People's Artist of the USSR composer Alexandra Pakhmutova performs at the concert in memoriam of Alexandrov Song and Dance Company artists at the Moscow International House of Music.26.01.2017#3016240
This statue of Our Lady the Protectress tops a belfry built on the Kursk Bulge battlefield in the Prokhorovka Field memorial complex. The Virgin is portrayed holding the Protecting Veil, symbol of her Intercession. The Kursk Bulge, in Central Russia's south, was scene of one of the crucial World War II European theatre battles15.03.1995#124282
The State Borodino Military Historical Museum-Reserve in the Mozhaisk District of the Moscow Region. Military-historical reconstruction on the Borodino field to mark the 180th anniversary of the Battle of Borodino. Autograph before the start of the festival.08.09.1992#8270674
The State Borodino Military Historical Museum-Reserve in the Mozhaisk District of the Moscow Region. Military-historical reconstruction on the Borodino field to mark the 180th anniversary of the Battle of Borodino. Festival participants in uniforms of the times of 1812 reenacted the decisive moments of the battle.08.09.1992#8270673
The State Borodino Military Historical Museum-Reserve in the Mozhaisk District of the Moscow Region. Military-historical reconstruction on the Borodino field to mark the 180th anniversary of the Battle of Borodino. Festival participants in uniforms of the times of 1812 reenacted the decisive moments of the battle.08.09.1992#8270666
The State Borodino Military Historical Museum-Reserve in the Mozhaisk District of the Moscow Region. Military-historical reconstruction on the Borodino field to mark the 180th anniversary of the Battle of Borodino. Festival participants in uniforms of the times of 1812 reenacted the decisive moments of the battle.08.09.1992#8270665
The State Borodino Military Historical Museum-Reserve in the Mozhaisk District of the Moscow Region. Military-historical reconstruction on the Borodino field to mark the 180th anniversary of the Battle of Borodino. Festival members. Festival participants.08.09.1992#8270664
The State Borodino Military Historical Museum-Reserve in the Mozhaisk District of the Moscow Region. Military-historical reconstruction on the Borodino field to mark the 180th anniversary of the Battle of Borodino. The reenacting participants did not disregard the events of the Great Patriotic War: in 1941-1942, the Borodino field was part of the front edge of the Mozhaisk line of defense of Moscow.08.09.1992#8270663
The State Borodino Military Historical Museum-Reserve in the Mozhaisk District of the Moscow Region. Military-historical reconstruction on the Borodino field to mark the 180th anniversary of the Battle of Borodino. Festival participants in uniforms of the times of 1812 reenacted the decisive moments of the battle.08.09.1992#8270662
The State Borodino Military Historical Museum-Reserve in the Mozhaisk District of the Moscow Region. Military-historical reconstruction on the Borodino field to mark the 180th anniversary of the Battle of Borodino. Festival participants in uniforms of the times of 1812 reenacted the decisive moments of the battle. Battle on the hill of Rayevsky's battery.08.09.1992#8270657
Josef Kreuzinger. Portrait of Generalissimo Alexander Suvorov, the Count of Rymnik and Prince of Italy, 1799.22.06.1990#141880
Live grenades of the time of the Great Patriotic War (1941-1945) were found in the Kaluga Region by a war history scout group. The "Obninsk Scout" is one of USSR's first such groups formed at the Obninsk physics and power institute.01.07.1989#852604
Limited contingent of Soviet troops in the Democratic Republic of Afghanistan (Islamic Republic of Afghanistan). The burned fuel tankers, destroyed by Afghan rebels at the Salang Gorge.19.10.1988#2883542
Monument in Syktyvkar to soldiers killed on the battlefields of the great patriotic war of 1941-1945. 09.05.1987#104024
Franz Rubo's panorama of the Battle of Borodino (one of the key events in the Napoleonic War of 1812) is exhibited in the museum of the same name in Moscow.26.11.1986#139738
Alexei Skurlatov (right), a Great Patriotic War veteran, former scout and communications officer, participant in the liberation of Bulgaria, and his comrade-in-arms visited the Bayonets Memorial Complex, a monument to the defenders of Moscow, located at the 40th kilometer of the Leningrad Highway. Here, in December 1941, fierce battles took place along the front line, when the Nazi troops were stopped and pushed back from Moscow.10.11.1985#8791069
