Faces of war

Amateur concert (Belarus)

Crew of a bomber aircraft before taking off to combat mission Crew members of a bomber get ready to a combat flight, April 1945. Photo by Boris Myasnikov/TASS

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

Providing medical assistance to the German prisoner (South-Western front)

Kicksled. Near Levashovo railroad station

Red Army officers talk to local residents (South-Western front)

Girl with flowers (South-Western front)

Girl (South-Western front)

Сaptain (South-Western front)

Battalion Commissar of the tank unit M. L. Misak (second from the right) read messages of the Kirov plant team to the tankmen

Locksmith of the Stalingrad Tractor Plant A. Kravtsov voluntarily joined the ranks of Red Army during taking an oath

Commander of a squadron of Red Army 154th fighter aviation regiment senior lieutenant Petr Pokryishev

Fighter aircraft pilots Grigory Burenko, Victor Tabunov, Semen Lyavshenko and Nestor Linovitsky (from left to the right) on a military airfield

Soviet aircraft pilots Konstantin Mulyukin (L) and Pavel Plotnikov, Germany, April 1945.

Crew members of the submarine pose for a photo after the end of a mission during the Second World War. On the photo: Hero of the Soviet Union, commander and captain of the submarine Nikolai Lunin (front), political commander Sergei Lysov (C, 2nd row), major lieutenant Vladimir Uzharovsky (3r L, 2nd row), sergeant of the motorized group V. Sboyev (2nd L, 2nd row), July 1942. Photo by Yevgeny Khaldei/TASS