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Seeing foreign stars in Russia nowadays is absolutely normal. But it used to be a big event when it was the USSR.

Some of them came to perform or they came as tourists, others were invited to take part in festivals.

David Bowie was traveling by train “Vladivostok-Moscow” in 1973. He refused to fly by plane due to his phobia. Later he wrote that he was buying various food from grannies at the stations, allegedly it didn’t look yummy but turned out to be very delicious.

He was rather impressed by Siberia, its vast territories and girls –

Conductors treated him with hot tea. He even sang them at night.

He came again in 1976with his friend Iggy Pop. In Moscow, the musicians stayed at the hotel "Metropol", where they celebrated the birthday of grandfather of punk rock.

Michelle Pfeiffer andSean Connery. 1983

Elton John - 1979

Elton John at a football game.

With his mother Sheila Fearbazer at the Grand Cascade in Petrodvorets.

B.B. King

Gina Lollobrigida at the Cathedral Square in the Kremlin. 1961.

Gina Lollobrigida and Elizabeth Taylor in Dior dresses are talking during the Moscow International Film Festival in the Kremlin 1961

Gina Lollobrigida

Gina Lollobrigida and Yuri Gagarin at the press-conference during the 2-nd International Film Festival. 1961.

Gina Lollobrigida with the Soviet actor Vyacheslav Tikhonov and Oleg Vidov. VIII International Moscow Film Festival. Summer 1973.

Billy Joel

Sophia Loren in the meeting hall of the Kremlin Palace of Congresses. 1965

Sofia Loren

Eddie Fisher and Elizabeth Taylor - 1961

Kirk Douglas and Soviet actor Boris Khmelnitsky - 1977

Emil Lotyanu and Robert De Niro with children in Moscow. 1982

Irina Alferova and Robert de Niro by the Moscow river. 1983

Robert De Niro, Eldar Ryazanov, Elem Klimov at the XV International Film Festival. 1987

Italian actress Claudia Cardinale on the Red Square in Moscow. 1967.

Marcello Mastroianni among the audience of the Moscow Film Festival.1969.

French actors Simone Signoret and Yves Montand  during a tour of the Moscow Kremlin. 1963.

Arnold Schwarzenegger on the Red Square in Moscow. 1988

Faye Dunaway

British actors: Richard Todd, Carol Leslie, Peter Arne, Tommy Steele.1959

Isabella Rossellini

Muhammad Ali - 1978