Yuzhnaya Bay, Sevastopol, Ukraine. The Autonomous Republic of Crimea. The monument to ships sunken in Sevastopol Bay. Installed in 1905.01.08.1994#3271100
Yuzhnaya Bay, Sevastopol, Ukraine. The Autonomous Republic of Crimea. The monument to Vice Admiral Vladimir Kornilov on Malakhov Hill. Installed in 1895.01.08.1994#3271099
Crimean Region, Ukrainian SSR. On November 14, 1989, the USSR Supreme Soviet adopted a declaration restoring the deported ethnicities' rights. Crimean Tatars started to return from deportation. Renat Mamutov builds a house.09.09.1990#8205088
Crimean Region, Ukrainian SSR. On November 14, 1989, the USSR Supreme Soviet adopted a declaration restoring the deported ethnicities' rights. Crimean Tatars started to return from deportation. A member of the Yeshil Ada Crimean Tatar band.09.09.1990#8205087
Crimean Region, Ukrainian SSR. On November 14, 1989, the USSR Supreme Soviet adopted a declaration restoring the deported ethnicities' rights. Crimean Tatars started to return from deportation. The Suleimanov family expecting guests.09.09.1990#8205086
Crimean Region, Ukrainian SSR. On November 14, 1989, the USSR Supreme Soviet adopted a declaration restoring the deported ethnicities' rights. Crimean Tatars started to return from deportation. A deputy of the local council speaks to the returnees.01.09.1990#8205081
Crimean Region, Ukrainian SSR. In 1944, during the Great Patriotic War, Crimean Tatars were deported from the Crimean ASSR to Uzbekistan and neighboring regions of Kazakhstan and Tajikistan. On November 14, 1989, the USSR Supreme Soviet adopted a declaration restoring the deported ethnicities' rights. Crimean Tatars started to return from deportation. Members of an informal organization supporting Crimea's special status.01.09.1990#8205075
Crimean Region, Ukrainian SSR. In 1944, during the Great Patriotic War, Crimean Tatars were deported from the Crimean ASSR to Uzbekistan and neighboring regions of Kazakhstan and Tajikistan. On November 14, 1989, the USSR Supreme Soviet adopted a declaration restoring the deported ethnicities' rights. Crimean Tatars started to return from deportation. A Tatar language teacher during a lesson.01.09.1990#8205067
Crimean Region, Ukrainian SSR. In 1944, during the Great Patriotic War, Crimean Tatars were deported from the Crimean ASSR to Uzbekistan and neighboring regions of Kazakhstan and Tajikistan. On November 14, 1989, the USSR Supreme Soviet adopted a declaration restoring the deported ethnicities' rights. Crimean Tatars started to return from deportation. Returnee Asan Shakirov's family.01.09.1990#8205064
Crimean Region, Ukrainian SSR. In 1944, during the Great Patriotic War, Crimean Tatars were deported from the Crimean ASSR to Uzbekistan and neighboring regions of Kazakhstan and Tajikistan. On November 14, 1989, the USSR Supreme Soviet adopted a declaration restoring the deported ethnicities' rights. Crimean Tatars started to return from deportation. A house bought by a family of returnees.01.09.1990#8205063
Crimean Region, Ukrainian SSR. In 1944, during the Great Patriotic War, Crimean Tatars were deported from the Crimean ASSR to Uzbekistan and neighboring regions of Kazakhstan and Tajikistan. On November 14, 1989, the USSR Supreme Soviet adopted a declaration restoring the deported ethnicities' rights. Crimean Tatars started to return from deportation. Members of the Yeshil Ada Crimean Tatar dance ensemble.01.09.1990#8205062
Crimean Region, Ukrainian SSR. In 1944, during the Great Patriotic War, Crimean Tatars were deported from the Crimean ASSR to Uzbekistan and neighboring regions of Kazakhstan and Tajikistan. On November 14, 1989, the USSR Supreme Soviet adopted a declaration restoring the deported ethnicities' rights. Crimean Tatars started to return from deportation. Ancestors' tombstones.01.09.1990#8205061
Crimean Region, Ukrainian SSR. On November 14, 1989, the USSR Supreme Soviet adopted a declaration restoring the deported ethnicities' rights. Crimean Tatars started to return from deportation. Chair of the Village Council in a state farm established in the 1990s V.Kovalenko, left, speaks to V.Suleimanov, the head of a returnees' family.01.09.1990#8205060
Crimean Region, Ukrainian SSR. On November 14, 1989, the USSR Supreme Soviet adopted a declaration restoring the deported ethnicities' rights. Crimean Tatars started to return from deportation. Artist Mamuta Churlu at the Simferopol Art Museum.01.09.1990#8205059
