Infantry

Soviet soldiers during the fight on the streets of Budapest

Soviet soldiers lay a wreath at the grave of Austrian composer Johann Strauss Jr. after the liberation of the city from the Nazi German occupation. April 1945

Red Army soldier during observes the blocks occupied by the Nazis troops. Budapest, 1945

Soviet infantrymen advance to the southeast of Memel, 1944

Soviet signalmen check telephone lines on the streets of liberated Vienna. April 1945

Local residents greet Red Army soldiers, Bulgaria

Infantrymen of the Second Belorussian Front at a halt, March 1944. Photo by Emmanuil Yevzerikhin/TASS

Soviet submachine gunners under the leadership of Lieutenant A. Asonychev during the battle for the village to the South-East of the city of Konigsberg

Combat crew changing disposition on the Rybachy Peninsula, Murmansk Region

Yurtin Ivan Fedorovich. Born in 1899, Taktashi village. Drafted into the army 02/02/1942, Mishkino. Private, shooter, Naval Rifle Brigade No.62. He fought near Staraya Russa and Mozdok. He was wounden on September 7, 1942. Awarded of medals "For Combat Service", "For Victory over Germany", "For Valiant Labor in the Great Patriotic War 1941-1945."

Soviet soldiers at the boundary pillar "Germany". 1945

Yurin Anton Fedorovich. Born in 1902. Mishkino. Drafted into the Soviet Army in 1941. Red Army soldier, shooter, Rifle Regiment No.1251. He died on January 20, 1942 in field hospital No. 1161. He was buried in Budogoshch, Leningrad Region

Soldiers

Detachment of militias on the way to the front line during the siege of Leningrad, 1941.

Battalion commissar (left in the background) conducts training for the Communist Party organisers of units