1941

Soldier of the rangefinder squad of Sergeant S. Merkulov measures the altitude of the enemy aircraft

Anti-aircraft battery Commander, Lieutenant I. Ternyak watching through binoculars after firing at German aircraft

Gunners of the anti-aircraft battery of Lieutenant V. Komissarov, who shot down 6 fascist aircraft at the "BI" device (binocular finder)

Mysovsky Sergey Gerasimovich, Private, killed in action at Perekop in 1941.

Rebrov Efim Ivanovich, Red Army Private. MIA

Air defense soldiers with a balloon on Zastava Ilyicha square during the days of defense of Moscow

SHARANDIN BORIS IVANOVICH Private soldier. Was born in 1910 in the village Boltovo, Suzunsky District, Novosibirsk Region. Drafted by the Suzunsky Regional Military Commisariat on July 2, 1941. Captured on 22.08.1941 near Boryspil. Stalag IV B. Camp number 192030. Died in captivity on October 11, 1942. Burial place of Mühlberg / Neuburksdorf. Germany.

the photo was taken in the Chashinsky Regional Military Commissariat of the Chelyabinsk region in 1941. The only photo of my great-grandfather.

Soviet soldier of anti-aircraft defence is on duty at an observation post on the roof of a residential building on Gorky Street, Moscow, November 1942. Photo by Leonid Dorensky/TASS

On the scales 125 grams of bread allowance provided for employees, dependents and children during the Siege of Leningrad

Detachment of militias on the way to the front line during the siege of Leningrad, 1941.

Blacksmith A. Ya. Yakovlev, awarded the Order of the Red Banner of Labor, in the shop of the Yegorov plant, Leningrad

City residents of the on the construction of fortifications on the Mozhaiskiy highway during the defense of Moscow

Soldiers carry wounded patient aboard to aircraft starting out for a base hospital

Women of Moldavian ASSR, that built the fighter aircraft named after Marina Mikhaylovna Raskova on their personal savings