Unveiling a monument to people killed during the siege of Leningrad during the Great Patriotic War of 1941-1945 in Moscow Victory Park in St. Petersburg. The inscription on the pedestal reads: "In memory of thousands of deceased siege victims and city defenders, cremated in the furnaces of a brick plant that was located here."25.01.1995#8423742
Unveiling a monument to people killed during the siege of Leningrad during the Great Patriotic War of 1941-1945 in Moscow Victory Park in St. Petersburg. The inscription on the pedestal reads: "In memory of thousands of deceased siege victims and city defenders, cremated in the furnaces of a brick plant that was located here."25.01.1995#8423741
Unveiling a monument to people killed during the siege of Leningrad during the Great Patriotic War of 1941-1945 in Moscow Victory Park in St. Petersburg. The inscription on the pedestal reads: "In memory of thousands of deceased siege victims and city defenders, cremated in the furnaces of a brick plant that was located here."25.01.1995#8423740
Democratic Republic of Afghanistan (Islamic Republic of Afghanistan). An Afghan peasant plowing a field near his kishlak.01.09.1989#6644987
Bashkir ASSR. A statue of the national hero of Bashkortostan Salavat Yulayev on the high bank of the Belaya River in central Ufa. Designed by monumental artist Soslanbek Tavasiyev.20.07.1988#8366900
The daughter of Italian communist political emigrant Giuseppe Povezi, a student at the international pioneer camp "Novoelya" during the Great Patriotic War (1941-1945) where she found Ponett Glucosio thanks to one of their saviors - a resident of the Belarusian village of Radyuk P. Kurt, where her family hid from the Nazis during the war.01.07.1988#852589
Belorussian SSR. The Great Patriotic War (1941-1945) found children of political emigrant communists on vacation in the pioneer camp of the International Red Aid on the territory of Belarus. They were rescued by the inhabitants of the surrounding villages. P. Kurta, a resident of Radyuki, a Belarusian farm (sitting on the far left), in whose family children of communist political emigrants were hiding from the Nazis, talks about the events of those terrible years.01.05.1988#6578538
The eighth spring of the April (Sowr) Revolution and establishing the Democratic Republic of Afghanistan, now the Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan. Photo: Peasant Mir Akbar.01.05.1986#6660452
Lithuanian SSR. Monument Mother in the village of Pirciupis, which was completely burned down by German occupants together with its 119 inhabitants in 1944 during the Great Patriotic War of 1941-1945. The sculptor is Gedemines Jokubonis.25.06.1985#8791318
A monument to the T-34 Tambov Collective Farm Worker tank built in 1949 to commemorate a tank column built in 1942 on the money of Tambov collective farm workers. Designed by architect V.G.Samorodov.29.01.1985#5832235
Stalingrad, the Soviet Union. Pedestal making the forward edge of the battle area during the Great Patriotic War of 1941-1945.03.05.1983#5866948
The 40th anniversary of the Battle of Stalingrad (July 17, 1942-February 2, 1943), one of the mot important and crucial general engagements of World War II and the Great Patriotic War. Photo: Veteran worker Alexandra Chernova stayed in besieged Stalingrad, now Volgograd.25.06.1982#6704179
The Ukrainian SSR. Hero of Soviet Union and Senior Sergeant Nikolai Zhuzhoma from the Red Army of Workers and Peasants, a veteran of the Great Patriotic War of 1941-1945 and head of the Human Resources Department at the Glukhov Hemp Plant, calls on school students.01.01.1976#6431656
Portrait of a soldier, a veteran of the Russian Civil War of 1918-1922, from the Red Army's 25th Rifle Division that was commanded by Vasily Chapayev (1887-1919).01.01.1973#5735557
Reproduction of "Partisan's Mother" painting (1943-1950) by artist Sergei Gerasimov. Oil on canvas. The State Tretyakov Gallery in Moscow.01.10.1971#742556
The house where Hungarian writer and revolutionary Mate Zalka (1896-1937) (real name Bela Frankl) lived and worked in summer months of 1932-1937, on the Mate Zalka collective farm.01.08.1971#744631
A memorial plaque on the house where Hungarian writer and revolutionary Mate Zalka (1896-1937) (real name Bela Frankl) lived and worked in summer months of 1932-1937 on the Mate Zalka collective farm.01.08.1971#744630
