Guard lieutenant Natalia Meklin (Kravtsova), b.1922, senior pilot of the air regiment of the 2nd Byelorussian Front completed 840 sorties to bomb important targets in the enemy's rear by December 1944 and awarded the Hero of the Soviet Union award. From the Russian State Film and Photo Archives (Krasnogorsk Archives).02.03.1945#413642
The Great Patriotic War of 1941 - 1945. 1945. Commander of the 1st Guards Tank Army Col. Gen. Mikhail Katukov. Mart 1945.01.03.1945#2960462
Musa Gareyev, twice Hero of the Soviet Union, pilot in the Great Patriotic War (1941-1945) years. A photocopy.01.03.1945#672401
Rufina Gasheva, Hero of the Soviet Union and aviator in the 46th Tamansky Female Aviation Guard Regiments. Reproduction of a photo taken during the Great Patriotic War of 1941-1945.26.02.1945#818979
Dmitry Glinka, twice Hero of the Soviet Union, pilot in the Great Patriotic War (1941-1945) years. A photocopy.03.11.1944#672402
Great Patriotic War of 1941-1945. Commander of the 33rd Red Banner Division V. Smirnov (center) with officers.20.09.1944#859079
Belorussian Ivan Yakovlev (Pan Janek) who fought in a guerrilla unit in Yanovsky forests on Polish territory that was occupied by Nazi Germany. Photo taken in 1944. Reprint.06.09.1944#2929013
Commander of the Third Ukrainian Front during the Great Patriotic War (1941-1945), Marshal of the Soviet Union Fyodor Tolbukhin. A 1944 photograph reproduction.01.09.1944#860431
Pilots of the "Mongolian Arat" squadron formed in the Mongolian People's Republic during the Great Patriotic War of 1941-1945. Commander M.M. Ryabtsev is at bottom right.01.07.1944#818976
Hero of the Soviet Union (posthumously), fighter pilot, Senior Lieutenant Vladimir Serov. Reproduction.29.05.1944#812350
The Great Patriotic War of 1941-1945. The First Belorussian Front. 1944. A letter from home. A.V. Markov, left, and G.V. Tikhonov.27.05.1944#859065
Soldiers of the Soviet Army and people of a liberated village. The Second Baltic Front. 1944. The Great Patriotic War of 1941-1945.01.05.1944#884882
The commander of the 333rd infantry division, USSR Hero, Major General Anisim Golosko talks with the residents of the liberated Odessa. The city was liberated on April 10, 1944 by the troops of the third Ukrainian front. A photo reproduction.10.04.1944#485934
Patriarch Alexis I of Moscow and All Russia (secular name Sergey Simansky) meets with Moscow clergy at the Patriarchal residence, Moscow, 1945.07.03.1944#2787341
The Great Patriotic War of 1941-1945. 3rd Ukrainian Front. The battalion commander awards collective farmer Pomkin for a feat.01.03.1944#2487248
Vladimir Komarov, botanist and geographer, a corresponding member of the Academy of Sciences (1914), a member (1920), Vice-President (1930-1936) and President (1936-1945) of the Academy of Sciences of the USSR. Photo of 1930s.01.03.1944#614769
Commander of the 3rd Army of the 2nd Belorussian Front Col. Gen. Alexander Gorbatov.01.01.1944#603570
The commander of the Soviet resistance unit in Poland Ivan Zolotar, 1943. The Great Patriotic War of 1941-1945. A reproduction.29.10.1943#612799
Great Patriotic War 1941-1945. The Central Front. Five Heroes of the Soviet Union and their foster child, 1943.10.04.1943#5728511
Soviet writer Nikolai Tikhonov works at the Leningrad Front's Political Directorate. 1943.01.02.1943#5821318
Marshal of the Soviet Union Hero of the Soviet Union Semyon Timoshenko. North-Western Front.01.02.1943#603573
Boris Safonov, twice Hero of the Soviet Union, pilot in the Great Patriotic War (1941-1945) years. A photocopy.17.04.1942#672398
The USSR Merited Test Pilot Twice Hero of the Soviet Union Vladimir Kokkinaki, winner of the Lenin Prize 13.05.1941#58726
Soviet test pilot and Hero of the Soviet Union Vladimir Kokkinaki. On April 28-29, Kokkinaki conducted an 8,000 km nonstop flight from Moscow to North America.01.03.1941#3237997
Soviet pilots Sergei Gritsevets (third left) and Grigory Kravchenko (center), Twice Heroes of the Soviet Union. 12.09.1939#40950
Major Sergei Grishevets (1909-1940), two-time Hero of the USSR, a Spanish Civil War and Khalkhin Gol veteran. Awarding ceremony in the Kremlin.12.09.1939#21025
Test pilot Valery Chkalov (1904 - 1938), Hero of the USSR (1936), brigade commander and deputy of the USSR Supreme Soviet (1937-1938). 01.09.1938#9120
Nikolai Kuznetsov, an Ensign II rank (left) and Commandant II rank Grigory Shtern (right). 12.08.1938#24901
Participants in a May Day parade in Red Square, Moscow. The first half of the 20th century. Reprophoto.01.05.1938#806298
A fighter against the Basmachi, popular hero of Tajikistan Mukum Sultanov (right) with his father. He is the chairman of the Kzyl Yulduz collective farm, the Koktashsky District, the Tajik SSR. Copy of a 1938 photo.01.05.1938#676707
Moscow. From left: Veteran Soviet athletes/speed-skaters Vasily Ippolitov, Yakov Melnikov and Platon Ippolitov at Dynamo Stadium in 1938.20.02.1938#8415419
The ID of Maxim Londarsky, Commander of the 4th Company of the Combat Detachment of Putilov Plant Workers in Petrograd. Maxim Londarsky took part in the Great October 1917 Socialist Revolution, the Civil War of 1918-1922 and the Great Patriotic War of 1941-1945. He served with the 1st Cavalry Army during the Civil War.01.11.1917#6161538
Lieutenant-General Anatoly Stessel (1848-1915), Port Arthur fortress commandant, who surrendered it to Japan on December 20, 1904 (January 2, 1905, New Style), during the Russo-Japanese War of 1904-05. 02.01.1905#139684
