Small arms

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

Commander of the 354th rifle division D.F. Alekseev presents an assault riffle - to the best soldier of the 1201st infantry regiment, Kolchik. Moscow Region, February 1942. From the State Archives of the Penza Region

Machine gun department of primary organization of Ministry of Finance study a machine gun

Riflemen department of primary organization of Kazan Precision Engineering plant #144 study material part of a riffle

Universal education fighters of Bauman region, training technique for bayonet. 1941. Kazan

Universal education. Training technique for bayonet.1940-1941. Tatar Soviet Republic

Former participant of the defense of Tsaritsyn, worker at Red October (Krasny Oktyabr) factory Klimov V. T. fires on enemy. Stalingrad

Street battles in Stalingrad

Soviet submachine gunners fire Germans holed up in neighboring blocks

Red Army soldiers in ambush during the battle of Moscow

Soviet infantry on the way to the front line during the battle of Moscow

Soviet guerrillas sneak behind enemy lines, 1942.

Soviet Red Army soldiers storm the city, Breslau, February 1945. Photo by Mark Redkin/TASS

Red Army soldiers wade a water obstacle during a Soviet offensive on the North-Western Front, 1943.

Soviet partisans (guerillas) receive new guns and rifles, August 1941.