USSR

Main article: History of Russia

1925

Laundering a street child in an orphanage. USSR, 1925.

1927

Peasant family turns on their first electric light bulb, 1927

"We are in 1927 if there were no revolution," a caricature in the emigrant press of the 20s.

1928: "Golden Operation" to rescue gold from the United States

• The golden blockade of the USSR in the 1920s

Nadezhda Krupskaya in the center among the delegates of the All-Union Conference of Women of the East, 1928

1929

Housewarming: the family of a former farm laborer enters the house of a dispossessed fist, 1929.

1930

Tractor Plant, Stalingrad, 1930.

1932: World crisis shapes totalitarian system in USSR

Repressions against the peasantry, complete collectivization and the transition to totalitarianism in 1929-32 were to a large extent (although not exclusively) the result of a global economic crisis that affected Soviet Russia differently than Germany or the United States, but no less fateful.

Stalin in the Kremlin, 1932.

It was the world crisis of 1929-32 that shaped Stalinism as it went down in history, it was he who gave rise to totalitarianism in the USSR in the same way that it caused the victory of Nazism in Germany.

B.Yu. Kagarlitsky "Peripheral Empire."

1933

Comrade Kalinin at a meeting with the commanders of the Red Army, 1933. Shooting on a glass plate. Those shot are scratched out.

1935

Joseph Stalin with his son Vasily and daughter Svetlana. USSR, 1935.

Joseph Stalin with his daughter Svetlana. USSR. 1935

1936

Soviet poster map of 1936.

1937: The beginning of "The Great Terror"

On July 2, 1937, the Politburo of the Central Committee of the All-Union Communist Party of Bolsheviks authorized the sending of regional committees to the secretaries regional committees, the Central Committee of the National Parties of the telegram, in which it was offered to all secretaries of regional and regional organizations and all regional ones, the regional and republican representatives of the NKVD to take into account all those who returned to their homeland after serving the terms of expulsion of kulaks and criminals with that, so that the most hostile of them were immediately arrested and shot in order to administratively conduct their cases through the troika.

The distribution of this telegram can be considered the beginning of what in liberal historiography is called the "Great Terror" or Stalin's repressions.

Public censure. SSSR,1937 year

1938

Boris Efimov. Caricature "War," 1938.

Soviet propaganda poster, 1938.

1940

Chairman of the Council of People's Commissars of the USSR and People's Commissar of Foreign Affairs of the USSR V.M. Molotov at negotiations with A. Hitler in the Imperial Chancellery, 1940.

1941: Attack on the USSR by fascist Germany

• World War II

1945: Victory and huge losses in World War II

Main article: World War II

The share of residents of European countries killed in World War II. Poland suffered the most, including its eastern parts (Western Ukraine and Western Belarus).

1947: Brezhnev - Ukrainian

Passport of Leonid Ilyich Brezhnev model 1947. Ukrainian.

Commission for the Reception of New Clothing Models, 1947.

1949

Tests of the first Soviet nuclear bomb

Explosion of the first Soviet atomic bomb, Semipalatinsk, USSR, August 29, 1949.

70 years old Stalin

Communist Chinese leader Mao Jedong at Joseph Stalin's 70th birthday. Moscow. 1949

1950

A woman feeds a polar bear, USSR, 1950.

1953

Fashion show of new models of TV tracks for rural workers and paramilitary guards, 1953.

1955

Komsomol members of the Vasileostrovsky district of Leningrad pack gifts for virgin lands, 1955. Photographer: Nikolay Ananyev.

1956

Soviet physical instructors at the parade, 1956.

IL-14 aircraft and icebreaker in Dixon - the northernmost settlement of the USSR, 1956.

Prince Felix Yusupov, Count Sumarokov-Elston, one of the organizers of the murder of Grigory Rasputin, in exile, in 1956, with his favorite pugs.

1957: Launch of a second Earth satellite with Laika on board - the first living creature in orbit

On November 3, 1957, the second artificial Earth satellite was launched. On board the Sputnik-2 was the dog Laika, about 2 years old, which became the first living creature to be launched into Earth's orbit.

Laika

1958

Soviet poster, 1958.

1959

A young family at festivities on the occasion of the Day of International Solidarity of Workers on May 1. USSR. 1959

1960

Вратaрь сборной ССCP Лев Яшин. Фото сделано в туннeле стадиона Парк де Пpeнс перед началом финального матча чемпионaта Europe. Paris, 1960

1961: Yuri Gagarin is the first man in space

On April 12, 1961, Yuri Gagarin became the first person in world history to fly into outer space. The Raketa carrier with the Vostok-1 ship carrying Gagarin was launched from the Baikonur cosmodrome. After 108 minutes of flight, Gagarin successfully landed in the Saratov region, near Engels.

1964: Nikita Khrushchev's resignation

Unanimous vote at the Plenum of the Central Committee of the CPSU for the resignation of N. Khrushchev. USSR. October 14, 1964

1965: First ever human spacewalk

Cosmonaut Alexei Leonov in an inflatable gateway of the Voskhod-2 spacecraft before spacewalk, USSR, March 18, 1965.

Goalkeeper of the USSR national football team Lev Yashin and Brazilian striker Pele, 1965.

1966

Which will be free by 1980. Soviet pamphlet, 1960s.

Queue in the registry office. Ladies miss and Cavaliers play. USSR. 1960s.

1966. USSR. Kurunkov Airmobile. On the highway, it developed speeds of up to 120 km/h, on snow (skiing) - 80 km/h, on water - 50 km/h.

1970

Transfer of the vessel "Meteor" through the dam of the Krasnoyarsk hydroelectric station under construction. Divnogorsk, 1970.

