Schoolchildren stand guard at the Victory Square Memorial to the Mordovian Soldiers Who Died in the Great Patriotic War. Authors of the monument: sculptor N.V. Tomsky, architect A.N. Dushkin. Mordovian ASSR, Saransk, 1979.

"Rock concert", painting by Viktor Tsoi, USSR, 1980s

Andrei Nikolaevich Kolmogorov (1903–1987) One of the greatest mathematicians of the 20th century. One of the founders of modern probability theory, he authored works on the philosophy, history, methodology, and teaching of mathematics, as well as theoretical physics.

Bronze statue in Groß-Gerau, Germany. According to reports, while the sculpture was being cast in bronze in Poland, an old Lenin bust was allegedly reshaped into one of the farmer figures

Diego Maradona in USSR, 1990

This factory, built in 1934 on the outskirts of Moscow, once produced up to 5,000 busts of Lenin per year. Photo taken November 24, 1993. (Photo by Hector Mata)

Remembrance. May 9 - Painting by V.P. Psarev (1983)

Hungarian computer Videoton 340 featured in the iconic Soviet film “The Office Romance” (1977)

Perspective (Young Scientists) - Painting by Ivan (Giovanni) Alekseevich Vepkhvadze (1981)

"For the first time in the history of mankind the October Revolution took the liberty to demand from the ages long oppressors of working people the payment for blood and tears of hundreds of generations of the slaves. We will win!", Soviet poster, 1921.

"Portrait of V. I. Lenin" made from tobacco leaves and wood by M. S. Ivshin, 1925

A battery of 152 mm D-1 howitzers (Model 1943) of the 110th Howitzer Artillery Regiment opens fire on German forces. Belarus, Summer 1944. Photo by Emmanuil Yevzerikhin.

Soviet soldiers in Bornholm, Denmark, 1945.

The first toast is for great chemistry! Cereals, rise to your full height! - Soviet Poster, 1964

Joseph Stalin during the athletes' parade. July 15, 1935.

Soviet poet, body-builder & futurist Vladimir Goldschmidt hypnotizing a chicken, 1923

We bow low to you, heroes of Victory! - Soviet Poster (1965)

Croquet game. Crimean ASSR, Yevpatoria, 1920s

Leon Trotsky at a rally dedicated to the funerals of the victims of the Leontievsky Lane explosion. The Leontievsky Lane explosion on September 25, 1919, was a terrorist attack carried out by a group of anarchists with the aim of assassinating the leadership of the Moscow Communist Party.

Plumbum, or The Dangerous Game ("Plyumbum, ili Opasnaya igra") is a 1987 Soviet coming-of-age drama film directed by Vadim Abdrashitov.

Yuri Gagarin fishing (1965)

Grandfather teaches his grandson to use a scythe. Soviet postcard from 1930s.

"Selga-309 radio is an elegant addition to your costume", Soviet advertising poster, 1980

Soyuz 31: V.F. Bykovsky (USSR) and Sigmund Jähn (GDR), 1979. Painting by Yuri Ryazanov

Soviet singer Alla Pugacheva, Moscow, 1984. Photo by Vitaly Sozinov.

Nurse Natasha - Painting by Nikolai But (1970)

"To the Stars", a mosaic by B. A. Kurago and Viktor Innokentyevich Sysoev at the Optics and Machine Works in Vologda, Russia.

"Yamal peninsula", USSR, 1964. Photo by Yuri Abramochkin

Worker and shop supervisor at the ZiS automobile factory, Moscow, 1954. Photo by Henri Cartier-Bresson

Between Battles - Painting by Aleksei and Sergei Tkachev (1960)

In moments of rest, 1944. Photo by Georgy Lipskerov

Vladimir Lenin bust, by sculptor Nikolai Teplov

Moscow Station in Leningrad, 1970s

"Acid - Follow the safety rules while transportation!" - Soviet Poster (1982)

"For the First Time", Painting by Nikolai Sadukov, 1971.

Sculpture in the back of the Palace of Culture and Science in Warsaw with removed inscription "STALIN"

Leonid Brezhnev on holiday in Crimea, 1982 (photo by Vladimir Musaelyan)

Geography lesson in Chir-Unvd village on Sakhalin, 1966. Photo by Yuri Sadovnikov.

Galina Beloglazova - Honored Master of Sports of the USSR in individual rhythmic gymnastics, multiple World and European champion (1983–1986).

At the opening of the first baseball stadium in the USSR, Moscow, 1989

Horsemen, Dagestan ASSR, 1968. Photo by Yuri Abramochkin

"Socialism is our launching pad", Soviet poster from 1962

Vladimir Lenin on vacation in Gorki with a dog named Ayda, 1922

Scientists and Cosmologists - Painting by Anatoly Andreevich Bashkevich (1980s)

A worker's badge from the first McDonald's in the USSR, 1990

American and Soviet pilots pose in front of a Bell P-39 Airacobra, supplied to the Soviet Union under the Lend-Lease program, 1940s

"October 1917", painting by Eugene Lanceray, 1938-1942

Tennis instructor L. Agayan is training a group of young players at the gym of the Sports Palace of the Lenin Central Stadium. Photo by L. Dorensky (Moscow, 1958)

"Union of workers and science, merged together, will crush in their iron embrace all obstacles on the path to progress", Soviet Russia poster, 1919

"L.P. Beria on the Tea Plantations of Georgia", Painting by Apollon Karamanovich Kutateladze, 1941