1942

In the foreground: Commander of the 1st Shock Army V. Kuznetsov and Member of the Military Council D. Kolesnikov going to the meeting in the People’s Hall

From left to right: Commander of the 1st Shock Army V. Kuznetsov, Member of the Military Council M. Kalinin, Brigade Commissar D. Kolesnikov

Fight in the hills. Kola Peninsula

Soviet reindeer breeder with British aircraft mechanics at the airfield in the Arctic

Defending Sevastopol

Concert

After the assault

Artillery crew fires at enemy tanks

Destroyer Svobodny (lit. “Free”) sinks

Naval commander Filipp Oktyabrsky and Divisional Commissioner Nikolai Kulakov, a Military Council member, with pilots

Sniper Lyudmila Pavlichenko, Hero of the Soviet Union

Scout Fedor Volonchuk, a midshipman in the Black Sea Fleet

Seamen on rocks watch a concert

Concert on the shore against the destroyer "Crushing". Kola Peninsula, 1942

Performance for soldiers. Northern flotilla, 1942