A lecture hall at Kirghiz State University, 1980s

Heinrich Himmler looks at a captured Red Army soldier during an official visit to the concentration camp on Shirokaya Street in Minsk in occupied Belarus, August 1941

Traffic policeman, Tashkent, 1960s (photo by Vsevolod Tarasevich)

Red army soldier on traffic duty in the Unter den Linden in Berlin chats with a British soldier, 1945

"July", postcard by Vladimir Suteyev, 1959

"Immortality (Lenin's Guard)", painting by Pyotr Stepanovich Bortnov, 1985

Employees of the Moscow Fire Fighting Service, 1941 (photo by Margaret Bourke-White)

A veteran in Khabarovsk, USSR, 1987 (photo by Dilip Mehta)

Muhammad Ali boxing with student Bazar Tsydenov in the Institute of Physical Culture in Moscow, 1978

Passenger service on board the IL-62 airliner, 1980 (photo by V. Pavlov)