The Great Patriotic War of 1941-1945. The nearest rear of the Don Front is the Mikhailovka village. In the period from October 15, 1942 to December 18, 1942, the 4427th evacuation hospital of the 61st frontline evacuation point was stationed in the village. Soviet soldiers evacuate a wounded boy to the hospital.15.10.1942#8682218
The 1941-1945 Great Patriotic War. Aviation Colonel Mikhail Machin, right, and American pilot Senior Lieutenant Nikolai de Tolly. Mikhail Machin served as Head of the Military Representation of the Red Army Air Force in Alaska (USA) from September 1942 to May 1944. He participated in the organization and implementation of lend-lease deliveries of American aircraft.01.10.1942#6677895
Fairbanks, Alaska. The Great Patriotic War of 1941-1945. Brigadier General Dale Gaffney, Commanding Officer, Ladd Field Air Force Base where US aircraft were officially handed over to Soviet representatives under the Lend Lease Act.01.10.1942#6677892
Soviet soldiers during a street fight in Stalingrad. The 1941-1945 Great Patriotic War.01.10.1942#602648
The Great Patriotic War (1941-1945). The Battle of Stalingrad. German soldiers on the territory of a destroyed Stalingrad Tractor Plant.20.09.1942#8658632
Great Patriotic War 1941-1945. Battle of Stalingrad. Stormtroopers take up new firing positions in the destroyed Stalingrad.01.09.1942#8660382
The Great Patriotic War of 1941-1945. Defending the Soviet Arctic. The Soviet Northern Fleet's personnel boarding motor-boats.01.09.1942#8662354
The Great Patriotic War of 1941-1945. Defending the Soviet Arctic. The K-21 submarine, commanded by Captain 3rd Class Nikolai Lunin, sails out on a combat mission from the Soviet Northern Fleet's Polyarny base.23.08.1942#8780963
Submarine of The Northern Fleet heading to battle position. The Great Patriotic War, 1942.23.08.1942#613557
The Great Patriotic War, 1941-1945. Circus company performs in a front-line hospital.11.08.1942#8659397
The Uzbek SSR. Photo: Blacksmith Shaakhmed Shamakhmudov and his wife Akri Akramova befriended and adopted 15 parentless and orphaned children who were evacuated to Tashkent during the Great Patriotic War of 1941-1945.01.08.1942#5922810
1941. A street in Sevastopol being defended by Soviet forces during the 1941-1945 Great Patriotic War against Nazi Germany.30.06.1942#603967
South-Western Front soldiers on the Kharkov sector. The Great Patriotic War. 1942 photo.20.06.1942#613510
Enemy bombs. The Black Sea Fleet during the Great Patriotic War. Photo of 1942, taken by Alexei Mezhuyev, a special photographer of the Navy Main Political Department.11.06.1942#607123
The Great Patriotic War (1941-1945). The Bryansk Front. A women's laundry unit at work.01.06.1942#8659384
Great Patriotic War 1941-1945 Defense of the Arctic. Northern Fleet. The signalman of the Gremyashchy destroyer transmits signals to ships embarking on a combat operation.30.04.1942#8662654
Great Patriotic War, 1941-1945. Soldiers of a Red Army unit during a break between battles.15.04.1942#8191687
Patrol in Leningrad during the blockade. 1942. The Great Patriotic War of 1941-1945.01.04.1942#602733
Historian and political writer Yemelian Yaroslavsky, a leading member of the Communist Party and member of the USSR Academy of Sciences, speaking at a plant in 1942. Photocopy.01.04.1942#544807
The Great Patriotic War, 1941-1945. Leningrad under siege. An air defense fighter observing the sky over Leningrad.30.03.1942#8659690
1942. All-Union Radio announcer Olga Vysotskaya records a studio broadcast in Sverdlovsk.02.03.1942#6185775
The Red Caucasus and Red Crimea Guards cruisers on a cruise. The Great Patriotic War. The Black Sea Fleet. Photo of 1942, taken by Alexei Mezhuyev, a special photographer of the Navy Main Political Department.07.02.1942#607122
The Great Patriotic War (1941-1945). West front. A regiment goes into the assault. Reproduction.01.02.1942#5479004
The Great Patriotic War, 1941-1945. Bryansk Front. Wehrmacht graves following the counter-offensive near Moscow.01.02.1942#8659605
