Participants in a liberators' march processing along Khreshchatyk, the central street in Kiev, on the 67th anniversary of the city's liberation from Nazis.06.11.2010#796396
Participants in a liberators' march processing along Khreshchatyk, the central street in Kiev, on the 67th anniversary of the city's liberation from Nazis.06.11.2010#796391
Participants in a festive march on Khreshchatyk, the central street in Kiev, on the 67th anniversary of the city's liberation from Nazis.06.11.2010#796394
Participants in a festive march on Khreshchatyk, the central street in Kiev, on the 67th anniversary of the city's liberation from Nazis.06.11.2010#796393
Participants in a festive march on Khreshchatyk, the central street in Kiev, on the 67th anniversary of the city's liberation from Nazis.06.11.2010#796392
Artist Leonid Ptitsyn presents the Alexander Matrosov Museum with his early self-portrait and paintings "In Hospital" and "School in the Earth and Timber Emplacement."01.10.1986#890734
Sculptor Tikhon Prokhorchuk, who served in the 280th Division during the war, helps children of a secondary school in Kursk to set up a memorial to Kursk defenders. 1983.10.09.1983#849024
Many people always visit the Kursk Bulge Memorial in the town of Yakovlevo in the Belgorod Region. The memorial complex opened on August 3, 1973.07.07.1983#8386008
A Japanese-language edition of the book Malaya Zemlya, part of a trilogy by Leonid Brezhnev, General Secretary of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union. The other two books are entitled Reconstruction and Virgin Lands. Professional Soviet journalists took part in preparing a literary version of Brezhnev's memoirs, first published in 1978 in the Novy Mir (New World) magazine. Brezhnev's memoirs were subsequently published either separately or as a single-volume trilogy. The trilogy was translated and delivered to national libraries in 120 countries.29.03.1979#8153123
A memorial plaque of people's artist of the USSR director Nikolai Pavlovich Okhlopkov on the building of the Mayakovsky theater. Sculptor L. Tazba, architect I. Pokrovsky.01.11.1973#724203
Still from film Breakthrough, part of the Liberation epic. Produced by Mosfilm Studio, Yugoslavia's Avala Film, Italy's Dino De Laurentiis Cinematografica S.P.A., Poland's PRF-ZF and the German Democratic Republic's DEFA Studio. Directed by Yury Ozerov. From left: Starring Viktor Baikov as Vyacheslav Molotov, Bukhuti Zakariadze as Josef Stalin and Nikolai Bogolyubov as Kliment Voroshilov.28.06.1968#5931128
Volgograd, formerly Stalingrad. Photo: The Eternal Flame at a common grave of the defenders of Stalingrad on Fallen Fighters Square.19.07.1964#5951207
The Italian "Garibaldi Star" is among the awards of Hero of the Soviet Union Fyodor Poletayev, who fought in the Italian Resistance under the name of Poetana. A photo copy from the Krasnaya Zvezda.01.01.1963#660751
The Ukrainian SSR. The Sergo Ordzhonikidze Zaporozhstal Iron and Steel Works. In October 1943, Nazi German occupation forces were expelled from the Zaporozhye Region. The Soviet Government move to rebuild the plant, with 120 enterprises from all over the country taking part in the project. In this photo, workers are assembling a blast furnace. the plant was rebuilt completely in 1949.11.07.1949#8234729
The Great Patriotic War of 1941-1945. The Battle of Stalingrad. A captured German soldier.03.02.1943#8683425