Dramatic photograph of Soviet Red Army infantry armed with PPSh-41 submachine guns assaulting an enemy-held village under heavy mortar fire in Western Ukraine, Spring 1944. Read more
Official factory photograph of the Yakovlev UT-1 (AIR-14) single-seat advanced trainer at the Yakovlev Design Bureau airfield in 1936. Currently preserved at the Vadim Zadorozhny Technical Museum. Read more
A rare view looking directly up into the empty bomb bay of a Soviet Tupolev SB (ANT-40) fast bomber with open doors, summer 1941. Read more
A Soviet frontline reconnaissance scout with Asiatic facial features, wearing a camouflage suit and armed with a captured German MP 40 submachine gun during World War II. Read more
A Soviet Red Army officer, captured during the German summer offensive of 1942, sits in the back of a German military truck surrounded by Waffen-SS soldiers. During his capture, his rank insignia had been removed from his uniform, making it impossible to determine his exact military rank from the photograph. The next vehicle in the German convoy is a captured Soviet ZiS-5 truck, illustrating the extensive use of seized Red Army equipment by German forces on the Eastern Front. Read more
A pre-war propaganda photograph showing six Soviet Polikarpov I-16 Type 5 fighters of the Red Banner Baltic Fleet Air Force lined up on a field airfield as their engines are started simultaneously. Read more
Personnel of the 4th Ferry Aviation Regiment of the 1st Ferry Aviation Division of the Soviet Civil Air Fleet dance with local women to the music of an accordion during a brief moment of rest in Yakutsk in 1943. Read more