90 years ago, a press cliché department was organized within TASS. Today, the editorial office of TASS photo information (formerly TASS Photo Chronicle) is the oldest photo agency in Russia and the CIS, specializing in the production of photo news in real time.
The beginning of the history of TASS Photo Chronicles can be considered in 1926, when a workshop was created at the ROSTA agency for the production of printing cliches of photographs for central printed publications. Over time, the workshop grew into a full-fledged photographic service and turned into an independent editorial office that collected information, created photo reports and individual photographs, and distributed them.
During the Great Patriotic War, Photo Chronicle reporters made the most significant contribution to the creation of a documentary photo chronicle of military operations. During these years, the editorial staff included such well-known photojournalists as Evgeniy Khaldey, Grigory Lipskerov, Mark Redkin, Leonid Velikzhanin, Sergei Loskutov, Naum Granovsky, Emmanuil Evzerikhin, Nikolai Sitnikov. Their photographs went down in history and form the golden fund of Russian photography, as does the shooting of the Victory Parade, the memory of which was immortalized for posterity by the shots of Tassov photojournalists.
In the post-war period, Photo Chronicle occupied a strong position in the domestic information field and actively entered the international market. And here the leading photojournalists are the masters of political reporting, whose leaders were Vadim Kovrigin, Vasily Egorov, Vladimir Savostyanov, Valentin Mastakov, Viktor Koshevoy, Valentin Sobolev, and later Vladimir Musaelyan, Viktor Badan, Eduard Pasov, Alexander Chumichek.
Since the mid-60s, TASS began to master color photography. In the 70s, the agency’s photographic archive was already actively replenished with color negatives, and at the same time color production was in full swing at Photochronicle.
The 80s were the peak in terms of circulation of TASS photo information. Not only central, republican, regional, regional publications former USSR, but also regional and even large-circulation newspapers received TASS photographs in their editorial offices. Photo chronicles had a monopoly in the production of official, government photographic information and covered all aspects of the country's life: the economy, social spheres, culture and sports. In those years, the winners of prestigious international photo competitions were Valentin Kuzmin, Vitaly Sozinov, Valery Zufarov, Viktor Velikzhanin, Igor Utkin, Roman Denisov, Valery Khristoforov, Boris Kavashkin, Igor Zoin, Anatoly Morkovkin.
The agency's special correspondents witnessed many historical events and talked about them in their reports: Vasily Egorov - from the capital of revolutionary Cuba and from the drifting station "SP-1", Lev Porter and Valentin Sobolev - from fighting Vietnam, the orders recognized the brilliant long-term work of Albert Pushkarev, who filmed literally "from under fiery hooves spaceships. Valery Zufarov became the Golden Eye winner for photographs taken above the crater of the fourth block Chernobyl nuclear power plant in May 1986.
The names of famous but younger reporters coincided with a turning point in our lives. Perestroika ended, the Soviet Union collapsed, and the era of war correspondents came again, but now in a different, post-perestroika time. Andrey Solovyov, Gennady Khamelyanin, Sergey Zhukov, Anatoly Morkovkin worked in “hot” spots many times. This and Nagorno-Karabakh, and Tajikistan, and Abkhazia, the 1991 coup and the 1993 confrontation, and later Chechnya. In 1993, ITAR-TASS photojournalist Andrei Solovyov, who was posthumously awarded the Order of Courage, died in Abkhazia; in 2000, Vladimir Yamina went missing in Chechnya.
With the beginning of perestroika, the ideological ban on covering many aspects of social and political life was lifted, and the agency’s reporters received O greater freedom in choosing topics. In addition, there was a demand for photographs showing reality from unusual points of view. This contributed to the professional growth of Photo Chronicle. However, difficult times soon came for the agency, because, despite the rapid development of printed publications and the opening of many new newspapers and magazines, the monopoly on their supply of photographic information was lost. The largest photo information agencies, such as Reuters, Associated Press and others, with worldwide coverage of correspondent networks and advanced technical equipment, gained access to the Russian domestic market. The emergence and development of the Internet and methods of instant delivery of photographic images to any consumer forced Photo Chronicle to develop the latest methods of distribution. Thanks to a cooperation agreement with the Reuters photo service, an operational photo information feed was created in the mid-1990s, and foreign partners gained access to Photo Chronicle photographs from the regions. Since 1992, after the head agency TASS was renamed ITAR-TASS, TASS Photo Chronicle was renamed the ITAR-TASS Photo Agency. Currently, the agency has its own technical equipment for generating photo news feeds and is one of the five largest suppliers of photo information for Russian news publications.
Today the photo bank tassphoto.com is largest database photographs among all media in Russia and the CIS. It contains more than 10 million contemporary and archival images of different genres and themes. There are about 1 million historical photographs and negatives here alone. In 2015, the photo bank was replenished with another 3 million 621 thousand 853 photographs.
