Command

Member of the Military Council of the South-Western Front N. Khrushchev, Commander of the South-Western Front Marshal S. Timoshenko and First Secretary of the Voronezh regional Committee of the CPSU (b) V. Nikitin during the military parade in Voronezh on November 7, 1941

The Commander of the 328th Rifle Division, Colonel P. Gudz, on the day of the presentation of the Guards banner to the division in relation with its renaming into the 31st Guards Division. June 23, 1942

Hero of the Soviet Union N. Khazov (center) at the Reichstag Building, 1945

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

British Army Field Marshal Bernard Law Montgomery, United States Army General Dwight Eisenhower, Soviet Union Marshal Georgy Zhukov, and French First Army General Jean de Lattre de Tassigny (L-R) pose for a group photo after signing the Berlin Declaration. According to the declaration the USSR, the USA, Britain and France assumed supreme authority over Germany, Berlin, June 1945. Photo by Yevgeny Khaldei, Fyodor Kislov/TASS

Chairman of VTsIK USSR M.I. Kalinin awards the medal “For military services” to politruk I.I. Antipenko. September 1943

Major General M. Katukov (left), the valiant commander of the 1st Guards Tank Brigade, which became famous in the battle of Moscow

Commander of the 354th Rifle Division at an observation post near Moscow. 1942

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

Battalion commissar (left in the background) conducts training for the Communist Party organisers of units

Lieutenant General of Aviation Nikolay Vasilievich Shibanov. Born in 1923 in the v. Gorbunovo Belevsky district in Tula region. Military leader. Pilot of the 156th Fighter Aviation Regiment (1st and 2nd Belorussian Fronts).

Frontline correspondents and the Commandant of Berlin Colonel General N. Berzarin

Commanders and officers of a Red Army unit discuss a tank military operation, 1943.

Commander of the 21st Guards Rifle Corps, Hero of the Soviet Union Guards Major General Semyon Kozak and Guards Cornel Semyon Yeletskov (left to right) work at an observation post, Austria, April 1945

General Gleb Baklanov (on the right) in the division command post. Stalingrad