The end of the Great Patriotic War and the post-war restoration of the USSR (1945-1948)

Residents of one of the European capitals greet the Soviet soldiers-liberators in the spring of 1945. Red Army soldiers in the back of a passing truck.

Faces of people greeting the Red Army.

Parade of Soviet troops in Vienna.

Soviet troops march through the streets of liberated cities of Europe, the population greets them.

Residents of liberated cities greet Soviet troops on the streets.

Bridge over the Elbe River in Germany.

Meeting of Soviet and American soldiers on the Elbe on April 25, 1945. Handshake of the allies.

Poster dedicated to the meeting on the Elbe.

Portrait of US President Roosevelt.

Meeting of victorious soldiers in Moscow at the Belorussky railway station.

Meeting of returning soldiers with their families.

Relatives embrace a soldier who has returned to the village, everyone is crying.

Panoramas of destroyed Soviet cities (from above).

Panoramas of destroyed factory workshops.

Views and panorama of the destroyed Dnieper Hydroelectric Station dam.

Panorama of the destroyed railway bridge.

Restoration work on the Dnieper Hydroelectric Station dam in 1946. Concreters at work.

View of a section of the Dnieper Hydroelectric Station during restoration work.

Faces of people working.

Panorama of a section of the Dnieper and the restored Dnieper Hydroelectric Station dam (above).

A team of finishers restoring a residential building.

A girl opens the window frames.

Returning the equestrian sculptures to the Anichkov Bridge in Leningrad.

Removing the protective cases made of boards from the sculptures in the Summer Garden.

Washing one of the sculptures.

Hermitage employees return paintings to the halls.

Girls look out the window at the street.

A female high-altitude worker descends on a rope from the spire of the Peter and Paul Fortress.

View of a section of the building being restored.

Representatives of states in New York during the ceremony proclaiming the creation of the UN in 1945. Announcement of the creation of the UN from the rostrum.

Photograph of the signing of the UN Charter by the Soviet representative.

Participants in the meeting applaud.

Signs with the names of the countries - members of the UN.