Faces of war

Pilot Lydia Litvyak

Marina Chechneva and Serafima Amosova, pilots of the all-female 46th Taman Guards Night Bomber Aviation Regiment. Marina Chechneva (right), Serafima Amosova (left).

On the outskirts of Berlin

Pilot Evdokia Bershanskaya - Commander of the 46th Guards Night Bomber Aviation Regiment

Pilot of the all-female 46th Taman Guards Night Bomber Aviation Regiment

Playing table tennis

Attack

Volunteer of militias. Leningrad. June, 1941

Aleksey Eryomenko, minor political commissar of a 220th rifle regiment, 4th rifle division, 18th army (a battalion commander), 1942ю Photo by Maks Alpert. TASS

Composer Dmitry Shostakovich (on the right) during a fire brigade drills from the faculty of the Leningrad Music Conservatory

Deputy commander of the 1st Belorussian Front, Soviet general Vasily Sokolovsky, general of the US Army Dwight D. Eisenhower, representative of the Supreme Command of the Red Army, Commander of the 1st Belorussian Front, Marshal of the Soviet Union Georgy Zhukov, Deputy People’s Commissar for Foreign Affairs of the USSR Andrey Vyshinsky (L-R) participate in the signing of the Berlin Declaration proclaiming the unconditional surrender of Germany and the assumption of supreme authority over Germany by the governments of the USSR, the United Kingdom, the USA and France, Berlin, June 1945. Photo by Yevgeny Khaldei/TASS

The division defended the city of Donskoy (Tula region) in November 1941. From left to right: (reclining) Kolesnik; Kolpakov, party’s instructor of personal records; Smirnyagin; (sitting) Dometiy Skurlatov, Chief of the Political Department; Gaik Martirosyan, Divisio Commander; Nikolay Rodionov, Division Commissar; Georgy Shchelbanin, Chief of Staff; (standing) F. Mikhailov, Secretary of the Communist Party Commission; Zatuchny, Editor of the divisional newspaper; A. Zabiyaka, Deputy Chief of the Political Department; Pereverzev; Kushnarev, adjutant of Division Commander; Troshkin, Evdokimov, Pastor

Drafted at the age of 17 from Nizhny Novgorod. Missed in action.

To Berlin

Born in 1904. Went to the front in 1941 and served in the infantry forces. Died in a concentration camp in Finland on August 23, 1943.