An initiative has been launched to digitize Russia's photographic archive. Russiainphoto.ru has more than 80,000 images ranging from the 1860s up to 1999. RFE/RL's Amos Chapple had a look through the archive's 1990s collection and found 18 gems. From "Passion Boulevard" to the battleground, here's a taste of everyday life during one of the most turbulent eras in Russia's history.
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![Galina Brezhneva, the daughter of Soviet leader Leonid Brezhnev, dancing on a table during a "home holiday" in the early 1990s. ](https://gdb.rferl.org/3a1ebc3e-1348-4005-b02a-5092cca913ad_w1024_q10_s.jpg)
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Galina Brezhneva, the daughter of Soviet leader Leonid Brezhnev, dancing on a table during a "home holiday" in the early 1990s.
![The last snow of the year in the isolated northern village of Glazovo on May 5, 1990.](https://gdb.rferl.org/cd47b3a4-2a56-4ee9-90b7-661a57c4d21e_w1024_q10_s.jpg)
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The last snow of the year in the isolated northern village of Glazovo on May 5, 1990.
!["Russian Crossroads" in 1991. When the image appeared on Russian social media, a commenter noted that "only a bear is missing." ](https://gdb.rferl.org/108ab87a-f70a-4d86-9c25-15f4055f89f1_w1024_q10_s.jpg)
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"Russian Crossroads" in 1991. When the image appeared on Russian social media, a commenter noted that "only a bear is missing."
![Young Russians relaxing in the sun. The photographer, Nikolai Baharev, grew up an orphan and worked as a locksmith, photographing people in his spare time. Today the 69-year-old exhibits in Europe's most prestigious galleries. ](https://gdb.rferl.org/21dfffca-a3b3-4006-b32c-d4b6d91f773e_w1024_q10_s.jpg)
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Young Russians relaxing in the sun. The photographer, Nikolai Baharev, grew up an orphan and worked as a locksmith, photographing people in his spare time. Today the 69-year-old exhibits in Europe's most prestigious galleries.
![Revellers during Moscow's 850th anniversary pageant in 1997. The celebrations ran for a full week. ](https://gdb.rferl.org/cd486a83-09cf-48b8-8dcb-cfd244349a65_w1024_q10_s.jpg)
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Revellers during Moscow's 850th anniversary pageant in 1997. The celebrations ran for a full week.
![A Moscow model in 1991, posing for a photo called "Passion Boulevard".](https://gdb.rferl.org/5f2f0a49-0d42-416b-8fc5-5d6693cf26af_w1024_q10_s.jpg)
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A Moscow model in 1991, posing for a photo called "Passion Boulevard".
![View of the Patriarch's Palace inside the Kremlin, pictured in 1995. ](https://gdb.rferl.org/26c083d4-a8a6-48e3-b577-1d6fb9babbaa_w1024_q10_s.jpg)
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View of the Patriarch's Palace inside the Kremlin, pictured in 1995.
![Image of a prisoner at work in Vladimir, a city 200 kilometers east of Moscow, in 1990. ](https://gdb.rferl.org/7b585dd2-6bb4-493e-b22c-ad2cb6a566d9_w1024_q10_s.jpg)
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Image of a prisoner at work in Vladimir, a city 200 kilometers east of Moscow, in 1990.
![The keeper of the Kremlin chimes, looking out of the Spasskaya Tower. ](https://gdb.rferl.org/cb6346e3-284f-4924-b5ac-26dd93c34b9b_w1024_q10_s.jpg)
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The keeper of the Kremlin chimes, looking out of the Spasskaya Tower.
![Snowfall in Moscow in 1994. ](https://gdb.rferl.org/68291e73-47d9-4902-a62b-32becae15787_w1024_q10_s.jpg)
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Snowfall in Moscow in 1994.
!["Duet," a portrait of two synchronized swimmers. ](https://gdb.rferl.org/2c7f853f-9786-490f-ab38-b0fa35811da3_w1024_q10_s.jpg)
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"Duet," a portrait of two synchronized swimmers.
![Soviet cosmonauts Pyotr Klimuk (left) and Aleksei Leonov partying in the early 1990s. Klimuk was the first Belarusian in space. Leonov was the first man to carry out a spacewalk when, in March, 1965, he floated through space attached to his spacecraft with a rope tether. ](https://gdb.rferl.org/898a095d-3c17-4aeb-bad4-2da0461d1653_w1024_q10_s.jpg)
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Soviet cosmonauts Pyotr Klimuk (left) and Aleksei Leonov partying in the early 1990s. Klimuk was the first Belarusian in space. Leonov was the first man to carry out a spacewalk when, in March, 1965, he floated through space attached to his spacecraft with a rope tether.
![A Moscow traffic policeman in 1994. ](https://gdb.rferl.org/6b99b742-c257-4c1c-a1b0-f5910504946f_w1024_q10_s.jpg)
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A Moscow traffic policeman in 1994.
![Elderly women in Grozny during the second Chechen war in 1999. ](https://gdb.rferl.org/23844e64-4f97-40b6-aeb9-9e42a8ad8291_w1024_q10_s.jpg)
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Elderly women in Grozny during the second Chechen war in 1999.
![Russian troops bombarding separatists during the second Chechen war in 1999. ](https://gdb.rferl.org/263ca6f6-7cf9-4846-bca1-8462905af55c_w1024_q10_s.jpg)
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Russian troops bombarding separatists during the second Chechen war in 1999.
![Russian Army cadets in the late 1990s.](https://gdb.rferl.org/c25064a8-7d8d-4c66-a698-25b3b38d300f_w1024_q10_s.jpg)
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Russian Army cadets in the late 1990s.
![Women at a savings bank in 1998. The year saw economic turmoil for ordinary Russians when the ruble lost 34 percent of its value against the dollar within four months. ](https://gdb.rferl.org/4c6905f8-9b53-4d76-8f18-aac552039e18_w1024_q10_s.jpg)
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Women at a savings bank in 1998. The year saw economic turmoil for ordinary Russians when the ruble lost 34 percent of its value against the dollar within four months.
![A wet fall day in Moscow, 1990. ](https://gdb.rferl.org/16270df9-3612-40c8-abc7-2af8055e8bea_w1024_q10_s.jpg)
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A wet fall day in Moscow, 1990.