Soviet writers at command center with lieutenant general Ivan Stepanovich Konev, commander of the Western Front (left): (from left) Mikhail Alexandrovich Sholokhov, Alexander Alexandrovich Fadeyev and Yevgeny Petrovich Petrov (his real name is Katayev). 1941. The Great Patriotic War of 1941-1945.21.09.1941#577379
Great Patriotic War of 1941-1945. A Frolchenko, a reconnaissance man, a participant of the Battle of Kursk in 1943.20.08.1943#377902
The leaders of the anti-Hitler coalition, from right, Chairman of the State Defence Committee, General Secretary of the All-Union Communist Party (bolsheviks), Chairman of the Council of People's Commissars Josef Stalin, American President Franklin Roosevelt and British Prime Minister Winston Churchill at the Crimean Conference of the leaders of the three Allied powers in the Second World War, Yalta February 4-11 1945.04.02.1945#309681
The WWII of 1939-1945. The Allied meeting on approaches to Vienna. Center -- tank commander Junior Lieutenant Georgy Lovchikov greeting the United States Army Lieutenant Jack Haltgraves.09.05.1945#137565
Marshal of the Soviet Union Vasily Sokolovsky (left) and British Field Marshal Bernard Montgomery (right) in Berlin during the 1941-1945 Great Patriotic War.12.07.1945#67316
Turkish war veteran talks to the Soviet soldiers in a Bulgarian town freed from the fascist occupation.15.09.1944#65879
Guerrilla unit commander captain Yevgeny Olesinsky (in the foreground) among the guerrillas during the Great Patriotic war.15.05.1945#63980
Nurse Yelena Kovalchuk taking a wounded soldier away from the battlefield during the Great Patriotic war.01.07.1942#63907
Movie star Lyubov Orlova sees off Soviet troops departing to the World War Two front from the Baladzhary railroad station01.04.1943#63047
Movie star Lyubov Orlova, right, sees off Soviet troops departing to the World War Two front01.04.1943#63046
Soviet doctors and the Red Cross representatives among the Osventsim (Auschwitz) death camp prisoners soon after the camp was liberated.27.01.1945#62418
Three Times Hero of the Soviet Union, Pilot and Guards Colonel Alexander Pokryshkin. 03.05.1945#61970
This Soviet soldier helped liberate Hungary during the 1941-1945 Great Patriotic War. 13.02.1945#61774
Nikolai Vatutin, commander of the First Ukrainian Front (right), and Nikita Khrushchev, member of the Voronezh Front's Military Council (left), visit Bukrin bridgehead during the battle of Kiev.28.10.1943#61631
Soldiers of the 2nd Ukrainian Front treating Batasani district residents to their tobacco.08.09.1944#61579
Colonel-General Ivan Bagramyan, commander of the Second Guards Army (right), talks to political-department chief.01.09.1943#61393
Hero of the Soviet Union pilot of attack plane Nelson Stepanyan. The Leningrad front.01.12.1942#61244
Soviet soldier talks with women farmers of the Bulgarian village liberated during WWII years.09.09.1944#61069
U.S. General George Patton (right) congratulates Lieutenant General Kuzma Derevyanko (left) on receiving U.S. award. In the center is Marshal of the Soviet Union Fedor Tolbukhin, commander of the Red Army's Third Ukrainian Front.16.05.1945#60707
Vice Admiral Arseny Golovko, commander of the Soviet Navy's Northern Fleet, presents government award to sailors of the Guards destroyer Gremyashchy.01.06.1943#60702
Rear Admiral Nikolai Basisty (left) and Captain of the 1st Rank Zinovyev (right), commander of the battleship Sevastopol, standing on the ship's bridge. 07.02.1942#60521
Captain of the 3rd Rank Vasily Yeroshenko, commander of the Tashkent destroyer leader. 07.02.1942#60522
Army Commander Lieutenant-General Vladimir Kolpakchi (left) and Military Council member Major-General K.K.Abramov (right). 01.09.1943#60511
Guards Senior Sergeant Grigory Shemyakin, Hero of the Soviet Union from the famous Panfilov anti-tank brigade25.07.1942#60379
Renowned Soviet pilots, Heroes of the Soviet Union, Captains Grigory Rechkalov (left) and A.Trud (right)01.06.1944#60372
Woman weeping on the ruins of her native village burnt by the Nazis in the second world war.15.08.1942#60213