Crimean Region, Ukrainian SSR. In 1944, during the Great Patriotic War, Crimean Tatars were deported from the Crimean ASSR to Uzbekistan and neighboring regions of Kazakhstan and Tajikistan. On November 14, 1989, the USSR Supreme Soviet adopted a declaration restoring the deported ethnicities' rights. Crimean Tatars started to return from deportation. A family of returnees cooks lunch.01.09.1990#8205058
Crimean Region, Ukrainian SSR. In 1944, during the Great Patriotic War, Crimean Tatars were deported from the Crimean ASSR to Uzbekistan and neighboring regions of Kazakhstan and Tajikistan. On November 14, 1989, the USSR Supreme Soviet adopted a declaration restoring the deported ethnicities' rights. Crimean Tatars started to return from deportation. A student of Sulmany Osmanov School reads Dostluk.01.09.1990#8205057
Crimean Region, Ukrainian SSR. In 1944, during the Great Patriotic War, Crimean Tatars were deported from the Crimean ASSR to Uzbekistan and neighboring regions of Kazakhstan and Tajikistan. On November 14, 1989, the USSR Supreme Soviet adopted a declaration restoring the deported ethnicities' rights. Crimean Tatars started to return from deportation. Lathe operator Shurki Seitumerov at his new job.01.09.1990#8205056
Crimean Region, Ukrainian SSR. In 1944, during the Great Patriotic War, Crimean Tatars were deported from the Crimean ASSR to Uzbekistan and neighboring regions of Kazakhstan and Tajikistan. On November 14, 1989, the USSR Supreme Soviet adopted a declaration restoring the deported ethnicities' rights. Crimean Tatars started to return from deportation. Returnees have lunch on their land.01.09.1990#8205055
Crimean Region, Ukrainian SSR. In 1944, during the Great Patriotic War, Crimean Tatars were deported from the Crimean ASSR to Uzbekistan and neighboring regions of Kazakhstan and Tajikistan. On November 14, 1989, the USSR Supreme Soviet adopted a declaration restoring the deported ethnicities' rights. Crimean Tatars started to return from deportation. A rally in Simferopol demanding restoring the autonomy of Crimea by estabilshing of the Crimean ASSR.01.09.1990#8205054
Crimean Region, Ukrainian SSR. In 1944, during the Great Patriotic War, Crimean Tatars were deported from the Crimean ASSR to Uzbekistan and neighboring regions of Kazakhstan and Tajikistan. On November 14, 1989, the USSR Supreme Soviet adopted a declaration restoring the deported ethnicities' rights. Crimean Tatars started to return from deportation. Shevket Ramazanov, Editor-in-Chief of Dostluk (a weekly annex to Crimean Pravda) speaks to the people who returned to their homeland.01.09.1990#8205053
In 1944, during the Great Patriotic War, Crimean Tatars were forcefully relocated from the Crimean Autonomous Soviet Socialist Republic to Uzbekistan, Kazakhstan and Tajikistan, based on several incidents of involvement of Crimean Tatars in collaborationist squads that fought on Nazi Germany's side and cooperation with occupationist authorities, although international law did not stipulate that an entire ethnic group can bear collective liability for actions of its members. In November 1989, the USSR Supreme Soviet recognized the deportation of Crimean Tatars in 1944 unlawful and criminal. The Crimean Tatars deported during the war started to return to their home region. Y.Ablyamitov works as a tractor operator. Ukrainian Soviet Socialist Republic. Crimean Region.27.12.1989#6558234
In 1944, during the Great Patriotic War, Crimean Tatars were forcefully relocated from the Crimean Autonomous Soviet Socialist Republic to Uzbekistan, Kazakhstan and Tajikistan, based on several incidents of involvement of Crimean Tatars in collaborationist squads that fought on Nazi Germany's side and cooperation with occupationist authorities, although international law did not stipulate that an entire ethnic group can bear collective liability for actions of its members. In November 1989, the USSR Supreme Soviet recognized the deportation of Crimean Tatars in 1944 unlawful and criminal. The Crimean Tatars deported during the war started to return to their home region. An improvised camp of the relocatees. Ukrainian Soviet Socialist Republic. Crimean Region.27.10.1989#6558245
In 1944, during the Great Patriotic War, Crimean Tatars were forcefully relocated from the Crimean Autonomous Soviet Socialist Republic to Uzbekistan, Kazakhstan and Tajikistan, based on several incidents of involvement of Crimean Tatars in collaborationist squads that fought on Nazi Germany's side and cooperation with occupationist authorities, although international law did not stipulate that an entire ethnic group can bear collective liability for actions of its members. In November 1989, the USSR Supreme Soviet recognized the deportation of Crimean Tatars in 1944 unlawful and criminal. The Crimean Tatars deported during the war started to return to their home region. The relatives of E.Shapchi from Uzbekistan inquire about life in Crimea before deciding on returning to their ancestral territory. Ukrainian Soviet Socialist Republic.27.10.1989#6558244
