iron and steel works in the country.<br>©RIA Novosti / TopFoto

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Max Alpert<br>Workers travelling to the Magnitogorsk Iron and Steel Combine construction site, 1930.<br>Magnitogorsk (Magnet mountain city) is a mining and industrial city by the Ural River in Chelyabinsk Oblast, Russia, with one of the largest iron and steel works in the country.<br>©RIA Novosti / TopFoto

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Max Alpert<br>Turkestan Siberia Railroad<br>The first train crosses the Chui River bridge, 1930<br>©RIA Novosti / TopFoto

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Ivan Shagin<br>A Magnitogorsk iron and steel combine construction worker, 1933.<br>Magnitogorsk &quotMagnet mountain city" is a mining and industrial city by the Ural River in Chelyabinsk Oblast, Russia, with one of the largest iron and steel works in the country.<br>©RIA Novosti / TopFoto

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Max Alpert<br>The Dnieper hydropower Plant dam, 1936<br>The Dnieper River (also known as: Dnepr, Dniapro, or Dnipro) is a river which flows from Russia, through Belarus and Ukraine, ending its flow in the Black Sea.<br>©RIA Novosti / TopFoto<br>

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Max Alpert<br>The Grand Fergana Canal national construction project, 1939.<br>Fergana, city in eastern Uzbekistan, at the southern edge of the Fergana Valley, about 420 km east of Toshkent, the capital of Uzbekistan.  The Great Fergana Canal, built almost entirely by hand during the 1930s, passes through the northern part of the city.  In 1939 Sergei M. Eisenstein, the great soviet filmmaker, made a short color documentary &quotThe Fergana Canal".<br>©RIA Novosti / TopFoto<br><br><br>©RIA Novosti / TopFoto

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Max Alpert<br>The Grand Fergana Canal national construction project, 1939.<br>Fergana, city in eastern Uzbekistan, at the southern edge of the Fergana Valley, about 420 km east of Toshkent, the capital of Uzbekistan.  The Great Fergana Canal, built almost entirely by hand during the 1930s, passes through the northern part of the city.  In 1939 Sergei M. Eisenstein, the great soviet filmmaker, made a short color documentary &quotThe Fergana Canal".<br>©RIA Novosti / TopFoto<br><br><br>©RIA Novosti / TopFoto

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Max Alpert<br>The Grand Fergana Canal national construction project, 1939.<br>Fergana, city in eastern Uzbekistan, at the southern edge of the Fergana Valley, about 420 km east of Toshkent, the capital of Uzbekistan.  The Great Fergana Canal, built almost entirely by hand during the 1930s, passes through the northern part of the city.  In 1939 Sergei M. Eisenstein, the great soviet filmmaker, made a short color documentary &quotThe Fergana Canal".<br>©RIA Novosti / TopFoto<br><br><br>©RIA Novosti / TopFoto

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Max Alpert<br>Machine gun cart, 1936<br>©RIA Novosti / TopFoto

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Georgy Zelma<br>May Day parade in Red Square, Moscow, 1935<br>©RIA Novosti / TopFoto

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Ivan Shagin<br>Athletic parade in Red Square, Moscow, 1936<br>©RIA Novosti / TopFoto

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Georgy Zelma<br>The Proletariat Division in Red Square, Moscow, 1942<br>©RIA Novosti / TopFoto

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Georgy Zelma<br>Athletic parade in Red Square, Moscow, 1942<br>©RIA Novosti / TopFoto

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Mikhail Ozersky<br>Muscovites welcoming the legendary Soviet pilot Mikhail Gromov after his nonstop flight from Moscow to San Jacito, CA via the North Pole on 12 July 1937.  He established the new record with A. B. Yumashev and S. A. Danilin.<br>©RIA Novosti / TopFoto

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Dmitry Debabov<br>Tverskaya-Yamskaya Street in Moscow, 1935<br>©RIA Novosti / TopFoto

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