Soviet motorcycle column with M-72s armed with DP-27s and Mosin rifles, preparing for deployment to the Eastern Front. Lead vehicle: FAI-M; rearguard: GAZ-AAA. Read more
Arrival of the Victory Banner from Berlin at the Central Moscow Airfield, led by Captain Valentin Varennikov Read more
Fallen Soviet 50-mm mortar crew in a forward defensive position. Read more
Wehrmacht soldiers inspect a damaged Soviet KV-1E heavy tank, later redesignated as Panzerkampfwagen KV-IB 755(r). Read more
German sIG-33 drives past abandoned KV-2 with rare MT-1 turret. Eastern Front, 1941. Read more
Destroyed Soviet KV-1 tanks and posing Wehrmacht soldiers — a grim snapshot from the Eastern Front, 1942.
Shocking image of Russian children hiding in a makeshift shelter during Nazi air raids in Chișinău, Moldova. Taken on June 29, 1941, in the early days of Operation Barbarossa. Read more