People walk near a monument made of a Soviet tank T-70 tank, which was restored in St. Petersburg, on the territory of the Mass Grave memorial in Melitopol, Zaporizhzhia region territory, that has accessed Russia. On October 23, Melitopol marks the 80th anniversary of its liberation from Nazi Germany in World War Two.23.10.2023#8541669
People walk near a monument made of a Soviet tank T-70 tank, which was restored in St. Petersburg, on the territory of the Mass Grave memorial in Melitopol, Zaporizhzhia region territory, that has accessed Russia. On October 23, Melitopol marks the 80th anniversary of the liberation of Melitopol from Nazi Germany in World War Two.23.10.2023#8541668
People walk near a monument made of a Soviet tank T-70 tank, which was restored in St. Petersburg, on the territory of the Mass Grave memorial in Melitopol, Zaporizhzhia region territory, that has accessed Russia. On October 23, Melitopol marks the 80th anniversary of the liberation of Melitopol from Nazi Germany in World War Two.23.10.2023#8541667
Members of the Honor Guard perform during the opening ceremony of the ARMY 2020 International Military and Technical Forum at the site in Victory Park in Chita, Russia.27.08.2020#6317715
Members of the Honor Guard perform during the opening ceremony of the ARMY 2020 International Military and Technical Forum at the site in Victory Park in Chita, Russia.27.08.2020#6317714
Candles and flowers are pictured during a ceremony to commemorate the anniversary of the beginning of the Great Patriotic War against Nazis in 1941 at the Eternal Flame memorial, in Vladivostok, Russia.22.06.2019#5923442
Cadets hold flowers and candles as they take part in a ceremony to commemorate the anniversary of the beginning of the Great Patriotic War against Nazis in 1941 at the Eternal Flame memorial, in Vladivostok, Russia.22.06.2019#5923445
A cadet holds a candle as he takes part in a ceremony to commemorate the anniversary of the beginning of the Great Patriotic War against Nazis in 1941 at the Eternal Flame memorial, in Vladivostok, Russia.22.06.2019#5923446
An Emergency officer holds a candle as he takes part in a ceremony to commemorate the anniversary of the beginning of the Great Patriotic War against Nazis in 1941 at the Eternal Flame memorial, in Vladivostok, Russia.22.06.2019#5923447
An honour guard wearing WWII Soviet uniform stands at attention as he takes part in a ceremony to commemorate the anniversary of the beginning of the Great Patriotic War against Nazis in 1941 at the Eternal Flame memorial, in Vladivostok, Russia.22.06.2019#5923448
At the Candle of Memory international commemorative event to mark Day of Memory and Grief in Chelyabinsk.22.06.2018#5550017
A serviceman during the Candle of Memory international commemorative event to mark Day of Memory and Grief in Chelyabinsk.22.06.2018#5550139
At the Candle of Memory international commemorative event to mark Day of Memory and Grief in Grozny.22.06.2018#5550707
Servicemen and activists of the Akhmat club lay flowers during the Candle of Memory international commemorative event to mark Day of Memory and Grief in Grozny.22.06.2018#5550653
A wreath is laid during the Candle of Memory international commemorative event to mark Day of Memory and Grief in Grozny.22.06.2018#5550687
Members of the youth honor guard at the eternal flame memorial near the monument to those who fell in the Great Patriotic War during the Candle of Memory international commemorative event to mark Day of Memory and Grief in Grozny.22.06.2018#5550636
Serviceman and club Akhmat activists during the international memorial event the Candle of Memory on the Day of Memory and Sorrow in Grozny, Chechnya.22.06.2018#5550748
At the Candle of Memory international commemorative event to mark Day of Memory and Grief in Chelyabinsk.22.06.2018#5550062
At the Candle of Memory international commemorative event to mark Day of Memory and Grief in Chelyabinsk.22.06.2018#5550165
Laying wreaths during the Candle of Memory international commemorative event on the Day of Remembrance and Sorrow in Vladivostok.22.06.2018#5548875
The Candle of Memory international commemorative event on the Day of Remembrance and Sorrow in Pyatigorsk.22.06.2018#5548917
At the Candle of Memory international event on the Day of Remembrance and Sorrow in Pyatigorsk.22.06.2018#5548909
Young women lay flowers during the Candle of Memory international event on the Day of Remembrance and Sorrow in Vladivostok.22.06.2018#5548883
A veteran lays flowers during the Candle of Memory international commemorative event on the Day of Remembrance and Sorrow in Vladivostok.22.06.2018#5548887
Laying flowers during the Candle of Memory international commemorative event on the Day of Remembrance and Sorrow in Vladivostok.22.06.2018#5548892
The guard of honor during the Candle of Memory international commemorative event on the Day of Remembrance and Sorrow in Vladivostok.22.06.2018#5548901
The guard of honor company during the Candle of Memory international commemorative event on the Day of Remembrance and Sorrow in Vladivostok.22.06.2018#5548896
The guard of honor company during the Candle of Memory international commemorative event on the Day of Remembrance and Sorrow in Vladivostok.22.06.2018#5548905
A serviceman during the Candle of Memory international commemorative event on the Day of Remembrance and Sorrow in Pyatigorsk.22.06.2018#5548914
The guard of honor during the Candle of Memory international commemorative event on the Day of Remembrance and Sorrow in Vladivostok.22.06.2018#5548889
The Candle of Memory international commemorative event on the Day of Remembrance and Sorrow in Vladivostok.22.06.2018#5548886
The Candle of Memory international commemorative event on the Day of Remembrance and Sorrow in Vladivostok.22.06.2018#5548890
