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Брестская крепость в день освобождения. 28 июля 1944 г.

Боец 1-го советского партизанского полка Нуриджанян С.Б. Южная Франция, 1944 г.

Бойцы 1-го советского партизанского полка. Франция, 1944 г.

Эвакуация повреждённого самолёта

Переправа советских войск у Батины, Батинская битва 1944

Переправа советских войск у Батины, Батинская битва 1944

Переправа советских войск у Батины, Батинская битва 1944

Неизвестные офицеры РККА в Югославии

Observatory in the village of Simeiz, blown up by the Germans. Simeiz, 1944

General view of the railway terminal in Sevastopol. 1944

View of the Marine Terminal destroyed by the Germans and embankment of Evpatoria. Crimea, 1944

Units of Soviet artillery after breakthrough of the enemy defenses are moving to new combat positions behind the Turkish rampart. Isthmus of Perekop, 1944

Scout Sergeant I. Goncharov (left), Major Ali Safar Oglu Bagirov (center) and Commander of the 125th Melitopol Mortar Regiment Lieutenant Colonel M. Kostoglod (right) at an observation post near the Turkish rampart. Isthmus of Perekop, 1944

Destruction caused by the Germans in the town of Armyansk. Crimea, 1944

Destruction caused by the Germans in the town of Armyansk. Crimea, 1944

Destruction caused by the Germans in the town of Armyansk. Crimea, 1944

Soviet soldiers moving to a new position. Armyansk, April 1944

Soldiers who arrived on ships at dusk land on the Crimean coast near Kerch. 1944

Submachine gunners are moving to the firing position. Kerch Peninsula, 1944

Soldiers with anti-tank rifles under the command of Second Lieutenant K. Elizabirashvili repel the enemy's tank attack in the area of the Kerch Peninsula. Kerch Peninsula, 1944

A unit of submachine gunners of the Guards Lieutenant A. Krasnov in combat. Kerch Peninsula, 1944

Soldiers of the Captain S. Hayrapetyan’s unit are fighting with the enemy on the beach. Kerch Peninsula, 1944

Howitzers #4906 - Commander Senior Sergeant A. Sunuk, and howitzers #4866 are firing at German positions near the Turkish rampart. Armyansk, 1944

Cargo vessels of the Azov Military Flotilla off the coast of the Kerch Peninsula. 1944

Mortar crew of Senior Sergeant S. Shal'kovsky is firing at the enemy on the Kerch Peninsula. 1944

Gunners of the Captain I. Chupin’s battery on the firing position. Kerch Peninsula, 1944

Mortars are firing at the enemy, positioned in the shops of the Voykov plant. Kerch, 1944

Officers of the 26th Guards Long-Range Bomber Regiment at "Brest” airplane

После боёв по уничтожению Брестской группировки противника

После боёв по уничтожению Брестской группировки противника

После боёв по уничтожению Брестской группировки противника

Результаты боёв по уничтожению Брестской группировки противника

После боя в районе 415 стрелкового полка (по окружению фашистской группировки), отступающей по шоссе Брест-Варшава

Конкурс «На лучшего коня»

12 participants of the front-line amateur performance of the 48 engineer brigade

Руководящий состав 946 штурмового полка 1 воздушной армии перед наступлением 1 Белорусского фронта

В 30 км от г. Варшавы

За разработкой плана боя по овладению г. Брестом и крепостью

В отделе кадров штаба 20 десантно-стрелкового Брестского корпуса 28 армии

Командир 96 стрелкового Краснознамённого корпуса 70 армии, генерал-лейтенант Чанышев Я.Д. зачитывает приказ

Вручение наград за освобождение г. Бреста

Liberation of Sevastopol from the fascist invaders

Photo from 23 October 1944, liberators-soldiers of the Danube Flotilla and local residents, mountains. Novi Sad, Serbia

Photo from 23 October 1944, liberators-soldiers of the Danube Flotilla and local residents, mountains. Novi Sad, Serbia

Photo from 23 October 1944, liberators-soldiers of the Danube Flotilla and local residents, mountains. Novi Sad, Serbia

Photo from 23 October 1944, liberators-soldiers of the Danube Flotilla and local residents, mountains. Novi Sad, Serbia

Photo from 23 October 1944, liberators-soldiers of the Danube Flotilla and local residents, mountains. Novi Sad, Serbia

Soviet tankers at the grave of tankers killed in June 1941 and buried by local residents (Belarus)

Collaborators and German soldiers hanged on Bessarabskaya square in Kiev

Partisans on the street of the liberated city (Belarus)

Soviet and Polish commanders on the podium during the military parade

Soviet and Polish Commanders and members of the Polish National Council

Comic competitions (Belarus)

Comic competitions (Belarus)

German military cemetery in Brest. The graves of German soldiers killed in the first months of the war

German military cemetery in Brest. The graves of German soldiers killed in the first months of the war

German military cemetery in Brest. The graves of German soldiers killed in the first months of the war

German military cemetery in Brest. The graves of German soldiers killed in the first months of the war

German military cemetery in Brest. The graves of German soldiers killed in the first months of the war

German military cemetery in Brest. The graves of German soldiers killed in the first months of the war

Killed German soldier (Belarus)

Captured German Commandant of Bobruisk Major General Adolf Hamann

Captured German Commandant of Bobruisk Major General Adolf Hamann

Captured German Commandant of Bobruisk Major General Adolf Hamann

Liberated Minsk

Liberated Minsk

A Member of the Military Council of the 1st Ukrainian front, Lieutenant General N. Khrushchev

Student of the 8th class of the 95th secondary school Ye. Volodin is on duty during universal military training in the paramilitary camp of the Moscow city military commissariat, Moscow Region, June 1944. Photo by Emmanuil Yevzerikhin/TASS

The view shows Soviet ground-attack aircrafts from the 1st Baltic Front before their attack on German tanks near Siauliai, August 1944. Photo by Boris Vdovenko/TASS

A view of 380 mm mortars at the exhibition of the Nazi German weapons captured by the Red Army during the Second World War, at the Gorky Central Park of Culture and Leisure, Moscow, 1944. Photo by Oleg Kuzmin/TASS

A view of the destroyed center of the city shortly after it was liberated from the Nazi German troops, Jelgava, August 1944. Photo by Leonid Dorensky/TASS

City residents welcome Soviet tank crewmen, that liberated the city, Bucharest, August 1944. Photo by Boris Losin/TASS

Soviet troops enter the city that Finnish soldiers set on fire before retreating on the Eastern Front, Pitkyaranta, July 1944. Photo by Georgy Konovalov/TASS

A Soviet Guards Cossack unit is seen during the Jassy-Kishinev Offensive, Romania, August 1944. Photo by Izrail Ozersky/TASS

Soviet tanks are seen during a tank assault, Hungary, 1944. Photo by Izrail Ozersky/TASS

Soviet tank crewmen on tank and Romanian infantry are seen on their way to the frontline, Romania, August 1944. Photo by Izrail Ozersky/TASS

A view shows one of the buildings burnt by the Nazi German troops after their retreat, Bucharest, September 1944. Photo by Mikhail Ozersky/TASS

Советские войска во время прохода через один из населенных пунктов

Немецкие эшелоны с боеприпасами, захваченные советскими войсками

Wounded soldiers of the 2nd Ukrainian Front are being evacuated on Soviet T-34-85 tanks during the Budapest Offensive, 1944. Photo by Boris Losin, Georgy Konovalov/TASS

Казачья часть в освобожденном селе, Румыния

Санинструктор гвардии старшина Степан Цун-цун-хай

A group of track workers restore railway tracks at the Kerch-II station after the liberation of the city from Nazi invaders, Kerch, April 1944. Photo by Mark Redkin/TASS

• Наступление частей 2-го Белорусского фронта, Польша

• Советские пикирующие бомбардировщики Пе-2

Бойцы всеобщего военного обучения Фрунзенского района во время строевой подготовки на Ростовской набережной Москвы-реки

• Первая партия тракторов, сошедшая с конвейера Сталинградского тракторного завода имени Ф.Э. Дзержинского

Soviet self-propelled guns SU-76M on the parade of the Polish Army

Самоходная артиллерийская установка Су-76М советского производства на параде Войска Польского

Amateur concert (Belarus)

Amateur concert (Belarus)

Amateur concert (Belarus)

Amateur concert (Belarus)

Hero of the Soviet Union H.M. Mammadov takes a tank column, built at the expense of the working people of Tatarstan. 1944

Group exercise therapy in evacuation hospital №1668. 1941-1944 Kazan

Front brigade of Fafurina. 1943-1944 Kazan

The shooters' department of the primary organization of the Kazan precision engineering plant No. 144 for the study of the material of the rifle. 1944 TASSR

The machine gun department of the primary organization of the Ministry of Finance for the study of the machine gun. 1944 TASSR

Крестьянки из освобожденного от немецко-фашистских оккупантов села Прикарпатья во время встречи с советскими солдатами

Soviet soldiers observe their surroundings from the highest point of the Kerch Peninsula, Crimea, March 1944. Photo by Max Alpert, Yevgeny Khaldei/TASS

Soviet soldiers disembark on the Crimean coastline, Kerch, April 1944. Photo by Yevgeny Khaldei, Max Alpert/TASS

