Images of War

1941

On reconnaissance. Kola Peninsula

1942

Reconnaissance platoon commander Foreman Nikolai Berezovoy during one of the partisan raids of Sergei Iovlev's detachment

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1943

First Lieutenant A. Chaadaev and Sergeant S. Mammadov were among the first with their units to cross the Dnieper south of Gomel, they both were wounded on the west bank

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1944

Winston Churchill, British Prime Minister, and Antony Iden, the Secretary of Foreign Office, are departing from Moscow. Moscow airfield

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1945

Soviet machine gunners T. Leshchuk and A. Bereza fire at the enemy near Budapest

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Our project

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.

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