Military inspector V.O. Shpakovsky examines a rare improvised 76 mm self-propelled gun based on the T-26 light tank during final inspection at the Kirov Plant in besieged Leningrad. Read more
A rare Soviet T-28 medium tank of the 51st Independent Tank Battalion, 42nd Army, converted into a fortified firing position during the defense of Leningrad. Read more
Soviet infantry launches a counterattack near Stalingrad under heavy German artillery fire. One of the most famous Eastern Front photographs, traditionally known as “The Commissar.” Read more
Soviet soldier charges into battle in one of the most iconic photographs of World War II, captured by Mark Markov-Grinberg during the Great Patriotic War. Read more
Soviet infantrymen armed with Mosin-Nagant rifles, PPD-40 submachine guns, and DP-27 light machine guns fight on the Rybachy Peninsula during the Arctic campaign of 1944. Read more
Soviet Navy photographer Robert Diament aboard the destroyer "Grozny" during an Arctic convoy escort mission in the Barents Sea, 1943. Read more
German Bf 109F-2 fighter of 3./JG3 "Udet" shot down by Soviet anti-aircraft fire near Kyiv during the opening phase of Operation Barbarossa. Pilot Heinz Schmidt was captured alive. Read more