Жители города у домов, уничтоженных немецкими войсками перед отступлением

Soldiers of armored warfare get military compensation, 1944. Photo by Fyodor Kislov/TASS

Русских Александр Александрович

Soldiers of the 2nd Belorussian Front have a rest, March 1944. Photo by Emmanuil Yevzerikhin/TASS

Корабли Черноморского флота во время вхождения в порт Варны в ходе Болгарской операции

Soviet infantrymen advance to the southeast of Memel, 1944. Photo by Leonid Velikzhanin/TASS

Soviet pontoniers build a bridge across the Prut River, Romania, 1944. Photo by Yevgeny Khaldei/TASS

Soviet soldiers ride on motorcycles down a street in Bucharest, 1944. Photo by Mikhail Ozersky/TASS

Submachine gunners move to their firing position ahead of a battle, Kerch, 1944. Photo by Max Alpert, Yevgeny Khaldei/TASS

Soviet serviceman V.Kunitsyn is at an anti-tank gun, Kerch, April 1944. Photo by Max Alpert, Yevgeny Khaldei/TASS

Советские бойцы на подступах к Севастополю в ходе Крымской наступательной операции

Local people walk near the post office building after the liberation of Sevastopol from the Nazi German occupation, November 1944. Photo by Emmanuil Yevzerikhin/TASS

Construction workers rebuild port facilities damaged during the Nazi German occupation of Sevastopol, July 1944. Photo by Yevgeny Khaldei/TASS

Nazi German soldiers surrender at one of streets in Vilnius, July 1944. Photo by Fyodor Kislov/TASS

Жители освобожденного города Керчь у стенда "Окна ТАСС" с фотодокументами, показывающими расправу фашистов над керченцами

The wreckage of a German plane are on the field during sowing for the first time after liberation of the Orlov Region from Nazi German troops, April 1944. Photo by Kazimir Lishko/TASS

A view shows Sevastopol after it was liberated from the Nazi German occupation, May 1944. Photo by Yevgeny Khaldei/TASS

Soviet soldiers cross the river, Hungary, 1945. Photo by Yevgeny Khaldei/TASS

Председатель Президиума Верховного Совета СССР Михаил Калинин, первый секретарь Ленинградского обкома и горкома ВКП(б) Жданов

Camouflaged Soviet soldiers are in the battles of the Rybachy Peninsula, Murmansk Region, 1944. Photo by Yevgeny Khaldei/TASS

Boys from Frunzensky District march on Rostov Embankment of the Moskva River during the universal military training, 1944. Photo by Nikolai Sitnikov/TASS

Soviet soldiers have a rest, 1944. Photo by Emmanuil Yevzerikhin/TASS

Soldiers of the 2nd Byelorussian Front of the Red Army (L) and soldiers of the Polish People's Army during a break in combats, Poland, 1944. Photo by Emmanuil Yevzerikhin/TASS

Комсомольско-молодежный воскресник по восстановлению г. Воронежа «Восстановим тебя, родной Воронеж».

Советские танки с десантом автоматчиков на территории расположения противника на подступах к городу, Будапешт

Солдаты 2-го Украинского фронта на улицах города, освобожденного от немецких оккупантов в ходе Дебреценской операции

Солдаты Красной Армии во время уличного боя, Кечкемет, Венгрия

Жители предместья Варшавы в очереди к одному из продовольственных пунктов, организованных местными властями для населения

Жители освобожденной Риги встречают бойцов и офицеров Красной Армии

Въезд в город Великое Тырново, украшенный венками и транспарантом, Болгария

Гвардии капитан Красной Армии О. Иванов среди жителей освобожденного Белграда

Фронтовая парикмахерская

Жители освобожденного от немецко-фашистской оккупации села Устрожиска поздравляют бойцов Красной Армии с победой, Польша

Бойцы Красной Армии с жителями освобожденного Каунаса

Солдаты подразделения лейтенанта Викторова 1-го Белорусского фронта во время боя, Польша

Местные жители у руин дома, разрушенного немецкими войсками при отступлении, Ломжа, Польша

Солдаты 1-го Белорусского фронта во время переправы боеприпасов через водный рубеж за Вислой

The 1st Baltic Front submachine gunners liberate the city of Jelgava from Nazi German occupation, July 1944. Photo by Leonid Dorensky/TASS

В восстановленном механическом цехе тракторного завода, Сталинград

Руины здания военно-исторического музея Черноморского флота на улице Ленина, разрушенного немецкими войсками, Севастополь

Жители города, освобожденного от немецко-фашистской оккупации, перед началом спектакля у здания Одесского театра оперы и балета

Солдаты выносят раненого с поля боя во время Витебской наступательной операции

Soviet soldiers change firing positions of the anti-tank guns to the southwest of the city of Klaipeda, October 1944. Photo by Leonid Velikzhanin. TASS

A Soviet soldier demines a city street after the end of the Belgrade Offensive, Yugoslavia, November 1944. Photo by Yevgeny Khaldei.TASS

Soviet soldier walks in a battlefield, 1944. Photo by Izrail Ozersky.TASS

Artillery soldiers of the 2nd Belorussian Front, 1944. Photo by Emmanuil Yevzerikhin. TASS

Enjoying a little free time.

House-to-house fighting.

On the front line

Getting a torpedo ready

German taken prisoner

Machine gunners with coaxial machine guns

Liberation of Bulgaria

Newspaper with photos in a trench

Coastal howitzer fires at the enemy

Destruction in the city

Pe-2 dive-bombers in flight

Jubilant Yugoslavia. Belgrade

Yugoslav peasants greeting a landed Soviet pilot

Red flag flying over the Kerch Peninsula

Landing of infantrymen

Body of a German soldier

Street-to-street fighting. Liberation of Crimea

City in ruins. Sevastopol

Street-to-street fighting. Liberation of Crimea

City in ruins. Sevastopol

Sniper Valentina Kusanova

City in ruins. Sevastopol

City in ruins. Sevastopol

Sniper Elizaveta (“Liza”) Mironova

Children lying on the beach in liberated Sevastopol

City in ruins. Kerch

City in ruins. Sevastopol

Wartime destruction. Starotitarovskaya

Children of war. Sevastopol

Children of war. Sevastopol

Sniper Valentina Kusanova

Pilot-navigator Sergey Dupliy, Hero of the Soviet Union. Sevastopol

Sailors of Cruiser Molotov. Sevastopol

Soviet tanks in Simferopol

Citizens of Sevastopol greet their liberators

Portrait of a carpenter. Sevastopol

Portrait of a carpenter. Sevastopol

Construction team at the Grafskaya Pristan (lit. “Count’s Quay”). Sevastopol

Construction team at the Grafskaya Pristan (lit. “Count’s Quay”). Sevastopol

Reconstruction in Sevastopol

Reconstruction in Sevastopol

Downed German plane

Reconstruction in Sevastopol

Prisoners of war. Sevastopol

Prisoners of war. Sevastopol

Prisoners of war. Sevastopol

Morning exercises on Cruiser Krasny Krym (lit. “Red Crimea”). Sevastopol

Battle for Kerch

Morning exercises on Cruiser Krasny Krym (lit. “Red Crimea”). Sevastopol

Battle for Kerch

Yakovlev Yak-9D aircraft in the sky over Sevastopol

Yakovlev Yak-9D aircraft in the sky over Sevastopol

Heavy artillery

In the sky over Sevastopol

Yakovlev Yak-9D aircraft in the sky over Sevastopol

Yakovlev Yak-9D aircraft in the sky over Sevastopol

In the sky over Sevastopol

Taking aerial photographs of Sevastopol

Taking aerial photographs of Sevastopol

Machine gunners on a boat

Machine gunners on a boat

Children of war. Semyon Kulemin, a cabin boy from Cruiser Krasny Krym (lit. “Red Crimea”). Sevastopol

City in ruins. Crimean A.S.S.R.

Life again! Sevastopol

Life again! Sevastopol

Life again! Sevastopol

Simferopol in ruins

Body of a German

Anti-aircraft gun

Sevastopol in ruins

Infantry attack

6 танкистов рассматривают карту боевых действий

Sevastopol in ruins

Sevastopol in ruins

Sevastopol in ruins

Sevastopol in ruins

Destroyed tobacco factory in Kerch

Танкисты 516-го отдельного огнеметного танкового полка

Sevastopol in ruins

Sevastopol in ruins

Sevastopol in ruins

Sevastopol in ruins

Sevastopol in ruins.

Sevastopol in ruins

Cinema Udarnhik in ruins. Sevastopol

Preschool on Primorsky Boulevard. Sevastopol

Артист Яхонтов В.Н. во время церемонии передачи тяжелого танка ИС-2

Preschool on Primorsky Boulevard. Sevastopol

Preschool on Primorsky Boulevard. Sevastopol

Танкисты 23-й Глуховско-Речицкой танковой бригады

Герой Советского Союза танкист, лейтенант Сагайдачный Ю.М

Artillery in combat

Soviet soldiers remove German signs from repair shops

Soviet soldiers remove German signs from repair shops

В атаку идут танкисты гвардии капитана В.Г. Кравченко

Soviet soldiers remove the swastika and hang a red flag at the gate of the Voikov factory

Soviet soldiers remove the swastika from the gates of the Voikov factory

Вручение наград танкистам танковой бригады под командованием подполковника Бачакашвили.

