1942

Vasiliy Ivanovich Slozenikin, reconnaissance scout

Commander of Kalinin Front, Colonel-General M.A. Purkaev (left) and member of Military Council of Kalinin Front D.S. Leonov.

"Partisan cannon" 122-mm howitzer handed over by partisans to soldiers of the Kalinin Front.

Excellent recons: Komsomol members A. Venkov and A. Galaktionov)

Search for enemies in a destroyed factory. Stalingrad

Joseph V. Stalin photographed at the Kremlin with British Prime Minister Winston S. Churchill, Special Representative of the US President Averell Harriman (second from left) and Foreign Minister Vyacheslav M. Molotov (right)

2nd Rank Military Engineer Grigory Yakovlevich Klyatis, Deputy Commander of 31st Sapper Brigade (in the center) with local children.

Wendell L. Willkie, Special Representative of the US President, talking to Nikolay N. Yakovlev, Head of V. I. Lenin State Library of the USSR, and others

Commander of 8th tank brigade, Colonel P.A. Rotmistrov (right) with the last tank under Rzhev.

Writer Ilya G. Ehrenburg (2nd from the right) and the American journalist Leland Stowe (3rd from the left) in the unit near Rzhev.

Joseph V.Stalin (middle) and Vyacheslav M. Molotov (far left) receiving Wendell L. Willkie, Special Representative of the US President, Joseph F. Barnes, US journalist, and Gardner “Mike” Cowles Jr., assistant director of the Office of War Information

Writer Ilya G. Ehrenburg (right) and American journalist Leland Stowe during their stay in the unit near Rzhev.

Howitzer battery soldiers at lunch near their guns on the front line of the Leningrad front

Ivan M. Maisky, Soviet Ambassador to the UK, Vyacheslav M. Molotov, Soviet Foreign Minister, Clement R. Attlee, British Deputy Prime Minister, Oliver Lyttelton, British Minister of Production, Anthony Eden, British Foreign Minister, during Molotov’s stay in Great Britain

Artillerymen of the 34th Guards Rifle Regiment of the 13th Guards Rifle Division of the 62nd Army fire on enemy