April 13, 2009. 18th ISS Crew at the press conference in Star City near Moscow. Pictured: l-r NASA astronaut Michael Fink , Russian cosmonaut Yuri Lonchakov and space tourist Charles Simony back on Earth
 

April 01, 2009. MARS 500 Simulated Mars Mission Project. MARS-500 is a ground-based experiment simulating manned flight to Mars.A 105-day experiment to simulate a flight to Mars started on Tuesday, March 31 at the Institute of Medical and Biological Studies in Moscow.During the mission investigators-volunteers live and work in the special complex, communicating with the outer world only by means of e-mail. Pictured: Air France pilot Cyrille Fournier (left), German mechanical engineer Oliver Knickel (second left) and russian crew members of Mars-500 : crew commander Sergei Ryazansky, cosmonaut Oleg Artemyev, medical doctor Alexei Baranov and sports physiologist Alexei Shpakov
 

April 01, 2009. MARS 500 Simulated Mars Mission Project. MARS-500 is a ground-based experiment simulating manned flight to Mars.A 105-day experiment to simulate a flight to Mars started on Tuesday, March 31 at the Institute of Medical and Biological Studies in Moscow.During the mission investigators-volunteers live and work in the special complex, communicating with the outer world only by means of e-mail. Pictured: Air France pilot Cyrille Fournier (third right), German mechanical engineer Oliver Knickel (second right) and russian crew members of Mars-500 : crew commander Sergei Ryazansky, cosmonaut Oleg Artemyev, medical doctor Alexei Baranov and sports physiologist Alexei Shpakov
 

February 20, 2009. The Yuzhno-Russkoye gas field in Yamalo-Nenets Autonomous District of Tyumen. A major business of the district is oil and gas production, with one of the largest gas fields in the world The Yuzhno-Russkoye gas field and substantial prospects for further exploration. The Yuzhno-Russkoye gas field is designated to become the main natural gas supply for the Nord Stream pipeline. Pictured: the Yuzhno-Russkoye gas field , Burgaz company - Urengoi is a capital of russian natural gas extraction
 

November 20, 2008. May 1st, 1962. On the tribune of Lenin mausoleum : l-r cosmonaut Herman Titov , soviet leader Nikita Khruschev and cosmonaut Juri Gagarin
 

October 10, 2008. Aeroflot Flight training school in Moscow. Pictured: Interior cockpit of A320 airbus Flight Simulator. A flight simulator is a system that tries to copy, or simulate, the experience of flying an aircraft.
 

September 19, 2008. The basic crew of the 18th ISS expedition Russian cosmonaut, Jury Lonchakov (c), American astronaut, Edward Michael Fink (r), and the space tourist,American, Richard Gerriot (l), are preparing for flight in the Star City (Zvezdny Gorodok)training centre near Moscow .
 

September 05, 2008. A man strains off venom from rattle snake for medical purposes
 

September 04, 2008. AIDS associated infections research centre in Moscow. Pictured: blood analysis test tube
 

August 07, 2008. On Friday, 2008 August 01, a total eclipse of the Sun is visible from within a narrow corridor that traverses half the Earth. The path of the Moon`s umbral shadow begins in Canada and extends across northern Greenland, the Arctic, central Russia, Mongolia, and China. A partial eclipse is seen within the much broader path of the Moon`s penumbral shadow, which includes northeastern North America, most of Europe and Asia.
 

April 24, 2008. Prometey Scientific-research institute in St.Petersburg where russia work on creation of construction material nanotechnology . The employee of nanocentre demonstrates nano substance (in a tube)
 

March 19, 2008. Press conference in Moscow to introduce new versions of Microsoft products for Russian market. Pictured: ideologist of Microsoft Solutions Framework Jim McCarthy at the press conference.
 

August 09, 2007. MIR russian mini submarine (on the photo). Russian researchers have planted russian flag on the seabed 14,000ft under the North Pole.It was done to claim the territory in the Arctic. To reach Arctic floor and to plant their national flag to the floor in the Arctic russians used 2 mini submarines MIR-1 and MIR-2.(MIR MINI SUBMARINE IS ALSO FAMOUS IN BEING USED IN FILMING TITANIC HOLYWOOD MOVIE)(Anatoly Sagalevich is a pilot of MIR - ON THE PICTURE).