Soviet soldiers remove the swastika and hang a red flag at the gate of the Voikov factory

На марше танкисты и стрелки

Вручение правительственных наград танкистам, отличившимся в боях за город Невель.

Мазя Андрей Антонович, танкист.

Разведчики 63-й гвардейской Челябинской добровольческой танковой бригады

Разведчики 63-й танковой Челябинской гвардейской бригады читают письма с Урала.

Armored boats on mission

Armored boats on mission

Экипаж бомбардировщика Пе-2 «За Бориса Сафонова» после боевого вылета на порт Констанца 20 августа 1944 года

Returning to Sevastopol

Writer Peter Pavlenko among the recovering wounded near Moscow.

In the sky over Sevastopol

When Nazis have gone

Liberated Sevastopol

Captain 1st rank Alexander Rumyantsev (in a tunic with an award), a veteran of the Great Patriotic War, Chief of the department of the Northern Fleet Staff

Hero of the Soviet Union Yakov Shvachko, Commander of the landing craft #21 of the 2nd security detachment of the water area of the Novorossiysk Naval Base of the Black Sea Fleet

Major V.M. Kononenko, deputy chief of the front-line department of the newspaper "Soviet Soldier"

Commander of the 2nd Squadron of the 46th Assault Air Regiment of the Northern Fleet Captain D. Osyka

Marshals G. Zhukov (right) and A. Vasilevsky after the ceremony of awarding orders

The crew of the tank «Guard», which made its mark during the Lvov operation

Marshal of the Soviet Union A. Vasilevsky at the airplane (in overalls)

In a liberated city

Fighting to liberate Novorossiysk

Commander-in-chief of the 1st Belorussian Front K. Rokossovsky (center) at the front headquarters engaged in operational command of the combat operation

At the headquarters of the 1st Belorussian Front, Commander-in-chief of the Front K. Rokossovsky (left) and Member of the Military Council of the Front K. Telegin

General of Army K. Rokossovsky (right) and Lieutenant General K. Telegin at the op-erational map at the headquarters of the 1st Belorussian Front

General of Army K. Rokossovsky in military uniform

G. Zhukov (left) and Colonel General V. Kazakov, Commander of Artillery of the 1st Belorussian Front, watching the air combat

Air Chief Marshal A. Novikov, E. Smirnov (pilot of G. Zhukov), K. Rokossovsky, Marshal of the Soviet Union G. Zhukov

Marshal A. Vasilevsky with officers in the Simferopol Airport

Group photograph (4 people). Marshal A. Vasilevsky is in the middle

Commander of the 1st Guards Tank Army Colonel General M. Katukov (1st right) at the ceremony of delivery of the Guards Banner to the 191st air force regiment

Marshal of the Soviet Union A. Vasilevsky (right) and Colonel General of Air Force F. Falaleev, Chief of Staff of the Red Army Air Force

Marshal of the Soviet Union I. Konev (sitting at the table)

I. Konev at the command post of General P. Rotmistrov

From left to right: Major General S. Biryuzov, F. Tolbukhin, Marshals of the Soviet Union K. Voroshilov and A. Vasilevsky. Before the start of the liberation of Crimea

G. Zhukov, K. Rokossovsky, V. Kazakov, Commander of the Artillery of the 1st Belo-russian Front, P. Batov

The family of the train engine depot Zhlobin N. Schwartz, released from the concentration camp

Soviet gunners during street fighting in Budapest

The Soviet and the Yugoslav troops on the streets of Belgrade

Belgrade assault

At the grave of the Hero of the Soviet Union Grigory Lyadov

The funeral of the Hero of the Soviet Union Grigory Lyadov

Peterhof Palace largely destroyed and burned by German troops

Crossing the Narva

Corpses of prisoners exhumed from a mass grave at Majdanek

The civilians at the crematorium ovens look at the remains of those tortured to death at Majdanek

Soviet and Polish soldiers looking at the remains of Majdanek prisoners burnt in the crematorium ovens

Piles of bones at Majdanek prepared for being made into fertilizers

Piles of bones at Majdanek prepared for being made into fertilizers

Participating in a memorial ceremony commemorating victims of the German invaders

Participating in a memorial ceremony commemorating victims of the German invaders

Participating in a memorial ceremony commemorating victims of the German invaders

Participating in a memorial ceremony commemorating victims of the German invaders

Overhead photo of the Lublin courtroom during the criminal proceedings against war atrocities in the Nazi concentration camp of Majdanek

Overhead photo of the Lublin courtroom during the criminal proceedings against war atrocities in the Nazi concentration camp of Majdanek

Colonel Shcheglov’s division during a battle near Krasnogvardeysk (Gatchina)

Overhead photo of the Lublin courtroom during the criminal proceedings against war atrocities in the Nazi concentration camp of Majdanek

At Pavlovsk Palace and Park after German withdrawal

Pavlovsk Palace

Wreaths are laid at the site of a mass grave in the Majdanek concentration camp

Фасад Александровского дворца

Enfiladeof Catherine Palace rooms

Malo-Konyushennyi Bridgeacross the Moika River and Adamini House

Trinity Cathedral dome

Golden Hill Cascade

Catherine Palace northern wall

Commander of tge armoured fighting vehicle I. Kondrakov

Interior. Pavlovsk

Catherine Palace

A piece of badly damaged decoration of Catherine Palace main staircase

Catherine Palace.

Upper Garden. Peterhof (Petrodvorets)

Destroyed Monplaisir Palace

Earth and timber emplacement under Monplaisir Palace

Golden Hill Cascade

German cemetery at Alexander Palace

Columns. Peterhof (Petrodvorets)

Part of a wall of the Grand Palace in Peterhof (Petrodvorets)

Facade of the Grand Palace in Peterhof (Petrodvorets)

Pavlovsk Palace

Monplaisir Palace

Decorative wooden sculpture

Pavlovsk Palace

Grand Palace and Grand Cascade

Catherine Palace in Tsarskoye Selo

Catherine Palace in Tsarskoye Selo

Pavlovsk Palaceinruins

Restorers, including Lilia Shvetskaya, examine sculptures

Facade of the Catherine Palace in Tsarskoye Selo

Collapsed roof rafters

Grand Palace in Peterhof

Columns at the entrance

Belvedere Palace

In Belgrade in October 1944. Captain Dmitry Kudryashov

Cameron Gallery

Jubilant Bulgaria

Baba Vanga meets Soviet soldiers

Captain Alexander Phomin (sitting in the second row, the third on the right) with reconnaissance scouts of the 41st Infantry Division. Pulavsky bridgehead

Enfilade of destroyed rooms.

Tanks covered by Katyusha rocket launchers reach the line of attack.

Жители польского города Августова, освобожденные Красной Армией

Osowiec Fortress captured by the Red Army

2nd Belorussian Front. Polish population tending the graves of Soviet liberators

The extent of destruction of Lithuanian cities wrought by the Nazis

Night battle in Riga

В освобожденном городе Шауляй

Сommander of Reconnaissance service sets a task to a Commander of the mounted scout detachment

Crossing the Dniester

General V.E.Makarov, Marshal A.M. Vasilevsky and General I.D. Chernyakhovsky interrogate captured Alfons Hitter, Commander of the 206th Infantry Division. Vitebsk

General V.E.Makarov, Marshal A.M. Vasilevsky and General I.D. Chernyakhovsky interrogate captured Alfons Hitter, Commander of the 206th Infantry Division. Vitebsk

General V.E.Makarov, Marshal A.M. Vasilevsky and General I.D. Chernyakhovsky interrogate captured Alfons Hitter, Commander of the 206th Infantry Division. Vitebsk

Belorussian collective farmers return home

German cemetery at Breast. Graves of the German soldiers killed while fighting with Brest Fortress defenders

Partisans in a street of the liberated city

The first printed media in liberated Minsk

After German rout

After German rout

Anti-aircraft gunners are changing the firing position. 1st Belorussian Front

Soviet tank soldiers at the site of the tank soldiers who died in June 1941 and were buried by locals. State border region. Belarus

V. Phaistov with Reconnaissance Scouts watch the enemy

Main staircase of the Catherine Palace in Tsarskoye Selo.

The Chief of Reconnaissance Unit Captain M. Polishuk sets a mission for Senior Sergeant N. Neazaliev as a scout. The 3rd Ukrainian Front, the 4th Cavalry Corps, the 30th Division, the 75th Regiment

Senior Sergeant S. Malykhin and Private A. Polivanov (in the foreground) as Scouts. The 8th Army, the 79th Division, the 200th Regiment

Soviet officer talking with American pilots

Reconnaissance Scouts, the 93rd Infantry Division. A. Terentiev on the right, Ukraine, the village Verblyuzhka

Residents of Kiev set about rebuilding the city destroyed by Hitlerite Germany

Gun salute in liberated Sevastopol. 1944.

Fighting on the Kerch Peninsula.

Street fight. Sevastopol

Life again. Sevastopol

A column of German prisoners of war. Crimean Autonomous Soviet Socialist Republic

Cape Chersonesus

Naval infantrymen in Korabelnays suburb. Sevastopol

Marshal Semyon Timoshenko. 1944.

“Jubilant Bulgaria”. Kocha Karadzhev, a commander of partisans. Lovech, 1944.