The museum of Hungarian writer and revolutionary Mate Zalka (1896-1937) (real name Bela Frankl) on the Mate Zalka collective farm.01.08.1971#744629
The Uzbek SSR. Qishlaq Turk in Gallaorol District of the Jizzakh Region. Front-line soldier, Hero of the Soviet Union, foreman Ishankul Ismailov, second left. During the Great Patriotic War of 1941-1945, Ishankul Ismailov, rifleman at the 240th Guards Rifle Regiment of the 74th Guards Rifle Division of the 8th Guards Army of the 1st Belorussian Front, distinguished himself in battles for the liberation of the Polish city of Poznan.09.05.1970#5820121
The Uzbek SSR. Qishlaq Turk in Gallaorol District of the Jizzakh Region. Front-line soldier, Hero of the Soviet Union, foreman Ishankul Ismailov, left, is greeted by the village folk on Victory Day. During the Great Patriotic War of 1941-1945, Ishankul Ismailov, rifleman at the 240th Guards Rifle Regiment of the 74th Guards Rifle Division of the 8th Guards Army of the 1st Belorussian Front, distinguished himself in battles for the liberation of the Polish city of Poznan.09.05.1970#5820120
A print of the painting "Peasant Partisans of the 1812 Patriotic War" by Ivan Terebenev. From the collection of the State History Museum in Moscow.01.01.1969#99302
"Peasants-Partisans in the Patriotic War of 1812" picture, by I. Terebenev. Popular print. Reproduction. The State Historical Museum.01.01.1969#513284
"Peasants-Partisans in the Patriotic War of 1812" picture, by I. Terebenev. Popular print. Reproduction. The State Historical Museum.01.01.1969#513280
The Russian Civil War of 1917-1922. Photo: Awarding the Orders of the Red Banner to soldiers of the Red Army of Workers and Peasants in 1921.01.04.1968#5851660
The historical-memorial complex To Heroes of the Battle of Stalingrad on Mamayev Hill in Volgograd. The main monument Motherland Calling by sculptor Yevgeny Vuchetich was opened on October 15, 1967.18.10.1967#6158018
Residents in the liberated areas harvest rice. War in South Vietnam (now the Socialist Republic of Vietnam).01.05.1966#728897
Wall painting on the "Battle of Borodino" panorama museum situated on Kutuzov Avenue in Moscow.01.08.1965#551683
The Revolution Museum (currently the State Central Museum of Russia's Contemporary History) on Gorky Street (currently Tverskaya Street). Standing in the museum's courtyard is a six-inch cannon used by revolutionary troops of Lefortovo district to shell the barracks of the Alekseyevskoye military school.30.07.1965#5964029
The building of the Museum of Revolution (now State Central Museum of Contemporary History of Russia) on Gorky Street (now Tverskaya Street) in Moscow.30.07.1965#5964024
The Abkhazian ASSR, part of the Georgian SSR. From left: Hero of the Soviet Union Colonel General Vasily Shatilov, former Commander of the 150th Order of Kutuzov Idritsa-Berlin Rifle Division, and Hero of the Soviet Union Mikhail Yegorov, a former Red Army Sergeant, become honorary Young Pioneers in the village of Lykhny.01.04.1965#6105201
World War I (1914-1918). October 1914. Galicia (present-day West Ukraine). Peasants dig trenches.12.07.1963#5699907
The official meeting to mark the 45th anniversary of the Soviet Army and Navy Day. Minister of Defense of the USSR, marshal of the Soviet Union Rodion Malinovsky, makes a speech.23.02.1963#5998035
The solemn ceremony marking the 20th anniversary of the Battle of Stalingrad. The 26m-high memorial obelisk of black and red granite was erected at Fallen Fighters Square in 1957. Eternal fire was lighted on February 1, 1963.02.02.1963#697756
Maxim Londarsky took part in the Great October 1917 Socialist Revolution, the Civil War of 1918-1922 and the Great Patriotic War of 1941-1945. He served with the 1st Cavalry Army during the Civil War.27.09.1962#6161532
Maxim Londarsky, who took part in the Great October 1917 Socialist Revolution, the Civil War of 1918-1922 and the Great Patriotic War of 1941-1945, and his grandson. He served with the 1st Cavalry Army during the Civil War.27.09.1962#6161531
2nd left: Maxim Landarsky, participant in the Great October Socialist Revolution and veteran of the Russian Civil War and the Great Patriotic War, with veterans of the 1st Cavalry Army.27.09.1962#5987272
Center: Nikita Khrushchev, instructor of the political department of the 9th Kuban Army, 1920.01.08.1962#5697220
Peasants bring grain during the Prodrazverstka grain confiscation campaign to grain-collecting center at Makugino railway station, 1918.01.02.1962#5603482
