A long road to victory: 30 black-and-white photographs from the battlefields of the Great Patriotic War

World War II: rare color photographs of women who brought victory closer

War is fear, pain, death, devastation. And, it would seem, there should be no place for a woman. However, many patriotic girls selflessly go to the front or work in the rear, doing “male” work. In our review - rare color photographs of those who took part in World War II

Actresses in the war: Which of the Soviet screen stars visited the fronts of the Great Patriotic War

Viewers are accustomed to seeing them on screens in the images of brilliant film stars, films with their participation are well known to millions of viewers, but they performed their most important roles behind the scenes. Nobody imagined them like that: Aksinya from "Quiet Don" nursed the wounded in the hospital, Aladdin's mother from a movie tale served in anti-aircraft units of the air defense forces, Alyosha's mother from "The Ballad of a Soldier" was a radio operator at the front, and the empress from "Evenings on a Farm near Dikanki "shot down fascist planes

The Great Patriotic War in photographs by Dmitry Baltermants

During the Great Patriotic War, Dmitry Baltermants was one of the few Soviet correspondents who boldly went to the front line. In publications under his leadership, articles appeared on the creation of anti-tank barriers near Moscow, the offensive in the battle of Stalingrad and heavy losses among the civilian population. Our review presents photographs from some of Baltermants' reports before and during the Great Patriotic War

Documentary photographs of how the enemy military correspondents worked during the Great Patriotic War

The time when the war is going on is a fertile ground for all kinds of propaganda, and also a great opportunity for documentary photographers to realize themselves professionally. And of course, military correspondents also worked on both sides during the Great Patriotic War. And the military commissars of Nazi Germany were sometimes no less good professionally than their Soviet counterparts

Storming Berlin: rare photographs of the Great Patriotic War

And even on May 9, the war did not end for everyone. Explosions were thundering for more than one week, people were still dying. The review contains rare photographs of those days - already victorious, but still bringing death and destruction. How many are there - fighters who reached Victory and died after the world learned the good news about the overthrow of fascism