Faces of war

Minister of Aeronautics and Arm Forces Charles Tillon congratulates the pilots of the Normandy-Neman air regiment on their arrival and shakes hands with the chief engineer of the Normandy-Neman air regiment, Captain Sergei Davidovich Agavelyan. Paris, Le Bourget Airport, June 1945

Soviet and French pilots and aircraft mechanics watching the air show. In the front row, from left to right: Major Pierre Mattress, commander of the 3rd Sherbour squadron, Captain Sergey Davidovich Agavelyan, chief engineer of the Normandie-Niemen air regiment, Alexander Laurent, pilot of the Normandie-Niemen air regiment. France. Paris, Le Bourget Airport, June 1945

The meeting of Soviet and French servicemen. 5th to the right, in profile - General Jean Marie de Lattre de Tassigny, with a cap in his hands - Colonel Pierre Pouyade, in the center - Captain Sergei Davidovich Agavelyan, chief engineer of the Normandie-Niemen air regiment. Germany, Stuttgart, June 1945

General Jean Marie de Lattre de Tassigny shakes hands with the pilot of the Normandie-Niemen air regiment, sitting in the cockpit of the Yak-3 bomber. Paris, Le Bourget Airport, June 1945

Pilots of the Normandie-Niemen regiment discuss the upcoming flight. On the left, with glasses - M. Guido. Germany, Elbing, June 1945

"Communists, forward!" Attack

Soviet soldiers who participated in the battles for Budapest are photographed on one of the streets of the city after its liberation

Young man

Builders of new Stalingrad

Leningrad defenders

Sailor Dzhanibekov from the destroyer "Crushing"

On Nevsky Pyatachok

Commander of the Northern Fleet Vice Admiral Arseniy Golovko. Severomorsk, 1942

Pilot Maria Nikitina and navigator Glafira (Irina) Kashirina (leftto right ). Novorossiysk

Navigator Elena Salikova and pilot Anna Vysotskaya. Novorossiysk