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81076 0 International Portrait Gallery     Isaac Stern, Russian - Born Violinist. (July 21, 1920 - )  HebrewsMusicPersonalitiesRussians  
35437 A1183 Winnipeg Free Press Collection     3 Russian Trade Unionist (Not Named) Visit, For The First Time, A North American Picket Line, Set Up At Manitoba Bridge & Engineering, 845 Logan Avenue By United Steelworkers Of America, Local 4087  PersonalitiesPoliticsRussiansStrikesUnions 1972, August 29
56003 A1709 Winnipeg Free Press Collection     A Member Of The Moscow Circus'S Gymnastics Troup Is Rescued From A Spill Into The Crowd By Fellow Gymnasts At The Winnipeg Arena. He Lost His Balance After Performing A Triple Stilt Somersault  ArenasCircusesGymnasticsRussiansWinnipeg Buildings 1987, October 16
80615 0 International Portrait Gallery     Alexei Kosygin, Chairman, Communist Party Of Ussr. (February 20, 1904 - )  PersonalitiesPoliticsRussians  
51248 A1549 Miscellaneous Collection     Ammeter Clan Enroute From Russia Via Quebec To Winnipeg. This Picture Was Taken At A Railroad Station Most Likely At North Bay, On. The Story Of Christian Ammeter And His Clan Began In Isenfluh, Switzerland, In 1849. From There They Emigrated In 1879 To The Caucasus Of Russia. In 1929, During The Russian Revolution, They Were Forced To Flee Leaving All Their Assets And Land Behind. They Fled To Canada And Settled In Starbuck, Mb. Photo Courtesy Of The Ammeter Family  ImmigrationRailwaysRussiansStationsWomen 1929, July
80866 0 International Portrait Gallery     Anna Pavlova, Russian Ballerina Dancing In Costume On Toe Shoes In A Ballet. (January 3, 1885 - January 23, 1931)  CostumesDancePersonalitiesRussiansWomen  
80222 0 International Portrait Gallery     Anton Chekhov, Russian Dramatist And Short Story Writer. (January 17, 1860 - July 2, 1904)  AuthorsPersonalitiesRussiansTheatre  
41627 A1398 Manitoba Sports Hall of Fame Collection     Ben Hatskin, Born To Russian Immigrants In The North End Of Winnipeg. Attended University Of Oklahoma And In 1936, Signed With The Blue Bombers Playing For Six Years. Was With The Team When They Won The Grey Cup Championships In 1939 And 1941. In 1972, He Was Listed As Presient Of 8 Companies From Investment Firms To A Juke Box Distributor, And A Real Estate Corportation. In 1966 He Formed The Jets Organization. In 1973 He Owned The Jets And Was Chairman Of The World Hockey Association. He Was Inducted Into The Manitoba Sports Hall Of Fame November 16,1985  FootballHockeyPersonalitiesRussiansSports 1985, November
35395 A1182 Winnipeg Free Press Collection     Bill (The Beast) Juzda, Former Nhl Star Faces-Off With Tjapa, The Moscow Circus Hockey Playing Bear With Trainer Ivan Dolintsev Acting As Referee, In Circus Promotion  BearsCircusesHockeyPersonalitiesRussians 1970, October 21
35669 A1191 Winnipeg Free Press Collection     Boris Mirosh Michenko (Right), Soviet Ambassador To Canada, And Wife, Accepting Red River Cart From Premiered Schreyer  PersonalitiesPoliticsRussiansWomen 1971, July 9
56071 A1712 Winnipeg Free Press Collection     Canada'S Zarley Zalapski (Left) Tangles With Moscow Selects' Yuri Lennox For The Puck During An Exhibition Game Held At The Winnipeg Arena. The Final Score Was Canada 6, Moscow 1.  HockeyPersonalitiesRussiansSportsWinnipeg Buildings 1987, December 7