Collision between the Queen of Victoria ferry and the Soviet cargo ship Sergei Yesenin, August 3, 1970.

1971

Brezhnev, Chernenko and others in the rest room of the Palace of Congresses. Moscow, 1971

Teenagers ride on the hook of an electric train, USSR, 1971.

1972

Western Europe Gas Export Agreement

In 1972, Leonid Brezhnev and German Chancellor Willy Brandt entered into the Gas - Pipes agreement, which allows the export of Soviet gas to Western Europe.

Leonid Brezhnev, German Chancellor Willy Brandt and his wife Ruth Brandt, Bonn, 1972.

Caricature of US plans to destroy the USSR

Only a mentally ill person could have thought of the collapse of the Soviet Union into separate states. So they thought in "Crocodile."

Crocodile Magazine, No. 35, December 1972.

1973

Studying athlete breathing. Subject - two-time USSR record holder Vladimir Barabash, 1973

Gymnasts. Olga Korbut, Liubov Burda, Elvira Saadi and Liubov Bogdanova, 1973

1974

CPSU Secretary General Brezhnev visits the Pepsi-Cola plant

L. I. Brezhnev at the Pepsi-Kola enterprise, 1974.

1975

Anatoly Karpov's simultaneous game session, 12-year-old Garry Kasparov on the left. Leningrad. USSR. 1975

1976

Secretary General of the Central Committee of the CPSU Leonid Brezhnev during the hunt. 1976

1978

Things are heating up. USSR. The 1970th

Man feeds the polar bear and its young condensed milk. USSR. 1970s.

1979

In a telephone booth, USSR, 1979.

1980

Victoria and Leonid Brezhnev, Sochi, 1980. Three years have passed since the "golden" wedding. Their marriage would last 55 years, from 1927 until the death of Leonid Ilyich in 1982.

A poster with which the philosopher, mathematician and writer Vazif Meylanov in 1980 went to the square to the building of the Dagestan regional committee of the CPSU in Makhachkala. He was sentenced to 7 years in a maximum security camp and 2 years in exile.

1982

The death of Secretary General Leonid Brezhnev

The funeral of L. Brezhnev, who died on November 10, 1982.

US CIA blasts Soviet gas pipeline: start of cyber war against Russia

Main article: Cyber ​ ​ war between Russia and the United States

US CIA officers have introduced a bug into Canadian software that managed gas pipelines. Soviet intelligence received this software as an object of industrial espionage and introduced it on the Trans-Siberian pipeline. The result was the largest non-nuclear explosion in human history, which occurred in 1982.

Son brought the first salary, USSR, 1982

1983

Poster, 1983

1985: Death of Konstantin Chernenko, Mikhail Gorbachev elected new Secretary General of the CPSU Central Committee

After the death of the General Secretary of the Central Committee of the CPSU Konstantin Chernenko in March 1985, Mikhail Gorbachev was elected to this post at the suggestion of the Minister of Foreign Affairs of the USSR Andrei Gromyko.

1986

Beginning of "Perestroika"

In 1986, Gorbachev initiated a new ideology and reforms in the economic and political structure of the USSR. Then he first used the term "perestroika." The politician himself stated that he put an equal sign between the words "perestroika" and "revolution."

Chernobyl disaster

Main article: Chernobyl NPP

The earliest known image of the Chernobyl disaster, April 26, 1986.

1987: AIDS detected in the USSR

Main article: HIV and AIDS

The fact of the presence of infection doctors first established in the summer of 1987. By the end of the year, there were already 25 HIV-infected people from among those with whom he contacted.

1988. The first people infected with HIV in the USSR with a list of professions.

1988

Poster, USSR, 1988.

USSR, keeping the world from destruction. Poster, 1980s

The amount does not change from changing the places of the terms. Satirical poster "Perestroika?," 1988.

1989

Yeltsin's first unofficial visit to the United States

Future Russian President Boris Yeltsin on his first and unofficial visit to the United States, 1989

Movement of the Baltic republics for leaving the USSR

Action "Baltic Way" for leaving the USSR. 23.08.1989 years, a living chain was lined up through Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania. It was the largest flash mob in the history of the USSR.

Beauty pageants are in fashion

Miss USSR - 89 (3rd place) Ekaterina Meshcheryakova

1991

All-Union referendum on the preservation of the USSR

On March 17, 1991, an All-Union referendum on the preservation of the USSR was held - the only one in the history of the USSR.

The issue of preserving the USSR as an updated Federation of equal sovereign states and republics of the former USSR was discussed.

Referendum on the introduction of the post of President of the RSFSR and the election of Boris Yeltsin to it

On March 17, 1991, in parallel with the All-Union referendum, the first all-Russian referendum on the introduction of the presidency of the RSFSR was held. 75.09% of the citizens of the RSFSR took part in it, of which 71.3% supported this proposal.

Campaign poster, USSR, 1991

Three months later, on June 12, 1991, Boris Yeltsin was elected the first president of the RSFSR.

Putsch

Mstislav Rostropovich and Yuri Ivanov on defense of the White House, August 1991.

USSR recognizes the independence of Lithuania

On September 6, 1991 State , the USSR Council, chaired by Mikhail Gorbachev, recognized independence. Lithuania

The collapse of the USSR

The last meeting of the Council of Republics of the Supreme Soviet of the USSR, at which a declaration on the termination of the existence of the USSR was adopted, December 26, 1991.

A press conference at which Gennady Burbulis explains that the USSR, as a geopolitical reality and a subject of international law, ceases to exist. December 1991.

Bialowieza Agreement. December 8, 1991, residence of Viskuli, Belarus. The last seconds of the existence of the USSR.