Faces of war. 1941-1945 | Sputnik Mediabank

WWII CLEANING WEAPON

A soldier of the 1 Czech corps cleans his weapon.

07.10.1944#60201

WWII BASISTY REAR-ADMIRAL

Rear-admiral Nikolai Basisty.

21.04.1942#60194

WWII PUSSEP MAJOR

Hero of the Soviet Union, long-range air force pilot Major Endell Pussep.

28.10.1942#60195

KOPYT SHAIKHET WAR CORRESPONDENTS

War correspondents Ye. Kopyt (left) and Arkady Shaikhet (right).

14.05.1945#60192

BATOV COLONEL-GENERAL

Commander of the 65th army; twice Hero of the Soviet Union Colonel-general Pavel Batov.

14.05.1945#60187

WWII KONEV LIEUTENANT-GENERAL

Commander of the Western front lieutenant-general Ivan Konev.

16.09.1941#60176

OSLIKOVSKY WWII

Lieutenant General Nikolai Oslikovsky, commander of the 3rd Guards Cavalry Corps, during WWII.

01.03.1945#60046

PETROV COMMAND CENTRE WWII

Commander of the Primorsk army lieutenant-general Ivan Petrov (centre) at the command centre near Sevastopol during the WWII.

01.11.1941#60012

KRAVTSOVA WWII

Hero of the Soviet Union, commander of the 46th Guards Air Regiment Natalya Kravtsova (Meklin).

01.07.1945#59845

PILOT BUDANOVA WWII

Pilot of the 586th fighter air regiment Yekaterina Budanova, a World War II hero.

01.06.1942#59841

BURDINA PILOT WWII

Pilot Galina Burdina of the 586th women fighter air regiment.

07.12.1942#59837

CAMERAMAN PROZOROVSKY WWII

Cameraman Nikolai Prozorovsky filming a battle on the frontline.

01.02.1945#59832

ZAKHAROV KONEV MAP

Colonel General Matvei Zakharov (left), the Second Ukrainian Front's chief of staff, and Ivan Konev (right), commander-in-chief of the Second Ukrainian Front, examining the theatre map

10.03.1944#59766

ORPHANS

Orphans - a 15-year old Anastasia Zhdanovich (left) and her younger sister - lost their parents during the WWII.

01.10.1943#59686

ZAVALIY COMMANDER WWII

Lieutenant Yevdokia Zavaliy, commander of a marine platoon during the Great Patriotic War.

29.04.1942#59621

RECONNAISSANCE MAN SHEVOLDAYEV WWII

N.M. Shevoldayev, a reconnaissance machine-gunner of the South Western Front.

01.07.1943#59600

MELNITSA VILLAGE DEBRIS WWII

Melnitsa villagers on their home debris.

10.06.1942#59589

ZHUKOV ACT CAPITULATION OF GERMANY

Deputy Supreme Commander Marshal of the Soviet Union Georgy Zhukov (left) signs the Act of the Unconditional Capitulation of Germany in Carlhorst in Berlin.

08.05.1945#59587

SOLDIERS REST WWII

Men of the 17th rifle division of the Belorussian front listening to music in the WWII years.

24.06.1944#59582

NEWSPAPER CORRESPONDENT ROMANOVSKY INTERVIEW

Correspondent of the army newspaper Slovo Boitsa Senior Lieutenant Romanovsky (right) interviewing a soldier of the 48th army of the Belorussian front in the WWII years.

23.06.1944#59581

GORSHKOV DUKA

Commander of the united partisan brigades of the Belorussian front Anatoly Gorshkov (left) and commissar Mikhail Duka, Hero of the Soviet Union, study map during the WWII years.

27.09.1943#59579

SOLDIER COMRADE WOUNDED BATTLEFIELD COMBAT

Removing a wounded soldier from the battlefield in the central front during the WWII years.

06.07.1943#59580

TRAFFIC CONTROLLER GIRL VIENNA WWII

Soviet female traffic controller in Vienna during WWII.

15.04.1945#59561

MIKHAILOVA-DEMINA FRONT

Chief petty officer of a marine battalion Yekaterina Mikhailova-Demina on the WWII front.

01.03.1943#59557

SOLDIERS CITY YASSY WWII

Soldiers of the 52nd army of the Ukrainian front in liberated Yassy during WWII.

29.08.1944#59553

UTKIN KONDAKOV RECONNAISSANCE WWII

Reconnaissance officer Utkin (left) of the 5th cavalry corps of the 3rd Ukrainian front details Sergeant Kondakov (right) on a reconnaissance mission.

01.10.1944#59545

KONOVALOV SNIPER WWII

Sniper Konovalov killed 170 Nazis during WWII.

10.02.1942#59525

MACHINE GUNNERS 31ST SPECIAL GORKY DIVISION WWII

Machine gunners of an armored train of the 31st special Gorky division firing.

02.08.1943#59510

CHILD ORPHAN SOLDIER GREAT PATRIOTIC WAR

A soldier holding a child whose mother was killed.