61441 A1960 Canadian Wheat Board Collection     Canadian - Soviet Trade Delegation. (L- R): Dan Fenety (Chief Of Staff, Office Of Charles Mayer), E.K. Turner (President Of Saskatchewan Wheat Pool), E. Baranov (Ussr Trade Representation In Ottawa), Michael Smirnov (Emec Trading Limited, Vancouver), Esmond Jarvis (Chief Commissioner Of Cwb), E. Banniikov (Director Of Grain Department, V/O Exportkhleb), Eduard Pogosian (President Of Stan-Canad, Toronto), Charles Mayer (Minister Of State For Cwb), Paul Murphy (Sales Manager Of Belarus Equipment Of Canada, Toronto), V. Abramov (Interpreter Ministry Of Foreign Trade, Moscow), V. Vokmin (Head Of Ussr Trade Representation, Ottawa), Forrest Hetland (Commissioner Of Cwb), Jim Leibfried (Commissioner Of Cwb), V. Persin (Director General, V/O Exportkhleb, Moscow), Allan Macpherson (President Of Alberta Wheat Pool), Irene Saharov (Interpreter, External Affairs, Ottawa), Bill Smith (Commissioner Of Cwb), Roy Cusitar (Vice President Of Ugg), Bill Strath (President Of Manitoba Pool Elevators), And V. Borrissenko (Minister Of Foreign Trade, Moscow.(Colour)  AgricultureMarketingPersonalitiesPoliticsRussiansWheat BoardWomen 1985
51249 A1549 Miscellaneous Collection     Christian Ammeter, The Patriarch Of The Ammeter Family Who Brought His Children And Their Families To Starbuck, Manitoba From Russia After The Revolution. Seventy-Four In All Left Karabulach, Russia For Canada  ImmigrationPersonalitiesRussiansWomen 1929, July
80839 0 International Portrait Gallery     David Oistrakh, Russian Novelist. (September 30, 1908 - )  MusicPersonalitiesRussians  
37602 A1256 Winnipeg Free Press Collection     Demonstrators Protesting Soviet Foreign And Domestic Policy Outside Of The Winnipeg Arena During Performance Of The Bolshoi Ballet  ArenasDanceEntertainmentPoliticsProtestsRussians 1963, November 24
81044 0 International Portrait Gallery     Dmitri Shostakovitch, Russian Composer. (September 25, 1906 - )  MusicPersonalitiesRussians  
36942 A1233 Winnipeg Free Press Collection     Dr. Andrei Romodanov, A Deputy Of The Supreme Soviet, Speaking To Gordon Bell High School Students About Soviet Peace Proposals  PersonalitiesPoliticsRussiansSchoolsStudents 1983, May 20
81149 0 International Portrait Gallery     From A Painting Leon Trotsky, Russian Revolutionist. (1879 - August 21, 1940)  PersonalitiesPoliticsRussians  
80802 0 International Portrait Gallery     From A Painting Modest Musorgski, Russian Composer. (March 28, 1835 - March 28, 1881)  MusicPersonalitiesRussians  
80317 0 International Portrait Gallery     Fyodor Mikhailovich Dostoevski, Russian Novelist. (November 11, 1821 - February 9, 1881)  AuthorsPersonalitiesRussians  
997 A0034 Archives of Manitoba     Galician (Ukrainian) & Doukhobor Immigrants (Men Women And Children Outside A Building  BuildingsChildrenCostumesDoukhoborsImmigrationRussiansUkrainiansWomen 1890c
32775 A1094 Winnipeg Free Press Collection     Game Between Winnipeg Jets And Moscow Dynamo, Won By Winnipeg 6 - 4  EventsHockeyRussiansSports 1978, December 31
5222 A0166 Miscellaneous Collection     Greek Orthodox Church & Russian Contingent For Overseas Service  BuildingsChurchesRussians 1914-1918