In the anniversary year, TASS will delight Muscovites and guests of the capital with many interesting events and exhibitions. For example, in the White Hall of the Moscow Union of Journalists, a meeting was recently held with a veteran of TASS photo chronicles, a member of the SJM, Vladimir Musaelyan, who has served in TASS for more than half a century. He worked with all the secretaries general, and was Leonid Brezhnev’s personal photographer for 14 years. When I started at the main news agency of the country, there were only military correspondents who had returned from the front. I learned philanthropy and work ethic from those whose photographs went down in history.
“We believed that if a profession chose us, we should serve it. And they served faithfully,” says Vladimir Musaelyan.
On March 8, the photo exhibition “Spring in Moscow in the 60s” opened at the Fili Park. It presents previously unknown photographs from the archives news agency Russia "TASS".
Despite the fact that the photographs are devoid of color, they perfectly convey the bright picture and atmosphere of Moscow in the 1950s-1960s of the twentieth century. Visitors to PKiO “Fili” will see what the central streets, embankments and parks were like in those years, how holiday festivities were organized, what kind of transport the capital’s residents used, what young Muscovites played, and a lot of other interesting details.
The exhibition, which will last until the end of April this year, presents the works of famous TASS reporters - masters of Soviet and Russian photojournalism. Among them are Naum Granovsky, Lev Porter, Victor Budan, Vladimir Savostyanov, Sergei Preobrazhensky, Valentin Mastyukov, Nikolai Akimov and others.
A photo exhibition dedicated to the anniversary is also displayed in the windows of TASS.
As the chief editor of photo information.
The agency became best known as TASS Photo Chronicle, since it bore this name for several decades. In everyday speech it often bore the name “Photochronicle,” denoting one of the largest agencies creating a photo chronicle of the internal life of the USSR for use in domestic publications. TASS Photo Chronicle was the largest supplier of news photographic information for Soviet printed publications and had an extensive network of correspondent points that made it possible to receive photographs from any corner of the Soviet Union. The second major photo agency in the country was the Photo Service of the Novosti Press Agency (APN, now RIA Novosti), which produced mainly photographic information for foreign publications.
Agency history
The beginning of the history of TASS Photo Chronicles can be considered in 1926, when a workshop was created at the ROSTA agency for the production of typographic cliché photographs for central printed publications. Over time, the workshop grew into a full-fledged photographic service and turned into an independent editorial office that collected information, created photo reports and individual photographs, and distributed them. During the Great Patriotic War, Photo Chronicle reporters made the most significant contribution to the creation of a documentary photo chronicle of military operations. During these years, the editorial staff included such famous photojournalists as Evgeniy Khaldei, who photographed the hoisting of the Soviet flag over the Reichstag, Emmanuel Evzerikhin, Mark Redkin, Max Alpert and others. In addition, the agency carried out a centralized collection of photographic documents, collaborating with photographers from other publications.
In the post-war years, the agency became the central body of photographic information in the country, receiving the name “The Main Editorial Office of TASS Photo Information under the Council of Ministers of the USSR.” The editorial office was located in a building on 25th Oktyabrya Street, building 4, now Nikolskaya Street, and later on Bolshaya Dorogomilovskaya Building 12, in the building former school. For the Moscow Olympics, Fotochronika received another building in the neighborhood: on Bryanskaya Street, building 7, where it was located until recently. Exhibition photo printing workshops, warehouses and photographic equipment repair shops remained in the building on Bolshaya Dorogomilovskaya. In the mid-2000s, the agency abandoned the building on Dorogomilovskaya, and in this moment it is abandoned and uninhabited. Coverage of CPSU congresses and the official chronicle became a virtual monopoly of TASS Photo Chronicle, which supplied photographs for all domestic and foreign publications. Particularly important state events in the regions were covered online using a phototelegraph to transmit images, which was gradually equipped at all news desks. Since February 7, 1957, the phototelegraph was used by the agency to transmit finished photographs to the largest foreign consumers of photographic information. By the end of the stagnation, the agency's main product was official photo reports about party events and the achievements of the socialist economy. Central and local newspapers and magazines were obliged to publish Photo Chronicle materials, royalties for which brought guaranteed income to the agency.
With the beginning of Perestroika, the ideological ban on covering many aspects of social and political life was lifted, and the agency’s reporters received significantly greater degree freedom in choosing topics. In addition, there was a demand for photographs showing reality from unusual points of view, spurring the professional growth of Photo Chronicle. However, difficult times soon came for the agency, because, despite the rapid development of printed publications and the opening of many new newspapers and magazines, the monopoly on their supply of photographic information was lost. The largest photo information agencies, such as Reuters, Associated Press and others, with worldwide coverage of correspondent networks and advanced technical equipment, gained access to the Russian domestic market. The emergence and development of the Internet and methods of instant delivery of photographic images to any consumer forced Photo Chronicle to develop the latest methods of distribution. Thanks to a cooperation agreement with the Reuters photo service, an operational photo information feed was created in the mid-1990s, and foreign partners gained access to Photo Chronicle photographs from the regions. Since 1992, after the renaming of the head agency TASS to ITAR-TASS, TASS Photo Chronicle was renamed to the ITAR-TASS Photo Agency. Currently, the agency has its own technical equipment for generating photo news feeds and is one of the five largest suppliers of photo information for Russian news publications.
