Month: September 2018

Soviet soldiers of the Red Army Infantry are photographed next to the abandoned German Pz.Kpfw. V “Panther” (Panzer V) medium tank of the Nazi Panzerwaffe, which drowned during the crossing…

Embraced by flames, two destroyed Soviet SU-85M self-propelled guns of the Red Army in Silesia (Poland or Czechoslovakia) in March 1945. Source of information about the SU-85M photo: 1. militera.lib.ru

Soviet residents on Nevsky Prospekt near the cinema “Khudozhestvenny” in besieged Leningrad city. The Khudozhestvenny Cinema still exists on Nevsky Prospekt, 67. Location: Leningrad, USSR Date: December 1941 Photo by…

Soviet residents of Leningrad city dig up the land for planting vegetables near the St. Isaac’s Cathedral. Location: Leningrad, USSR Date: Spring 1942 Photo by Nikolay Khandogin

The sign “Ligovskaya Street, 95” in the Leningrad court. Ligovskaya Street is now Ligovsky Prospekt of St. Petersburg. The exact time of shooting is not known – one of the…

People’s Commissar of the Navy of the USSR, the flagship of the fleet of rank 2 Nikolai Gerasimovich Kuznetsov. The flagship of the fleet of the 2nd rank is the…

The Germans inspect the destroyed Soviet T-34-85 medium tank No. 244 from the 25th Guards Tank Brigade in the vicinity of the village of Nemmersdorf, East Prussia (now Mayakovskoe, Kaliningrad…

German “Jagdpanther” heavy tank destroyer (Sd.Kfz.173, Jagdpanther) from the 654th Battalion of Tank Destroyers of the Nazi Wehrmacht, destroyed by American tankmen in Hargarten, Germany. Location: Hargarten, Third Reich Date:…

Training of the Soviet Leningrad militiamen in the methods of bayonet attack. Location: Leningrad, USSR Date: August 8, 1941 Photo by Vasily Fedoseyev

A team of Soviet antiaircraft gun (85-mm model of 1939) of the Red Army Air Defence on the embankment of Leningrad city. It is noteworthy that all soldiers of the…