80879 0 International Portrait Gallery     Gregor Piatigorsky, Russian Cellist Playing A Cello. (April 17, 1903 - )  MusicMusical InstrumentsRussians  
5465 A0175 Archives of Manitoba     Holy Resurrection Russian Greek Orthodox Church, Built 1928, Sifton, Mb  BuildingsChurchesRussiansTowns 1972
62697 A2008 Canadian National Railway Collection     Home Of The Ruthenian Immigrants In Alberta  AgricultureBuildingsHorsesHousesRussians 1919c
13725 A0424 Miscellaneous Collection     Hon. William Hespeler Born In Baden Baden, Germany, Dec. 29, 1930. He Came To Canada In 1850 And Joined His Brother In Preston, On, In The Milling Distilling And Merchandising Business. He Acted As An Agent To Convince Mennonites To Settle In Manitoba. The Outcome Was In 1874, 284 Families Of German - Russian - Mennonite Extraction Came To Settle The First Mennonite Settlement East Of The Red River. In 1883 He Was Appointed German Consul For Manitoba And Northwest Territories  GermansMennonitesPersonalitiesPoliticsRussians 1906c
81091 0 International Portrait Gallery     Igor Stravinsky, Russian Composer. (1882, June 18 - )  MusicPersonalitiesRussians  
80551 0 International Portrait Gallery     Ivan The Terrible, Russian Czar. (August 25, 1530 - March 17, 1584)  CostumesPersonalitiesRoyaltyRussians  
81155 0 International Portrait Gallery     Ivan Turgenev, Russian Novelist. (November 9, 1818 - September 3, 1883)  AuthorsPersonalitiesRussians  
81066 0 International Portrait Gallery     K.S. Stanislavsky, Russian Theatrical Director. (January 17, 1863 - August 7, 1938)  PersonalitiesRussiansTheatre  
80147 0 International Portrait Gallery     Leonid Brezhnev, First Secretary, Communist Party Of The Ussr. (December 19, 1909 - )  PersonalitiesPoliticsRussians  
80722 0 International Portrait Gallery     Leonide Massine, Russian - Born Choreographer. (August 9, 1896 - )  DancePersonalitiesRussians  
80626 0 International Portrait Gallery     Lev Landau, Soviet Physicist. (January 22, 1908 - )  PersonalitiesRussiansScience  
80211 0 International Portrait Gallery     Marc Chagall, Russian-Born Painter. (July 7, 1887 - )  ArtHebrewsPersonalitiesRussians  
36072 A1204 Winnipeg Free Press Collection     Members Of The Anti-Bolshevik Bloc Of Nations Protest Outside The Arena Where The Red Army Singers, Dancers And Musicians Are Performing  ChoirsEntertainmentMusicProtestsRussians 1967, April 18
17580 A0556 J.H. Ashdown Collection     Men Who Worked At Cleaning Up Debris After Fire Which Destroyed J.H. Ashdown Hardware Retail Store, Main Street, Winnnipeg, Mb. Front Row: Ruthenian Labourer; Jas. S. Oliiphant; Mr. Ellis (Later Left For Edmonton); Mr. Mckay (Later Managed Hudson'S Bay Sporting Goods Dept); Man With Beard, A Personal Friend Of Mr. Ashdown (Worked At Odd Jobs Around The Store); Young Boy, Worked In Tinshop, Norman Sly; Man With Gold Club, Worked In Tinshop; Man With Baseball Bat, C.H. Lightly (Later Operated A Tinsmithing Business In Winnipeg. Second Row: Mr. George Wilson (Store Department Manager, Builders' Hardware); Man In Fedora Hat (E. Richot) Acted As French Interpreter; Boy Sitting Is Donald Manson, Worked In Sporting Goods, (Later Employed By A Hardwre Merchant In Town Near Calgary. Seated In Rear: Two Ruthenian Labourers  FiresLabourRussiansStoresWinnipeg BuildingsWinnipeg Streets 1904, October 11
