Baltic Fleet sailors hold two-year-old Igor, rescued from starvation during the Siege of Leningrad in 1943. The photograph, taken by Boris Kudoyarov, became one of the enduring visual records of civilian survival during the blockade. Read more
"Combat Commander", one of the most iconic photographs of World War II, captures Junior Political Officer Alexey Gordeevich Yeremenko leading Soviet soldiers into battle shortly before he was killed in action on July 12, 1942. Read more
A Soviet soldier and 80-year-old collective farm worker Maria Arsentievna Babkina share a joyful moment after the liberation of a Soviet village in 1942, a powerful reminder of what victory meant for millions of civilians under German occupation. Read more
Soviet infantryman armed with a PPSh-41 submachine gun and RG-42 hand grenades during the liberation of Belarus in 1944, one of the decisive Soviet offensives of the Second World War. Read more
Female Red Army sniper armed with a Mosin–Nagant sniper rifle during operations on the Baltic Front in 1944, representing the important role of Soviet women in frontline combat during the Great Patriotic War. Read more
Vickers Wellington Mk IV BH-Z "Z jak Zośka" of the No. 300 (Polish) Bomber Squadron RAF after returning from the Bremen raid on the night of September 4–5, 1942, despite suffering extensive combat damage to its fuselage. Read more
Maria Dolina, Hero of the Soviet Union and deputy commander of the 125th Guards Bomber Aviation Regiment, photographed in 1944 after dozens of combat missions in the Pe-2 dive bomber during the Great Patriotic War. Read more