Soviet snipers on the Leningrad front. December, 1941.
Participant of the battles near the Don river - tankman Lieutenant I. V. Smelkov
Artillery scouts Sergeant Major V. Orel (on the left) and Corporal N. Berezin (in the forefront), 1943
Soviet soldiers remove the swastika and hang a red flag at the gate of the Voikov factory
Сommand staff of the Belarusian Front at the Victory Parade
The Russian Society of Military History (RSMH), the Ministry of Defence of the Russian Federation, the Central Archive of the Ministry of Defense of Russia (CA MD RF), the Russian State Documentary Film and Photo Archive (RSDFPA), ROSPHOTO, the Multimedia Art Museum of Moscow (MAMM), the Russian Cultural Foundation and the Victory Museum (Moscow), proudly present a unique collection of photographs taken during the time of the Great Patriotic War.
The project is dedicated to the 75th anniversary of the Great Victory of the Soviet Union and is intended to convey to a wide audience the evidences of the unparalleled feat of the Soviet people, who defended the freedom and independence of their Motherland.