Photo chronicle of the Great Patriotic War. Photo chronicles of the Great Patriotic War Military photographs 1941 1945 day

June 22, 1941. Announcement of the beginning of the Great Patriotic War.
Moscow, 25th October street.
Photo by E. Khaldei

Soldiers of the Red Army go to the front.

Photo TASS

Soldiers go to the front from the Moscow Hippodrome.

Photo by A. Shaikhet

Soldiers of the N-th unit in the forefront.

Photo by M. Alpert

Actor I. V. Ilyinsky in the classroom defense circle at the Maly Theater. Moscow.

Photo by B. Vdovenko

The best gun crew of Captain Khlebnikov's unit is firing from a closed position. On the right is the commander of the gun, junior sergeant Komsomol member D. Kalyakin.

Photo by E. Khaikin

In between fights.

Photo by B. Yaroslavtsev

Concert artists front brigade in the army.

Photo by V. Malyshev

Harvest of the first year of the war.

Photo by D. Baltermants

Junior Lieutenant S. G. Malovsky interrogates the captured fascist intelligence officer Vanker Helmut.

Photographer unknown

Soldiers of the Red Army in the village.

Photo by B. Vdovenko

Branch of the N-th part forces the river.

Western direction.

Photo by M. Redkin

The soldiers of the N-sky ship at the time of the combat chemical alarm.

Northern Fleet.

Photo by E. Khaldei

On the enemy - fire!

Photo by D. Baltermants

At the firing position.

Photo by G. Konovalov

Construction of fortifications.

On the outskirts of Moscow.

Photo by D. Baltermants

Combat training of workers on the streets of Moscow.

Photo by N. Kubeev

Marines near Moscow.

Photo by A. Shaikhet

Residents of Rostov-on-Don are building barricades.

Photo by B. Yaroslavtsev

partisan women.

In the occupied region of the Moscow region.

Photo by M. Bachurin

Soldiers are fighting at the forefront of defense.

Photo by N. Granovsky and A. Shaikhet

Fighter pilots are sent to the airfield.

Photo by S. Mazaev

Aircraft repair.

Photo by A. Ustinov

In ambush.

Photo by G. Zelma

Manufacture of parts for shells at a defense plant. Moscow.

Photo by J. Khalip

Skiers of Lieutenant Malkov's unit on the march.

Photo by N. Kubeev

Siberians go on the attack.

Under Moscow.

Photo by A. Shaikhet

Senior Lieutenant V.S. Efremov before a night flight into the rear of the enemy.

Photo by K. Leshko

The downed fascist Yu-88 plane is burning down.

Photographer unknown

Manufacture of warheads for high power rocket artillery shells at a defense plant.

Photo by J. Khalip

Clearing the ice from the gun turret of the main caliber of the battleship "Paris Commune".

Black Sea Fleet.

Photo by A. Mezhuev

cleaning drinking water in the frontline laboratory.

Photo by L. Dorensky

Artillerymen who have received new combat weapons take a solemn oath.

Photo by M. Markov-Grinberg

In the rest house for commanders.

Photo by B. Vdovenko

Loading shells on an armored train.

Photo by A. Ustinov

Captured command vehicle. It contained a banner, lingerie, a hammock, a table clock, staff documents.

Photo by A. Ustinov

Leaders of service dogs are sent to the battle line.

Photo TASS

Competitions in bayonet fighting in the TsPKiO them. Gorky.

Photographer unknown

Calculation, to battle!

Photo by D. Baltermants

Defense of Sevastopol.

The fighting of the marines.

Photographer unknown

The first trophies of combat units of the Southern Front (more than 60 bicycles).

Photo by B. Yaroslavtsev

The calculation of the "hearers" of Sergeant A. S. Kotikov at work.

Photo by Y. Solovyov

The gun crew of Lieutenant Zuev is conducting a gun through the forest thickets to a new firing line.

Photo by G. Konovalov

Diving group for checking the submarine before entering the combat operation. Northern Fleet.

