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
The Forgotten Standard-Bearer: Soviet reconnaissance soldier Grigory Bulatov and his comrades after the storming of the Reichstag, Berlin, May 1945. Long overshadowed by official history, Bulatov remains one of the principal claimants to raising one of the first Soviet flags over the Reichstag. Read more
Victory in One Frame: Soviet sailors of the Dnieper Flotilla pose with an American cameraman before Berlin’s Brandenburg Gate on May 2, 1945, capturing one of the last moments of Allied unity before the Cold War. Read more
Soviet infantryman Mikhail Makarov, one of the participants in raising the Victory Banner over the Reichstag, stands before the shattered building in Berlin on May 2, 1945, shortly after the end of the battle. Read more
A Soviet Red Army soldier directs traffic at Berlin's Schlossplatz in May 1945, only days after the Battle of Berlin ended. The photograph captures one of the first signs of everyday life returning to the devastated German capital. Read more
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
A haunting night photograph by Margaret Bourke-White captures the Luftwaffe air raid on Moscow on July 26, 1941, showing the Kremlin, Moscow River, anti-aircraft fire, and illumination flares during one of the first major attacks on the Soviet capital. Read more