Color photo of the Second World War: Krasnaya Hotel and Russian female civilians in the Nazi-occupied Kharkov the Soviet city. The Eastern Front of the Wehrmacht of the Third Reich (Nazi Germany).
Before the Great Russian revolution (1917), this hotel was called “Metropol”. It was one of the most beautiful buildings in the city, but during the German occupation it suffered very badly and was not subject to restoration. In place of the Hotel Krasnaya after the war, a new building was built, the architecture usual for that time.
Place of photo: Kharkov, Ukraine, USSR
Date of the photo: June-July 1942