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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](images/thumbs/1044666.jpg "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")
![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 "as 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](images/thumbs/1044672.jpg "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 "as 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")
![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](images/thumbs/1044675.jpg "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")
![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](images/thumbs/1044673.jpg "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")
![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 "test site" for democratic reform and free market initiatives.<br>©RIA Novosti / TopFoto](images/thumbs/1044676.jpg "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 "test site\" for democratic reform and free market initiatives.<br>©RIA Novosti / TopFoto")
![Ivan Shagin<br>A Magnitogorsk iron and steel combine construction worker, 1933.<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](images/thumbs/1044663.jpg "Ivan Shagin<br>A Magnitogorsk iron and steel combine construction worker, 1933.<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")
![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 "The Fergana Canal".<br>©RIA Novosti / TopFoto<br><br><br>©RIA Novosti / TopFoto](images/thumbs/1044654.jpg "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 "The Fergana Canal\".<br>©RIA Novosti / TopFoto<br><br><br>©RIA Novosti / TopFoto")
![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 "The Fergana Canal".<br>©RIA Novosti / TopFoto<br><br><br>©RIA Novosti / TopFoto](images/thumbs/1044656.jpg "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 "The Fergana Canal\".<br>©RIA Novosti / TopFoto<br><br><br>©RIA Novosti / TopFoto")
![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 "The Fergana Canal".<br>©RIA Novosti / TopFoto<br><br><br>©RIA Novosti / TopFoto](images/thumbs/1044657.jpg "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 "The Fergana Canal\".<br>©RIA Novosti / TopFoto<br><br><br>©RIA Novosti / TopFoto")
