War chronicle and monuments to the heroes of the Great Patriotic War (1941-1969)

Views of a drilling rig at one of the oil fields (above).

Views of the taiga and a forest road (above).

Views of city blocks (above).

German bombers flying, bombs falling.

The face of a boy.

German bombers dropping bombs on Soviet territory.

Bomb explosions.

Falling walls of buildings, fires.

View of a populated area during an air raid (above).

The face of a woman.

The face of a veteran.

Newsreel of air battles in the summer of 1941. The face of pilot Viktor Talalikhin, who carried out a night aerial ramming in the skies over Moscow.

The bells of an air defense sound-detecting installation on one of the buildings in Moscow.

The Pushkin monument in Moscow against the background of a barrage balloon.

An observer with binoculars at an anti-aircraft machine gun on the roof of a Moscow building.

A unit of armor-piercing gunners with anti-tank rifles moves along the embankment of the Moskva River.

A Red Army unit on the Moskva River embankment (top).

Burning houses after an air raid, Red Army soldiers rush to the attack.

A guards rocket launcher crew loads the installation with ammunition bearing the inscription "To the Reichstag!" during the storming of Berlin in April 1945. Heavy artillery fires at the enemy on the streets of Berlin.

Soviet infantry attacking a street in Berlin.

Panorama of part of burning Berlin and the Reichstag building.

Autographs of Soviet soldiers on one of the columns of the Reichstag.

White flags displayed from the windows of a building in Berlin.

Soviet soldiers with a red banner on the roof of the Reichstag.

Residents of liberated European cities greet Soviet soldiers-liberators.

Panorama of a rally in Sofia in September 1944. Parade of Soviet troops in Vienna.

People throw flowers to Soviet tank crews.

Residents of Sofia greet the Red Army (panorama, from above).

Column of the Leningrad Front at the Victory Parade in Moscow on June 24, 1945. Stalin I.V. and Zhukov G.K. on the mausoleum tribune.

Parade calculations of the fronts pass through Red Square, a woman's face.

Marshals Govorov L.A., Konev I.S., Rokossovsky K.K. greet the passing troops from the mausoleum tribune.

Column of naval sailors at the Victory Parade.

Faces of spectators on the guest tribune.

Faces of passing naval sailors.

Voroshilov K.E. and Kalinin M.I. on the mausoleum tribune.

A battalion of captured banners passes through Red Square.

Soldiers begin to throw German banners at the foot of the mausoleum, a woman's face.

People on the guest tribune applaud.

German banners thrown at the foot of the mausoleum.

Units of the Moscow Garrison march along Red Square during the Victory Parade.

Views of the Motherland statue on Mamayev Kurgan in Volgograd in the late 1960s, people climb Mamayev Kurgan.

Faces of young people who brought flowers to one of the monuments on Mamayev Kurgan.

Torch with the Eternal Flame in the Mourning Hall of Mamayev Kurgan.

Interior view of the Mourning Hall.

The Eternal Flame is burning, a stone hand holding a torch, a man and a woman at the Eternal Flame.

Faces of a girl and a boy.