A journalistic photo essay about the Great Patriotic War and the Victory Banner. From the author - poet and war veteran Mikhail Dudin.








View of a part of the hall of the Central Museum of the USSR Armed Forces with exhibits dedicated to the storming of Berlin.
The Orders of Alexander Nevsky, Suvorov, Kutuzov.
The Victory Banner in the museum exposition.
Captured German banners in the museum hall under a photograph of the Victory Parade.
A model of the destroyed Reichstag.
Photographs of autographs left by Soviet soldiers on the walls of the Reichstag.
Photographs of Russian landscapes.
Photographs of German officers and generals before the invasion of the USSR on June 22, 1941. Photographs of military operations, the Wehrmacht offensive and the bombing of Soviet territory in the first days of the Great Patriotic War in June 1941. Photographs of victims of the Nazi occupation, refugees, advancing German soldiers (alternation).
Paintings depicting Alexander Nevsky.
Fragment of the painting "The Battle of Poltava".
Banners and banners of the regiments of the Russian army.
Photograph of the banner of the 150th Order of Kutuzov Rifle Division.
Photographs of the Red Army units conducting combat operations.
Photographs of Red Army soldiers during combat operations.
Photographs of Soviet soldiers and officers during rest periods and breaks between battles.
Photographs of the daily life and rest periods of Soviet soldiers at the front.
Photographs of Red Army units on marches.
Photographs of Red Army soldiers and sailors raising red banners in liberated cities of the USSR. Photographs of combat operations by Soviet troops during the offensive on Berlin and destroyed areas of Berlin.
Photographs of street fighting in Berlin and the storming of the Reichstag.
Photographs of the destroyed Reichstag building, taken by Soviet soldiers, with a red banner installed on the dome.
Photograph of a German soldier sitting near the ruins of the Reichstag.
Photographs of Soviet soldiers and officers near the ruins of the Reichstag.
Photograph of M. Egorov and M. Kantaria near the Victory Banner.
Photograph of the Victory Banner with the designation of the 150th Order of Kutuzov Idritskaya Rifle Division of the 79th Rifle Corps.
Photographs of the meeting of the Victory Banner at the airfield in Moscow.
Photographs of Soviet victorious soldiers returning home.
Photographs of meetings of returning victorious soldiers.
1985
Leningrad Moscow