Importance for domestic photojournalism
Despite the ideological nature of the activities of Photo Chronicle, its professional level long years maintained at a high level to ensure competitiveness and image Soviet school journalistic photography abroad. Not only Moscow photojournalists, but also reporters from the regions could collaborate with the agency, improving their skills at the same time. In fact, Photo Chronicle was the country's main photo bank until the late 1990s, working with many freelance writers at home and abroad. The vast majority of famous Russian photojournalists have, in one way or another, ever collaborated with Photochronicles. Many current employees of foreign photo agencies of Russian origin also come from the walls of TASS Photo Chronicles. The agency's reporters have repeatedly received prizes in prestigious international photo competitions, including World Press Photo, in which Photochronicle was a regular participant, along with its foreign competitors.
Notes
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- Zatravkina Tatyana Yurievna. Telegraph Agency of the Soviet Union during the Great Patriotic War (Russian) (unavailable link). Course work . Moscow State Humanitarian University named after. M.A. SHOLOKHOV (2007). Retrieved December 16, 2013. Archived December 16, 2013.
- Chaldean (Russian). LiveJournal (October 28, 2013). Retrieved November 11, 2013.
- Photographers (Russian). Photos of World War II and Great Patriotic War. "War Album". Retrieved December 16, 2013.
- On approval of the regulations of the Telegraph Agency of the Soviet Union under the Council of Ministers of the USSR (Russian). Resolution of the USSR Council of Ministers No. 927. Library of normative legal acts (December 3, 1966). Retrieved January 1, 2013. Archived January 30, 2013.
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1918
Street children play cards on the street.
1920
Vladimir Lenin gives a speech on Sverdlov Square at the parade of troops leaving for the Polish front.
1920
Civil War. Soldiers of Budyonny's First Cavalry Army at a rally.
1925
The first electric light bulb.
1927
Homeless children in a column of pioneers at the May Day demonstration.
1928
Writer Maxim Gorky at the Nizhny Novgorod Radio Laboratory.
1929
Children in kindergarten drawing a poster for the celebration of the 12th anniversary of the Great October Revolution.
1929
Delegates of the All-Union Congress of Soviets fly to the congress on the plane of the Dobrolet society.
1930
The founder of modern cosmonautics, Konstantin Tsiolkovsky.
1932
May Day demonstration in Moscow.
1933
Tractor driver Praskovya Angelina.
1934
The first test train of the Moscow Metro, which made a test run from the Komsomolskaya station to the Sokolniki station.
1935
Central Park of Culture and Leisure. A double-headed eagle taken from the Kremlin tower, and one of the four stars installed in 1935 on the Kremlin towers.
1936
Parade of athletes on Red Square, On the podium of the Lenin Mausoleum: V. M. Molotov, N. S. Khrushchev, I. V. Stalin (from left to right) and other officials.
1937
Non-stop flight Moscow - North Pole - America.
1938
Arrival of the North Pole explorers Papanin, Shirshov, Krenkel and Fedorov in the capital. Cars with heroes drive along Kirov Street under the rain of welcome leaflets.
1939
Construction of the Great Fergana Canal.
1941
Muscovites listen to a message about the attack of Nazi Germany.
1941
Women with children at the Mayakovskaya metro station during an air raid raid.
1942
Fight during the Great Patriotic War.
1945
Yalta Conference, February 11, 1945. British Prime Minister W. Churchill, US President F. D. Roosevelt and Marshall Soviet Union JV Stalin before the start of one of the meetings. Standing: British Foreign Secretary A. Eden, US Secretary of State E. Stettinius and People's Commissar for Foreign Affairs of the USSR V. M. Molotov
1945
Meeting on the Elbe of Soviet and American troops
1945
Banner of Victory over Berlin.
1947
Young builders of the Dnieper hydroelectric station.
1950
Pioneer summer in Crimea.
1950s
At the Moscow Small Car Plant.
1950
At the Ukraina Hotel in Moscow.
1955
Farewell to the virgin lands.
Performance by artists in areas where virgin lands were developed, 1950s. Performance by the ballet soloist of the Leningrad Opera and Ballet Theater. S. M. Kirov E. A. Smirnova at the field camp of the tractor brigade.
Moscow. Evening in Gorky Park.
1957
I World Festival of Youth and Students in Moscow. The British delegation during the festival procession.
I World Festival of Youth and Students in Moscow.
Stalingrad. Construction of the Volzhskaya Hydroelectric Power Station named after. V.I. Lenin. Cable car and pedestrian bridge across the Volga.