The defeated parading in Moscow. German prisoners of war in the capital’s streets

“We will fight right to the bitter end!”

Night attack of Soviet T-34-85 tanks near Razdelnaya station

Shortly after liberation. Odessa

Katyusha fires a volley.

On the offensive.

Night combat. 1944.

In the sky. 1944.

Pilot-navigator Sergey Dupliy, Hero of the Soviet Union. 1944.

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

Soviet war correspondents in the troops of the Anglo-American allies in front of the editorial board of the newspaper "Humanite"

Командир отделения разведчиков гвардии сержант А.И.Кулаков на передовой

Портрет командира автоматчиков разведывательной роты 19-ой мех. бригады 1-го мех. корпуса, Героя Советского Союза П.В. Дроздова

Soviet war correspondents in the troops of the Anglo-American allies in front of the editorial board of the newspaper "Humanite"

Группа разведчиков : младший сержант А.А.Бобряшов (на дереве), рядовой А.Мухамедов (слева) и младший сержант М.В.Дюкарев

Разведчики капитан И.И. Селиверов (слева), майор Д.С. Гончаренко (в центре) и младший лейтенант Р.М. Полоник (справа)

Разведчики слева направо- старшие сержанты И.Суровцев и Ф.Марковский, рядовой Т.Теличко, старшие сержанты Назаров и Ковалев

The remains of a woman and a baby killed at Majdanek

Laying wreaths on the bodies of those tortured to death at Majdanek

The excavated truck chassis used to form pyres on which the bodies of the victims of the Majdanek were burned

Foreign journalists in the Majdanek concentration camp

A group of Majdanek war prisoners

Cameraman Roman L. Karmen filming the Majdanek war prisoners

View of the crematorium ovens used to exterminate Majdanek prisoners

View of Majdanek prisoners’ barracks

Cartoonist Boris E. Efimov and writer Vasily S. Grossman in the Majdanek concentration camp liberated by Soviet troops

Belongings of Majdanek prisoners

The remains of those tortured to death by the Nazis at Majdanek

Soviet and Polish soldiers looking at the remains of Majdanek prisoners burnt in the crematorium ovens

Red Cross representatives at the crematorium ovens looking at the remains of those tortured to death at Majdanek

A group of captured German soldiers taken around the Majdanek death camp

Road and fenced perimeter in the Majdanek

Corpses of prisoners exhumed from a mass grave at Majdanek

Piles of bones at Majdanek prepared for being made into fertilizers

Human bones and ashes found at Majdanek

2nd Belorussian Front. Gunners engage in fighting

The Polish-Soviet Extraordinary Commission for Investigating the Crimes Committed by the Germans in the Majdanek Extermination Camp looking at belongings taken away from Majdanek prisoners

Prisoners’ corpses at Majdanek

Офицер СС А. Тернес на допросе в концлагере Майданек

The ovens in the crematorium at Majdanek

Children place wreaths at the site of the graves of the Majdanek victims

Human remains of the Majdanek prisoners shot in the Krembecki Woods

A. Witos, Chairman of the Polish-Soviet Extraordinary Commission for Investigating the Crimes Committed by the Germans in the Majdanek Extermination Camp, D. I. Kudryavtsev, Vice-Chairman of the Commission, and Professor V. I. Prozorovsky at the crematorium ovens.

Overhead photo of the Lublin courtroom during the criminal proceedings against war atrocities in the Nazi concentration camp of Majdanek

Participating in a memorial ceremony commemorating victims of the German invaders. Wreaths are laid at the site of a mass grave in the Majdanek concentration camp

Wreaths are laid at the site of a mass grave in the Majdanek concentration camp

Czechoslovak volunteers as gunners at the firing position

Reconnaissance Scouts of the 336th Infantry Division. From left to right: Victor Chupakhin, Nikolai Lukyanenko, Orlov G.A.

Reconnaissance sofficer, Sergeant N. Krivopus, a serviceman of the 202nd Rifle 27th Army

Kataev Pavel Mikhailovich, reconnaissance officer of the 54th Guards. mortar regiment (GMP). In military uniform with the order

The foreman of the platoon of control Skrinko (left) with the reconnaissance platoon of the regiment control of the regiment Pavlukhin. Two military personnel with awards

Doubles portrait. Reconnaissance scouts of the 140th Infantry Division. I.N. Tupikov, officer (left) and V.D. Fisatidi, intelligence commander, captain

Mounted reconnaissance of the 78th Guards Rifle Regiment of the 25th Guards Rifle Division

Czechoslovak volunteers as gunners at the firing position

Reconnaissance scouts of the 3rd battery of the 1st division of the 666th artillery regiment. The first one sitting on the right is Vasily Semenovich Grishchenko

Breaking the siege

Shoulder-strap portrait of a Hero of the Soviet Union Gnidash Kuzma Savelyevich, head of a group of reconnaissance scouts of the 1st Belorussian Front

Sergeant Boyarinov V.E. during his studies at Sea Pilots School No. 3

No longer besieged!

Reconnaissance scouts of the 196th separate intelligence service, Valentin Zlobin (left) and Valentin Leshchinsky

Championship of the Red Banner Baltic Fleet. The Lenin Stadium. Anna Zaitseva (Dudnik) leads in the run at No. 12

Reconnaissance scouts of the Kotovsky detachment before landing behind enemy lines. From left to right: L. Zotov, D. Lupyshev, M. Pavmyak, N.I. Voichenko, sitting: P. Starovoitov, V. Baburina, S. Gulenkova, I. Tyukanko, V. Volkov

Pilots participating in the liberation of Sevastopol near the aircraft of the 7th shock aviation regiment

Officers of the Primorsky Army. From left to right are Krasnov, gunner Botshtein, lieutenant-colonel of the artillery service F.A. Samsonov

Soviet pilots are preparing for missions at the airport in Yevpatoriya

A brave scout of the order, guard sergeant Zubov in an ambush. On his account there are 25 captured prisoners for interrogation

Fireworks to celebrate the end of the siege

Gunners of the 50th Guards Artillery Regiment of the 24th Guards Infantry Division of the 2nd Guards Army of the Southern Front after the battles for the liberation of Sevastopol. From left to right are Foreman V.P. Krestov, Foreman V.I. Sedakov, Senior Lieutenant I.I. Martynov (sitting)

Polish Army units parading

In liberated Sevastopol

Liberation of Kerch

A Polish Army motorized infantry unit parading. Poland

The line of defense near Leningrad. Abandoned German equipment on the highway near Ligov

In the sky over the Crimea

Over Mount Sapun

Germans near Leningrad

A combat crew of ZiS-3 (M1942) 76mm anti-tank gun at the Polish Army parade. Lublin

Sevastopol in ruins

In liberated Kherson. The destroyed Kherson cannery named after Josef Stalin

A 120-mm mortar unit of the Polish Army moving past the podium at a military parade. Lublin (Poland)

The brigade of Soviet patriots under the command of A. Belonosova, a resident, repairs the roof in Novgorod

Armia Ludowa fighters and Red Army officers at the Lublin railway station

Polish Army units parading. Lublin (Poland)

Polish Army units parading. Lublin (Poland)

Главнокомандующий Войском Польским генерал М. Жимерский

Komsomol youth of Moskovsky District

Sapper P. Belokon in one of the battles, 1944. State Archive (RGAKFD).

Sapper Private P.S. Shakhov with a mine detector on the battlefield, February 1944. State Archive (RGAKFD).

Sappers Sergeant V. Bulanov and Corporal A. Shishlov making a pass in defense wiring, September 1944. State Archive (RGAKFD)

Red Army guards L. Durnov and P. Korolkov, 1944. State Archive (RGAKFD)

The calculation of the anti-aircraft machine gun of Sergeant N. Tolsipenkov's anti-aircraft detachment fires on an enemy aircraft

The brigade of Alexandra Cherkasova, a true patriot, clearing the debris from a destroyed building

Destroyed St. Sophia Cathedral in Novgorod

Preparing for the transfer of Novgorod’s bronze monuments to Germany

A group of soldiers goes along Moskovskaya street in Novgorod

Residents read newspapers in liberated Novgorod

A square of liberated Novgorod

A square of liberated Novgorod

Novgorod’s residents rebuild the city

First plane funded by F. Golovaty

Sappers excavate the Festive bell of St. Sophia

Sappers excavate the Festive bell of St. Sophia

Overhead photo of Novgorod liberated from the German aggressor

Overhead photo of Novgorod liberated from the German aggressor

Overhead photo of Novgorod liberated from the German aggressor

Курмашев Гайнан Нурмухамматович

Группа людей в зимней военной форме на льду Ладожского озера около пробоины от снаряда

Капитан Зубченко А.И. (2-й слева). 1943–1945 гг.

Партийный актив 6 Краснознамённой стрелковой дивизии 4 армии. Румыния, октябрь 1944 г.

Офицеры 111 отдельного сапёрного батальона 6 Краснознамённой стрелковой дивизии 4 армии.1944–1945 гг.

Партизанки отряда имени М.Н.Чернака бригады имени И.В.Сталина Брестского соединения. Белоруссия, 1944 г.

Военврач Маслов Б.А. с женой и дочерью. Польша, 20.09.1944 г.

Брестская крепость в день освобождения. 28 июля 1944 г.

