Great Patriotic War (1941-1945)

Ferry crossing - soldiers and military trucks are crossing the river.

Railroad soldiers are restoring the railroad and the railroad bridge (winter).

Signalmen are walking through the winter forest; installing a communication line.

A signalman is talking on the phone.

Columns of soldiers are walking along a country road, carts are driving by (summer).

Signalmen are installing communication lines in a field, in a forest (summer).

Lighthouse.

Planes over the sea.

Planes in the sky.

Rotunda on the seashore.

Military personnel descending the stairs

Air Marshal Novikov A.A. at a map in the Air Force headquarters.

Officers at a map.

Novikov speaks on the phone at headquarters (with Stalin).

Planes are flying, dropping bombs.

Clouds of smoke.

German tanks and infantry are moving along the road.

The newspaper "Magnitogorsk Worker".

Work at a defense plant in the Urals.

Assembling a tank in the workshop.

Finished tanks are driving by.

A seagull is flying.

A German plane is in the air; ground targets are being shelled from a German plane.

Soviet guns are firing.

A group of German soldiers is passing by.

A map of the advance of the German armies "North" and "Center" - cartoon.

German soldiers are looking through binoculars.

Shells are exploding near the outskirts of a village.

Residents of Odessa are building barricades.

German planes are in the air.

Fire.

German soldiers are passing by.

Combat operations of Soviet troops in the Yelnya area - tanks are passing by; soldiers are running to attack; Soviet guns are firing; soldiers are firing a machine gun.

A convoy of German ships at sea.

Ship guns are firing.

Ships at sea.

Orderlies lead a wounded soldier.

Doctors perform an operation in a frontline hospital.

A camouflaged German gun.

German planes are flying; German tanks are moving across the field.

Explosions of shells; a knocked-out German tank; a killed soldier.

Soviet soldiers are running to attack; loading the gun.

The Soviet gun is firing.

An officer is talking on the telephone.

Soldiers are aiming the guns; a soldier is looking through binoculars.

Explosions; the guns are firing.

A sailor on a ship looks through binoculars.

German planes in the air.

A sailor at a gun.

A soldier aims an anti-aircraft gun.

Front commander G.K. Zhukov and other military leaders at headquarters examine a map of military operations.

Soldiers are passing by, tall grass is in the foreground.

The soldiers are carrying shovels, a soldier is playing the accordion.

Soldiers are passing by, tall grass is in the foreground.

The soldiers are carrying shovels, a soldier is playing the accordion.

The Battle of Kursk: soldiers running to attack, tanks driving by.

A tank is burning.

Houses are burning.

A tank is driving through the forest (shot from the tank).

Germans are running (from the back).

Germans are sitting.

A Soviet tank on the street of Orel.

Freed Gestapo prisoners on the street in Orel.

Soviet soldiers are tearing down the swastika in Belgorod.

A soldier is hanging up a Soviet flag.

Soldiers are shaking hands.

The grass is swaying in the field.

The artillery guns are firing.

The commander gives the command: Fire!

Fight.

People in a factory shop.

Workers listening to the radio in the shop.

Women in a room listening to the radio.

Soldiers in a hut listening to the radio.

Soldiers' faces.

Sailors listening to the radio.

Signalmen soldiers establishing communications.

Signalmen carry a loudspeaker in the forest, install it.

German planes in the sky.

Bombs are falling from the plane.

Massive raid on the city of Gorky (Nizhny Novgorod).

The GAZ plant is burning.

A man is passing by.

The telegraph machine is working, a telegram is being printed.

The destroyed plant - photo.

German motorcyclists and tanks drive across the field.

Wartime Moscow - snow-covered Red Square; a sentry on the roof of the Moscow Hotel; barricades on the streets; a tractor pulls a cannon; a tram and trucks drive by.

Destruction of buildings and industrial facilities.

Construction of a crossing by Soviet soldiers.

Soldiers dragging a cannon.

Construction of a bridge.

Soviet prisoners of war pass by.

The territory of the Sachsenhausen concentration camp.

Prisoners in the camp behind barbed wire.

A tower in the concentration camp. (night) Undermining the ground inside the building.

Guards with a dog walk around the camp territory (night) Prisoners on the camp territory.

A Soviet soldier passes by a train (winter).

The military boards a train car.

Photo by S.P. Korolev in military uniform.

Summer: Moscow - general plan of the Kremlin A car with a portrait of Stalin passes by.

The Kremlin Embankment.

Rokossovsky sits in the Kremlin Hall. I. Konev and G. Zhukov sit.

Members of the government ascend the podium. I. Stalin, V. Molotov, A. Zhdanov, A. Mikoyan applaud in the presidium.

The Grand Kremlin Palace with a flag.

Photographs by S.P. Korolev.

Planes at the airfield early in the morning.

German planes in the air.

Shells flying.

Evacuation of factories by train.

Railway junction.

Factory workshop.

Photo: women at machines.

Photo: Workers in a factory workshop.

Aviation factory workshop.

Finished airplanes are standing.

Photo: Women working in an aircraft factory workshop.

Assembling an airplane in the workshop.

Designers' meeting.

Drawing of the Il-2 airplane.

The Il-2 takes off.

The Il-2 in the air.

Air battle.

A burning German airplane.

A sign pointing to Berlin.

Soviet airplanes taking off.

Soviet pilots waving while sitting on a German airplane.

Meetings of the demobilized after the war.

Production of shells at a defense plant.

Production of tanks.

Finished tanks at the plant.

Finished artillery guns.

Workers at the plant.

A girl works at the plant.

An old man works at the plant.

Shells move on a conveyor.

A platform with guns and tanks passes by.

An airplane takes off.

The Pravda newspaper from June 5, 1943 (article on the government loan).

Banknotes.

A meeting in a village about the loan.

A collective farmer hands in money.

Finished tanks drive through the plant grounds.

Military command at an observation post.

Soldiers get into an armored car.

The armored car drives out onto the road.

A German plane dives, bombs fly, explosions near the railroad tracks.

German soldiers drink from flasks.

Damaged Soviet equipment is burning: tanks, guns, cars; German soldiers drive past.

Soviet soldiers push military trucks stuck in the off-road.

German soldiers drive past in cars.

German soldiers hide in trenches from shelling.

Soviet guns fire, Soviet soldiers run to the attack.

Soviet soldiers ride past on horses harnessed to carts with guns.

Soviet soldiers walk across a field; a detachment of horsemen rides past.

A column of tractors mobilized for the army rides past.

An infantry detachment passes.

German soldiers fire a machine gun.

A Soviet soldier surrenders.

German soldiers lead a column of Soviet prisoners of war.

German military equipment moves along the road.

Soviet soldiers drag guns through the mud.

Marshal G.K. Zhukov at the map.

Military parade on November 7, 1941 on Red Square. I.V. Stalin speaks on the platform.

Captured German soldiers near Moscow (winter).

A group of German prisoners receive food in a field kitchen.

Soviet soldiers walk along the street of the liberated city.