Academician Alexander Bakulev during an operation at the Institute of Thoracic Surgery of the USSR Academy of Medical Sciences.
1958
Autumn off-road.
White nights in Leningrad.
In the teahouse.
Violator of discipline in a pioneer camp.
In the capital's metro.
In a department store.
1959
Trawler "Valery Chkalov".
1960
The resting place is the jaw of a whale.
Four-legged cosmonauts Belka and Strelka after returning to Earth.
1961
Graduates of Moscow schools on Red Square.
Everyday life.
II International Film Festival. Italian film actress Gina Lollobrigida kisses Yuri Gagarin.
Gorky city. Construction of a bridge across the Oka.
Krasnodar region. Grain harvesting.
1962
Krasnoyarsk region. The helicopter took the hunters to the fishing spot.
1963
Nikita Sergeevich Khrushchev at his dacha in Zavidovo during the stay of the delegation from Czechoslovakia.
People greet Fidel Castro (in the car on the left) and other Cuban guests. Fidel Castro's first visit to the USSR.
On Kotelnicheskaya embankment.
The first female cosmonaut Valentina Tereshkova (center) after landing.
Moscow. Visitors to a beauty salon.
1964
Yamalo-Nenets Autonomous Okrug. Reindeer sleigh.
Krasnoyarsk region. Young builders at a Komsomol shock construction site.
1965
Yakut ASSR. Girl-reindeer herder.
1966
Climbers on the Inylchek glacier in the area of Lake Merzbacher.
1967
Moscow. During classes at the choreographic school.
1968
Moscow. Clown Oleg Popov.
On the beach of Pitsunda.
1969
Vilnius. Young dads with children on a walk.
Meeting the first train on the platform of the Kolomenskaya metro station.
1970
Yashin has the ball.
1973
A working model of Lunokhod-2 at the Lunodrome.
1976
Festive illumination on Kalininsky Prospekt.
Soloist of the Bolshoi Theater USSR Maya Plisetskaya as Odette in Pyotr Tchaikovsky's ballet Swan Lake.
1977
General Secretary of the CPSU Central Committee Leonid Ilyich Brezhnev hunting in the Moscow region.
1979
Vladimir Vysotsky performs in Yaroslavl.
1980
City of Kostomuksha.
The closing ceremony of the XXII Olympic Games at the Central Stadium. V.I. Lenin.
Irina Rodnina and Alexander Zaitsev performing at the European Figure Skating Championships. Sweden. Gothenburg.
1981
On a border patrol ship.
1982
Tambov section of the Urengoy-Uzhgorod gas pipeline.
Vladimir Menshov's film “Moscow Doesn't Believe in Tears” wins an Academy Award. Irina Muravyova as Lyuda (pictured left) and Vera Alentova as Katya in a scene from the film.
1984
Yakut ASSR. Opening of a bridge across the Lena River on a highway under construction Baikal-Amur Mainline(BAM).
1986
Chernobyl nuclear power plant. Construction of a sarcophagus over the fourth power unit.
1988
Rostov region. Protest against non-payment of pensions and poverty in the city of Shakhty.
Mikhail Gorbachev, Ronald Reagan and George W. Bush at the Admiral's House on Governors Island.
1989
Rally for independence in Baku.
Deputy Andrei Sakharov at the First Congress of People's Deputies of the USSR.
Conclusion Soviet troops from Afghanistan. A column of paratroopers crosses the border.
1990
Chairman of the Supreme Council of the RSFSR Boris Yeltsin and USSR President Mikhail Gorbachev, at the IV Congress of People's Deputies of the USSR.
Sculptor Ernst Neizvestny at work on a three-meter copy of the monument to the victims Stalin's repressions(mask crying with human faces).
Icebreaker "Soviet Union".
Selling goods using cards in stores.
1991
Rally on Manezhnaya Square in Moscow. The main slogans of the action are the resignation of Mikhail Gorbachev and the support of Boris Yeltsin.
All three days, August 19-21, while the putsch organized by the State Emergency Committee continued, supporters of Boris Yeltsin held mass demonstrations in Moscow. Action on August 20 on the square near the White House.
1993
1994
Nobel Prize winner Alexander Solzhenitsyn with his son Ermolai during a trip from Vladivostok to Moscow.
1997
Open concert dedicated to the 100th anniversary of the memory of Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky. Mstislav Rostropovich is at the conductor's stand.
1998
Signs of the past.
We present a selection of the most striking works by ITAR-TASS agency photojournalists for 2014.