14.03.1943#59504

ROKOSSOVSKY

Lieutenant General Konstantin Rokossovsky, commander of the Don Front (left).

19.01.1943#59307

RAKHIMOV OFFICERS

General Sabir Rakhimov (1st left) giving instructions to officers before seizure of Solob to liberate the town from Nazi occupation.

01.11.1944#59296

TANKMEN

Tank crew.

12.08.1944#59293

KOLESNIKOV

Alexander Kolesnikov, the son of the regiment of the 11th Tank Corps.

01.03.1944#59234

BELGRADE LIBERATION PUBLIC RALLY WWII

Peko Dalcevic, 1st Yugoslav Guerilla Corps Commander, addresses a public rally on Belgrade liberation from nazi occupiers. Right, General Zhadnov, Major Tolubko and Lieutenant-Colonel Podporinov of the Soviet Army

20.10.1944#59000

AWARD COSSACKS

Brigadier Commissar Ochkin (right) awarding Cossacks who distinguished themselves in action.

25.08.1942#58917

MACHINE GUNNER GREAT PATRIOTIC WAR

Machine gunner Mikhail Shulegin.

15.08.1942#58892

GIRLS DEPARTURE FRONT

Head of the Central Sniper School's political department talks to girls leaving for the front.

12.08.1943#58861

MARINES

Marines Mr. Grigoryev and his wife.

16.09.1943#58852

MACHINE GUNNERS MACHINE GUN MAXIM

Soldier fires Maxim machine gun against counterattacking Nazi soldiers.

01.07.1942#58849

SCOUT GREAT PATRIOTIC WAR

Scout Yarovoi near Staraya Russa.

15.07.1942#58827

Red Army soldiers going to the front

Red Army soldiers going to the front.

10.10.1941#58805

WW II MACHINE GUNNER STANELENE

Danute Stanelene, a machine gunner of the Red Army 16th Lithuanian Rifle Division (right).

08.10.1944#58795

DOVATOR

Major-General Lev Dovator (right) with his adjutant on the Western front during the WWII years.

12.12.1941#58603

CHSITYAKOV MACHINE GUNNER

Senior Sergeant Fyodor Chistyakov, machine gunner of the 44th independent rifle brigade of the 1st Shock Army of the North-Western Front, fought heroically in World War II and was awarded the Order of Lenin. Was killed in the fall of 1942.

06.06.1942#58574

KALININ

Commander of the 1st independent squadron of speedboats of the Red Banner Dnieper Flotilla Lieutenant M.M.Kalinin.

03.05.1945#58562

SECOND WORLD WAR KALININ FRONT

Kalinin Front Commander Colonel-General Ivan Konev.

18.09.1941#58525

KHRUSHCHEV VISIT KIEV

Nikita Khrushchev, Member of the First Ukrainian Front's Military Council, visits liberated Kiev.

06.11.1943#58270

SNIPER

A Red Army sniper during street fighting in Gdansk.

30.03.1945#58234

SOLDIERS TRENCH

Leningrad Front soldiers in the trenches before an offensive begins.

08.09.1941#58228

KABANOV NIKOLAYEV

Troops commander Lieutenant-General Kabanov and Admiral Nikolayev of the Northern Fleet Military Council study the Sredne-Rybachy Peninsula map

01.09.1942#56325

DOVATOR PLIYEV DISCUSSION PLAN

Commanders of cavalry units Lev Dovator (second from right) and Issa Pliyev (center) discussing a plan of attack.

26.11.1941#56071

FEDUTENKO

Major Nadezhda Fedutenko, Hero of the Soviet Union, Soviet War Veterans Committee member

30.08.1945#55798

TORPEDO ARTIFICER SNOWFALL

Torpedo artificer.

15.02.1935#53300

AIR DEFENCE SOLDIER LENINGRAD

An air defence soldier in besieged Leningrad.

02.11.1941#51571

SEAMEN WWII

The Northern Fleet seamen in the WWII.

01.10.1943#45141

SHCHERBINA NEUSTROYEV HEROES FIGHTING BERLIN

They fought in Berlin: battalion commander Captain Stepan Neustroyev (left) and Junior Sergeant Pyotr Shcherbina (right).

09.05.1945#44998

MIKHAILOVA WWII

The Marines battalion's master-at-arms Yekaterina Mikhailova (right) with friend, the second world war.

01.02.1944#38968

KASHCHEYEVA MEDICAL INSTRUCTOR WORLD WAR II HERO OF THE SOVIET

Medical instructor Vera Kashcheyeva who evacuated more than 200 wounded soldiers from the battlefield during World War II.

15.07.1945#35125

FIRST SERGEANT MIKHAILOVA

First sergeant Katya Mikhailova (second right) and marine reconnaissance officers.

01.03.1943#33756

BANNER WWII BERLIN

Soviet soldiers Mikhail Yegorov (right) and Meliton Kantaria (left) who hoisted the Victory Banner over the Berlin Reichstag in May 1945.

09.05.1945#33159