Prototype of Elektronika CT-5001, soviet micro-TV with color LCD screen, 1991

"Corn is a priceless treasure!", soviet tajik poster, 1963

Pupils of a secondary school at the People's University of Young Mathematicians, Institute of Mathematics of the Academy of Sciences of the Ukrainian SSR, at a seminar in the Institute's computing centre. Kiev, Ukrainian SSR, 1982

“Weekend Day”, painting by Aleksandr Deyneka, 1958

"To Live, Work and Fight like Lenin!", soviet poster, 1958

AZLK (automobile plant) racing competition, USSR, 1982 (photo by Valentin Khukhlaev)

Vocal and instrumental ensemble "Optimisty" (Optimists), Byelorussian SSR, 1968

"Hard Times", painting by Ivan Penzov, 1987

"We will become Leninists!", soviet poster, 1934

In the bar of the Palace of Culture of the Metallurgical Plant. Krasnoyarsk, 1982 (photo by Fred Grinberg)

Evening view from the Leningradskaya Hotel, Moscow, 1961

"Chernihiv Autumn", painting by Andrey Nikitovich Mordovets, 1987

Phased withdrawal of the Soviet troops from Afghanistan. The first column of Soviet troops leaving for the homeland, 1988 (photo by Andrei Solomonov)

A young man wearing a shirt with the inscription “Perestroika USSR”. 1988 (photo by Yuri Somov)

Rain on the Palace Embankment, Leningrad, 1988 (photo by Anton Balazh)

"Victory Parade", painting by Igor Radoman, 1985

Children in kindergarten play shopping. Soviet Union, Yaroslavl, 1965

Sculpture "Stalin Behind the Tribune" by sculptor Dmitry Shvarts and a portrait of Lenin made of smalt in the ground lobby of the Serpukhovskaya Station, Moscow, 1951 (photo by Leonid Velikzhanin)

Beach in Gagra, Abkhaz ASSR, September 1973 (photo by Vyacheslav Argenberg)