Policy
February 23. President of the International Olympic Committee Thomas Bach, Russian President Vladimir Putin and Russian Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev before the closing ceremony of the XXII Olympic Winter Games in Sochi
© ITAR-TASS/Dmitry Astakhov
18th of March. Prime Minister of Crimea Sergei Aksenov, Russian President Vladimir Putin and the head of Sevastopol Alexei Chaly after signing an interstate agreement on the admission of the Republic of Crimea and the city with a special status of Sevastopol to the territory Russian Federation, Moscow
© ITAR-TASS/Mikhail Metzel
June 6. US President Barack Obama, Queen Elizabeth II of Great Britain, German Chancellor Angela Merkel and French President Francois Hollande before the celebration of the 70th anniversary of the Allied landings in Normandy, at the Bénouville castle
© ITAR-TASS/Mikhail Metzel
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June 6. President-elect of Ukraine Petro Poroshenko at the solemn ceremony celebrating the 70th anniversary of the landing allied forces in Normandy, Ouistreham |
October 26. Prime Minister of Ukraine Arseniy Yatsenyuk during a press conference on the results of the parliamentary elections, Kyiv |
June 18. Chairman of the Rossiya agricultural production cooperative Sergei Pyanov and Russian President Vladimir Putin during a visit to the Rossiya agricultural production cooperative in the Stavropol Territory
© ITAR-TASS/Mikhail Klimentyev
16 of September. Member of the State Duma Committee on Culture, opera singer Maria Maksakova-Igenbergs, and first deputy chairman of the State Duma Committee on Culture, Iosif Kobzon, during the performance of the Russian anthem at the first meeting autumn session lower house of parliament
6 September. Deputies at the plenary session of the State Duma
© ITAR-TASS/Stanislav Krasilnikov
October 9. Russian President Vladimir Putin takes a photo with the winners of the 2014 Summer Youth Olympic Games in Nanjing, Cheboksary
© Mikhail Metzel/TASS
October 12. Russian Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev, Sports Minister Vitaly Mutko and Gazprom Chairman of the Board Alexey Miller at the Sochi Autodrom stadium during Russian stage Formula 1 World Circuit Racing Championship
© Mikhail Metzel/TASS
October 16. Russian President Vladimir Putin and Serbian President Tomislav Nikolic at the military parade "Victory's Step" in honor of the 70th anniversary of the liberation of Belgrade from Nazi invaders
© Mikhail Metzel/TASS
October 21. Prosecutor of the Republic of Crimea Natalya Poklonskaya at a meeting of the Council of Ministers of Crimea in Simferopol
© Ruslan Shamukov/TASS
October 21. Chairman of the State Duma Sergei Naryshkin takes part in a relay race in the swimming pool of the North Caucasus State Humanitarian and Technological Academy during a working visit to Karachay-Cherkessia, Stavropol Territory
© Anna Isakova/TASS
November 4. Russian President Vladimir Putin and Patriarch of Moscow and All Rus' Kirill at an exhibition about the first royal dynasty Russia “My story. Rurikovich" in the Central Exhibition Hall "Manege", Moscow
© Mikhail Metzel/TASS
Sport
February 7. One of the scenes of the opening ceremony of the XXII Olympic Winter Games at the Fisht stadium in Sochi. The ceremony was remembered for one unopened of the five Olympic rings, the “dreams about Russia” of the girl Lyubov, deputy Nikolai Valuev in the role of policeman Uncle Styopa, and the completion of a large-scale Olympic torch relay
February 7. Italian figure skaters Stefania Berton and Ondrej Gotarek perform a short program in the team figure skating competition at the XXII Olympic Winter Games in Sochi. Team figure skating competitions made their debut in the Olympic program at the Games in Russia
© ITAR-TASS/Sergey Fadeichev
February 9th. Russian athletes Ekaterina Bobrova, Dmitry Solovyov, Tatyana Volosozhar, Maxim Trankov, Ksenia Stolbova, Fedor Klimov, Yulia Lipnitskaya, Elena Ilinykh, Nikita Katsalapov and Evgeni Plushenko (from left to right), who won gold medals in team figure skating competitions at the XXII Winter Olympic Games in Sochi. Thanks to this success, Plushenko became a two-time Olympic champion
© ITAR-TASS/Artem Korotaev
February, 15. Canadian athlete Lukas Makowski after the 1500 m race in the men's speed skating competition at the XXII Olympic Winter Games in Sochi. Speed skating competitions were held at the Adler Arena, which seats 8 thousand people.
© ITAR-TASS/Vladimir Smirnov
February, 15. Athletes during the 1500 m race in women's short track speed skating at the XXII Olympic Winter Games in Sochi. Short track competitions at the Olympics were held at the Iceberg Ice Palace, where figure skaters also performed
© ITAR-TASS/Vladimir Smirnov
18th of Febuary. Dutch athlete Bob de Jong during the 10,000 m race in the men's speed skating competition at the XXII Olympic Winter Games in Sochi. The Dutchman won Olympic bronze in this distance
© ITAR-TASS/Vladimir Smirnov
February 20th. Large ski jumping in the team competition in Nordic combined at the XXII Olympic Winter Games in Sochi. Olympic competitions in ski jumping and Nordic combined were held on the springboards of the Russian Hills complex
© ITAR-TASS/Vladimir Smirnov
February 21. Athletes during women's ski cross in freestyle skiing at the XXII Olympic Winter Games in Sochi. Freestyle competitions at the Olympics took place on the track of the Rosa Khutor extreme park.