Photo by E. Khaldei

Photo by D. Baltermants

Commander of the 122nd Tank Brigade Lieutenant Colonel Mikhail Ivanovich Rudoy (left) and tank commander Ivan Vasilyevich Vlaskin.

Photo by A. Ustinov

Tanks are firing.

Photo by D. Baltermants

Armor-piercers.

Photo by N. Bode

In defense of the motherland.

Photo by S. Strunnikov

The guerrillas are going to combat reconnaissance.

Leningrad region.

Photo by S. Loskutov

Stalingrad.

Photo by E. Evzerikhin

Stalingrad fountain.

Photo by E. Evzerikhin

Photo by D. Baltermants

Prisoners.

Photo by N. Bode

Prisoners from the "cauldron" near Kalach.

Photo by N. Bode

Stalingrad. Fight for the house.

Photo by G. Lipskerov

Fight on the territory of the German airfield.

Photo by G. Kapustensky

Stalingrad. Fight in the shops of the plant "Red October".

Photo by G. Samsonov

Stalingrad. For them, the war is over.

Photo by G. Lipskerov

Stalingrad. Prisoners.

Russian frost will be remembered for a long time.

Photo by G. Lipskerov

Liberation of Kharkov.

Photo by A. Shaikhet

The landing of the marines. Northern Fleet.

Photo by R. Diamenta

Partisan attack.

Photo by M. Trakhman

The calculation of the PTR Sergeant Pavel Tarasov, under the cover of a smoke screen, approaches enemy tanks.

Photo by M. Savin

Soviet soldiers overcome the barbed wire.

Photo by Y. Solovyov

Subdivision of the N-th part on the march.

Photographer unknown

Artillerymen carry shells to their battery.

Photographer unknown

Stand to death!

Photo by E. Evzerikhin

Kursk Bulge. How the Tigers were beaten. Through and through! The tank commander, the brave lieutenant B. V. Smelov, knocked out the Tiger tank. Tov. Smelov shows Lieutenant Likhnyakevich (who knocked out 2 Nazi tanks in the last battle) a hole in the Tiger's turret. It was made by an ordinary armor-piercing projectile from a 76-millimeter tank gun. Tower "Tiger" all in cracks from several hits of our shells.

Photo by N. Bode

Photo by M. Savin

Machine gunner and his "Maxim".

Photo by A. Egorov

Children of war. Village near Belgorod.

Photo by N. Bode

On the heels of the enemy.

Photo by G. Lipskerov

Offensive.

Photo by N. Bode

The crew of the armored vehicle Lieutenant V. N. Kokhmansky for the repair of the railway track.

Photo by Y. Solovyov

Guard Lieutenant Sviridov is the best signalman.

At the forefront.

Photographer unknown

In polar latitudes.

Bear cub Masha - a pupil of the North Sea.

Photo by S. Shimansky

Leningrad. Nevsky.

Photo by S. Shimansky

On the street of the city of Berdichev.

Photo by P. Troshkin

Residents of the liberated Kirovograd meet their liberators soldiers and officers of the Red Army.

Photo by G. Omelchuk

Photo leaflet dedicated to the lifting of the blockade of Leningrad.

Photographer unknown

Delivery of ammunition on dogs. Karelia.

Photo by S. Konovalov

Crossing artillery crew.

Photo by D. Baltermants

Forcing the Sivash.

Photo by A. Ustinov

At the crossing.

Photo by A. Shaikhet

Tachanki at the parade of the Horse Guards of the Guards, Lieutenant General N. S. Kulikovsky.

Photo by I. Utkin

Motorized Intelligence.

Moldova.

Photo by Y. Ryumkin

Transportation of weapons and shells to the line of fire.

Photo by N. Shestakov

On the outskirts of East Prussia, machine gunners clear the shore of the lake from the Germans.

Photo by M. Savin

Battle with the Nazi invaders on the outskirts of Warsaw Prague.