Great Patriotic War 1941-1945 Battle of Rzhev. Field mail. Delivery of mail and parcels for soldiers of the Kalinin Front.05.01.1942#8657750
The Great Patriotic War (1941-1945). Soldiers of a motorized rifle division go on the offensive. Reproduction.01.01.1942#5479008
Great Patriotic War 1941-1945. School building in Vereya burned down by German invaders, January 1942.01.01.1942#5768904
The Great Patriotic War of 1941-1945. Fighting in the Moscow Region. Red Army soldiers in the forest near Vereya.01.01.1942#6338387
Great Patriotic War, 1941-1945 Battle of Moscow. The bodies of civilians killed in Volokolamsk liberated from the Nazi invaders.20.12.1941#8662473
Great Patriotic War of 1941-1945, Western Front. The New Jerusalem Moscow Regional Museum of Local Lore (formerly the Resurrection New Jerusalem Monastery) in the city of Istra, destroyed by the Germans during the retreat.11.12.1941#8662483
Great Patriotic War, 1941-1945. Liberation of the city of Istra from the Nazi invaders. During the occupation, the city was completely burned and destroyed. A local resident collects surviving items from the ashes of her home.11.12.1941#8662590
A still from the documentary "Moscow Strikes Back." The production of artillery shells at a Moscow plant.04.12.1941#891897
A still from the documentary "The Rout of the German-Fascist Troops Near Moscow". Projectiles made for the front at a Moscow plant.04.12.1941#891896
December 1941. Red Army counteroffensive near Moscow. The West Front. Still from documentary "Muscovites in 1941."01.12.1941#844561
Besieged Leningrad. The basement of the Kazan Cathedral used to accommodate a nursery.15.10.1941#5667883
World War II 1939-1945. German occupation of Czechoslovakia. Reichsfuehrer SS Heincrich Himmler, center, Head of the Reich Main Security Office, during an inspection of Prague in fall 1941. Right: Obergruppenfuehrer SS Reinhard Heydrich, Acting Reich Protector of Bohemia and Moravia.01.10.1941#5695919
The Great Patriotic War of 1941-1945. Photo: West Front Commander Lieutenant General Ivan Konev, left, and Divisional Commissar Ivan Sheklanov, a member of the Military Council of the 19th Army of the West Front, center, at a command center.11.09.1941#6022863
The Great Patriotic War of 1941-1945. Photo: West Front Commander Lieutenant General Ivan Konev.11.09.1941#6022866
The Great Patriotic War of 1941-1945. A still from the documentary "Muscovites in 1941". Female self-defense fighters.01.09.1941#2780170
Squad of private first class Beloborodko on the battle field. The Great Patriotic War. 1942.30.08.1941#613515
Great Patriotic War (1941-1945). Konstantin Simonov, Soviet writer and war correspondent of the Krasnaya Zvezda newspaper, talks to Romanian prisoners of war near Odessa.28.08.1941#6355611
Great Patriotic War, 1941-1945. Defense of Moscow. A Red Army officer conducts classes with city residents on defusing German incendiary bombs.08.08.1941#8660430
Great Patriotic War (1941-1945). Konstantin Simonov, Soviet writer and war correspondent of the Krasnaya Zvezda newspaper, talks to refugees.01.08.1941#6355609
In 1941, future cosmonaut Vladimir Shatalov, here a military railway unit cadet, defended Leningrad for 45 days. He and his father served aboard the Svyazrem-1 repair and reconstruction train.01.08.1941#6116949
The Great Patriotic War of 1941-1945. The defense of Odessa, Soldiers of the Red Army's Southern Front receive their combat order.01.08.1941#8662262
The Great Patriotic War of 1941-1945. A Junkers Ju-88, code F6+AK (0285) was downed on July 25, 1941, by pilots of the 3rd Fighter Aviation Corps near Istra. Five days later, the plane was put on display on Sverdlov Square (now Teatralnaya Square) in Moscow. The Ju-88 served with the 2nd Long-Range Reconnaissance Squadron of the 122nd Reconnaissance Group (2.(F)/122) that conducted reconnaissance missions on the Moscow and Kaluga sector.30.07.1941#8662501
The Kosmodemyansky family. From left: Lyubov Kosmodemyanskaya, Zoya Kosmodemyanskaya, Alexander Kosmodemyansky .and Anatoly Kosmodemyansky05.10.1929#5734666
