Photos from the past (40 photos)

A selection of interesting photographs from the past. Not only ours, and not only close.





Soviet ballerina Maya Plisetskaya and American actress Natalie Wood, 1960s



On the pond in Ostankino, 1970s



Ben Carlin and Barry Hanley in their amphibious jeep at the port of Hong Kong. 1956



Ben Carlin was the first (and only) person to commit round the world trip in an amphibious vehicle. He covered over 17,000 km by sea and 62,000 km by land in a 10-year journey.

Docker lights up Winston Churchill in Cherbourg, France, 1944



"Girl with lilies" - anti-aircraft gunner Elena Petrovna Ivanova after return from the front. Voronezh region, Talovsky district, with. Voznesenovka



Photo taken by military photojournalist Galina Sanko in May 1945, bypassed the front pages of central newspapers and the covers of all Soviet magazines.

British tankers bathe in the Biferno River in southern Italy, October 1943



Sting and Brooke Shields, 1983



Hot Zulus with a dream of Wimbledon, 1910s



Kyiv "Tykhokhod" - sightseeing road train on machine units GAZ-51 family produced by Kyiv Automobile Repair Plants #1 and #12. 1957



In total, 6 road trains of this type were built, these machines operated on the territory of VDNKh in Kyiv from the late 1950s until November 10 1988

A sleeping bag that allows soldiers to immediately engage in battle. USA, 1947



Evgeny Dolmatovsky reads poetry at the Brandenburg Gate, May 10, 1945, Berlin



Fishing on the Balykta river. Young workers of the geological party fishing in a mountain stream, 1975



American actress Sean Young, New York 1970s. Photographer Alexander Borodulin



Aerial photography of Berlin cleared of destruction. 1953



Spaghetti Western master Sergio Leone at his favorite job, 1960s



Lyudmila Gurchenko with her mother-in-law Angelina Stepanova, 1963 Photo by L. Porter



Almaty residents at a spring picnic in the mountains of the Trans-Ili Alatau, 1971



French actress and animal rights activist Brigitte Bardot with a harp seal in Newfoundland, Canada. March 1977



Bardo came to Newfoundland to publicly speak out against seal hunting.

Selena B215 radio receiver, manufactured by the Minsk Radio Plant named after Lenin (now Gorizont), Byelorussian SSR. 1986



Sandra Bullock, 1995



Kirghiz SSR. City park of culture and recreation in the city of Frunze. Carousel on the water, 1973



Pamela Anderson, 1989



Employees of the American Museum of Natural History collect a brontosaurus, 1904



Cadets of the Arkhangelsk sailor, 1958



Harrison Ford in his carpentry shop, 1982



One day, Star Wars director George Lucas needed install lockers in the house - and he hired a carpenter. install cabinets Harrison Ford came. The actor admits that as far as possible doing carpentry as a hobby and now

Cowboy dancing, USA, October 1910



Bikini by Paco Rabane, 1971



View from the Bolshoy Konyushenny Bridge to the Round Market. Saint Petersburg. Russia. 1900 Photo by Karl Bulla



Sharon Stone. Photo by A. Leibovitz, 1993



Concert of Soviet pop artists, 1983, Olimpiysky Sports Complex, Moscow



Lev Leshchenko, Alla Pugacheva, Iosif Kobzon and the trio "Expression" (Lyudmila Chesnulyavichute, Boris Moiseev, Larisa Khitana). Concert fees went to the Soviet Peace Fund. Author of the photo: Alexander Lyskin

Students of the Ukrainian gymnasium in Przemysl building in the school yard, 1942, occupied Ukraine



Wedding photo with a BelAZ-549 dump truck at the Belarusian VDNKh, 1979



Vending machines in Budapest, 1967



Yuri Gagarin with Soviet pioneers. Artek, 1960s



American engineers Charles Ginsberg, Charles Andersen and Ray Dolby demonstrated their invention - the first video recorder. 1956 G.



American youth, 1940s



Distance education for children during the polio outbreak in USA in the 1940s. Teachers read educational material on the radio



Competition "Queen of Tobacco". North Carolina, 1950s



Monica Bellucci