Signing of the Soviet-Finnish armistice agreement (1944)

View of part of an airfield in Finland.

Hitler getting off a plane during a visit to Finland in 1942, Finnish President Ryti R. greeting Hitler.

Hitler greeting high-ranking Finnish military personnel, next to him is Marshal Mannerheim.

Photographs of Hitler’s meetings with Ryti and Mannerheim, published in the Finnish press.

The Finnish national flag flutters.

Texts of publications in Soviet and foreign newspapers about the USSR’s position regarding Finland in 1944. Meeting of the Finnish delegation at the airfield in Moscow on September 7, 1944. Cars drive up to the entrance to the building.

The head of the Allied Control Commission for Finland, Colonel-General A. A. Zhdanov, gets out of a car on September 19, 1944. Zhdanov enters the building.

Arrival of K. E. Voroshilov for the signing of the armistice between the USSR and Finland.

British Ambassador to the USSR K. Kerr gets out of an approaching car.

Arrival of V.M. Molotov for the signing of the Moscow Armistice.

Members of the Finnish delegation exit their cars.

Head of the Finnish delegation, Finnish Foreign Minister K. Enckell, R. Walden, E. Heinrichs and O. Enckell enter the hall and greet Molotov, Zhdanov and Kerr.

Zhdanov signs the text of the Soviet-Finnish Armistice Agreement, Molotov and Kerr stand nearby.

Voroshilov and members of the Finnish delegation during the signing of the agreement.

Zhdanov signs the Agreement, K. Enckell gives way to him.

Enckell signs the Agreement, Kerr, Molotov and Zhdanov appear.

Enckell stands up and hands the pen to Walden.

Walden signs the Agreement, Voroshilov, Kerr and Molotov appear. E. Heinrichs and O. Enckell sign the Agreement.

Zhdanov puts the final signature on the documents of the Armistice Agreement.

Members of the Finnish delegation, Kerr, Voroshilov, Molotov during the signing of the Agreement.

Members of the Finnish delegation sign maps with the new borders.

Territories ceded to the USSR on the signed maps.

Meeting of representatives of the Soviet and Finnish command after the signing of the Agreement, with the purpose of its ratification.

Meetings of both Soviet and Finnish military personnel at various sections of the front line.

Officers shaking hands.