Civilian population

Local people fortifying the Guardhouse building on Sennaya Square near Assumption Church of the Holy Virgin (Spas on Sennaya) after air attack

Residents during a meeting of Soviet soldiers who liberated the city from the German invaders. Prague, May 1945

City residents meet soldiers of the Soviet Army who liberated the city, Prague, May 1945

Locals greet demobilized Soviet soldiers at the railway station after the end of the Great Patriotic War. Minsk, July 1945

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

Workers of plant “Red bogatyr” with their adopted children, who lost their parents during the war

Locals clean city streets loading chipped ice and snow into the freight tram at 25 Octyabrya Prospekt. Leningrad (Nevsky Prospekt). March, 1942

Mother with her children leave their home village because of the advancing of German army.

Citizens after the liberation of the city from Nazi invaders. Rostov-on-Don

Schoolchildren of the liberated village Staritsa N. Belov (L.) and P. Bashilov (left to right) hand over found by them German trophies,

Peasants pass bread to the Soviet guerillas, 1943.

Plant workers repair equipment after liberation of the city from the Nazi invadors. Stalingrad. December, 1943

Civilians, Liberated from Nazi occupation by Odessa opera and Ballet Theatre before the play

In reconstructed mechanical floor of tractor plant in Stalingrad

City residents giving a warm welcome to the Soviet tankmen. Bucharest. August, 1944