Great Patriotic War veteran Georgy Tkachenko, a member of the Strategic Missile Force Council and Chairman of the Committee of Guerrillas in the Desnianskyi District of Kiev. Since the age of 12, Tkachenko served with the Special-Purpose Guerrilla Unit in Ukraine.20.06.2016#3010500
Great Patriotic War veteran Vera Volkova heads a guerrilla veterans' association at a district veteran organization in Kiev. She served with guerrilla units during the entire war. Ms. Volkova is holding wartime photos from her private archive.20.06.2016#3010498
Great Patriotic War veteran Emilia Ivanchenko at her home in Kiev. At the age of 15, she volunteered for the front and defended Kiev together with the people's militia. She now heads an inter-state union for promoting friendship between hero-cities. This photo shows Ms. Ivanchenko and her husband in their younger days.20.06.2016#3010497
Great Patriotic War veteran Emilia Ivanchenko at her home in Kiev. At the age of 15, she volunteered for the front and defended Kiev together with the people's militia. She now heads an inter-state union for promoting friendship between hero-cities. Ms. Ivanchenko has also authored 12 books of poetry and prosaic stories. One of her books is titled "Near and Far."20.06.2016#3010496
Great Patriotic War veteran Vera Volkova heads a guerrilla veterans' association at a district veteran organization in Kiev. She served with guerrilla units during the entire war.20.06.2016#3010495
Great Patriotic War veteran Emilia Ivanchenko at her home in Kiev. At the age of 15, she volunteered for the front and defended Kiev together with the people's militia. She now heads an inter-state union for promoting friendship between hero-cities.20.06.2016#3010494
Moscow, March 26, 1992.Meet-and-greet with poet and former politician Anatoly Lukyanov, organized by the Russian Literature Trusteeship Foundation, the Dyen (Day) newspaper and the Paleya Publishing House at the Gorizont movie theater. Former People's Deputies of the USSR, including Sazhi Umalatova, Chair of the Permanent Presidium of the Congress of People's Deputies of the USSR, center. Russian authorities considered this organization to be illegitimate.26.03.1992#8777144
Moscow, March 26, 1992.Meet-and-greet with poet and former politician Anatoly Lukyanov, organized by the Russian Literature Trusteeship Foundation, the Dyen (Day) newspaper and the Paleya Publishing House at the Gorizont movie theater. Center: The poet's daughter, Yelena Lukyanova, speaks during the event. Right: Alexander Prokhanov, Editor in Chief of the Dyen Newspaper.26.03.1992#8777143
Members of the Vorrozhdeniye (Resurrection) amateur archeological team recover and bury the remains of soldiers killed in action. Photo: Great Patriotic War veterans who fought on Neva Bridgehead meet during the reinterring of the remains of soldiers, killed on the bridgehead during the war.02.09.1991#8754579
Moscow. A lesson at School No. 579 dedicated to internationalist Resistance fighter Ferenc Pataki, head of the Trans-Carpathians reconnaissance team that operated during the Great Patriotic War of 1941-1944. On June 23, 1983, the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet (Parliament) of the USSR issued its decree posthumously awarding Pataki the Order of the Red Banner.02.10.1987#8580862
Reproduction of "After a Fight" painting (1923) by Kuzma Petrov-Vodkin. The exhibition "Painter and Time" in Manezh. From the funds of the Central Museum of the USSR Armed Forces.01.09.1987#548826
The Kyrgyz SSR. Great Patriotic War veteran Kadybek Ushubayev meets with students of a secondary school at the Hero of the Soviet Union Dyushenkul Sholokov Collective Farm. Ushubayev who witnessed that difficult period told school students that the Soviet people had to endure multiple hardships and privations during the war.21.09.1986#9043428
The Ukrainian SSR. The family of Nikolai Barinov, an engineer-electrician from the Ordzhonikidze Zaporozhstal Iron and Steel Works recalls the years they spent in India. Nikolai Barinov helped build a steel-smelting plant in Bokaro, one of the largest enterprises of India's ferrous metallurgy sector, completed with Soviet assistance.17.11.1985#8775380
Right: Great Patriotic War veteran Alexei Skurlatov, a former ground scout and signaler, took part in liberating Bulgaria. In this photo, he is meeting with his regimental buddies on the village of Nalobikha in the Altai Territory. Alexei Skurlatov served as a prototype for the famous Alyosha memorial honoring Soviet soldiers-liberators in Plovdiv, Bulgaria.10.11.1985#8790531
Czechoslovak pioneers on the Gagarin Field listen to the story of mechanic Ivan Rudenko, the first man who met the cosmonaut upon landing.02.04.1984#772348
Stasis Jurginis, a participant in the liberation of Klaipėda during the Great Patriotic War, telling young pioneers about war-time events. Klaipėda, Lithuania. 1975.01.09.1975#672286
Workers of Klaipeda Shipyard "Baltia" (present-day JSC Baltic Shipyard) V. Kalubinkas, K. Chepaitis and A. Stanaitis. The Lithuanian Soviet Socialist Republic.05.07.1974#5578295
Veteran Ivan Afanasyev, who defended Pavlov House in Stalingrad, tells Volgograd residents about the war. 01.09.1967#34282
