Civilian population

Removing protective scaffolds from the Bronze Horseman, an equestrian statue of Peter the Great, Leningrad, April 1945

Residents of liberated Kerch read the Okna TASS poster showing photographs of fascist barbarities, 1942. Photo by Israel Antselovich/TASS

Stalingrad residents on a street destroyed by German bombing

Construction workers rebuild port facilities damaged during the Nazi German occupation of Sevastopol, July 1944. Photo by Yevgeny Khaldei/TASS

Local people walk near the post office building after the liberation of Sevastopol from the Nazi German occupation, November 1944. Photo by Emmanuil Yevzerikhin/TASS

Budapest residents return home after liberation of the city from Nazi German troops, February 1945

Local residents greet Red Army soldiers, Bulgaria

Soviet sailors greet local people after liberating Harbin from the Japanese occupation, August 1945.

Minsk pioneers put up propaganda posters at one of the city streets

Selling firewood at Kropotkinskaya square. Moscow

Preparing tangerines and lemons for selling in the shop #3 of Main Department of Canning industry

From the stock of State Archive of Penza region

From the stock of State Archive of Penza region

E.F. Kramarev was a collective farmer of the Parizhskaya Kommuna agricultural cartel of the Kalacheyevsky District of the Voronezh Region, who bought a Red Army tank at his own expense (portrait with the crew of the S-172 tank). 1943

Victory Day in Minsk