Flowers and candles outside Spasskaya metro station in St. Petersburg in memory of the victims of the metro train blast.03.04.2017#3064517
Members of the International Military-Historical Association during the reconstruction of the battles of the 1917 February revolution events, during the celebration of Maslenitsa at the Borodino Field Museum-Resort in Moscow Region.26.02.2017#3038225
Soldiers with their hands raised at a military base on the outskirts of Lugansk. Members of the People's Volunteer Corps clashed with Ukrainian soldiers on the outskirts of Lugansk. The military base was surrounded and subsequently seized by Volunteer Corps fighters. About 80 soldiers, or almost the entire military base contingent, have surrendered to resistance fighters, says Gennady Tsepkalo, Commander of the Southeastern Ukrainian Army.28.05.2014#2439627
Command bunker of General Otto von Lasch, the last German Commandant of Konigsberg, where the city surrender ultimatum was accepted on May 9, 1945. The Bunker Museum is opened after restoration in Kaliningrad.18.07.2013#2248399
Command bunker of General Otto von Lasch, the last German Commandant of Konigsberg, where the city surrender ultimatum was accepted on May 9, 1945. The Bunker Museum is opened after restoration in Kaliningrad.18.07.2013#2248398
Command bunker of General Otto von Lasch, the last German Commandant of Konigsberg, where the city surrender ultimatum was accepted on May 9, 1945. The Bunker Museum is opened after restoration in Kaliningrad.18.07.2013#2248397
Command bunker of General Otto von Lasch, the last German Commandant of Konigsberg, where the city surrender ultimatum was accepted on May 9, 1945. The Bunker Museum is opened after restoration in Kaliningrad.18.07.2013#2248396
Command bunker of General Otto von Lasch, the last German Commandant of Konigsberg, where the city surrender ultimatum was accepted on May 9, 1945. The Bunker Museum is opened after restoration in Kaliningrad.18.07.2013#2248395
Command bunker of General Otto von Lasch, the last German Commandant of Konigsberg, where the city surrender ultimatum was accepted on May 9, 1945. The Bunker Museum is opened after restoration in Kaliningrad.18.07.2013#2248394
Command bunker of General Otto von Lasch, the last German Commandant of Konigsberg, where the city surrender ultimatum was accepted on May 9, 1945. The Bunker Museum is opened after restoration in Kaliningrad.18.07.2013#2248393
Command bunker of General Otto von Lasch, the last German Commandant of Konigsberg, where the city surrender ultimatum was accepted on May 9, 1945. The Bunker Museum is opened after restoration in Kaliningrad.18.07.2013#2248392
Two powerful explosions in downtown Grozny are believed to have been staged by suicide bombers. On the photo: The Piramida Cafe on Zhukovsky Street, a site of one of the explosions.21.08.2009#433352
One of the members of illegal armed formations surrendered to the authorities in Gudermes. 29.08.2006#133031
Right: Secretary-General of the Central Committee of the People's Democratic Party of Afghanistan Mohammed Najib with leaders and members of the Afghan armed opposition at peace negotiations in Kabul of the Democratic Republic of Afghanistan (now the Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan).21.01.1987#8564066
Leaders and members of the Afghan armed opposition surrender their weapons as part of peace negotiations with representatives of the authorities of the Democratic Republic of Afghanistan (now the Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan) in Kabul.21.01.1987#8564065
The celebrations to mark the Soviet people's victory in the Great Patriotic War of 1941-1945. A.Petrakov, a Great Patriotic War veteran and participant in the Battle of Stalingrad, during a public procession in Volgograd.09.05.1982#6626949
Joseph Stalin's address to Soviet people regarding Japan's surrender in World War Two and order regarding fireworks marking the victory over Japan, in the Ogonyok magazine. September 23, 1945.23.09.1945#6172316
Joseph Stalin's address to Soviet people regarding Japan's surrender in World War Two and order regarding fireworks marking the victory over Japan, in the Trud newspaper. September 4, 1945.04.09.1945#6172315
Joseph Stalin's address to Soviet people regarding Japan's surrender in World War Two and order regarding fireworks marking the victory over Japan, in the Izvestia newspaper. September 4, 1945.04.09.1945#6172317
