1944

The photo shows Nikolai Fyodorovich Shchipelev, a participant in the Great Patriotic War. The photo was taken in Saratov, November 17, 1944. The photo was transferred by the Donetsk city military commissariat to MBIC “DIKM”.

Soldiers of the 2nd Byelorussian Front of the Red Army (left) and soldiers of the Polish People's Army during a break in combats, Poland, 1944

Soviet soldiers at a halt, 1944. Photo by Emmanuil Yevzerikhin/TASS

Fighters of universal military training of Frunzensky district during drill on Rostovskaya embankment of the Moscow river

Camouflaged Soviet soldiers are in the battles of the Rybachy Peninsula, Murmansk Region, 1944.

Chairman of Presidium of Supreme Council of USSR Mikhail Kalinin; 1st secretary of Leningrad regional committee and the city commitee of VKPb Lieutenant Andrey Zhdanov; head of international information department of Central Committee of VKPb Lieutenant General Alexander Shcherbakov; recipients of 1st degree Suvorov order, (left to right) at awarding ceremony in the Kremlin

Soviet soldiers at the river crossing. Hungary, 1945

Вид из кабины самолета на Севастополь, освобожденный от немецких захватчиков

Debris of German plane on the field during the first sowing after the liberation of Orel region from the invaders

Residents of liberated Kerch read the Okna TASS poster showing photographs of fascist barbarities, 1942. Photo by Israel Antselovich/TASS

German soldiers surrender on one of the streets of Vilnius, July 1944

Construction workers rebuild port facilities damaged during the Nazi German occupation of Sevastopol, July 1944. Photo by Yevgeny Khaldei/TASS

Local people walk near the post office building after the liberation of Sevastopol from the Nazi German occupation, November 1944. Photo by Emmanuil Yevzerikhin/TASS

Soviet soldiers are well on their way towards the city during the Crimean Offensive Operation

Soviet serviceman V.Kunitsyn is at an anti-tank gun, Kerch, April 1944. Photo by Max Alpert, Yevgeny Khaldei/TASS