1943

Nurse S. Kapralova read the newspaper "Pravda" to wounded Soviet soldiers in a field hospital on the Leningrad front

Column of prisoners of war of the 8th Italian Army defeated by Soviet troops during the Srednedonskaya offensive operation (operation known as "Maly Saturn") during the Battle of Stalingrad

From the stock of State Archive of Penza region

Parade of the regiment of 51st Air Defense aviation division of Moscow Air Defense front. In the foreground division commander Colonel Aleynikov. Place and author of photo unknown.

Penza Komsomol members transfer military aircraft built on personal money funds of Penza district youth to the fellow countryman-pilot V.A. Kazichkin. 1943. From holdings of Penza region State archive (GAPO)

Member of the Military Council of the Central Front, Brigadier General K.F. Telegin and the commander of the 2nd Guards Cavalry Corps, Brigadier General V.V. Kryukov

Meeting of soldiers and commanders of the Volkhov and Leningrad fronts in Rabochy Poselok №1 (workers settlement) after breaking the Siege of Leningrad

At the street of Rzhev after liberation from Nazi occupation.

Group of Leningrad residents at loud speaker on Nevsky Prospekt

Soldier with flamethrower, 1943. Photo by Georgy Konovalov/TASS

Local children Nikolai, Anna and Taisiya Tsukanovy at the ruins of their burnt house in the village of Oktyabrskoye, Kursk Region, 1943

Soviet soldiers make their way through river floodplains, Krasnodar Region, 1943. Photo by Max Alpert/TASS

Red Army soldiers counter-attack in a battle, Krasnodar region, 1943. Photo by Maks Alpert/TASS

A Georgian fighter, 1943. Photo by Max Alpert/TASS

"Bread for the Motherland". Red wagon train of the collective farm "Komintern", Buinsky district, 1943