In 1944, during the Great Patriotic War, Crimean Tatars were forcefully relocated from the Crimean Autonomous Soviet Socialist Republic to Uzbekistan, Kazakhstan and Tajikistan, based on several incidents of involvement of Crimean Tatars in collaborationist squads that fought on Nazi Germany's side and cooperation with occupationist authorities, although international law did not stipulate that an entire ethnic group can bear collective liability for actions of its members. In November 1989, the USSR Supreme Soviet recognized the deportation of Crimean Tatars in 1944 unlawful and criminal. The Crimean Tatars deported during the war started to return to their home region. At the same time, some members of the Crimean Tatar ethnic group started taking over plots of land without authorization, which the Crimean Tatars called voluntary recovery. Participants in the conflict. Ukrainian Soviet Socialist Republic. Crimean Region.27.10.1989#6558235
On November 14, 1989, deputies of the Supreme Soviet (Parliament) of the USSR passed a declaration on reinstating the rights of deported nations. The Crimean Tatars who had been deported during the Great Patriotic War of 1941-1945 started returning to their historical homeland. photo: Members of the Chokhrokh amateur rural ensemble in the Crimean Region of the Ukrainian SSR.02.09.1989#8135685
The Crimean Region of the Ukrainian SSR. On November 14, 1989, deputies of the Supreme Soviet (Parliament) of the USSR passed a declaration on reinstating the rights of deported nations. The Crimean Tatars who had been deported during the Great Patriotic War of 1941-1945 started returning to their historical homeland. Photo: G. Abdushayeva and her daughter arrived from Tashkent.02.09.1989#8135684
The Crimean Region of the Ukrainian SSR. On November 14, 1989, deputies of the Supreme Soviet (Parliament) of the USSR passed a declaration on reinstating the rights of deported nations. The Crimean Tatars who had been deported during the Great Patriotic War of 1941-1945 started returning to their historical homeland. Photo: Tractor driver R. Bairamov is quite happy to live in this new place.02.09.1989#8135682
On November 14, 1989, the USSR Supreme Soviet adopted a declaration on the restoration of the rights of the deported peoples. The Crimean Tatars deported during the war began to return to their historical homeland. Mullah of the Muslim community Bakhtimaev (left). Ukrainian SSR. Crimean Region.02.09.1989#8135664
On November 4, 1989, the USSR Supreme Soviet adopted a declaration to restore the rights of deported ethnicities. The Crimean Tatars deported during the Great Patriotic War started to return to their home region. New houses for the migrant who returned to their historical homeland. Crimean Region, Ukrainian Soviet Socialist Republic.01.09.1989#8136772
On November 4, 1989, the USSR Supreme Soviet adopted a declaration to restore the rights of deported ethnicities. The Crimean Tatars deported during the Great Patriotic War started to return to their home region. Secretary of the Party Committee of the Ukraine Collective Farm Y.Verdenko speaks to the people who returned to their historical homeland. Crimean Region, Ukrainian Soviet Socialist Republic.01.09.1989#8136768
On November 14, 1989, deputies of the Supreme Soviet (Parliament) of the USSR passed a declaration on reinstating the rights of deported nations. The Crimean Tatars who had been deported during the Great Patriotic War of 1941-1945 started returning to their historical homeland. Photo: A Crimean Tatar community.01.09.1989#8136765
Yalta resident V.Oleinik, Great Patriotic War veteran. Crimea Region, Ukrainian Soviet Socialist Republic.01.08.1989#6614665
The Ukrainian SSR, the city of Sevastopol. Historical Boulevard. Artillery positions of the fourth bastion that defended Sevastopol during the Crimean War of 1854-1855. The Great Patriotic War veteran Yevgeny Yeznor, lecturer of the Znaniye (Knowledge) Society.29.07.1984#3078715
A monument to Admiral Pavel Nakhimov in the center of Sevastopol near the Grafskaya Wharf on Nakhimov Square. Erected in 1959, sculptor Nikolai Tomsky, architects Alexander Arefyev and Mikhail Chesakov.27.07.1984#8767748
