Unforgotten victory (35 pictures)

Rare and unusual images of the Second World War. To the 66 anniversary of the Great Victory.

View of the Brandenburg Gate and Unter den Linden, just after the capture of the city:


Ruined gasholder in Schöneberg:


US Army Captain Ernest F. Mills nails on Berlin street signpost in Russian:


Dismantling of the Nazi anti-aircraft guns on the roof of a building in the Tiergarten:


Trams on Berlin Street:


Forage Service SA lucky horse feed. Right - an armored car Daimler Mk V British Army:


Berliners at the tram stop:


German student helps the Soviet military take bronze eagle with the Nazi Reich Chancellery pediment:


Soviet soldiers in the room bunker where Hitler committed suicide, and Eva Braun:


Shaving Soviet troops.


Moscow, 1942
Women and children in the shelter at the metro station "Mayakovskaya" in Moscow.


Stalingrad, 1942
Mikhail Baranov (10.21.1921 - 01.17.1943) Hero of the Soviet Union, deputy squadron commander of the 183rd Fighter Regiment 289th Fighter Division of the 8th Air Army of the Southwestern Front, First Lieutenant.


Military parade on Red Square. Moscow, November 7, 1941.


Stalingrad, August 1942
Fountain "Children's dance" on the station square of Stalingrad after the Nazi air raid. Station 23 August 1942 bombed goda.Voda spewing from the mouths of crocodiles and frogs sitting around children. Fountain in the pre-war period was typical, was the same, for example, in Voronezh. After the war, the fountain was restored first, and then removed as not representing the artistic value.


Karachev, Bryansk region, 1943
With the release of the city Karacheva ordinary Shirobokov met his sisters who escaped death. Their mother and father shot by the Germans.


Kursk. Running-infantry tanks. Red Army soldiers in the trenches and the T-34 tank, which overcomes the trench, passing over them.


Zhizdra, Kaluga region, 1943
Zhizdra - a small ancient town on the banks of the same river in the south of the Kaluga region, the first mention of Zhizdra refers to 1146. On 5 October 1941 the city fell to German occupation. From February to August 1943 on the outskirts of the city once again fierce fighting. Before the retreat of the invaders for two weeks systematically destroyed the city, burning it on a quarterly basis. Stone churches and houses exploding. As a result, the city was completely destroyed. Were also poisoned wells, mined roads, sidewalks and gardens. Able-bodied urban youth was forcibly sent to Germany.


1943
Anna Nikolaevna cunning, her daughter Zoe hug his son and brother - Volodya tricky. Their husband and father, Nikolai Mikhailovich Sly - Junior Sergeant, the gun commander of the 2nd Battalion Fighter 3rd Guards Fighter antitank teams. Communist. He was awarded the Order of the Patriotic War II degree of destruction in one battle 6 German tanks, including 3 "Tigers" and to a platoon of enemy infantry. Receive the award did not - was killed in the attack by an enemy mine fragment July 25, 1943 near the village of Pohvisnevo Kursk region. Buried at the site of the battle is 2 km from the village. Volodya Sly Guard Colonel I. Gorovenko tacked on hand sign fighter who wore his father. In the background image officers 3rd Fighter antitank teams.


Rostov-on-Don, February 1943
Civilians in the streets of liberated Rostov-on-Don. A sign on the building of the State Bank in German: "Job».


Stalingrad, 1943
Soviet soldiers carry firearms in liberated Stalingrad. Sleigh rides can be seen as a weapon of the German and Soviet production.


Rostov-on-Don, 1943
The crew of the Soviet armored car BA-10: Sergeant E.Endrekson, Sergeant VP Ershakov and Shepherd Djulbars. Southern Front.


1944
Downed German Messerschmitt fighter BF.109 hit the ground.


Soviet soldier blows samovar in the dugout.


Bulgaria, September 1944
Residents of the Bulgarian town celebrating the liberation from the Nazis. Name of the person in the foreground - Koch Karadzhev, Bulgarian guerrillas.


1944
Soviet soldiers handing out letters to colleagues. The original title of the photo: "Almost there».


Calculation of the Soviet 45-mm anti-tank gun position changes.


Berlin, Germany, May 1945
Soviet soldiers in Berlin tram car. Author's title shot - "First" passengers "Berlin tram».


1945
Jewish family, freed from the Budapest ghetto.


Potsdam, Germany, 1945
Chairman of the Council of People's Commissars of the USSR and Chairman of the State Committee of Defense of the USSR Joseph Stalin at the Potsdam Conference, held in Potsdam from July 17 to August 2, 1945 to determine the next steps for the post-war Europe.


Moscow, 1945
Celebrating the victory on the big stone bridge in the Moscow Kremlin.


Potsdam, Germany, 1945
The Potsdam Conference was held in Potsdam from 17 July to 2 August 1945 with the leadership of the three major powers of the anti during World War II in order to determine further steps to post-war Europe.


Army General Georgy Zhukov


West Prussia, Germany, May 1945
Human remains in the crematorium furnace Stutthof concentration camp. Place: neighborhood of Danzig (now Gdansk, Poland).


Soviet nurse Olga and Maria Bolbas Gulevitch awarded medals "For Military Merit," read a thank you letter that came with the forefront of lechivshegosya in their hospital a soldier of the Red Army.


Regulirovschitsa Maria Shalneva. Berlin. 1 maya1945 of


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