Photo by Y. Ryumkin

Street fight.

Photo by B. Yaroslavtsev

Fight on the streets of Belgrade.

Photo by E. Khaldei

The best crew of the attack aircraft-hunter "Alexander Suvorov" is junior lieutenant V. T. Aleksukhin and gunner A. D. Gamayunov.

Photo by S. Guraria

Prisoners.

Photo by B. Yaroslavtsev

March.

Photo by D. Baltermants

Photo by D. Baltermants

Let the soldiers get some sleep ...

Czechoslovakia.

Photo by G. Lipskerov

Destroyed and burned houses in Warsaw.

Photo by Y. Ryumkin

Street fight in Mühlhausen.

East Germany.

Photo by A. Shaikhet

Silence on the Oder. Germany.

Photo by D. Baltermants

The soldiers pull out the car.

Photo by A. Ustinov

Traffic controller Tanya - Artemyeva Tatyana Alexandrovna.

Photo by M. Redkin

American soldiers demonstrate the weapons of the "Willis".

On the Elbe.

Photo by A. Ustinov

They give up.

Photo by A. Ustinov

Deputy Supreme Commander-in-Chief Marshal of the Soviet Union G.K. Zhukov before signing the German Surrender Act. Berlin.

Photo by E. Khaldei

Fraternization of Soviet and American soldiers.

Photo by N. Shestakov

Victory Parade on Red Square.

22.11.2016

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Wars should not have a place in a civilized society, but they, big or small, are constantly being waged. We have all seen many photographs of the Great Patriotic War. Photojournalists, risking their lives along with the military, were able to leave us a lot of evidence, thanks to which we can plunge into history ...

Russian prisoners of war. Lithuania, Vilna, June 1941.


War correspondent. Summer, 1941.

But how many of us have seen military evidence from the other side? Are we interested in this? Are we ready to see how the invaders of our land perceived this war? Still, no matter how painful it is to look at some of these pictures, studying them can give a lot to understand that page of our history.

Captured Russian officer. Summer, 1941


Soldiers on a landing boat. Summer, 1942


Captured during Operation Citadel. Summer, 1943


Motorized Squad. Summer, 1943


SS officer. 1944


SS troops at rest. 1944


Rocket mortars. Summer, 1942


Caterpillar tractors and guns. March-April 1944.


German SS cavalry. July 16, 1941.


A column of Russian prisoners. July 1941


Tank officer. Summer 1941.

Tankers. Summer 1941.

Conversing soldiers. Summer 1941.


Himmler in Kharkov. 1942-1943


Himmler with officers. 1942-1943


Soldiers from the ditch fire from a grenade launcher. Summer 1941.

Column of German StuG III assault guns on the march to the Caucasus.

A column of Soviet prisoners of war. In the center is a fleeing soldier - perhaps trying to escape.


Column of tanks of the SS division "Leibstandarte SS Adolf Hitler" near Kharkov. The third battle for Kharkov.


The commander of the 5th SS Panzer Division "Viking" Standartenführer Johannes-Rudolf Mühlenkamp with a fox terrier in the Kovel area.

The commander distributes cigarettes to his soldiers. Pomerania, late February 1945.


Commander of the Red Army before execution. August-September 1941, Ukraine

Tankers examine the trace of a Soviet shell on the armor of their tank.


The commander of the Finnish squadron at the Utti airfield near the Messerschmitt Bf.109G-2 fighter


German soldiers inspect a Soviet Ar-2 dive bomber shot down near Demyansk. Very rare car (only about 200 pieces were produced).


German soldiers cross the state border of the USSR.

German soldiers pose in front of the giant French tank Char 2C.

A series of documentary photographs dedicated to the Victory Day in the Great Patriotic War 1941-1945. A selection of 95 rare shots military equipment and participants in the Second World War. A unique photo from the events of 1941-1945, military operations in history black and white photography. Watch online documentary photo of the Second World War 1941-1945.