© ITAR-TASS/Stanislav Krasilnikov
February 23. During the award ceremony for Russian athletes Alexander Legkov, Maxim Vylegzhanin and Ilya Chernousov, who won the men's 50 km mass start cross-country skiing race at the XXII Olympic Winter Games in Sochi. By tradition, the winners last day competitions are awarded during the closing ceremony of the Olympics
© ITAR-TASS/Vladimir Smirnov
April 13. During the Russian Football Championship match: Lokomotiv (Moscow) - Anzhi (Makhachkala) in Moscow. The game ended in a goalless draw. At the end of the 2013/14 season championship, Lokomotiv won bronze medals, and Anzhi dropped out of the Premier League
2 June. Dane Patrick Nielsen and Russian Dmitry Chudinov during the fight for the title of interim WBA middleweight world champion as part of the show The Golden Gloves 2: Black Energy, Moscow region. The Russian defeated his opponent after 12 rounds
© ITAR-TASS/Valery Sharifulin
June 25. A passenger in the fan zone of Afonso Pena International Airport during the 2014 FIFA World Cup, Curitiba, Brazil. Curitiba hosted five matches of the tournament, including the game between the national teams of Russia and Algeria (1:1)
© ITAR-TASS/Valery Sharifulin
July 19. Russian athlete Dmitry Rigin and French athlete Enzo Lefort during the preliminary stage of the men's individual foil fencing competition at the 2014 World Championships in Kazan. The Russian team won the team event of the tournament, winning three gold medals
© ITAR-TASS/Vladimir Smirnov
26 July. CSKA player Ahmed Musa after winning the match for the Russian Football Super Cup: CSKA (Moscow) - Rostov (Rostov-on-Don) - 3:1, Krasnodar. Pontus Wernbloom, Zoran Tosic and Seydou Doumbia scored goals for the winners, and Hrvoje Milic for the losers.
© ITAR-TASS/Valery Sharifulin
October 24. Cameroonian boxer Carlos Takam and Russian Alexander Povetkin during the fight for the WBC Silver title at Luzhniki. The Russian knocked out the Cameroonian in the tenth round
© Valery Sharifulin/TASS
November 23. Indian chess player Viswanathan Anand and Norwegian chess player Magnus Carlsen during a match at the World Chess Championship in Sochi. The Norwegian retained his world title and beat Anand with a score of 6.5:4.5
© Nina Zotina/TASS
5th of December. Participants of the 2014 Siberian Winter Kiting Cup during the competition in the course-flight discipline, Novosibirsk. The competition took place on the ice of the Ob Reservoir. 93 athletes from all over Russia competed in two disciplines - course-race and freestyle. This year's winners were competition participants from Petrozavodsk, Novosibirsk, Surgut, Chelyabinsk and Yekaterinburg
© Evgeny Kurskov/TASS
Culture
January 23. Press presentation of the diorama “Standing on the Ugra” in the workshop of the Studio of Military Artists named after M. B. Grekov in Moscow
© ITAR-TASS/Artem Geodakyan
April 28. Ballet dancer Yoel Careño performs a pas de deux from the ballet “Esmeralda” staged by choreographer Agrippina Vaganova at the closing ceremony of the XIII International Ballet Festival Dance Open at the Alexandrinsky Theater in St. Petersburg. The festival took place from April 23 to April 28 as part of the cross Year of Culture between Russia and Great Britain
© ITAR-TASS/Ruslan Shamukov
1st of May. Dancer Irina Perren during the pre-premiere rehearsal of the one-act ballet “White Darkness” at the Mikhailovsky Theater in St. Petersburg. The performance was staged by Spanish choreographer Nacho Duato, who previously worked as artistic director of the Mikhailovsky Theater ballet troupe, to music by composer Karl Jenkins
© ITAR-TASS/Ruslan Shamukov
5 May. Participants from Russia Nastya and Masha Tolmachev at the rehearsal of the first semi-final of the 59th international competition songs at Eurovision 2014 in Copenhagen, Denmark. According to the results of the competition, the Tolmachev sisters took seventh place
may 13. Actor Naeem Hayat as Hamlet in a scene from the play "Hamlet" at Shakespeare's Globe Theatre. The play was presented at the opening of the festival of the best theaters in Great Britain as part of the cross-year of culture between Russia and Great Britain on the stage of the Mayakovsky Theater in Moscow
© ITAR-TASS/Valery Sharifulin
June 4. A scene from the one-act Scottish ballet “Silhouette” at the Mossovet Theater, brought to Moscow as part of the Chekhov Theater Festival
© ITAR-TASS/Artem Geodakyan
June 14. British director Terry Gilliam presented his science-fiction thriller “The Zero Theorem” at the Barvikha Luxury Village concert hall near Moscow. According to the director, his film is “a glimpse into the world we live in today.” The leading roles in “The Zero Theorem” were played by two-time Oscar winner Christoph Waltz, Mélanie Thierry, Matt Damon and Tilda Swinton
© ITAR-TASS/Zurab Javakhadze
July 29. A museum of optical illusions has opened in Moscow on Old Arbat. In an area of about a thousand square meters there are more than a hundred exhibitions, each of which is interactive
© ITAR-TASS/Vyacheslav Prokofiev
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June 28. Models demonstrate Elena Badmaeva's collection "Venus and Adonis" during the theatrical fashion show "Anglomania" staged by the artistic director of the Mikhailovsky Theater Vasily Barkhatov as part of the "Association" project at the Tsarskoe Selo State Museum, Pushkin |
August 17. Spectators during the performance of the German group Scooter at the KUBANA-2014 festival in the village of Veselovka, Krasnodar Territory |
August 23. Visitors to the international music festival "KaZantip-2014" on the Black Sea coast. This year the festival was held for the first time in the Georgian city of Anaklia
