Commons:RIA Novosti

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Description

Russian International News Agency (RIA Novosti; rian.ru and visualrian.ru ) owns exclusive rights to the archives of Sovinformburo and its successor APN, which continues to collect new documents to this day. RIA Novosti archive.

Following the example of the Bundesarchiv and Queensland Museum, RIA Novosti began opening the most important and interesting part of its archive to the public in 2011. This project, called the Eternal Values project, aims to spread knowledge globally by increasing access to valuable historical documents.

• On 2011-06-23, the first batch of historical photos from the collection was uploaded to Commons under CC BY-SA 3.0.
• On 2011-09-14, 100 photos from 1980 Summer Olympics were shared, again under CC BY-SA 3.0.
• Next uploads:
  • Commons:RIA Novosti/Komsomol (2011-09-28…30, 106 images)
  • Commons:RIA Novosti/Nuclear industry (2011-09-30, 100 images}
  • Commons:RIA Novosti/Battle for Moscow (2011-09-30, 54 images)
• And then a lot of others
  • Commons:RIA Novosti/Collapse of the USSR (2011-12-28, 29 images)
  • Commons:RIA Novosti/EMERCOM (2011-12-28, 53 images)
  • Commons:RIA Novosti/Energy industry (2011-12-28, 62 images, 2 deleted)
  • Commons:RIA Novosti/State Security (2011-12-28, 89 images)
  • Commons:RIA Novosti/Christmas (2012-01-16, 15 images)
  • Commons:RIA Novosti/Gorbachevs (2012-01-16, 15 images)
  • Commons:RIA Novosti/Korolyov (2012-01-16, 12 images)
  • Commons:RIA Novosti/Luna 1 (2012-01-16, 7 images)
  • Commons:RIA Novosti/Print (2012-01-16, 67 images)
  • Commons:RIA Novosti/Prosecutors (2012-01-16, 27 images)
  • Commons:RIA Novosti/End of Cold War (2012-01-22, 36 images)
  • Commons:RIA Novosti/Day of military honour (2012-01-02, 41 images)
  • Commons:RIA Novosti/Lenin library (2012-01-02, 9 images)
  • Commons:RIA Novosti/Holocaust (2012-01-22, 7 images)
  • Commons:RIA Novosti/End of Siege of Leningrad (2012-01-22, 35 images)
  • Commons:RIA Novosti/Tatiana day (2012-01-22, 19 images)
  • Commons:RIA Novosti/Engineering force (2012-01-22, 8 images)
  • Commons:RIA Novosti/Shaimiev (2012-01-22, 54 images)
  • Commons:RIA Novosti/Epiphany (2012-01-22, 30 images)
  • Commons:RIA Novosti/Civil aviation (2012-01-25, 42 images)
  • Commons:RIA Novosti/International warriors (2012-01-25, 44 images)
  • Commons:RIA Novosti/Powers-Fisher (2012-01-25, 23 images)
  • Commons:RIA Novosti/Whales (2012-01-25, 11 images)
  • Commons:RIA Novosti/Diplomats (2012-01-25, 15 images)
  • Commons:RIA Novosti/Pushkin (2012-01-25, 16 images)
  • Commons:RIA Novosti/Russian science (2012-01-25, 21 images)
  • Commons:RIA Novosti/Tereshkova (2012-03-02, 73 images)
  • Commons:RIA Novosti/Women's day (2012-03-02, 67 images)
  • Commons:RIA Novosti/Soviet workers (2012-03-02, 26 images)
  • Commons:RIA Novosti/IMF (2012-03-02, 18 images)
  • Commons:RIA Novosti/Belarus (2012-04-05, 39 images)
  • Commons:RIA Novosti/Victory (2012-05-17, 52 images)
  • Commons:RIA Novosti/Sochi (2012-05-17, 46 images)
  • Commons:RIA Novosti/Museum day (2012-05-17, 33 images)
  • Commons:RIA Novosti/Pioneers (2012-05-17, 35 images)
  • Commons:RIA Novosti/Border control (2012-05-17, 54 images)
  • Commons:RIA Novosti/Moscow gardens (2012-05-17, 45 images)
  • Commons:RIA Novosti/Pacific fleet (2012-05-17, 45 images)

It is still theoretically possible to request a photo from the archive through Wikimedia RU using this page, but the agency has long stopped cooperation with Wikimedia.

The donated photos

• Images from the RIA Novosti category

Press coverage [+/−]

International media

• Wikimedia uploads previously unpublished photographs from The Second World War
  , sociable.co, 22 August 2011.
• RIA Novosti celebrates 70th anniversary, uploads 100 images to Wikimedia Commons
  , Wikinews, 23 June 2011.
• РИА Новости поводом свог 70-ог рођендана даровали Википедију
  , Викивести, 23 June 2011.
• Russian president uploads to Wikimedia Commons; brief news, Wikipedia Signpost, 28 June 2011

Russian media

• РИА Новости позволит блогерам использовать свой контент — Миронюк
  , РИА Новости, 29 April 2011.
• Медведев поддержал проект доступа школ к архивам РИА Новости
  , РИА Новости, 29 April 2011.
• РИА Новости поделится уникальным фотоархивом с Викискладом
  , РИА Новости, 23 June 2011.
• РИА «Новости» на свой день рождения сделали подарок Википедии
  , Викимедиа РУ, 23 June 2011.
  • «РИА Новости» на свой день рождения сделали подарок «Википедии»
    , Викиновости, 23 June 2011.
• Медведев запустил проект, открывающий доступ к фотоархиву РИА Новости
  , РИА Новости, 23 June 2011.
• «РИА Новости» передало Викискладу первые сто фотографий из своих архивов
  , Хабрахабр, 23 June 2011.