1944

Submachine gunners move to their firing position ahead of a battle, Kerch, 1944. Photo by Max Alpert, Yevgeny Khaldei/TASS

Soviet soldiers ride on motorcycles down a street in Bucharest, 1944. Photo by Mikhail Ozersky/TASS

Soviet pontoniers build a bridge across the Prut River, Romania, 1944. Photo by Yevgeny Khaldei/TASS

Soviet infantrymen advance to the southeast of Memel, 1944

Ships of the Black Sea Fleet during the entry into the port of Varna during the Bulgarian operation

Infantrymen of the Second Belorussian Front at a halt, March 1944. Photo by Emmanuil Yevzerikhin/TASS

Russkikh Alexander Alexandrovich, Captain, Commander of infantry company of 1292th Infantry Regiment of 113thInfantry Division of 57th Army of 3rd Ukrainian Front.

Officers receive money allowance in one of tank units

Citizens near houses destroyed by German troops before the retreat

Soviet soldiers disembark on the Crimean coastline, Kerch, April 1944. Photo by Yevgeny Khaldei, Max Alpert/TASS

Soviet soldiers observe their surroundings from the highest point of the Kerch Peninsula, Crimea, March 1944. Photo by Max Alpert, Yevgeny Khaldei/TASS

Peasant women from the village near Carpathian Mountains liberated from the Nazi invaders during a meeting with Soviet soldiers

Machine gun department of primary organization of Ministry of Finance study a machine gun

Riflemen department of primary organization of Kazan Precision Engineering plant #144 study material part of a riffle

Frontline brigade of Fafurina. Kazan. 1943-1945