Franz Roubaud, or Rubo (1856-1928). "The Defense of Sevastopol in 1854-55". Panorama. Detail. The artist depicted one of the most dramatic days in the eleven-month city defense during the Crimean War--June 6, 1855, when 75,000 Russian troops repulsed an attack by a joint British-French force 173,000 strong. 27.07.1984#141816
Belgorod Region. Memorial events dedicated to the anniversary of the largest armored forces' battle on July 12, 1943, near Prokhorovka. The Battle of Kursk was one of the fiercest tank battles of the Great Patriotic War (1941-1945). The Battle of Kursk Memorial. Flowers at the Soviet soldiers' mass burial.12.07.1980#8169192
Belgorod Region. Memorial events dedicated to the anniversary of the largest armored forces' battle on July 12, 1943, near Prokhorovka. The Battle of Kursk was one of the fiercest tank battles of the Great Patriotic War (1941-1945).12.07.1980#8169190
Belgorod Region. Memorial events dedicated to the anniversary of the largest armored forces' battle on July 12, 1943, near Prokhorovka. The Battle of Kursk was one of the fiercest tank battles of the Great Patriotic War (1941-1945).12.07.1980#8169189
Belgorod Region. Memorial events dedicated to the anniversary of the largest armored forces' battle on July 12, 1943, near Prokhorovka. The Battle of Kursk was one of the fiercest tank battles of the Great Patriotic War (1941-1945). Laying wreaths at the Battle of Kursk Memorial.12.07.1980#8169188
Belgorod Region. A military band performs during the memorial events dedicated to the anniversary of the largest armored forces' battle on July 12, 1943, near Prokhorovka. The Battle of Kursk was one of the fiercest tank battles of the Great Patriotic War (1941-1945).12.07.1980#8169187
Malaya Zemlya villager Yefrosinya Plastun crying over the death of her four sons on WWII battlefield09.05.1975#36700
Pyotr Krivonogov's "The Battle of Kursk", a painting from the Moscow-based Mitrofan Grekov Battle-painting Studio. 04.04.1975#149119
Viktor Vasnetsov. "After Prince Igor's Battle with the Polovtsy". Oil on canvas, 1880. State Tretyakov Gallery, Moscow28.11.1971#138823
The set of the Waterloo feature film near Uzhgorod. It was produced by the Mosfilm film studios (USSR) and Dino de Laurentiis Cinematografica (Italy). The director of the film Waterloo, People's Artist of the USSR Sergei Bondarchuk, watches the filming process.07.08.1969#8744067
A scene from War and Peace based on Leo Tolstoy's novel. Part 1: Andrei Bolkonsky. Directed by Sergei Bondarchuk. Mosfilm Studios, 1965-1967.01.07.1965#5697465
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. Members of delegations, navy officers from the US and Britain touring the sites of recent fierce fighting on Malakhov Kurgan Mound in Sevastopol.09.11.1945#8571935
The Great Patriotic War (1941-1945). The liberation of Poland from the Nazi occupation. The Soviet self-propelled artillery gun SU-76M with its crew and infantry aboard.15.07.1944#3238045
The Great Patriotic War of 1941-1945. The Ukrainian Front. A horse mechanized group advancing.09.04.1944#882661
The Great Patriotic War of 1941-1945. The Battle of Kursk (July 5, 1943 - August 23, 1943). The Soviet troops' counteroffensive on July 12, 1943.07.08.1943#5698180
Removing a wounded soldier from the battlefield in the central front during the WWII years. 06.07.1943#59580
Great Patriotic War of 1941-1945, Battle of Stalingrad. Mountains of bodies of killed Nazis on the battlefield near Stalingrad.01.04.1943#8662395
Great Patriotic War of 1941-1945, Battle of Stalingrad. Mountains of bodies of killed Nazis on the battlefield near Stalingrad.01.04.1943#8662396
Great Patriotic War of 1941-1945, Battle of Stalingrad. Mountains of bodies of killed Nazis on the battlefield near Stalingrad.01.04.1943#8662397
Nurse Yelena Kovalchuk taking a wounded soldier away from the battlefield during the Great Patriotic war.01.07.1942#63907
"The Death of a Soldier." April-May 1942. Fighting in the Kerch sector of the Crimean Front.10.05.1942#491040
Great Patriotic War of 1941-1945, The defeat of German troops by the Soviet army near Moscow.05.12.1941#8662602