Боец 1-го советского партизанского полка Нуриджанян С.Б. Южная Франция, 1944 г.

Бойцы 1-го советского партизанского полка. Франция, 1944 г.

Эвакуация повреждённого самолёта

Переправа советских войск у Батины, Батинская битва 1944

Переправа советских войск у Батины, Батинская битва 1944

Переправа советских войск у Батины, Батинская битва 1944

Неизвестные офицеры РККА в Югославии

Observatory in the village of Simeiz, blown up by the Germans. Simeiz, 1944

General view of the railway terminal in Sevastopol. 1944

View of the Marine Terminal destroyed by the Germans and embankment of Evpatoria. Crimea, 1944

Units of Soviet artillery after breakthrough of the enemy defenses are moving to new combat positions behind the Turkish rampart. Isthmus of Perekop, 1944

Scout Sergeant I. Goncharov (left), Major Ali Safar Oglu Bagirov (center) and Commander of the 125th Melitopol Mortar Regiment Lieutenant Colonel M. Kostoglod (right) at an observation post near the Turkish rampart. Isthmus of Perekop, 1944

Destruction caused by the Germans in the town of Armyansk. Crimea, 1944

Destruction caused by the Germans in the town of Armyansk. Crimea, 1944

Destruction caused by the Germans in the town of Armyansk. Crimea, 1944

Soviet soldiers moving to a new position. Armyansk, April 1944

Soldiers who arrived on ships at dusk land on the Crimean coast near Kerch. 1944

Submachine gunners are moving to the firing position. Kerch Peninsula, 1944

Soldiers with anti-tank rifles under the command of Second Lieutenant K. Elizabirashvili repel the enemy's tank attack in the area of the Kerch Peninsula. Kerch Peninsula, 1944

A unit of submachine gunners of the Guards Lieutenant A. Krasnov in combat. Kerch Peninsula, 1944

Soldiers of the Captain S. Hayrapetyan’s unit are fighting with the enemy on the beach. Kerch Peninsula, 1944

Howitzers #4906 - Commander Senior Sergeant A. Sunuk, and howitzers #4866 are firing at German positions near the Turkish rampart. Armyansk, 1944

Cargo vessels of the Azov Military Flotilla off the coast of the Kerch Peninsula. 1944

Mortar crew of Senior Sergeant S. Shal'kovsky is firing at the enemy on the Kerch Peninsula. 1944

Gunners of the Captain I. Chupin’s battery on the firing position. Kerch Peninsula, 1944

Mortars are firing at the enemy, positioned in the shops of the Voykov plant. Kerch, 1944

Officers of the 26th Guards Long-Range Bomber Regiment at "Brest” airplane

После боёв по уничтожению Брестской группировки противника

После боёв по уничтожению Брестской группировки противника

После боёв по уничтожению Брестской группировки противника

Результаты боёв по уничтожению Брестской группировки противника

После боя в районе 415 стрелкового полка (по окружению фашистской группировки), отступающей по шоссе Брест-Варшава

Конкурс «На лучшего коня»

12 participants of the front-line amateur performance of the 48 engineer brigade

Руководящий состав 946 штурмового полка 1 воздушной армии перед наступлением 1 Белорусского фронта

В 30 км от г. Варшавы

За разработкой плана боя по овладению г. Брестом и крепостью

В отделе кадров штаба 20 десантно-стрелкового Брестского корпуса 28 армии

Командир 96 стрелкового Краснознамённого корпуса 70 армии, генерал-лейтенант Чанышев Я.Д. зачитывает приказ

Вручение наград за освобождение г. Бреста

Liberation of Sevastopol from the fascist invaders

Photo from 23 October 1944, liberators-soldiers of the Danube Flotilla and local residents, mountains. Novi Sad, Serbia

Photo from 23 October 1944, liberators-soldiers of the Danube Flotilla and local residents, mountains. Novi Sad, Serbia

Photo from 23 October 1944, liberators-soldiers of the Danube Flotilla and local residents, mountains. Novi Sad, Serbia

Photo from 23 October 1944, liberators-soldiers of the Danube Flotilla and local residents, mountains. Novi Sad, Serbia

Photo from 23 October 1944, liberators-soldiers of the Danube Flotilla and local residents, mountains. Novi Sad, Serbia

Soviet tankers at the grave of tankers killed in June 1941 and buried by local residents (Belarus)

Collaborators and German soldiers hanged on Bessarabskaya square in Kiev

Partisans on the street of the liberated city (Belarus)

Soviet and Polish commanders on the podium during the military parade

Soviet and Polish Commanders and members of the Polish National Council

Comic competitions (Belarus)

Comic competitions (Belarus)

German military cemetery in Brest. The graves of German soldiers killed in the first months of the war

German military cemetery in Brest. The graves of German soldiers killed in the first months of the war

German military cemetery in Brest. The graves of German soldiers killed in the first months of the war

German military cemetery in Brest. The graves of German soldiers killed in the first months of the war

German military cemetery in Brest. The graves of German soldiers killed in the first months of the war

German military cemetery in Brest. The graves of German soldiers killed in the first months of the war

Killed German soldier (Belarus)

Captured German Commandant of Bobruisk Major General Adolf Hamann

Captured German Commandant of Bobruisk Major General Adolf Hamann

Captured German Commandant of Bobruisk Major General Adolf Hamann

Liberated Minsk

Liberated Minsk

A Member of the Military Council of the 1st Ukrainian front, Lieutenant General N. Khrushchev

Student of the 8th class of the 95th secondary school Ye. Volodin is on duty during universal military training in the paramilitary camp of the Moscow city military commissariat, Moscow Region, June 1944. Photo by Emmanuil Yevzerikhin/TASS

The view shows Soviet ground-attack aircrafts from the 1st Baltic Front before their attack on German tanks near Siauliai, August 1944. Photo by Boris Vdovenko/TASS

A view of 380 mm mortars at the exhibition of the Nazi German weapons captured by the Red Army during the Second World War, at the Gorky Central Park of Culture and Leisure, Moscow, 1944. Photo by Oleg Kuzmin/TASS

A view of the destroyed center of the city shortly after it was liberated from the Nazi German troops, Jelgava, August 1944. Photo by Leonid Dorensky/TASS

City residents welcome Soviet tank crewmen, that liberated the city, Bucharest, August 1944. Photo by Boris Losin/TASS

Soviet troops enter the city that Finnish soldiers set on fire before retreating on the Eastern Front, Pitkyaranta, July 1944. Photo by Georgy Konovalov/TASS

A Soviet Guards Cossack unit is seen during the Jassy-Kishinev Offensive, Romania, August 1944. Photo by Izrail Ozersky/TASS

Soviet tanks are seen during a tank assault, Hungary, 1944. Photo by Izrail Ozersky/TASS

Soviet tank crewmen on tank and Romanian infantry are seen on their way to the frontline, Romania, August 1944. Photo by Izrail Ozersky/TASS

A view shows one of the buildings burnt by the Nazi German troops after their retreat, Bucharest, September 1944. Photo by Mikhail Ozersky/TASS

Советские войска во время прохода через один из населенных пунктов

Немецкие эшелоны с боеприпасами, захваченные советскими войсками

Wounded soldiers of the 2nd Ukrainian Front are being evacuated on Soviet T-34-85 tanks during the Budapest Offensive, 1944. Photo by Boris Losin, Georgy Konovalov/TASS

Казачья часть в освобожденном селе, Румыния

Санинструктор гвардии старшина Степан Цун-цун-хай

A group of track workers restore railway tracks at the Kerch-II station after the liberation of the city from Nazi invaders, Kerch, April 1944. Photo by Mark Redkin/TASS

• Наступление частей 2-го Белорусского фронта, Польша

• Советские пикирующие бомбардировщики Пе-2

Бойцы всеобщего военного обучения Фрунзенского района во время строевой подготовки на Ростовской набережной Москвы-реки

• Первая партия тракторов, сошедшая с конвейера Сталинградского тракторного завода имени Ф.Э. Дзержинского

Soviet self-propelled guns SU-76M on the parade of the Polish Army

Самоходная артиллерийская установка Су-76М советского производства на параде Войска Польского

Amateur concert (Belarus)

Amateur concert (Belarus)

Amateur concert (Belarus)

Amateur concert (Belarus)

Hero of the Soviet Union H.M. Mammadov takes a tank column, built at the expense of the working people of Tatarstan. 1944

Group exercise therapy in evacuation hospital №1668. 1941-1944 Kazan

Front brigade of Fafurina. 1943-1944 Kazan

The shooters' department of the primary organization of the Kazan precision engineering plant No. 144 for the study of the material of the rifle. 1944 TASSR

The machine gun department of the primary organization of the Ministry of Finance for the study of the machine gun. 1944 TASSR

Крестьянки из освобожденного от немецко-фашистских оккупантов села Прикарпатья во время встречи с советскими солдатами

Soviet soldiers observe their surroundings from the highest point of the Kerch Peninsula, Crimea, March 1944. Photo by Max Alpert, Yevgeny Khaldei/TASS

Soviet soldiers disembark on the Crimean coastline, Kerch, April 1944. Photo by Yevgeny Khaldei, Max Alpert/TASS

Жители города у домов, уничтоженных немецкими войсками перед отступлением

Soldiers of armored warfare get military compensation, 1944. Photo by Fyodor Kislov/TASS

