World War II in Russia and Eastern Europe
The antifascist war in Russia | 1941-1945
Pictures by soviet photographers

Russia 1941 | Photo: S Alperin
*
 
 
 

Stalingrad, september 1942 | Photo: Anonymous
*
 
 
 

Stalingrad 1942 | Snipers Nickolai Ilin and M. Lapa, 1942. | Photo: Anonymous
*
 
 
 

Russia 1941 | Photo: DMITRI BALTERMANTS
*
 
 
 

Russia 1942 | Photo: DMITRI BALTERMANTS
*
 
 
 

Russia c. 1941-43 | Machine Gunners in the Hills of Zapoliarie | Photo: Robert Diament
*
 
 
 

Stalingrad 1943 | Reconstruction of Stalingrad | Photo: V. Dobronitskii
*
 
 
 
 

Stalingrad August 24, 1942 | Photo: Emanuil Evzerikhin | At the Train Station during an Enemy Air Attack
*
 
 
 

Russia c. 1941-45 | Photo: Emanuil Evzerikhin
*
 
 
 

The Kursk Front, 1943 | Photo: MARK MARKOV-GRINBERG
*
 
 
 

Snipers, c. 1944 | Photo: MARK MARKOV-GRINBERG
*
 
 
 

Photo: MARK MARKOV-GRINBERG
Under the Cover of a Smoke Screen, c. 1944
*
 
 
 

Photo: MARK MARKOV-GRINBERG | Sniper, c. 1943
*
 
 
 

Photo: Mark Markov-Grinberg | Russia c. 1942
*
 
 

Photo: Y. Khaldei | Air-raid near Sevastopol, 1944
*
 
 
 

Photo: Yakov Khalip | Baltic Fleet, 1936
*
 
 
 

Photo: Yakov Khalip | Nocturne in the ruins, 1943
*
 
 
 

Photo: Georgi Lipskerov | Germany, May, 1945
*
 
 
 

Photo: Viktor Shakhovski | The North-Eastern Front. A group of Tadjik-Soldiers on break, 1943
*
 
 
 

Russia c. 1942 | Photo: Mikhail Trakhman
*
 
 
 

Russia c. 1944 | Photo: Mikhail Trakhman
*
 
 
 

Russia c. 1942-43 | Photo: Mikhail Trakhman
*
 
 
 

Russia c. 1942-43 | Photo: Mikhail Trakhman
*
 
 
 

Russia c. 1942-43 | Photo: Mikhail Trakhman
*
 
 
 

Russia c. 1942-43 | Photo: Mikhail Trakhman
*
 
 
 

Russia c. 1942-43 | Photo: Mikhail Trakhman
*
 
 
 

Russia c. 1942-43 | Photo: Mikhail Trakhman
*
 
 
 

Russia c. 1942-43 | Photo: Mikhail Trakhman
*
 
 
 

Photo: ALEXANDER USTINOV | Ambush, 1944
*
 
 
 

  Photo: Alexandr Ustinov | Volunteers, 1941
*
 
 
 

Photo: Boris Vdovienko | Russia 1944
*
 
 
 

Photo: Boris Vdovienko | Return of the Town's Inhabitants after the Liberation, 1944
*
 
 
 

Russia c. 1942 | Photo: MAX ALPERT
*
 
 
 
 

Russia 1939 | Photo: EMANUIL EVZERIKHIN
*
 
 
 
 

Photo: EMANUIL EVZERIKHIN | On the Outskirts of Stalingrad. Captured Enemy Artillery, 1942-43
*
 
 
 
 

Photo: MIKHAIL TRAKHMAN | Fleeing the Village, 1943