A Soviet soldier and 80-year-old collective farm worker Maria Arsentievna Babkina share a joyful moment after the liberation of a Soviet village in 1942, a powerful reminder of what victory meant for millions of civilians under German occupation. Read more
Soviet infantryman armed with a PPSh-41 submachine gun and RG-42 hand grenades during the liberation of Belarus in 1944, one of the decisive Soviet offensives of the Second World War. Read more
Female Red Army sniper armed with a Mosin–Nagant sniper rifle during operations on the Baltic Front in 1944, representing the important role of Soviet women in frontline combat during the Great Patriotic War. Read more
Maria Dolina, Hero of the Soviet Union and deputy commander of the 125th Guards Bomber Aviation Regiment, photographed in 1944 after dozens of combat missions in the Pe-2 dive bomber during the Great Patriotic War. Read more
Soviet mountain troops led by Lieutenant A.S. Efremov defend the Marukh Pass in the North Caucasus, 1942, carrying PPSh-41 submachine guns during the mountain battles of the Eastern Front. Read more
Destroyer Leader "Tashkent" evacuates wounded soldiers and civilians from besieged Sevastopol, June 1942, after surviving repeated German air attacks. Read more
Destroyed Soviet aircraft at a captured airfield in the Latvian SSR, summer 1941, including a damaged UTI-4 trainer aircraft and a German Henschel Hs-126 reconnaissance plane in the background. Read more