Русских Александр Александрович

Soldiers of the 2nd Belorussian Front have a rest, March 1944. Photo by Emmanuil Yevzerikhin/TASS

Корабли Черноморского флота во время вхождения в порт Варны в ходе Болгарской операции

Soviet infantrymen advance to the southeast of Memel, 1944. Photo by Leonid Velikzhanin/TASS

Soviet pontoniers build a bridge across the Prut River, Romania, 1944. Photo by Yevgeny Khaldei/TASS

Soviet soldiers ride on motorcycles down a street in Bucharest, 1944. Photo by Mikhail Ozersky/TASS

Submachine gunners move to their firing position ahead of a battle, Kerch, 1944. Photo by Max Alpert, Yevgeny Khaldei/TASS

Soviet serviceman V.Kunitsyn is at an anti-tank gun, Kerch, April 1944. Photo by Max Alpert, Yevgeny Khaldei/TASS

Советские бойцы на подступах к Севастополю в ходе Крымской наступательной операции

Local people walk near the post office building after the liberation of Sevastopol from the Nazi German occupation, November 1944. Photo by Emmanuil Yevzerikhin/TASS

Construction workers rebuild port facilities damaged during the Nazi German occupation of Sevastopol, July 1944. Photo by Yevgeny Khaldei/TASS

Nazi German soldiers surrender at one of streets in Vilnius, July 1944. Photo by Fyodor Kislov/TASS

Жители освобожденного города Керчь у стенда "Окна ТАСС" с фотодокументами, показывающими расправу фашистов над керченцами

The wreckage of a German plane are on the field during sowing for the first time after liberation of the Orlov Region from Nazi German troops, April 1944. Photo by Kazimir Lishko/TASS

A view shows Sevastopol after it was liberated from the Nazi German occupation, May 1944. Photo by Yevgeny Khaldei/TASS

Soviet soldiers cross the river, Hungary, 1945. Photo by Yevgeny Khaldei/TASS

Председатель Президиума Верховного Совета СССР Михаил Калинин, первый секретарь Ленинградского обкома и горкома ВКП(б) Жданов

Camouflaged Soviet soldiers are in the battles of the Rybachy Peninsula, Murmansk Region, 1944. Photo by Yevgeny Khaldei/TASS

Boys from Frunzensky District march on Rostov Embankment of the Moskva River during the universal military training, 1944. Photo by Nikolai Sitnikov/TASS

Soviet soldiers have a rest, 1944. Photo by Emmanuil Yevzerikhin/TASS

Soldiers of the 2nd Byelorussian Front of the Red Army (L) and soldiers of the Polish People's Army during a break in combats, Poland, 1944. Photo by Emmanuil Yevzerikhin/TASS

Комсомольско-молодежный воскресник по восстановлению г. Воронежа «Восстановим тебя, родной Воронеж».

Советские танки с десантом автоматчиков на территории расположения противника на подступах к городу, Будапешт

Солдаты 2-го Украинского фронта на улицах города, освобожденного от немецких оккупантов в ходе Дебреценской операции

Солдаты Красной Армии во время уличного боя, Кечкемет, Венгрия

Жители предместья Варшавы в очереди к одному из продовольственных пунктов, организованных местными властями для населения

Жители освобожденной Риги встречают бойцов и офицеров Красной Армии

Въезд в город Великое Тырново, украшенный венками и транспарантом, Болгария

Гвардии капитан Красной Армии О. Иванов среди жителей освобожденного Белграда

Фронтовая парикмахерская

Жители освобожденного от немецко-фашистской оккупации села Устрожиска поздравляют бойцов Красной Армии с победой, Польша

Бойцы Красной Армии с жителями освобожденного Каунаса

Солдаты подразделения лейтенанта Викторова 1-го Белорусского фронта во время боя, Польша

Местные жители у руин дома, разрушенного немецкими войсками при отступлении, Ломжа, Польша

Солдаты 1-го Белорусского фронта во время переправы боеприпасов через водный рубеж за Вислой

The 1st Baltic Front submachine gunners liberate the city of Jelgava from Nazi German occupation, July 1944. Photo by Leonid Dorensky/TASS

В восстановленном механическом цехе тракторного завода, Сталинград

Руины здания военно-исторического музея Черноморского флота на улице Ленина, разрушенного немецкими войсками, Севастополь

Жители города, освобожденного от немецко-фашистской оккупации, перед началом спектакля у здания Одесского театра оперы и балета

Солдаты выносят раненого с поля боя во время Витебской наступательной операции

Soviet soldiers change firing positions of the anti-tank guns to the southwest of the city of Klaipeda, October 1944. Photo by Leonid Velikzhanin. TASS

A Soviet soldier demines a city street after the end of the Belgrade Offensive, Yugoslavia, November 1944. Photo by Yevgeny Khaldei.TASS

Soviet soldier walks in a battlefield, 1944. Photo by Izrail Ozersky.TASS

Artillery soldiers of the 2nd Belorussian Front, 1944. Photo by Emmanuil Yevzerikhin. TASS

Enjoying a little free time.

House-to-house fighting.

On the front line

Getting a torpedo ready

German taken prisoner

Machine gunners with coaxial machine guns

Liberation of Bulgaria

Newspaper with photos in a trench

Coastal howitzer fires at the enemy

Destruction in the city

Pe-2 dive-bombers in flight

Jubilant Yugoslavia. Belgrade

Yugoslav peasants greeting a landed Soviet pilot

Red flag flying over the Kerch Peninsula

Landing of infantrymen

Body of a German soldier

Street-to-street fighting. Liberation of Crimea

City in ruins. Sevastopol

Street-to-street fighting. Liberation of Crimea

City in ruins. Sevastopol

Sniper Valentina Kusanova

City in ruins. Sevastopol

City in ruins. Sevastopol

Sniper Elizaveta (“Liza”) Mironova

Children lying on the beach in liberated Sevastopol

City in ruins. Kerch

City in ruins. Sevastopol

Wartime destruction. Starotitarovskaya

Children of war. Sevastopol

Children of war. Sevastopol

Sniper Valentina Kusanova

Pilot-navigator Sergey Dupliy, Hero of the Soviet Union. Sevastopol

Sailors of Cruiser Molotov. Sevastopol

Soviet tanks in Simferopol

Citizens of Sevastopol greet their liberators

Portrait of a carpenter. Sevastopol

Portrait of a carpenter. Sevastopol

Construction team at the Grafskaya Pristan (lit. “Count’s Quay”). Sevastopol

Construction team at the Grafskaya Pristan (lit. “Count’s Quay”). Sevastopol

Reconstruction in Sevastopol

Reconstruction in Sevastopol

Downed German plane

Reconstruction in Sevastopol

Prisoners of war. Sevastopol

Prisoners of war. Sevastopol

Prisoners of war. Sevastopol

Morning exercises on Cruiser Krasny Krym (lit. “Red Crimea”). Sevastopol

Battle for Kerch

Morning exercises on Cruiser Krasny Krym (lit. “Red Crimea”). Sevastopol

Battle for Kerch

Yakovlev Yak-9D aircraft in the sky over Sevastopol

Yakovlev Yak-9D aircraft in the sky over Sevastopol

Heavy artillery

In the sky over Sevastopol

Yakovlev Yak-9D aircraft in the sky over Sevastopol

Yakovlev Yak-9D aircraft in the sky over Sevastopol

In the sky over Sevastopol

Taking aerial photographs of Sevastopol

Taking aerial photographs of Sevastopol

Machine gunners on a boat

Machine gunners on a boat

Children of war. Semyon Kulemin, a cabin boy from Cruiser Krasny Krym (lit. “Red Crimea”). Sevastopol

City in ruins. Crimean A.S.S.R.

Life again! Sevastopol

Life again! Sevastopol

Life again! Sevastopol

Simferopol in ruins

Body of a German

Anti-aircraft gun

Sevastopol in ruins

Infantry attack

6 танкистов рассматривают карту боевых действий

Sevastopol in ruins

Sevastopol in ruins

Sevastopol in ruins

Sevastopol in ruins

Destroyed tobacco factory in Kerch

Танкисты 516-го отдельного огнеметного танкового полка

Sevastopol in ruins

Sevastopol in ruins

Sevastopol in ruins

Sevastopol in ruins

Sevastopol in ruins.

Sevastopol in ruins

Cinema Udarnhik in ruins. Sevastopol

Preschool on Primorsky Boulevard. Sevastopol

Артист Яхонтов В.Н. во время церемонии передачи тяжелого танка ИС-2

Preschool on Primorsky Boulevard. Sevastopol

Preschool on Primorsky Boulevard. Sevastopol

Танкисты 23-й Глуховско-Речицкой танковой бригады

Герой Советского Союза танкист, лейтенант Сагайдачный Ю.М

Artillery in combat

Soviet soldiers remove German signs from repair shops

Soviet soldiers remove German signs from repair shops

В атаку идут танкисты гвардии капитана В.Г. Кравченко

Soviet soldiers remove the swastika and hang a red flag at the gate of the Voikov factory

Soviet soldiers remove the swastika from the gates of the Voikov factory

Вручение наград танкистам танковой бригады под командованием подполковника Бачакашвили.