80603 0 International Portrait Gallery     Nikita S. Khrushchev, Chairman, Communist Party Of The Ussr. (April 17,1894 - )  PersonalitiesPoliticsRussians  
80952 0 International Portrait Gallery     Nikolai Rimsky - Korsakov, Russian Composer. (March 18, 1844 - June 21, 1908)  MusicPersonalitiesRussians  
81119 0 International Portrait Gallery     Peter Ilich Tchaikovsky, Russian Composer. (1840, May 7-1893, Nov 6),  MusicPersonalitiesRussians  
34065 A1137 Winnipeg Free Press Collection     Professor Yuri Luryi, University Of Toronto, Soviet Jewish Emigre, Places Phone Call To Andre Sakharov, Soviet Dissident To Illustrate The Harassment He Is Receiving From Soviet Authorities  EducationHebrewsPersonalitiesProtestsRussians 1977, February 1
35861 A1197 Winnipeg Free Press Collection     Protest, Organized By Group Calling Itself The Anti-Bolshevik Bloc Of Nations, Outside Of Winnipeg Arena,Over The Scheduled Performance By The Red Army Chorus  ArenasChoirsProtestsRussiansWinnipeg Buildings 1970, June 18
80828 0 International Portrait Gallery     Rudolf Nureyev, Russian Ballet Dancer Dancing With An Unidentified Female Ballet Dancer, Both In Costume. (March 17, 1938 - )  CostumesDanceRussiansWomen  
36951 A1234 Winnipeg Free Press Collection     Russia Clothing Drive At A Winnipeg Theatre (Possibly The Gaiety). Free Admission In Exchange For A Bundle Of Clothing  CinemaRussiansTheatreWinnipeg BuildingsWorld War II 1942c
64418 A2073 Provincial Archives of Alberta     Russian Flour Mill At Bruderheim, Ab  AgricultureBuildingsImmigrationMillsRussiansWindmills 1934, May 25
5121 A0163 Miscellaneous Collection     Russian Or Ukrainian Families On Board Ship “Page Toles”, Toronto  ImmigrationRussiansShipsUkrainiansWomen 1910c
62794 A2012 Canadian Grain Commission     Russian Ship Taking On Grain, Vancouver. (Colour)  AgricultureElevatorsFreightingPortsRussiansShipsTransportation 1973
81135 0 International Portrait Gallery     Semyon K. Timoshenko, Russian General. (February 18, 1895 - March 31, 1970)  MilitaryPersonalitiesRussians  
80339 0 International Portrait Gallery     Sergei Mikhailovich Eisenstein, Russian Film Director. (1898 - February 10, 1948)  EntertainmentPersonalitiesRussiansTheatre  
80908 0 International Portrait Gallery     Sergei Prokofiev, Russian Composer. (April 23, 1891 - March 5, 1953)  MusicPersonalitiesRussians  
80435 0 International Portrait Gallery     Sketch Of Nikolai Gogol, Russian Novelist. (March 31, 1809 - February 21, 1852)  AuthorsPersonalitiesRussians  
80019 0 International Portrait Gallery     Sketch Of Alexander I, Emperor Of Russia. (December 23,1777 - December 1, 1825)  PersonalitiesPoliticsRussiansUniforms  
80020 0 International Portrait Gallery     Sketch Of Alexander Ii, Czar Of Russia. (April 29, 1818 - March 13, 1881)  PersonalitiesPoliticsRussiansUniforms  
80914 0 International Portrait Gallery     Sketch Of Alexander Pushkin, Russian Poet. (June 6, 1799 - February 10, 1837)  AuthorsPersonalitiesRussians  
80201 0 International Portrait Gallery     Sketch Of Catherine The Great, Empress Of Russia. (May 2, 1729 - November 17, 1796)  RoyaltyRussiansWomen  
