Soviet Tank Heroes Posing Before KV-1 Heavy Tank, Western Front, Winter 1942–1943
August 24, 2025 Reading time: 4 minutes
Heroes of the Soviet Union pose beside a KV-1 heavy tank on the Western Front during the winter of 1942–1943. Read more
AlbumWar2: WWII Photo Archive & Rare High Resolution Images
Communist Party Meeting at a Soviet Artillery Battery on the Frontline, Summer 1943
August 18, 2025 Reading time: 4 minutes
Communist Party members of a Soviet artillery battery hold a political meeting near the frontline during the summer of 1943. Read more
Portrait of Ivan Bykov, Commander of the “For Leningrad” Partisan Detachment, 1943
August 15, 2025 Reading time: 4 minutes
Ivan Kuzmich Bykov, commander of the “For Leningrad” partisan detachment, became one of the organizers of Soviet resistance behind German lines in Leningrad Oblast during 1943. Read more
Alexey Alelyukhin in the Cockpit of Yakovlev Yak-1B, Spring 1943
August 12, 2025 Reading time: 5 minutes
Alexey Alelyukhin, twice Hero of the Soviet Union, stands in the cockpit of his Yakovlev Yak-1B fighter bearing his distinctive Black Panther emblem, spring 1943. Read more
Liberation of Vyazma: Red Army Troops Welcomed by Civilians, March 1943
August 10, 2025 Reading time: 4 minutes
Red Army troops riding BA-10 armored cars enter liberated Vyazma on March 12, 1943, as civilians emerge to welcome them after nearly seventeen months of German occupation. The photograph captures both a military victory and an emotional reunion between soldiers and the people they had come to liberate. Read more
Red Army Soldiers Inspect the Wreckage of a Shot-Down German Ju-87 Stuka
August 9, 2025 Reading time: 4 minutes
Soviet soldiers examine the wreckage of a German Ju-87D Stuka dive bomber after it was shot down during the Battle of Kursk in 1943. The photograph captures a rare frontline moment when Red Army troops could inspect one of the Luftwaffe's most feared aircraft up close. Read more
Soviet Fighter LaGG-3 No. 915 "For Soviet Georgia": Unity Through the Skies
August 9, 2025 Reading time: 4 minutes
LaGG-3 fighter No. 915 of the 88th Fighter Aviation Regiment, carrying the Georgian inscription "For Soviet Georgia", photographed in the North Caucasus during the spring of 1943, providing further evidence of Soviet wartime aircraft funded through civilian contributions. Read more