Junior Sergeant Konstantin Alexandrovich Shuty (06/18/1926-12/27/2004) (left), brother of Mikhail Shutoy, with a fellow soldier, also a junior sergeant.

Junior sergeant, mortar - Nikolai Polikarpov at a firing position near Kiev. 1st Ukrainian Front.

Marine of the US 5th Division, shot in the head by a Japanese sniper (you can see the bullet hole on the helmet).

Sailors of the Soviet destroyer of project 7 "Crushing" with a ship's pet, the area of ​​the bow torpedo tubes, a view of the bow.

German Junkers Ju-87 Stuka dive bomber under repair at a field airfield.

The beginning of the counterattack of one of the units of the 270th Infantry Division of the Soviet 7th Guards Army on the Kursk Bulge.

Major General Leonid Ilyich Brezhnev (center), head of the political department of the 4th Ukrainian Front, future leader of the USSR in 1964-1982, during the Victory Parade.

Head of Communications of the 51st MTAP Bykov V.V. instructs gunners-radio operators before the flight Kolberg (Germany) - Pernov (Estonia). From left to right Mikhalev, Karpov, Archakov, Shishkin, Volkov, Chekanov, Bykov.

Unidentified female partisans of the 1st Proletarian Brigade of NOAU, armed with Czech light machine guns ZB vz. 26. The village of Zharkovo near Belgrade on the eve of the battles for the city.

Unknown Soviet female snipers at the dugout. On overcoats are sergeant's shoulder straps, in the hands of a Mosin rifle with a PU optical sight (Shortened Sight).

An unknown American soldier of the US 87th Infantry Division, killed by a German sniper in the spring of 1945 in the city of Koblenz, Germany. The soldier's weapon is a BAR automatic rifle.

German 105-mm self-propelled guns "Vespe" (Sd.Kfz.124 Wespe) from the 74th regiment of self-propelled artillery of the 2nd tank division of the Wehrmacht, passes next to an abandoned Soviet 76-mm gun ZIS-3 near the city of Orel.

German self-propelled guns "Vespe" after being hit by a large-caliber projectile.

German self-propelled guns "Hummel", destroyed by Soviet artillery near the city of Lvov in July 1944.

German self-propelled guns Marder II in ambush, between houses, in a Ukrainian village.

German quad 20-mm self-propelled anti-aircraft gun (ZSU) "Werbelwind" based on the tank Pz.Kpfw. IV, destroyed by a direct hit by a large-caliber projectile.

German huntsmen at the MG-34 machine gun on the Eastern Front.

German officers captured by French soldiers during the liberation of Paris. Hotel "Majestic", chosen by the Wehrmacht during the occupation.

German infantrymen and tankers choose bottles of alcoholic beverages in a warehouse.

German soldiers in a captured Soviet T-34 tank. The machine is ready for shipment to Germany for testing. The inscription “O.K.H.Wa. Prvf. 6" (military acceptance 6).

German soldiers inspect the captured positions of Soviet troops.

Another solid portion of retro photos in the project 20th century in color photographs.
Today we will look at what the world was like many years ago. More precisely, not the world, but.

In general, there are a lot of color photographs of 1941. The Germans shot on Agfa (Agfacolor) film, the Americans and the British on Kodachrome. Soviet color photographs of the Great Patriotic War are not known.

As you know, the German attack on the USSR was immediately preceded by a blitzkrieg against Yugoslavia. The operation lasted from April 6 to April 17, 1941 and ended on April 17 with the surrender of this Balkan kingdom.

Parts of the 14th motorized corps of the Wehrmacht in the Serbian city of Nis, April 1941:

At the same time, the Germans in April 1941 captured Greece. Raising the Nazi flag over the Acropolis:

In 1941, the so-called " Battle for England» - air war between Luftwaffe and the Royal Air Force (RAF).