© ITAR-TASS/Mikhail Pochuev
September 29. The St. Petersburg Academic Theater of Boris Eifman presented a new version of the ballet “Requiem” for the first time in Moscow. The premiere screening took place on the new stage of the Bolshoi Theater as part of the Chereshnevy Les open arts festival. In 1991, Boris Eifman staged a one-act ballet of the same name to the music of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart's Requiem. Last year, the choreographer added another act to it, based on Anna Akhmatova’s poem to the music of the chamber symphony “In Memory of the Victims of Fascism and War” by Dmitry Shostakovich
© ITAR-TASS/Valery Sharifulin
2 October. Director of the Pushkin Museum named after. Pushkin Marina Loshak at the exhibition “British Design: From William Morris to the Digital Revolution.” In 2014, the Pushkin Museum announced long-term plans to create its own design collection. This area of activity of the Pushkin Museum will be called “Pushkin Design”
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October 15. Artist Alexander Grigoriev at his work “Object of Interpenetration, 1976” at the exhibition “Time of Movement” as part of the opening of the Artstory gallery in Moscow. The exhibition featured about 200 works from the collections of former members of the Movement collective and collectors. The works of the Movement participants combine electronic music, mime scenes, geometric painting and graphics, and kinetic sculpture.
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November 5. The Moscow Academic Musical Theater named after Stanislavsky and Nemirovich-Danchenko (MAMT) for the first time presented the ballet “Tatyana” based on “Eugene Onegin” staged by the world famous choreographer John Neumeier. The role of Tatiana was performed by the prima of the Mariinsky Theater Diana Vishneva, and her partner was the soloist of MAMT Dmitry Sobolevsky
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November 9. British singer and musician Elton John performed at a concert at the Ice Palace in St. Petersburg as part of a tour dedicated to the re-release of the cult album “Goodbye Yellow Brick Road”, recorded in 1973
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Army and defense industry
12th of April. Guardsmen of the special guard company Presidential Regiment during the ceremony of changing the foot and horse guards on the Kremlin's Cathedral Square
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June 6. A serviceman at the exhibition "Innovation Day" of the Western Military District on the territory of the Levashovo military airfield, St. Petersburg
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July 25. Large anti-submarine ship "Admiral Vinogradov" of the Pacific Fleet during the naval parade on Russian Navy Day, Vladivostok
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August 4th. During the international stage of the Tank Biathlon 2014 at the Alabino training ground, Moscow region
August 9. Demonstration performances of the aerobatic team “Falcons of Russia” at the military-patriotic festival “Open Sky” at the Severny airfield, Ivanovo
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August 16. T-90A tank during the demonstration program at the second international forum “Technologies in Mechanical Engineering-2014” at the Gromov Flight Research Institute airfield (Ramenskoye), Zhukovsky
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August 28. The third diesel-electric submarine "Stary Oskol" of project 636.3 "Varshavyanka" during the launching ceremony at the Admiralty Shipyards, St. Petersburg
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September 5. Transfer of fuel from a tanker to a missile boat using the wake method during the naval stage of the exercise of the logistics system of the Eastern Military District, Primorsky Territory
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12-th of September. Brigade personnel Marine Corps before loading onto landing ships of the Pacific Fleet during a surprise check of combat readiness at the naval landing range in Desantnaya Bay, Primorsky Krai
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16 of September. Paratroopers from a unit of the 83rd Separate Air Assault Brigade in an airplane before a parachute jump as part of a combat readiness check of the troops of the Eastern Military District at Vozdvizhenka airfield, Primorsky Territory
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29th of October. Landing of an amphibious tactical landing force from large amphibious ships on a stop and afloat the district on an unequipped coast during a battalion tactical exercise of the Marine Corps of the Pacific Fleet at the Klerk naval landing range, Vladivostok
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November 7. At the march dedicated to the 73rd anniversary of the military parade on November 7, 1941, on Red Square in Moscow
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Everyday life and holidays in Russia
January 18. Epiphany bathing at the spring of St. Seraphim of Sarov in the village of Diveevo. More than 90 thousand people took part in Epiphany bathing in Moscow. In total, almost 3 thousand places for mass Epiphany bathing were equipped in Russia
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April 19. View of the Black Sea coast from Mount Ai-Petri in Crimea. This year, 3.6 million tourists vacationed on the peninsula. Of these, 3 million are Russians
