From right: Colonel Leonid Brezhnev [1906-1982] and Lieutenant Colonel Avksenty Tikhostup before the assault on Novorossiisk in 1943. From archive of the Novorossiisk City Museum.08.07.1943#410400
Crew of an antiaircraft gun of Senior Lieutenant D.Vyatkin battery in combat. The battle of Kursk, Voronezh Front. July of 1943. The Great Patriotic War of 1941-1945.05.07.1943#607854
The Great Patriotic War of 1941-1945. Air Lieutenant General Yevgeny Savitsky (1910-1990), Commander of the 3rd Fighter Corps of the of the Soviet Air Force's 8th Air Army.01.06.1943#5922811
The 1941-1945 Great Patriotic War against Nazi Germany. The winter of 1943. Soviet guerrillas escorting a wagon train to Leningrad, now St. Petersburg.15.03.1943#888298
March 1943. The guerrilla unit of Major General and Hero of the Soviet Union Sidor Kovpak resting near Zhitomir, Ukraine, during the 1941-1945 Great Patriotic War against Nazi Germany.01.03.1943#604005
The 1941-1945 Great Patriotic War against Nazi Germany. 1943. The Battle of Stalingrad. The Red Army's 39th Guards Rifle Division commanded by Major General Stepan Guryev receiving the Guards Banner.03.01.1943#881036
The Great Patriotic War of 1941-1945. The Red Army's Southwest Front in the Ukrainian SSR. Soviet combat engineers defuse explosive devices.22.12.1942#6046566
The Great Patriotic War of 1941-1945. Red Army soldiers advance near Kharkov in January 1942. Photo: Krasnaya Zvezda newspaper's war correspondent Fyodor Levshin.16.12.1942#6029133
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
1942. Soviet soldiers moving to another firing position during the 1941-1945 Great Patriotic War against Nazi Germany.01.09.1942#604002
The Great Patriotic War (1941-1945). Living at the frontline. Red Army soldiers between battles. The Southwestern Front soldiers in a field workshop. Kharkov sector.20.06.1942#8852491
The Great Patriotic War of 1941-1945. Residents of Melnitsa village that was completely destroyed and burned by German occupation forces.01.06.1942#6049929
The Great Patriotic War of 1941-1945. An armored train raids enemy positions on the South Front in 1942. Photo: Krasnaya Zvezda newspaper's war correspondent Fyodor Levshin.01.04.1942#6029135
The Great Patriotic War of 1941-1945. Fighting in the Moscow Region. Red Army soldiers in the forest near Vereya.01.01.1942#6338387
Soviet writer Ilya Erenburg, second right, at the frontline during the Great Patriotic War (1941-1945).07.12.1941#5710890
The Great Patriotic War, 1941-1945. Battle of Moscow took place on September 30, 1941 - April 20, 1942.06.12.1941#6686785
November 7, 1941. The Great Patriotic War of 1941-1945. A tank column redeploys to the front from Moscow's Red Square following a military parade marking the 24th anniversary of the Great October Socialist Revolution.07.11.1941#8551028
Moscow. July 1941. Training teenagers for military service at a War Ministry school.26.09.1941#640782
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). Konstantin Simonov, Soviet writer and war correspondent of the Krasnaya Zvezda newspaper, talks to refugees.01.08.1941#6355609
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 Dzerzhinsky Artillery Order of Lenin Academy of the Red Army (Military Academy of the Strategic Missile Forces named after Peter the Great) is located in the building of the former Imperial Orphanage (XVIII - XX centuries) in Kitaygorodsky Proezd in Moscow.30.10.1939#8557989
The Dzerzhinsky Artillery Order of Lenin Academy of the Red Army in Moscow (Military Academy of the Strategic Missile Forces named after Peter the Great). Students at the Small Arms Faculty study the basics of designing large-caliber artillery shells.30.10.1939#8557975
"If tomorrow the war" series. Training specialized motor-rifle detachments of armored units of the Red Army. Moscow, 1938.20.09.1938#5642297
Participants in a military parade on Red Square to mark the anniversary of the Great October Socialist Revolution on Novermber 7, 1923. The photograph comes from the Central State Archive for Film and Photographic Documents of the USSR.06.11.1923#5851673
Russian soldiers inside first-line trenches near Panevezis railroad on the Dvina Front. This 1914-1918 photo reproduced by N. Pashin in 1963.22.07.1914#413453
The Russian Empire's naval expedition to the United States of North America in 1863-1864. Photo: A group of officers from the Russian naval squadron in Boston.30.11.1864#5928999
