Great Patriotic War (1941-1945)

View of the Peter and Paul Fortress in December 1941. A sentry on the embankment near the cruiser Aurora.

People on the streets of besieged Leningrad.

A woman pulls a box on a rope through the snow.

Newspapers for sale at a kiosk.

People draw water from an ice hole.

A man carries a log for kindling on his back.

Women pull a piece of log on a sled.

Covering apartment windows with blankets from the inside for blackout.

A raised bridge over the frozen Neva.

Buses on the street, covered in snow.

German planes in the air.

Residents of Leningrad run to bomb shelters during an air raid.

Women and children run to a bomb shelter.

First aid workers unpack equipment and stretchers.

The fire brigade prepares to leave.

The fire brigade on duty from the residents of the house goes up to the attic.

German bombers are flying.

Air defense guns and naval anti-aircraft artillery fire at enemy aircraft.

Bombs dropped, buildings collapse, the face of a Hitlerite pilot.

Panorama of the destroyed Badayev food warehouses.

Firefighters put out the fire.

Panorama of a burning building, firefighters put out the fire.

Leningraders clear rubble.

Children killed in an air raid.

The children's bodies are carried out on stretchers.

New Year's celebration, a Red Navy sailor gives presents to children.

A boy drags a sack along the street.

Women with a baby carriage near the wall of a building.

Children sit near the wall of a building.

A girl sleeping on the sidewalk.

Children play with a doll in the street.

The door of a gas shelter equipped for school activities opens.

Children at their desks during a lesson in the gas shelter, the teacher at the blackboard.

Children read by syllables.

A gas mask on a desk next to a textbook.

Making gauze bandages.

A nanny puts a bandage on a child.

A group of kindergarten children in bandages, teachers in gas masks.

Bombs and shells hitting buildings in Leningrad, children running out of a destroyed school building into a bomb shelter.

Bodies of children killed in shelling.

View of a destroyed apartment, surviving photograph of a girl.

Doll on the windowsill.

Body of a girl killed in an apartment.

People standing over bodies of dead relatives.

Child with frostbitten hands in the arms of a hospital nurse.

Face of a crying woman.

Bandaging a child in a hospital.

Children pulling a coffin with their mother's body on a sled to a cemetery.

Street views of besieged Leningrad, military units heading to the front lines.

Fire in Peterhof.

Locomotives covered in snow.

Sentry on duty under a bridge.

Street views of besieged Leningrad, city transport stopped and covered in snow.

Observers at an air defense post.

A rifle unit moving toward one of the bridges.

A tank on one of the streets of Leningrad.

A view of a part of the Leningrad port.

Photos of traffic controllers on the streets of Leningrad.

People during a drawing lesson.

People on the street collecting water from a gutter.

People collecting water from an ice hole.

People on the streets of besieged Leningrad.

Removing an unexploded bomb.

Clearing rubble of scrap metal.

Repairing a steam locomotive after the winter of the siege.

People carrying surviving books out of the ruins.

A panorama of the wall of a destroyed building.

People on one of the streets of Leningrad.

Streets of Leningrad covered in snow and ice.

Trolleybuses stopped on one of the streets of Leningrad.

A girl in an oversized coat runs by, people leave the destroyed block.

Restoration of a hydroelectric power station.

A man talks on the phone.

Parents with children leaving for evacuation.

People transport belongings along one of the streets.

A man carries a coffin on a sled.

Frozen buses on the street, people walk by.

People carry dead bodies on sleds through the streets of Leningrad.

A woman exhausted from hunger is carried on a sled.

People stand on the street over a corpse.

A view of an empty platform of one of the Leningrad railway stations.

A sentry on duty under a bridge span.

The sentry's face.

A view of a street in a destroyed settlement.

Sappers use probes to check the approaches to houses for mines.

Views of a destroyed Orthodox church.

A commission inspects the ruins of one of the palaces in Peterhof.

A view of the fountains destroyed by the Germans.