Soviet soldiers remove the swastika and hang a red flag at the gate of the Voikov factory

На марше танкисты и стрелки

Вручение правительственных наград танкистам, отличившимся в боях за город Невель.

Мазя Андрей Антонович, танкист.

Разведчики 63-й гвардейской Челябинской добровольческой танковой бригады

Разведчики 63-й танковой Челябинской гвардейской бригады читают письма с Урала.

Armored boats on mission

Armored boats on mission

Экипаж бомбардировщика Пе-2 «За Бориса Сафонова» после боевого вылета на порт Констанца 20 августа 1944 года

Returning to Sevastopol

Writer Peter Pavlenko among the recovering wounded near Moscow.

In the sky over Sevastopol

When Nazis have gone

Liberated Sevastopol

Captain 1st rank Alexander Rumyantsev (in a tunic with an award), a veteran of the Great Patriotic War, Chief of the department of the Northern Fleet Staff

Hero of the Soviet Union Yakov Shvachko, Commander of the landing craft #21 of the 2nd security detachment of the water area of the Novorossiysk Naval Base of the Black Sea Fleet

Major V.M. Kononenko, deputy chief of the front-line department of the newspaper "Soviet Soldier"

Commander of the 2nd Squadron of the 46th Assault Air Regiment of the Northern Fleet Captain D. Osyka

Marshals G. Zhukov (right) and A. Vasilevsky after the ceremony of awarding orders

The crew of the tank «Guard», which made its mark during the Lvov operation

Marshal of the Soviet Union A. Vasilevsky at the airplane (in overalls)

In a liberated city

Fighting to liberate Novorossiysk

Commander-in-chief of the 1st Belorussian Front K. Rokossovsky (center) at the front headquarters engaged in operational command of the combat operation

At the headquarters of the 1st Belorussian Front, Commander-in-chief of the Front K. Rokossovsky (left) and Member of the Military Council of the Front K. Telegin

General of Army K. Rokossovsky (right) and Lieutenant General K. Telegin at the op-erational map at the headquarters of the 1st Belorussian Front

General of Army K. Rokossovsky in military uniform

G. Zhukov (left) and Colonel General V. Kazakov, Commander of Artillery of the 1st Belorussian Front, watching the air combat

Air Chief Marshal A. Novikov, E. Smirnov (pilot of G. Zhukov), K. Rokossovsky, Marshal of the Soviet Union G. Zhukov

Marshal A. Vasilevsky with officers in the Simferopol Airport

Group photograph (4 people). Marshal A. Vasilevsky is in the middle

Commander of the 1st Guards Tank Army Colonel General M. Katukov (1st right) at the ceremony of delivery of the Guards Banner to the 191st air force regiment

Marshal of the Soviet Union A. Vasilevsky (right) and Colonel General of Air Force F. Falaleev, Chief of Staff of the Red Army Air Force

Marshal of the Soviet Union I. Konev (sitting at the table)

I. Konev at the command post of General P. Rotmistrov

From left to right: Major General S. Biryuzov, F. Tolbukhin, Marshals of the Soviet Union K. Voroshilov and A. Vasilevsky. Before the start of the liberation of Crimea

G. Zhukov, K. Rokossovsky, V. Kazakov, Commander of the Artillery of the 1st Belo-russian Front, P. Batov

The family of the train engine depot Zhlobin N. Schwartz, released from the concentration camp

Soviet gunners during street fighting in Budapest

The Soviet and the Yugoslav troops on the streets of Belgrade

Belgrade assault

At the grave of the Hero of the Soviet Union Grigory Lyadov

The funeral of the Hero of the Soviet Union Grigory Lyadov

Peterhof Palace largely destroyed and burned by German troops

Crossing the Narva

Corpses of prisoners exhumed from a mass grave at Majdanek

The civilians at the crematorium ovens look at the remains of those tortured to death at Majdanek

Soviet and Polish soldiers looking at the remains of Majdanek prisoners burnt in the crematorium ovens

Piles of bones at Majdanek prepared for being made into fertilizers

Piles of bones at Majdanek prepared for being made into fertilizers

Participating in a memorial ceremony commemorating victims of the German invaders

Participating in a memorial ceremony commemorating victims of the German invaders

Participating in a memorial ceremony commemorating victims of the German invaders

Participating in a memorial ceremony commemorating victims of the German invaders

Overhead photo of the Lublin courtroom during the criminal proceedings against war atrocities in the Nazi concentration camp of Majdanek

Overhead photo of the Lublin courtroom during the criminal proceedings against war atrocities in the Nazi concentration camp of Majdanek

Colonel Shcheglov’s division during a battle near Krasnogvardeysk (Gatchina)

Overhead photo of the Lublin courtroom during the criminal proceedings against war atrocities in the Nazi concentration camp of Majdanek

At Pavlovsk Palace and Park after German withdrawal

Pavlovsk Palace

Wreaths are laid at the site of a mass grave in the Majdanek concentration camp

Фасад Александровского дворца

Enfiladeof Catherine Palace rooms

Malo-Konyushennyi Bridgeacross the Moika River and Adamini House

Trinity Cathedral dome

Golden Hill Cascade

Catherine Palace northern wall

Commander of tge armoured fighting vehicle I. Kondrakov

Interior. Pavlovsk

Catherine Palace

A piece of badly damaged decoration of Catherine Palace main staircase

Catherine Palace.

Upper Garden. Peterhof (Petrodvorets)

Destroyed Monplaisir Palace

Earth and timber emplacement under Monplaisir Palace

Golden Hill Cascade

German cemetery at Alexander Palace

Columns. Peterhof (Petrodvorets)

Part of a wall of the Grand Palace in Peterhof (Petrodvorets)

Facade of the Grand Palace in Peterhof (Petrodvorets)

Pavlovsk Palace

Monplaisir Palace

Decorative wooden sculpture

Pavlovsk Palace

Grand Palace and Grand Cascade

Catherine Palace in Tsarskoye Selo

Catherine Palace in Tsarskoye Selo

Pavlovsk Palaceinruins

Restorers, including Lilia Shvetskaya, examine sculptures

Facade of the Catherine Palace in Tsarskoye Selo

Collapsed roof rafters

Grand Palace in Peterhof

Columns at the entrance

Belvedere Palace

In Belgrade in October 1944. Captain Dmitry Kudryashov

Cameron Gallery

Jubilant Bulgaria

Baba Vanga meets Soviet soldiers

Captain Alexander Phomin (sitting in the second row, the third on the right) with reconnaissance scouts of the 41st Infantry Division. Pulavsky bridgehead

Enfilade of destroyed rooms.

Tanks covered by Katyusha rocket launchers reach the line of attack.

Жители польского города Августова, освобожденные Красной Армией

Osowiec Fortress captured by the Red Army

2nd Belorussian Front. Polish population tending the graves of Soviet liberators

The extent of destruction of Lithuanian cities wrought by the Nazis

Night battle in Riga

В освобожденном городе Шауляй

Сommander of Reconnaissance service sets a task to a Commander of the mounted scout detachment

Crossing the Dniester

General V.E.Makarov, Marshal A.M. Vasilevsky and General I.D. Chernyakhovsky interrogate captured Alfons Hitter, Commander of the 206th Infantry Division. Vitebsk

General V.E.Makarov, Marshal A.M. Vasilevsky and General I.D. Chernyakhovsky interrogate captured Alfons Hitter, Commander of the 206th Infantry Division. Vitebsk

General V.E.Makarov, Marshal A.M. Vasilevsky and General I.D. Chernyakhovsky interrogate captured Alfons Hitter, Commander of the 206th Infantry Division. Vitebsk

Belorussian collective farmers return home

German cemetery at Breast. Graves of the German soldiers killed while fighting with Brest Fortress defenders

Partisans in a street of the liberated city

The first printed media in liberated Minsk

After German rout

After German rout

Anti-aircraft gunners are changing the firing position. 1st Belorussian Front

Soviet tank soldiers at the site of the tank soldiers who died in June 1941 and were buried by locals. State border region. Belarus

V. Phaistov with Reconnaissance Scouts watch the enemy

Main staircase of the Catherine Palace in Tsarskoye Selo.

The Chief of Reconnaissance Unit Captain M. Polishuk sets a mission for Senior Sergeant N. Neazaliev as a scout. The 3rd Ukrainian Front, the 4th Cavalry Corps, the 30th Division, the 75th Regiment

Senior Sergeant S. Malykhin and Private A. Polivanov (in the foreground) as Scouts. The 8th Army, the 79th Division, the 200th Regiment

Soviet officer talking with American pilots

Reconnaissance Scouts, the 93rd Infantry Division. A. Terentiev on the right, Ukraine, the village Verblyuzhka

Residents of Kiev set about rebuilding the city destroyed by Hitlerite Germany

Gun salute in liberated Sevastopol. 1944.

Fighting on the Kerch Peninsula.

Street fight. Sevastopol

Life again. Sevastopol

A column of German prisoners of war. Crimean Autonomous Soviet Socialist Republic

Cape Chersonesus

Naval infantrymen in Korabelnays suburb. Sevastopol

Marshal Semyon Timoshenko. 1944.

“Jubilant Bulgaria”. Kocha Karadzhev, a commander of partisans. Lovech, 1944.

The defeated parading in Moscow. German prisoners of war in the capital’s streets

“We will fight right to the bitter end!”

