Month: September 2018

Damaged and prepared for the evacuation of the German heavy tank Panzer VI “Tiger I” from the SS division “Totenkopf”, captured by Soviet troops at the railway station Kopichintsy. Location:…

Wehrmacht soldiers, Defenders of the German city of Pyritz in Pomerania – young volunteers from the Hitler Youth, commanders of the Waffen SS, Volkssturm and the Wehrmacht are discussing the…

Soviet Lieutenant-General Leonid Alexandrovich Govorov in the workplace. The Leningrad Front of the Red Army. General Leonid Govorov was appointed commander of the Leningrad Front in June 1942. Before that,…

Launch of the Soviet MBK naval armored vessel of the project 161 at the plant number 194. In the background of MBK armored boat is “Soviet Union” battleship of the…

Alcoholic rations – 100 grams of vodka – for the senior sergeant of the Red Army. The Soviet soldier is armed with a submachine gun of the Degtyarev system (PPD).…

Peaceful residents of the besieged Leningrad dismantle the roof of the building for firewood. Location: Leningrad, USSR Photo by Nikolay Khandogin

Free distribution of firewood to residents of besieged Leningrad, blocked by the Nazis and the Finnish army under the command of Marshall Mannerheim. Location: Leningrad, USSR Photo by Nikolay Khandogin

A photograph of an unknown German soldier of the Nazi Wehrmacht armed with a Soviet 7.62 mm PPSh-41 submachine gun.

An unknown American soldier from the 87th Infantry Division of the United States Army, killed by a German sniper in the spring of 1945 in the city of Koblenz, Germany.…

Soviet sailor of the “October Revolution” battleship of the Baltic Fleet (until June 27, 1925, “Gangut”) of the Red Navy performs for his comrades the “Yablochko” dance of Russian naval…