81141 0 International Portrait Gallery     Sketch Of Count Leo Tolstoi, Russian Novelist. (September 9, 1828 - November 20, 1910)  AuthorsPersonalitiesRussians  
80758 0 International Portrait Gallery     Sketch Of Dmitri Mendeleyev, Russian Chemist. (February 7, 1834 - February 2, 1907)  PersonalitiesRussiansScience  
80865 0 International Portrait Gallery     Sketch Of Ivan Petrovich Pavlov, Russian Physiologist. (September 26, 1849 - February 27, 1936)  PersonalitiesRussiansScience  
80444 0 International Portrait Gallery     Sketch Of Maxim Gorki, Russian Author. (March 14, 1868 - June 18, 1936)  AuthorsPersonalitiesRussians  
80817 0 International Portrait Gallery     Sketch Of Nicholas Ii, Czar Of Russia. (May 18, 1868 - July 8, 1918)  PersonalitiesRoyaltyRussians  
80616 0 International Portrait Gallery     Sketch Of Serge Koussevitzky, Russian - American Musician And Conductor. (July 26, 1984 - June 3, 1951)  AmericansMusicPersonalitiesRussians  
80921 0 International Portrait Gallery     Sketch Of Sergie Rachmaninoff, Russian Pianist And Composer. April 23, 1873 - March 29, 1943)  MusicPersonalitiesRussians  
33706 A1125 Winnipeg Free Press Collection     Soviet Air Traffic Controllers On A Tour Of Canada, Preparing To Board The River Rouge, For A Site Seeing Tour  EventsPersonalitiesPoliticsRussiansShips 1979, August 18
31766 A1060 Winnipeg Free Press Collection     Stan Mikhailov And Bagant Aroutiounow, Russian Trade Minister And Deputy, Announcing Three Day Russian Trade Fair In Winnipeg  FairsPersonalitiesPoliticsRussians 1977, November 8
44887 A1482 Canadian National Railway Collection     The Kadashan Totems In Front Of A House In Wrangell, Ak. They Date Back To The Era Of Russian Occupation Of Alaska.  BuildingsMonumentsRussiansTowns 1920c
35392 A1182 Winnipeg Free Press Collection     Tjapa, Hockey Playing Bear With The Moscow Circus Checking Into The Marlborough Hotel With The Help Of Ivan Dolintsev, Trainer And Dave Rothstein, Hotel Clerk. Photo By G. Cairns  AnimalsBearsCircusesHotelsPersonalitiesRussians 1970, October 20
66065 A2135 Agriculture of Canada Experimental Farm, Indian Head   Visitors, Indian Head Experimental Farm, Saskatchewan.  Left to right, in foreground: S.J. Chagnon, Assistant Deputy Minister of Agriculture; Rt. Hon. James G. Gardiner, Federal Minister of Agriculture; V.V. Matskevich, Leader of the Russian Agricultural Delegat.  AgriculturePersonalitiesPoliticsResearchRussians 1957c
80524 0 International Portrait Gallery     Vladimir Horowitz, Russian - American Pianist Playing A Grand Piano. (October 1, 1904 - )  AmericansHebrewsMusicMusical InstrumentsPersonalitiesRussians  
80805 0 International Portrait Gallery     Vladimir Nabokov, Russian Novelist And Poet. (April 23, 1899 - )  AuthorsPersonalitiesRussians  
42546 A1404 Canadian National Railway Collection     Wooden Plaque (Sign) In Wrangell, Ak, Commemorating Fort St. Dionysius Built In 1834 By Russian Trader Dionysius Feodorovich Zarembo  BuildingsFortsMonumentsPlaquesRussiansSignsTowns 1930c
80400 0 International Portrait Gallery     Yuri Gagarin, Russian Cosmonaut, First Man To Travel In Space. March 9, 1934 - March 27, 1968)  AstronauticsExplorationPersonalitiesRussiansUniforms