Some scenes of this war were captured by the famous photographer Robert Capa.
Here we see a damaged British Blenheim bomber that managed to make an emergency landing on its territory:

The Anglo-German war was also going on at sea.
The German battleship Scharnhorst at the end of Operation Berlin, during which 8 British transport ships were sunk in the North Atlantic, March 1941:

Outside of Europe, from the very beginning of 1941, there were battles in the African theater. Back in December 1940, the British from Egypt went on the offensive against the Italian grouping in Libya and inflicted a significant defeat on it.
During February 1941, German troops under the command of General Rommel were transferred to Libya, which led to a halt in the further advance of the British. And already at the end of March, Rommel's units went on the offensive.

A column of German troops in Paris, 1941. photographer Andre Zucca:

The Germans parade on captured French tanks in Paris, 1941:

Hitler and the generals inspecting the 800-mm "Fat Gustav" gun in 1941:

The “Fat Gustav” gun weighed 1344 tons and some parts had to be dismantled to move it along the railway tracks. The gun was as high as a four-story house, had a width of 6 meters and a length of 42 meters. The maintenance of the Fat Gustav gun was carried out by a team of 500 people under the command of a high-ranking army rank. The team needed almost three days of time to prepare the gun for firing.
A high-explosive projectile from this gun could hit a target at a distance of 45 kilometers.

May 1941 Equipment of the 6th German Panzer Division in East Prussia before the invasion of the USSR:

German Foreign Minister Ribbentrop at a press conference in Berlin announces the start of the war against the Soviet Union:

In 1941, the Wehrmacht had about one and a half million cameras in their backpacks.
German soldiers, officers and photojournalists meticulously recorded every step on Soviet soil. Of course, they especially liked to shoot trophies and broken equipment of the Red Army.

Soviet tank T-28:

The Nazis inspect the Soviet T-34 tank:

Soviet tank KV-2 shot down in the battle for the city of Ostrov, July 1941:

The battlefield near Ostrov, early July 1941:

Damaged Soviet I-16 fighter:

Damaged Soviet fighters I-153 Chaika:

On their sector of the front, the Finns also filmed, often in color.

Burnt Soviet armored car on the Karelian Isthmus, 1941:

Germans in Grodno, June 1941:

Germans in Lithuania, June 1941:

The bell tower will be restored only in 1973.

July 41st:

Soviet prisoners of war:

In September 1941, the Germans captured Kiev:

In the 20th of September, the enemy took Peterhof:

On October 2, 1941, Petrozavodsk was occupied by the Finnish Karelian Army and renamed Äänislinna:

Advanced German units of the 11th Panzer Division near Volokolamsk, November 1941:

This is where their Blitzkrieg came to an end.

Now a small satellite gallery of Nazi Germany in 1941.

Soldiers of the Spanish "Blue Division", which fought against the USSR near Novgorod and Leningrad, 1941:

Soldiers of the French Volunteer Legion, 1941:

Having defeated Yugoslavia, the Germans created on part of its territory the puppet "Independent State of Croatia", whose army became one of Hitler's most zealous satellites.
In this picture, the commander of the Croatian ground forces, General Slavko Shtanzer, 1941:

On December 7, the Japanese army launched a surprise attack on the US naval base at Pearl Harbor. World War II opened a new theater in the Pacific.
A light boat takes part in the rescue of the crew of the battleship West Virginia, Pearl Harbor, December 7, 1941:

According to Hawaiian tradition, American sailors honor the memory of their fallen comrades after the shelling of Pearl Harbor, 1941:

Since December 41st, the Japanese have waged a simultaneous war against the Americans, the British and the Chinese. The war with the latter began in 1937.
The Japanese did not have a color film, so you have to be content with colored pictures.

Japanese light tank Type 97 Te-Ke against the backdrop of a burning house in China, 1941:

Operating on an unimaginably vast area, the Japanese in 1941 captured French Indochina and the Dutch East Indies (now the territory of Indonesia).

Soldiers of the 5th Infantry Division of Japan in occupied Saigon, December 1941:

Japanese battleship "Hiei2" at sunset in Saeki Bay, 1941: