1941

Volunteer of militias. Leningrad. June, 1941

Soldiers from Siberia in the train car going to the front in the days of defense of Moscow

Yuriy Levitan, radio announcer of all-Soviet radio, at the microphone. Moscow. August, 1941

A child at the site of a burned native village, Smolensk region, September 1941. Photo by Mark Redkin.TASS

Soviet soldiers inspect the first downed Heinkel He 111 aircraft near Odessa, July 1941

Composer Dmitry Shostakovich (on the right) during a fire brigade drills from the faculty of the Leningrad Music Conservatory

Soviet soldiers have a rest after a fight for Horson island, Finland, July 1941

Soldiers of the South-Western Front and locals watch a film shown with a portable film projector, September 1941

Soviet snipers on the Leningrad front. December, 1941.

Member of the Military Council of the South-Western Front N. Khrushchev, Commander of the South-Western Front Marshal S. Timoshenko and First Secretary of the Voronezh regional Committee of the CPSU (b) V. Nikitin during the military parade in Voronezh on November 7, 1941

Armored train "For the Motherland!" (commander M.F. Chechelnitsky). 1941 Built in the city of Novorossiysk.

Leonid Timofeevich Kondratyev, a signalman, missed in action in 1941. Was captured, escaped. The photo was taken in May 1941

Soviet infantrymen attack enemy lines, 1941 Photo by Max Alpert/TASS

Combat crew changing disposition on the Rybachy Peninsula, Murmansk Region

From the stock of State Archive of Penza region