The fountains of Peterhof before destruction.

Views of destroyed Peterhof.

Panorama and views of the destroyed palace.

View of part of the destroyed park.

Faces of the members of the commission assessing the damage.

Panorama of the destroyed palace in Pavlovsk.

The surviving monument to Paul I. Ruins of the palace, damaged statues.

Fires in the palace premises.

View of a burning house.

A rally in a liberated village near Moscow.

The commander looks through a telescope, speaks on a field telephone.

The arrival of a military postman at the front line, Red Army soldiers in camouflage suits in a trench.

A letter in the hands of a soldier.

A tank goes through a forest.

The infantry goes on the attack.

Smoke from fires.

Views of the battlefield during the counteroffensive near Moscow, skiers moving across the field.

A sniper fires at the enemy.

A ski battalion on the attack.

Combat operations of a ski battalion.

View of the front line.

A ski battalion in a marching column.

Ski battalion soldiers go on the attack.

Red Army soldiers applaud during a rally on the front line.

The commander speaks on a field telephone.

Artillery fires at the enemy, explosions on the German front line.

A spotter at the telescope makes corrections to the shooting.

Actions of the Soviet artillery.

Red Army soldiers in camouflage suits in a captured enemy trench.

Corpses of German soldiers in a trench.

Mortar crew firing.

View of the battlefield.

Soviet tank on the march.

Views of the battlefield near Moscow.

Soviet artillery firing at the enemy.

Taki go into the attack with troops on the armor.

Meeting of soldiers of the combined units.

Mortar crew firing at the enemy.

Soviet infantry gets out of the trench.

Panorama of the battlefield.

A unit of skiers during a night march.

Red Army soldiers in camouflage suits in a trench.

Meeting of soldiers and commanders of the combined units.

Units of the Red Army march along the streets of a liberated settlement during the counteroffensive near Moscow.

A column of horse artillery moves.

German artillery guns destroyed during the battle near Moscow.

Faces of Red Army soldiers.

Artillery guns and small arms captured by the Red Army during the Battle of Moscow.

An artillery commander gives the command.

A salvo from a battery of guns.

Explosions in German positions.

A rifle unit crosses a water obstacle.

Soviet artillery fires at the enemy.

German airborne assault in the summer of 1942. Landing paratroopers.

An officer watches the forward line of Soviet troops through binoculars and assigns a task to his subordinate.

German artillery fires.

Officers watch the forward line of Soviet troops through binoculars.

Member of the Military Council of the Stalingrad Front N.S. Khrushchev at the communications center near the telegraph machines.

View of the Motherland Monument on Mamayev Kurgan.

Fragments of the war memorial.

Monuments to the defenders of Stalingrad.

A Wehrmacht unit in the steppe during the offensive.

A German eagle with a swastika above the entrance to the building.

Hitler, accompanied by military personnel, enters the headquarters building.

Hitler shakes hands with an SS officer.

Arrival of Japanese troops on the Eastern Front in the summer of 1942. German troops familiarize a Japanese general with the operational situation using a map hanging on the wall of the house.

Japanese soldiers observe the movement of German columns.

Movement of a German column.

Hitler and Goering at headquarters get acquainted with the operational situation in the Stalingrad area.

Wehrmacht soldiers on the march in the Don steppes, faces of passing soldiers.

A squadron of bombers in the sky.

Falling bombs.

Bomb explosions on the ground.

Junkers-87 bombers approach the target.

Bombs fall out of the hatch, the face of a German pilot.

Soviet anti-aircraft gun crews fire at enemy aircraft, aircraft fly past a barrage balloon.

Shells hit German aircraft.

Panorama of part of the burning Stalingrad.

Bombing of Stalingrad in July 1942. Bomb explosions and fires in the city.

Reflection of another air raid by air defense crews and ships of the Volga Flotilla, a damaged aircraft falls.

Soviet anti-aircraft gunners firing, bombers approaching the target.

