Soviet Union

Anti aircraft fire near St. Isaac’s Cathedral against a German air raid during the Siege of Leningrad, 1941. The blockade and encirclement of Leningrad was one of the longest and most horrific sieges in history, lasting 872 days between September 8th 1941 and January 27th 1944, when the weakened Axis …

A Romanian IAR-81C aircraft being inspected by Soviet personnel after a crash, sometime between 1942 and 1944. The IAR-81C was an upgrade on Romania’s main WW2 fighter, IAR 80. The IAR 80 first flew in 1939, and at the time it was comparable in performance with similar aircrafts of more …

An old Russian lady sobbing among ruins during the siege of Leningrad. The blockade and encirclement of Leningrad was one of the longest and most horrific sieges in history, lasting 872 days between September 8th 1941 and January 27th 1944, when the weakened Axis forces were expelled by the Soviet …

The Katyusha rockets were dreaded by German soldiers, which nicknamed them “Stalin’s organs”, due to the appearance of their launch pad and the terrifying sound they made. They were mentioned in many memoirs by German soldiers on the Eastern Front. The Katyusha Multiple Rocket Launcher was so effective that it’s …

Two Soviet snipers, members of Sydir Kovpak’s partisan unit in the Ukrainian Communist resistance movement against Germany. Soviet women played an important role during WW2, with more than 800.000 serving in various branches of the USSR armed forces. More than 50% of the medical personnel was also female. Major-General Sydir …

Soviet workers assemble tank engines for the Red Army at the Kirov Factory in Leningrad, 1943. Book suggestion ⤵️ 📖 Soviet Tanks And Combat Vehicles Of World War Two (Steven Zaloga, 1984)

Citizens of Leningrad gathered around an unexploded SC-1000 bomb dropped by the Germans over the city in 1943, during the Siege of Leningrad. The blockade and encirclement of Leningrad was one of the longest and most horrific sieges in history, lasting 872 days between September 8th 1941 and January 27th …

Soviet troops pictured during a charge near Leningrad on January 1st, 1943, as their attempts to break the German siege of the city were becoming increasingly vigorous. The soldier in the foreground is holding a PPD-40 submachine gun. The blockade and encirclement of Leningrad was one of the longest and …