A reproduction of the political poster "Wrangel Is Still Alive. Finish Him Off Without Mercy!"18.01.1962#753932
A scene from the feature movie "The Youth of Our Fathers" (1958) directed by Mikhail Kalik and Boris Rytsarev and based on Alexander Fadeyev's novel "The Debacle." Photocopy.01.09.1958#544922
In 1932, this monument to Civil War hero Vasily Chapayev was installed on Chapayev Square in Kuibyshev, now Samara. Built to a design by sculptor Matvei Manizer, it was located in front of the Gorky Kuibyshev Territorial Drama Theater, now the Gorky Samara Academic Drama Theater.02.06.1956#6404853
The Soviet-Japanese War (August 9 - September 3, 1945) pitted the Soviet Union and the Mongolian People's Republic against the Japanese Empire and Manchukuo. On August 16, 1945, General Otozo Yamada, Commander of the Kwantung Army, ordered his subordinates to surrender. This photo shows the relocation of Japanese prisoners of war from the surrendered formation of the Japanese Imperial Army.01.09.1945#8649824
The Soviet-Japanese War (August 9 - September 3, 1945) pitted the Soviet Union and the Mongolian People's Republic against the Japanese Empire and Manchukuo. In this photo, Soviet officers are meeting with prisoners of war at the Mukden camp, liberated in August 1945 by units of the Red Army's 262nd Rifle Division, part of the 39th Soviet Army's 113 Rifle Corps. The camp's inmates included soldiers from the United States, the United Kingdom, the Netherlands, Australia and New Zealand.01.09.1945#8649825
The Soviet-Japanese War (August 9 - September 3, 1945) pitted the Soviet Union and the Mongolian People's Republic against the Japanese Empire and Manchukuo. This photo shows talks between truce envoys of the surrendering formation of the Japanese Imperial Army and authorized representatives of the Soviet Union on the terms of surrender for the Kwantung Army.16.08.1945#8649826
Border guards from the 8th Border Outpost Novoalexeyevka of the 58th Grodekovo Border Control Unit, subordinated to the Border Force of the People's Commissariat (Ministry) of Internal Affairs. They took part in eliminating a Japanese picket on the Soviet-Manchurian border near Churkin Mys Bluff. In this photo, they are showing Arisaka Type 99 rifles seized from Japanese military personnel to their comrades. From left, wearing camouflage suits: Light Machine Gun Operator Corporal Viktor Burketsov, Assistant Outpost Head Sergeant Major Dmitry Khotin and Squad Leader Sergeant Konstantin Fyodorov. In the early hours of August 9, 1945, ten assault teams from the Grodekovo Border Control Unit destroyed nine enemy facilities. They blew up nine Japanese garrisons, destroyed 20 earth-and-wood emplacements, 16 concrete pillboxes, six observation posts, one command post, killed, wounded and captured 253 Japanese officers and soldiers. Reproduction of photo.10.08.1945#9012754
The Great Patriotic War of 1941-1945. The formation of the women's battalion of the Czech troops during the parade of Soviet and Czechoslovak troops in Prague, liberated from Nazi occupation.12.05.1945#5982256
Residents of the city of Prague, liberated from Nazi occupation, at a friendship meeting to honor Soviet liberators and mark the victory over Nazi Germany.12.05.1945#5982255
The Great Patriotic War of 1941-1945. Photo: Soviet and Czechoslovak forces parade in Prague.11.05.1945#6051470
The Great Patriotic War of 1941-1945. Photo: The damaged Reichstag building after the capture of Berlin by Soviet forces.05.05.1945#5974120
The Great Patriotic War of 1941 -1945. The offensive of Soviet troops in Germany. The Berlin Offensive Operation, April to May, 1945. Battles in Berlin streets.01.05.1945#5483104
The Great Patriotic War of 1941-1945. The Berlin offensive operation (April 16-May 8, 1945). Fighting near the Reichstag building in Berlin.30.04.1945#6686790
The Great Patriotic War of 1941 -1945. The offensive of Soviet troops in Germany. The Berlin Offensive Operation, April to May, 1945. Storming of Berlin.29.04.1945#5483102
Great Patriotic War 1941-1945. A Soviet tank assault in the area of the Spree river in Berlin, Germany.28.04.1945#6049926
The Great Patriotic War of 1941-1945. Photo: Soviet soldiers expel German invaders from Vienna.13.04.1945#6051478
The Great Patriotic War of 1941-1945. Photo: Soviet forces fight to expel German invaders from Vienna.13.04.1945#6051469
