Central Pavilion at VDNKh in Moscow, USSR, 1968 (photo by Ed Kanouse)

International student construction team, USSR, 1985

Soviet football player Sergei Salnikov at the FIFA World Cup. Stockholm, June 1958 (photo by Emilio Ronchini)

Advertising on the Metropol Hotel in Revolution Square, 1950s (photo by Emmanui Evzerekhin)

Communist Party members and supporters listen to the Soviet anthem to mark the 100th anniversary of the USSR's establishment, Moscow, December 2022 (photo by Alexander Zemlianichenko)

Soviet cosmonaut and first woman in space Valentina Tereshkova with American civil rights activist Angela Davis at the 10th World Festival of Youth and Students in Berlin, GDR, 1973

'Estonian Soviet Socialist Republic', soviet poster, 1980

Soviet laptop computer Elektronika MS 1504 from 1991

Training of the firefighting staff, Moscow, 1985

At trolleybus No. 48 in Moscow, 1965

Soviet General Pavel Brikel (left) and American General Alexander Bolling (right) together with the oldest cavalryman of the 3rd Guards Cavalry Corps, May 1945.

'Turner of Uralmash plant Galina Pomazkina', painting by Boris Aleksandrovich Semyonov, 1977

'Shine Our Friendship!', soviet poster, 1960

Members of the Soviet Olympic team place a portrait of Marshal Stalin beneath the hammer and sickle motif on the wall of the building where Soviet athletes are quartered at Otaniemi, Helsinki, 1952

Henry Kissinger and Leonid Brezhnev in the Kremlin, 1974

Tourists using ski-lift to get from the Dombay glade to the Russkaya glade, Karachay-Cherkess Autonomous Oblast, 1974 (photo by B. Loginov)

Holidaymakers at Snow Valley health resort, Magadan region, 1968 (photo by B. Korobeinikov)

Joseph Stalin and Kliment Voroshilov look at a botanical album. Moscow, 1930s

'300 years of the reunification of Ukraine with Russia', soviet poster, 1954

Traffic police officer, USSR, 1979 (photo by S. Soloviev)