Night attack of Soviet T-34-85 tanks near Razdelnaya station

Shortly after liberation. Odessa

Katyusha fires a volley.

On the offensive.

Night combat. 1944.

In the sky. 1944.

Pilot-navigator Sergey Dupliy, Hero of the Soviet Union. 1944.

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

Soviet war correspondents in the troops of the Anglo-American allies in front of the editorial board of the newspaper "Humanite"

Командир отделения разведчиков гвардии сержант А.И.Кулаков на передовой

Портрет командира автоматчиков разведывательной роты 19-ой мех. бригады 1-го мех. корпуса, Героя Советского Союза П.В. Дроздова

Soviet war correspondents in the troops of the Anglo-American allies in front of the editorial board of the newspaper "Humanite"

Группа разведчиков : младший сержант А.А.Бобряшов (на дереве), рядовой А.Мухамедов (слева) и младший сержант М.В.Дюкарев

Разведчики капитан И.И. Селиверов (слева), майор Д.С. Гончаренко (в центре) и младший лейтенант Р.М. Полоник (справа)

Разведчики слева направо- старшие сержанты И.Суровцев и Ф.Марковский, рядовой Т.Теличко, старшие сержанты Назаров и Ковалев

The remains of a woman and a baby killed at Majdanek

Laying wreaths on the bodies of those tortured to death at Majdanek

The excavated truck chassis used to form pyres on which the bodies of the victims of the Majdanek were burned

Foreign journalists in the Majdanek concentration camp

A group of Majdanek war prisoners

Cameraman Roman L. Karmen filming the Majdanek war prisoners

View of the crematorium ovens used to exterminate Majdanek prisoners

View of Majdanek prisoners’ barracks

Cartoonist Boris E. Efimov and writer Vasily S. Grossman in the Majdanek concentration camp liberated by Soviet troops

Belongings of Majdanek prisoners

The remains of those tortured to death by the Nazis at Majdanek

Soviet and Polish soldiers looking at the remains of Majdanek prisoners burnt in the crematorium ovens

Red Cross representatives at the crematorium ovens looking at the remains of those tortured to death at Majdanek

A group of captured German soldiers taken around the Majdanek death camp

Road and fenced perimeter in the Majdanek

Corpses of prisoners exhumed from a mass grave at Majdanek

Piles of bones at Majdanek prepared for being made into fertilizers

Human bones and ashes found at Majdanek

2nd Belorussian Front. Gunners engage in fighting

The Polish-Soviet Extraordinary Commission for Investigating the Crimes Committed by the Germans in the Majdanek Extermination Camp looking at belongings taken away from Majdanek prisoners

Prisoners’ corpses at Majdanek

Офицер СС А. Тернес на допросе в концлагере Майданек

The ovens in the crematorium at Majdanek

Children place wreaths at the site of the graves of the Majdanek victims

Human remains of the Majdanek prisoners shot in the Krembecki Woods

A. Witos, Chairman of the Polish-Soviet Extraordinary Commission for Investigating the Crimes Committed by the Germans in the Majdanek Extermination Camp, D. I. Kudryavtsev, Vice-Chairman of the Commission, and Professor V. I. Prozorovsky at the crematorium ovens.

Overhead photo of the Lublin courtroom during the criminal proceedings against war atrocities in the Nazi concentration camp of Majdanek

Participating in a memorial ceremony commemorating victims of the German invaders. Wreaths are laid at the site of a mass grave in the Majdanek concentration camp

Wreaths are laid at the site of a mass grave in the Majdanek concentration camp

Czechoslovak volunteers as gunners at the firing position

Reconnaissance Scouts of the 336th Infantry Division. From left to right: Victor Chupakhin, Nikolai Lukyanenko, Orlov G.A.

Reconnaissance sofficer, Sergeant N. Krivopus, a serviceman of the 202nd Rifle 27th Army

Kataev Pavel Mikhailovich, reconnaissance officer of the 54th Guards. mortar regiment (GMP). In military uniform with the order

The foreman of the platoon of control Skrinko (left) with the reconnaissance platoon of the regiment control of the regiment Pavlukhin. Two military personnel with awards

Doubles portrait. Reconnaissance scouts of the 140th Infantry Division. I.N. Tupikov, officer (left) and V.D. Fisatidi, intelligence commander, captain

Mounted reconnaissance of the 78th Guards Rifle Regiment of the 25th Guards Rifle Division

Czechoslovak volunteers as gunners at the firing position

Reconnaissance scouts of the 3rd battery of the 1st division of the 666th artillery regiment. The first one sitting on the right is Vasily Semenovich Grishchenko

Breaking the siege

Shoulder-strap portrait of a Hero of the Soviet Union Gnidash Kuzma Savelyevich, head of a group of reconnaissance scouts of the 1st Belorussian Front

Sergeant Boyarinov V.E. during his studies at Sea Pilots School No. 3

No longer besieged!

Reconnaissance scouts of the 196th separate intelligence service, Valentin Zlobin (left) and Valentin Leshchinsky

Championship of the Red Banner Baltic Fleet. The Lenin Stadium. Anna Zaitseva (Dudnik) leads in the run at No. 12

Reconnaissance scouts of the Kotovsky detachment before landing behind enemy lines. From left to right: L. Zotov, D. Lupyshev, M. Pavmyak, N.I. Voichenko, sitting: P. Starovoitov, V. Baburina, S. Gulenkova, I. Tyukanko, V. Volkov

Pilots participating in the liberation of Sevastopol near the aircraft of the 7th shock aviation regiment

Officers of the Primorsky Army. From left to right are Krasnov, gunner Botshtein, lieutenant-colonel of the artillery service F.A. Samsonov

Soviet pilots are preparing for missions at the airport in Yevpatoriya

A brave scout of the order, guard sergeant Zubov in an ambush. On his account there are 25 captured prisoners for interrogation

Fireworks to celebrate the end of the siege

Gunners of the 50th Guards Artillery Regiment of the 24th Guards Infantry Division of the 2nd Guards Army of the Southern Front after the battles for the liberation of Sevastopol. From left to right are Foreman V.P. Krestov, Foreman V.I. Sedakov, Senior Lieutenant I.I. Martynov (sitting)

Polish Army units parading

In liberated Sevastopol

Liberation of Kerch

A Polish Army motorized infantry unit parading. Poland

The line of defense near Leningrad. Abandoned German equipment on the highway near Ligov

In the sky over the Crimea

Over Mount Sapun

Germans near Leningrad

A combat crew of ZiS-3 (M1942) 76mm anti-tank gun at the Polish Army parade. Lublin

Sevastopol in ruins

In liberated Kherson. The destroyed Kherson cannery named after Josef Stalin

A 120-mm mortar unit of the Polish Army moving past the podium at a military parade. Lublin (Poland)

The brigade of Soviet patriots under the command of A. Belonosova, a resident, repairs the roof in Novgorod

Armia Ludowa fighters and Red Army officers at the Lublin railway station

Polish Army units parading. Lublin (Poland)

Polish Army units parading. Lublin (Poland)

Главнокомандующий Войском Польским генерал М. Жимерский

Komsomol youth of Moskovsky District

Sapper P. Belokon in one of the battles, 1944. State Archive (RGAKFD).

Sapper Private P.S. Shakhov with a mine detector on the battlefield, February 1944. State Archive (RGAKFD).

Sappers Sergeant V. Bulanov and Corporal A. Shishlov making a pass in defense wiring, September 1944. State Archive (RGAKFD)

Red Army guards L. Durnov and P. Korolkov, 1944. State Archive (RGAKFD)

The calculation of the anti-aircraft machine gun of Sergeant N. Tolsipenkov's anti-aircraft detachment fires on an enemy aircraft

The brigade of Alexandra Cherkasova, a true patriot, clearing the debris from a destroyed building

Destroyed St. Sophia Cathedral in Novgorod

Preparing for the transfer of Novgorod’s bronze monuments to Germany

A group of soldiers goes along Moskovskaya street in Novgorod

Residents read newspapers in liberated Novgorod

A square of liberated Novgorod

A square of liberated Novgorod

Novgorod’s residents rebuild the city

First plane funded by F. Golovaty

Sappers excavate the Festive bell of St. Sophia

Sappers excavate the Festive bell of St. Sophia

Overhead photo of Novgorod liberated from the German aggressor

Overhead photo of Novgorod liberated from the German aggressor

Overhead photo of Novgorod liberated from the German aggressor

Курмашев Гайнан Нурмухамматович

Группа людей в зимней военной форме на льду Ладожского озера около пробоины от снаряда

Капитан Зубченко А.И. (2-й слева). 1943–1945 гг.

Партийный актив 6 Краснознамённой стрелковой дивизии 4 армии. Румыния, октябрь 1944 г.

Офицеры 111 отдельного сапёрного батальона 6 Краснознамённой стрелковой дивизии 4 армии.1944–1945 гг.

Партизанки отряда имени М.Н.Чернака бригады имени И.В.Сталина Брестского соединения. Белоруссия, 1944 г.

Военврач Маслов Б.А. с женой и дочерью. Польша, 20.09.1944 г.

Брестская крепость в день освобождения. 28 июля 1944 г.

Снимок сделан с самолёта фотокорреспондентом газеты «Правда» Тёминым В.А.

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