The Great Patriotic War of 1941-1945. The Siege of Leningrad (September 8, 1941-January 27, 1944). Tank units head for the front from Palace Square.01.05.1942#5716420
The Great Patriotic War of 1941-1945. The Volkhov Front. From right: Members of the Military Council of the 4th Detached Soviet Army Divisional Commissar Ivan Zuyev and regimental Commissar Leonid Grachev, Deputy Commander of the Volkhov and Leningrad Fronts for Logistic Support, are discussing a plan of military operations.13.01.1942#8557104
Great Patriotic War 1941-1945. School building in Vereya burned down by German invaders, January 1942.01.01.1942#5768904
Great Patriotic War 1941-1945. The Battle of Moscow, December 1941. Artillery squads during a combat in a forest outside Moscow.18.12.1941#5820594
The Great Patriotic War of 1941-1945. The Guard Banner ceremony in the 1st guards motorized rifle Moscow division. Hero of the Soviet Union division commander Col. Alexander Iliych Lizyukov, left, and division Commissar V. V. Meshkov.22.11.1941#5482133
1941. All-Union Radio announcer Yury Levitan records a studio broadcast in Sverdlovsk.30.10.1941#6185776
Great Patriotic War 1941-1945. The Battle of Moscow, November 1941. Air-defense guns in front of the Soviet Army Theater.15.10.1941#5820587
Great Patriotic War (1941-1945). Northern Fleet ships on combat alert duty. Anti-aircraft gunners prepare to repel an air strike.01.09.1941#5990881
Presentation of Komsomol CC flag to the tractor brigade mechanics forewoman of the Ryazan region's machine and tractor station Daria Garmash, 1941.25.05.1941#3082787
Unemployed people get job referrals after the Soviet annexation of North Bukovina. June 28-July 3, 1940.25.07.1940#2436209
The city of Chernivtsi, Northern Bukovina, on the days of Northern Bukovina's joining the USSR. June 28-July 3, 1940.28.06.1940#5786169
The city of Chernivtsi, Northern Bukovina, on the days of Northern Bukovina's joining the USSR. June 28-July 3, 1940.28.06.1940#5786168
The city of Chernivtsi, Northern Bukovina, on the days of Northern Bukovina's joining the USSR. June 28-July 3, 1940.28.06.1940#5786166
The city of Chernivtsi, Northern Bukovina, on the days of Northern Bukovina's joining the USSR. June 28-July 3, 1940.28.06.1940#5786164
The city of Chernivtsi, Northern Bukovina, on the days of Northern Bukovina's joining the USSR. June 28-July 3, 1940.28.06.1940#5786163
The city of Chernivtsi, Northern Bukovina, on the days of Northern Bukovina's joining the USSR. June 28-July 3, 1940.28.06.1940#5786162
The city of Chernivtsi, Northern Bukovina, on the days of Northern Bukovina's joining the USSR. June 28-July 3, 1940.28.06.1940#5786161
The city of Chernivtsi on the days of Northern Bukovina's joining the USSR. June 28-July 3, 1940.28.06.1940#5786160
The city of Chernivtsi on the days of Northern Bukovina's joining the USSR. June 28-July 3, 1940.28.06.1940#5786159
View of the city of Chernivtsi, Northern Bukovina, on the days of Northern Bukovina's joining the USSR. June 28-July 3, 1940.25.06.1940#5786165
In Chernovtsi streets during Northern Bukovina's joining the USSR. June 28 - July 3, 1940.02.11.1939#2793359
A still from the film "Tractor Operators." Nikolai Kryuchkov as Klim Yarko and Marina Ladynina as Maryana. 19.09.1939#5775
Moscow Television Broadcasting Center on Shabolovka Street. The studio is broadcasting live. The Soviet television launched regular broadcasts on March 10, 1939 using transmitters installed on the Shukhov Tower.23.08.1939#5759394
Moscow Television Broadcasting Center on Shabolovka Street. Live broadcast from the studio. The Soviet television launched regular broadcasts on March 10, 1939 using transmitters installed on the Shukhov Tower.23.08.1939#5759392
Commander of the 1st Army Group Corps Commander Georgy Zhukov (second right), Commander-in-Chief of the Mongolian Army Marshal Horlogiin Choibalsan (third right), Ambassador of the USSR in Mongolia Ivanov (fourth right) and Army Commander of the 2nd Rank Colonel-General Grigory Shtern (third left) discuss a future operation during the Khalkhin-Gol battle.10.08.1939#79979
Soviet military leader Georgy Zhukov (right) during military operations by the Khalkhin Gol River. 01.08.1939#42932
I.V.Nizhenko (right), an artillery unit radio operator, receiving a YCL card from political department head A.F.Fomichev during fighting on the Khalkhin Gol. 12.07.1939#43033
The traffic control center at Bataysk train station, Voroshilov Railway (now North Caucasus Railway), 1939.04.03.1939#5802558
The traffic control center at Bataysk train station, Voroshilov Railway (now North Caucasus Railway), 1939.04.03.1939#5802555
The Kremlin, Moscow. A reception for members of the North Pole 1 Arctic scientific research expedition who established a drifting polar station on n ice-floe. The four famed polar explorers became Heroes of the Soviet Union and received their DSc (Geography) degrees. From right: Meteorologist and geophysicist Yevgeny Fyodorov; station chief Ivan Papanin; radio transceiver operator Ernst Krenkel and marine biologist and oceanographer Pyotr Shirshov.17.03.1938#8664727
The world's first Soviet polar research drifting station, North Pole (SP-1), headed by Ivan Papanin. The expedition worked on it for 274 days. Since the end of January 1938, the ice floe has been continuously shrinking and rescuers have gone to help the expedition. At night, the icebreaker Yermak arrived for the expedition members rescued by the icebreaker Taimyr. Polar explorers reload station equipment onto the Yermak icebreaker.21.02.1938#8664821
The North Pole 1 Soviet drifting scientific research station became the first such station in history. Members of an expedition headed by Ivan Papanin worked there for 274 days. In late January 1938, the ice-floe accommodating the research team started dwindling steadily, and rescue teams flew to the rescue. This photo shows rescue workers removing members of Ivan Papanin's research team from the disintegrated ice-floe.20.02.1938#8666926
Blast-furnace operators of the Magnitogorsk iron and steel works study at Stakhanov courses of a technical school.01.10.1937#75912
Student of the Central Asian University (now the National University of Uzbekistan named after Mirzo Ulugbek) Umar Tairov. Photo from the family archive.10.09.1928#8553390
Academician Ivan Pavlov, Russian physiologist, winner of the 1904 Novel Prize in medicine and physiology. Professor Pavlov (second right) in his laboratory. Leningrad, 1927.01.01.1927#3078816
Civil War. MK-A Sphynx trophy tank of the 2nd Russian Army's tank squad at the Snigiryovka station. Sitting on the tank (from left): Sergei Gusev, member of the Revolutionary Military Council, Southern Front, Mikhail Frunze, Commander of the Southern Front, Dmitry Karbyshev, Deputy Head of Engineers, Southern Frond. 1920. Russian National Archieve of Film and Photo Documents.05.09.1920#3050505
From left: Soviet commanders Semyon Budyonny, Mikhail Frunze and Kliment Voroshilov prepare a plan to defeat the troops of the white General Pyotr Vrangel.04.02.1920#5670268
Academician Ivan Pavlov, Russian physiologist, winner of the 1904 Novel Prize in medicine and physiology. Professor Pavlov performs an operation. 1914.01.06.1914#3078800