The Candle of Memory international commemorative event on the Day of Remembrance and Sorrow in Pyatigorsk.22.06.2018#5548915
Sovremennik cinema and the Memorial to Heroes of the Soviet Union from the Ivanovo Region in Ivanovo.29.05.2018#5516448
From right, center: Commander of the Black Sea Fleet, Vice Admiral Alexander Vitko and Acting Governor of Sevastopol Sergei Menyailo at the burial ceremony for Great Patriotic War soldiers at the memorial cemetery in Dergachi village in the Sevastopol Region.05.05.2014#2422651
Vera Alentova, People's Artist of Russian Federation, and Oleg Tabakov, People's Artist of USSR, at laying memorial plaques on Mosfilm film studio's Glory Alley. 27.08.2005#118740
Russian Military Glory Day marked on the day when, for the first time in Russian history, the Russian Navy under the commandment of Peter the Great defeated Sweden in the Battle of Gangut (1714). Great Patriotic War veterans at the statue of Peter the Great in Moscow.09.08.2003#6494512
Russian Military Glory Day marked on the day when, for the first time in Russian history, the Russian Navy under the commandment of Peter the Great defeated Sweden in the Battle of Gangut (1714). The guard of honor at the statue of Peter the Great in Moscow.09.08.2003#6494507
Veterans of the Great Patriotic War of 1941-1945 during a wreath-laying ceremony at the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier by the Kremlin wall. Victory Day celebration.09.05.1994#785597
Muscovites laying flowers to the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier by the Kremlin wall on the Victory Day.09.05.1993#509060
Veterans of the Great Patriotic War of 1941-1945 laying flowers to the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier by the Kremlin wall. Victory Day celebration.09.05.1993#509059
The head of the USSR visits the Kazakh SSR, May 28-30, 1991. The President's wife, Raisa Gorbacheva, second right, during a visit to the Glory Memorial in the Park of 28 Panfilov Guardsmen in Alma-Ata on the 30th anniversary of victory in the Great Patriotic War. On the left is the Feat monument depicting the heroes who defended Moscow.29.05.1991#6615609
Norway Days in Ukraine. Kiev residents receive a Norwegian delegation headed by the Arne Kokwold, foreground, the mayor of the mining town of Roros. The Norwegian guests lay a wreath at the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier in Eternal Glory Park, Ukrainian SSR.02.10.1990#6640022
Center: British Defense Secretary Tom King visits the Soviet Union. A wreath-laying ceremony at the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier at the Kremlin Wall, where the secretary honored the memory of fallen soldiers.14.05.1990#8446265
A German delegation visits the Ukrainian SSR. Archbishop of Cologne Josef Plöge, center, meets with Father Leontius, left, the Dean of Alexander Nevsky Cathedral and visits the Glory Hill memorial to fallen soldiers.01.06.1988#5735202
The Memorial of Glory in the Park of the Panfilov Division's Twenty-Eight Guardsmen.01.08.1987#440618
Glory memorial built by sculptor Merab Berdzeneshvili and architect Otar Kalandarishvili to commemorate the victory in the second world war on the territory of the Soviet Union (1941-1945).01.12.1986#34633
Veteran of the Great Patriotic War, former scout and communications officer, participant in the liberation of Bulgaria Alexei Skurlatov laying flowers at the Memorial Complex to soldiers who died during the war in the village of Kosikha, Altai Territory. Alexei served as a prototype for the famous “Alyosha” - a monument to Soviet soldiers-liberators in the Bulgarian city of Plovdiv.10.11.1985#8791023
War history scouts of the Moscow Mining Institute laying a wreath to a common grave near Kremenki village where early in the Great Patriotic War of 1941-1945 against the German invaders died 3 000 soldiers of the 60th Rifle Sevsk-Warsaw Division formed in honor of the 1st Division of Popular Militia.01.07.1985#783062
War history scouts of the Moscow Mining Institute searching for war evidence near Kremenki village where early in the Great Patriotic War of 1941-1945 battles against the German invaders were fought.01.06.1985#783061
The Gasitel memorial boat in Volgograd created by USSR People's Architect Vadim Maslyayev.01.06.1985#8966011
Armenia memorial built in Leninakan in honor of the Armenian people's combat and labor glory01.06.1985#99136
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
Tanzanian journalist H. Mkvinda, right, visiting the Mound of Glory memorial to Soviet soldiers-liberators near Minsk, Belarusian SSR. Authors of the project: People's Artist of the BSSR Andrei Bembel, architect Oleg Stakhovich.18.07.1984#8798497
The Belarusian SSR. Left: H. Mkwinda, a journalist from Tanzania, visits the Glory Mound Memorial Complex honoring soldiers-liberators near Minsk. The monument was built to a design by People's Artist of the Belarusian SSR Andrei Bembel and architect Oleg Stakhovich.18.07.1984#8798495
An official visit of King of Spain Juan Carlos I and Queen Sofia of Spain to the USSR at the invitation of the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet of the USSR. Members of the Spanish delegation led by King Juan Carlos I walk along the Alley of Hero Cities in Alexander Garden during the wreath-laying ceremony at the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier in Moscow.11.05.1984#8399415
King of Spain Juan Carlos I and Queen Sophia pay official visit to Soviet Union at the invitation of the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet (Parliament) of the USSR. Center: King of Spain Juan Carlos I, the head of the Spanish delegation, laid a wreath at the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier in Moscow.11.05.1984#8399404
