Great Patriotic War (1941-1944)

A peasant closes the shutters of his house.

People with knapsacks on their shoulders leave the house, escaping from the Nazi occupiers in June 1941, each family member kissing the door.

A family leaves the village, heading for the Transcarpathian Mountains.

Refugees climb up the road, leading oxen in harnesses.

Peasants drive a herd up the slope, women carry children in their arms.

A poster on one of the Odessa barricades.

An anti-aircraft machine gun crew observes air targets.

The faces of the crew members.

The turret of one of the coastal batteries of the Black Sea Fleet turns.

The commander gives the command to open fire.

Loading the gun.

The gunner's hand pulls the trigger.

A warship of the Black Sea Fleet fires from deck guns.

A Red Navy sailor escorts a captured Romanian soldier.

A barrage balloon over the Pushkin monument in Moscow in the fall of 1941. An observer with binoculars at an anti-aircraft machine gun on the roof of a Moscow building.

Construction of defensive structures on a city street.

A tram passes an anti-tank obstacle.

Air defense crews at the rangefinder and gun.

Searchlights in the Moscow sky.

Soviet troops move along the streets of Sofia, Bulgarians greet them.

Residents of Sofia greet Soviet soldiers, an officer is carried in their arms.

Meeting the returning Bulgarian partisans.

Panorama of the rally.

Columns of Soviet infantry move to the Shipka Pass.

View of the Shipka Pass with a monument to the heroes of the defense of Shipka.

A military brass band at a ceremonial rally at the Shipka Pass in honor of Soviet-Bulgarian friendship.

Soviet officers at the monument to the heroes of Shipka.

View of the ceremonial event at the monument on the Shipka Pass (from above).

Officers kneel at the monument and take off their hats.

Soviet soldiers kneel.

View of the ceremonial event (above).

Bulgarian shepherd plays the flute.

Soviet troops on the march.

Soviet troops march through the streets of one of the liberated cities of Eastern Europe, people greet them.

Clearing the area of construction debris near one of the houses in Stalingrad.

Clearing rubble on the streets of Stalingrad in 1943-1944. Red Army soldiers pile up construction debris.

Residents of Stalingrad working on clearing rubble (panorama).

German prisoners of war working on clearing the ruins of one of the houses.

Carpenter at work.

View of the bridge under construction.

Clearing rubble in Stalingrad, sorting surviving bricks.

Faces of German prisoners of war working on clearing rubble.

Clearing rubble and cleaning up construction debris on the streets of Stalingrad.