The Ukrainian SSR, the city of Sevastopol. Historical Boulevard. Artillery positions of the fourth bastion that defended Sevastopol during the Crimean War of 1854-1855. The stronghold today.01.06.1984#2979453
A Russian battery on the shore of Avacha Bay. A memorial to the fallen in the repelling of the English-French squadron (1854).01.05.1979#535353
Model of the sailing ship 12 Apostles made by ship modeler Lev Alyoshin, a worker from Moscow.01.06.1978#8414228
Ukrainian Soviet Socialist Republic. Krasnoperekopsk. The Three Storms of Perekop memorial.01.07.1974#2886623
Crimean Region, Ukrainian Soviet Socialist Republic. Children vacationing at the Artek All-Union Pioneer Camp in Gurzuf (now Artek International Children's Center) on a trip to sites of military glory with veterans of the Great Patriotic War who were members of the partisan movements in Crimea.13.07.1968#6071913
A meeting of the Great Patriotic War veterans who fought onboard the Zheleznyakov armored train of the coastline defense of Sevastopol. From left: Assistant commander Vasily Golovenko and chief of staff of the armored train Leonid Golovin.15.05.1967#8125382
A meeting of the Great Patriotic War veterans who fought onboard the Zheleznyakov armored train of the Sevastopol coastline defense. Chief of staff Leonid Golovin, nurses Olga Doronkina and Klavdia Aleksandrova, Assistant Commander Vasily Golovenko, Chief of the Machine Gunner Group Nikolai Aleksandrov, left to right, visit a destroyed pillbox near the Mekenziyevy Gory station in Ukraine.15.05.1967#8125381
Admiral Pavel Nakhimov (1802-1855). From the collection of the Central Naval Museum in Leningrad.01.05.1967#3016640
February 18, 1856. Sevastopol sailors receiving bread and salt during an official welcoming ceremony in Moscow. Old lithograph from the 1883 album "Moscow and Muscovites" by N. Naidyonov.16.09.1961#370220
The Great Patriotic War of 1941-1945. The Yalta Conference, February 4-11, 1945, a meeting where the three leaders of the anti-Hitler coalition, the USSR, the United States and Great Britain, made important decisions regarding the postwar world. After the conference, British Prime Minister Winston Churchill and the British officers accompanying him visited the English Military Cemetery, the resting place of British soldiers and officers who fought in the Crimean War of 1854-1855, including Churchill's ancestors,the Dukes of Marlborough. Winston Churchill at the tomb of an unknown man.13.02.1945#8572108
The Great Patriotic War of 1941-1945. The Yalta Conference, February 4-11, 1945, a meeting where the three leaders of the anti-Hitler coalition, the USSR, the United States and Great Britain, made important decisions regarding the postwar world. After the Yalta Conference, British Prime Minister Winston Churchill (center) and British officers accompanying him visited Balaklava and Sevastopol to monuments related to the Crimean War. The British delegation on the seafront of Balaklava.13.02.1945#8571893
Great Patriotic War, 1941-1945. Yalta Conference of the leaders of the three countries of the anti-Hitler coalition of the USSR, US and Great Britain (February 4-11, 1945), dedicated to the establishment of the postwar world order. Members of the British delegation during a visit to Sapun Mountain in Sevastopol. Center: British Prime Minister Winston Churchill on Sapun Mountain listens to an English officer's explanations about the Battle of Balaklava in 1854.09.02.1945#8570471
The Great Patriotic War of 1941-1945. The Yalta Conference, February 4-11, 1945, a meeting where the three leaders of the anti-Hitler coalition, the USSR, the United States and Great Britain, made important decisions regarding the postwar world. US and British navy officers who participated in the conference visiting the Panorama at the Defense of Sevastopol 1854-1855 Museum on Istorichesky Boulevard in Sevastopol.09.02.1945#8572157
Great Patriotic War 1941-1945. Liberation of the Moldavian SSR. The Jassy–Kishinev Offensive of the 2nd and 3rd Ukrainian Fronts with the Black Sea Fleet and the Danube Flotilla, August 20-29, 1944. The troops of the 2nd Ukrainian Front during a combat outside Jassy.21.08.1944#5729064
Great Patriotic War 1941-1945. Crimean ASSR. The Crimean Offensive April 8 - May 12 1944. Guerilla fighter unit under Christopher Chussi on a mission.28.04.1944#5729069
Great Patriotic War 1941-1945. Ukrainian SSR. Kirivograd liberated by the Soviet troops on January 8, 1944, during the Kirovograd offensive of the 2nd Ukrainian. Bodies of the civilian residents of the city shot and burned by Nazi invaders. Victims of the Nazis, 1943.08.01.1944#5729067