Oil spilled in the Volga is burning, fires on the banks of the Volga.

Burning houses of Stalingrad at night.

View of part of the burning Stalingrad (from above).

Panorama of the burning Stalingrad.

General of the Army Zhukov G.K. over the map of Stalingrad.

Evacuation of wounded soldiers by ships of the Volga Flotilla.

Military boats on the crossing.

German officer with binoculars.

German soldiers inspect a destroyed Orthodox church.

Ceremony of raising the Nazi flag.

Reports in the Völkischer Beobachter about the capture of Stalingrad.

German leaflet about the fall of Stalingrad in Russian.

Goebbels speaking in front of a microphone with a speech about the capture of Stalingrad.

German medal for the capture of Stalingrad.

Awarding the Iron Cross to the commander of a German tank.

The officer congratulates the tank commander.

The face of the awarded tanker.

Awarding of Iron Crosses to German soldiers on the front line.

German officer with a compass.

A hydrofoil vessel is sailing along the Volga.

Modern Volga landscapes.

A boat of the Volga Flotilla is sailing along the river.

The boat's crew is firing from onboard guns and machine guns.

A bomber is approaching a target, faces of the boat commander and helmsman.

The boat's artillery is firing at an air target.

Artillery guns of the Volga Flotilla are firing from camouflaged positions.

The Red Navy sailors are going on the attack.

German and Soviet troops are fighting in Stalingrad.

Street fighting in the city in September-October 1942. Soviet infantry is attacking the enemy through the ruins.

A German tank is burning.

Machine gun and mortar crews are taking up positions.

Soviet infantry is firing at the enemy.

Soviet infantrymen are counterattacking the enemy near the Krasny Oktyabr plant.

Panorama of a part of the destroyed Stalingrad.

A woman crying near a destroyed house.

People looking at a burning house.

Burning ruins of a wooden house.

A woman crying.

A Red Army unit marches through the streets of the liberated year during the Belgorod-Kharkov operation.

The local population greets the liberating soldiers.

Tanks on the march in winter.

The face of a sapper.

Sappers saw a log.

Sappers restore a bridge, standing knee-deep in water.

Wheels of a skidding truck, Red Army soldiers trying to push it out of the mud.

Crossing a water obstacle on a wooden platform and fording.

The face of a Red Army soldier smoking a hand-rolled cigarette.

Medical orderlies carry the wounded out of battle.

Infantrymen cross a swamp up to their chests in water.

A wagon fording.

A soldier helps a comrade get out of the water.

A German bomber approaches a target.

Dropping bombs.

Horses in harness during the crossing.

The general looks through binoculars.

Meeting of Soviet and American military personnel in May 1945, faces of generals and officers.

Americans inspect a Soviet heavy tank.

Image of the Order of the Red Star and number on the tank turret.

American, Soviet and British soldiers smoke, standing on the river bank near the poster of the Anti-Hitler Coalition, faces of soldiers.

Banner with a slogan in Russian and English at the entrance to the deployment territory of one of the Red Army units.

Soviet military personnel during a meeting with their allies.

Soviet officers with liberated Soviet girls.

American officers during a meeting with their allies.

General Patton gets into a boat.

Americans cross to the other side of the river.

Poster of the Anti-Hitler Coalition on the river bank.

Representatives of the press during a visit to the former Buchenwald concentration camp.

Soviet and American soldiers stand hugging, shaking hands.

Soviet officers communicate with local residents.

A column of American armored vehicles drives by.

An American motorcade passes over a bridge.

The wreckage of a burning German transport plane on the ground.

Views of a German airfield occupied by the Americans.

A sign with an inscription in German on the steps at the entrance to the flight crew quarters, the foot of an American soldier kicks the sign away.

The remains of an airplane at the airfield.

German soldiers captured by the Americans receive rations upon arrival at an American prisoner of war camp.

Panorama of the camp, prisoners of war behind the fence.