An order by Joseph Stalin, Commander-in-Chief of the USSR Armed Forces, on fireworks commemorating the victory over Japan. Komsomolskaya Pravda, September 4, 1945.04.09.1945#6172325
Comrade Stalin's appeal to the Soviet people on Japan's surrender in World War II. Komsomolskaya Pravda newspaper. September 4, 1945.04.09.1945#6172322
Joseph Stalin's address to Soviet people regarding Japan's surrender in World War Two and order regarding fireworks marking the victory over Japan, in the Pradva newspaper. September 3, 1945.03.09.1945#6172313
The signing of the Japanese Instrument of Surrender on board the USS Missouri on September 2, 1945. Signatories on behalf of the Empire of Japan: Foreign Minister Shigemitsu Mamoru and Chief of the Army General Staff Yoshijiro Umezu (standing in the center); on behalf of the allied armies: Supreme Commander for the Allied Powers General of the US Army Douglas McCartur; and on behalf of the USSR:Lt-Gen Kuzma Derevyanko (puts his signature).02.09.1945#5506234
The Soviet-Japanese War of August-September 1945. Photo: Representatives of the 8th Kwantung Army's high command negotiate surrender terms at a Soviet army's headquarters.02.09.1945#6045271
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 between the Soviet Union and the Mongolian People's Republic, on the one hand, and the Empire of Japan and Manchukuo, on the other, August 9 - September 3, 1945. The local population of the liberated city of Mudanjiang welcomes the Soviet troops who liberated them from Japanese occupation.30.08.1945#8662384
Second World War 1939-1945. August 1945. Defeat of imperialist Japan. Manchurian operation 09.08. - 02.09.1945. Capitulation of the Kwantung Army troops.28.08.1945#2487462
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
On August 9, 1945, the Fat Man atomic bomb with a yield of 21 kilotons was dropped on Nagasaki, Japan, by pilot Charles Sweeney, commanded of the Bock's Car B-29 Superfortress bomber. Photo from book by D. Mondale. London, 1971.09.08.1945#2874070
On August 6, 1945, the Little Boy atomic bomb with a yield of 13-18 kilotons was dropped on Hiroshima, Japan, by the crew of the Enola Gay Boeing B-29 Superfortress bomber commanded by Colonel Paul Tibbets. Photo from a book by D. Mondale. London, 1971.06.08.1945#2874068
Victory Parade on Red Square in Moscow on June 24, 1945. Soviet soldiers throw banners and standards of the defeated German troops at the bottom of the Lenin Mausoleum.24.06.1945#5490960
The May 10, 1945 issue of the Pravda newspaper carries the address of Josef Stalin, General Secretary of the Central Committee of the All-Union Communist Party (Bolsheviks), to the Soviet people.10.05.1945#2410744
The Great Patriotic War of 1941-1145 Signing the instrument for Germany's unconditional surrender. Center: Marshal of the Soviet Union Georgy Zhukov a representative of the Red Army's Supreme Command, opens the ceremony of signing the instrument for Germany's unconditional surrender. Attending the signing ceremony from left: Admiral Sir Harold Burrough, Allied Naval Commander-in-Chief, Expeditionary Force (ANXF), Political Counselor Andrei Vyshinsky, Arthur Tedder, Deputy Supreme Commander at the Supreme Headquarters Allied Expeditionary Force and Commander of the Royal Air Force, Marshal of the Soviet Union Georgy Zhukov a representative of the Red Army's Supreme Command and General Carl Spaatz, Commander of US Strategic Air Forces in Europe. The Officers' Club at the former Karlshorst Combat Engineers School. The surrender instrument was signed on May 8, 1945, 22:43 Central European Time (May 9,1945, 0:43 Moscow Time).08.05.1945#6355891
Reproduction of photo "Signing of German Instrument of Surrender in Berlin on May of 1945".08.05.1945#606732
The Great Patriotic War of 1941-1945. May 1945. German prisoners of war on a square near Berlin's Brandenburg Gate.03.05.1945#5776807
Great Patriotic War 1941-1945, Berlin operation. Storm of Berlin. Women's bath and laundry squad in defeated Berlin. Thousands of pairs of soldiers' underwear were washed by front workers.02.05.1945#8657740
A scene from the documentary by Yury Raizman and Yelizaveta Svilova "Berlin," 1945.30.04.1945#2650459
The Great Patriotic War of 1941-1945. Soviet forces conducting the Berlin offensive operation. This photo shows British and French service personnel, released from captivity by advancing Red Army units, are returning home via a Berlin suburb.21.04.1945#8780951