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April 19. Blessing of Easter cakes and Easter eggs before the start of the celebration of Holy Easter at the Transfiguration Cathedral in Ivanovo. This year the celebration of Christ's Resurrection coincided among Orthodox, Catholics and Protestants, which happens every few years |
May 7. Snowfall in Moscow. The Hydrometeorological Center noted that wet snow in early May is not abnormal for the Moscow region. The last time such a phenomenon could be observed was six years ago, in May 2008. |
May 8. Monument at the memorial cemetery of the city of Kineshma (Ivanovo region), where the funeral ceremony took place for the found remains of unknown soldiers who died during the Second World War in the Pskov region
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9th May. During the celebration of the 69th anniversary of the Victory in the Great Patriotic War, Moscow. In Russia, 11 thousand military parades, fireworks and other ceremonial events were held, in which over 14.3 million people took part
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12 June. Mowing competition in the vicinity of Lukh, Ivanovo region
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12 June. Festive concert in honor of Russia Day on Red Square in Moscow. The country's main national holiday recalls the historic declaration of sovereignty, which turned 24 this year.
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12 June. Festive fireworks in Moscow in honor of Russia Day. Holiday Events took place throughout the country and for the first time in Crimea
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July 2. Bell tower of the Holy Trinity Sergius Lavra and the Assumption Cathedral at sunset, Moscow region. On July 16, a religious procession dedicated to the 700th anniversary of St. Sergius of Radonezh took place in the Moscow region. The solemn procession, in which more than 30 thousand people took part, was led by Patriarch Kirill of Moscow and All Rus'
© ITAR-TASS/Vladimir Sayapin
3 July. Children play football in the village of Shchelykovo, Kostroma region
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5'th of July. Celebrating Ivan Kupala Day as part of the festival " Great Rus'. Ivan Kupala" on Russky Island. The festival took place on the territory of the historical monument Powder Magazine No. 13 of the Vladivostok Fortress
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July 18. Preparing for the flight hot-air balloon within the framework of the XII Russian festival of hot air balloons “The Sky of St. Sergius” during the celebration of the 700th anniversary of St. Sergius of Radonezh in Sergiev Posad, Moscow region
July 19. Participants in the “Five Bridges” tweed bike ride in the center of St. Petersburg. Every year up to 1 thousand people gather for a bike ride. This year the theme of the walk was Paris in the 1940s. The very first tweed bike ride was held in January 2009 in London.
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July 20. "GUM bike riding" on the Kremlin embankment in Moscow. The event is dedicated to the celebration of the 120th anniversary of GUM
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July 28th. Police during the solemn prayer of Muslims on the occasion of Eid al-Adha (the holiday of breaking the fast) at the Cathedral Mosque in Moscow. In Russia, Islam is the second largest religion in terms of the number of believers. According to the head of the Council of Muftis of Russia, Ravil Gainutdin, for 2013, at least 23 million Muslims, representing 38 nations, live on the territory of the Russian Federation. There are about 2 million Muslims in Moscow
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August 2. Muscovites escape the heat by the fountain in Muzeon Park. This day became the hottest day of summer in Moscow, the air warmed up to +32.9°C. The history of meteorological observations shows that August in the capital was rarely hot, the average monthly temperature was +16.4°C
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8 August. Son of the Chief Rabbi of Russia Sholom Lazar (right) during an ethnographic expedition in a mobile synagogue (mitzvah mobile) on one of the streets of Novosibirsk. Rabbis from Israel, the USA and Europe arrived in Novosibirsk on mobile synagogues as part of an expedition to Russian cities
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August 17. Preparing the biology classroom for the new academic year at a secondary school in the city of Ivanovo. On September 1, 2014, about 43 thousand schools opened their doors. 1.5 million children went to first grade, and in total 14 million schoolchildren sat down at their desks
© ITAR-TASS/Vladimir Smirnov
12-th of September. Employees of the laboratory for the study of extreme light fields and their applications near a laser system for generating second pulses in Nizhny Novgorod state university named after N.I. Lobachevsky
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September 14. J.V. Stalin's double observes the elections to the Moscow City Duma in one of the city's polling stations
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1October 0. Fireworks as part of the IV Moscow International Festival "Circle of Light" in Moscow. His main theme this year it became " Trip around the world»
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20 November. A visitor to the Skypark extreme entertainment complex on the world's tallest swing, SochiSwing, 170 m high. The main part of the complex is the world's longest suspension bridge, equipped with a bungee jumping system. Total weight of the structure - 120 tons
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