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Gallery Package - Sovinformbureau 1941-1960
Photo Archive 1900-1940 | Novosti Press Agency 1961-1990 | RIA Novosti 1991-2007

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Grigory Chertov<br>Leningrad in the first days of WWII.  Enemy air raid, 1941.<br>©RIA Novosti / TopFoto

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Anatoly Garanin<br>Fighting in the Moscow environs, 1941<br>©RIA Novosti / TopFoto

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Max Alpert<br>Battalion commander Alexei Yeremenko who died in battle in 1942.<br>©RIA Novosti / TopFoto

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Samary Gurary<br>Soviet troops in a liberated village near Moscow, 1941<br>©RIA Novosti / TopFoto

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Boris Kudoyarov<br>Nevsky Prospekt, Leningrad, autumn, 1941<br>©RIA Novosti / TopFoto

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Izrail Ozersky<br>Soldier's Service, 1943<br>©RIA Novosti / TopFoto

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Georgy Zelma<br>Stalingrad, 1942<br>©RIA Novosti / TopFoto

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Ivan Shagin<br>In a liberated village near Moscow, 1942.<br>©RIA Novosti / TopFoto

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Boris Kudovarov<br>Besieged Leningrad, 1942<br>©RIA Novosti / TopFoto

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Georgy Zelma<br>Fighting in the vicinity of Stalingrad, 1942<br>©RIA Novosti / TopFoto

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Max Alpert<br>A lull on the forward positions, 1942<br>©RIA Novosti / TopFoto

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Georgy Zelma<br>A tank battle near Stalingrad, 1942<br>©RIA Novosti / TopFoto

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Vsevelod Tarasevich<br>IL 2 attack aircraft on a mission, 1943<br>©RIA Novosti / TopFoto

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Mark Redkin<br>Senior Sergeant A. Frolchenko, Kursk Bulge, 1943.<br>©RIA Novosti / TopFoto

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Oslo Fridland<br>Thanksgiving service in a Kharkov church, 1943<br>Kharkiv, or Kharkov, is the second largest city in Ukraine. It is the administrative center of the Kharkiv Oblast (province), as well as the administrative center of the surrounding Kharkivskyi Raion (district) within the oblast.<br>©RIA Novosti / TopFoto

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Max Alpert<br>Snipers, 1943<br>©RIA Novosti / TopFoto

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Boris Yaroslavtsev<br>Byelorussian villagers greeting liberator soldiers, 1944.<br>©RIA Novosti / TopFoto

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Georgy Zelma<br>An enemy plane brought down, 1944<br>©RIA Novosti / TopFoto

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Georgy Petrusov<br>German POWs in Moscow, 1944<br>©RIA Novosti / TopFoto

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Semyon Raskin<br>Prague welcoming liberator soldiers, 1945<br>©RIA Novosti / TopFoto

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Ivan Shagin<br>Victory salute in Berlin, 1945<br>©RIA Novosti / TopFoto

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Ivan Shagin<br>The meeting on the Elbe, Germany, 1945<br>Russian and American troops joined hands at the River Elbe in Germany, bringing the end of the war a step closer.<br>April 25, 1945, was the day the U.S. 1st Army’s 69th Inf Div advanced eastward to the Elbe River and met the Soviets’ 1st Ukranian Army, thereby cutting Nazi Germany in two. The six-year European phase of history’s most destructive war ended 13 days later with Germany’s unconditional surrender. <br>©RIA Novosti / TopFoto

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Mikhail Ozersky<br>Greeting victorious soldiers in Belorussky railway station, Moscow, 1945.<br>Belorussky Rail Terminal is one of nine rail terminals in Moscow. It was built in 1870.<br>©RIA Novosti / TopFoto

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Boris Kudoyarov<br>Victory salute in Red Square, Moscow, 9 May 1945.<br>©RIA Novosti / TopFoto

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Dmitry Chernov<br>Joseph Stalin addressing the Moscow's Stalin Constituency electorate, 1946.<br>RIA Novosti archive<br>©RIA Novosti / TopFoto

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Vasily Malyshev<br>Marshal Semyon Budyonny in a military parade in Moscow on 7th November 1947<br>Semyon Mikhailovich Budyonny, spelled Budennii, Budenny, Budyenny etc, Russian April 25 [O.S. April 13] 1883 - October 26, 1973) was a Soviet military commander and an ally of Soviet leader Joseph Stalin.<br>©RIA Novosti / TopFoto

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Ivan Shagin<br>The Soviet Dynamo soccer team in London, 1946.<br>Dinamo, also Dynamo,was the oldest sports and physical training society of the Soviet Union, created in 1923. The name given to the society was supposed to mean &quotPower in Motion" from Greek: dynamis -power, and Latin: motio, -motion.<br>©RIA Novosti / TopFoto

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Boris Kinelovsky<br>General Erwin von Lahousen testifying before the International Military Tribunal, Nuremberg, 1945.<br>Generalmajor Erwin von Lahousen (1897 - 1955) was Chief of German sabotage during World War II and a key player in an attempt to assassinate Adolf Hitler.<br>©RIA Novosti / TopFoto

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Vladislav Mikosha<br>T. Meinikov<br>Magnitogorsk Iron and Steel Combine furnace worker, 1946.<br>©RIA Novosti / TopFoto

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Max Alpert<br>Blast furnaces of the Zaporozhye Iron and Steel Works, 1949.<br>Zaporizhia is a city in south-central Ukraine, which rests on the banks of the Dnieper River. It is the administrative center of the Zaporizhia Oblast (province), as well as the administrative center of the surrounding Zaporizkyi Raion (district) within the oblast.<br>©RIA Novosti / TopFoto

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Georgie Zelma<br>Praskovya Angelina's tractor-driver team at a Zaporozhets collective farm wheat field, 1946.<br>©RIA Novosti / TopFoto

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Ivan Shagin<br>ZIS-110 assembly line at the Moscow Autoworks, 1946.<br>(ZIS) ZIL-110 was a limousine from ZIL introduced in 1946. The 110 was a copy of a 1942 Packard 180. It was powered by a 6 litre, 8 cylinder engine producing 140 hp and giving a top speed of over 140 km/h. It was made in both sedan and convertible versions. Production ended in 1958<br>©RIA Novosti / TopFoto

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Ivan Shagin<br>Before a Dynamo Stadium soccer match in Leningradsky Prospekt, Moscow, 1949.<br>©RIA Novosti / TopFoto

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Anatoly Gornshtein<br>Vera Pashennaya and Igor Ilyinsky  in Alexander Ostrovsky's &quotA Profitable Position", Maly Theatre, Moscow, 1949.<br>Vera Pashennaya (c.1887-1962)<br>Igor Vladimirovich Ilyinsky (1901-1987) was the favorite comic actor of Vsevolod Meyerhold who starred in a number of his world-famous productions. Following Meyerhold's repression he moved to the Malyi Theatre, where he worked for several decades, until being overpowered by blindness. Shortly before his death, he was declared a Hero of Socialist Labour. His autobiography was published in 1961.<br>©RIA Novosti / TopFoto<br>

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Vladimir Smetannikov<br>May Day parade in Stalingrad, 1946.<br>©RIA Novosti / TopFoto

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Sculptor Sergei Konenkov, 1947<br>RIA Novosti archive<br>Sergey Timofeyevich Konenkov (July 10, 1874 - December 9, 1971) was a famous Russian and Soviet sculptor. He was often called &quotthe Russian Rodin".<br>©RIA Novosti / TopFoto

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Olga Ignatovich<br>Film director Vsevolod Pudovkin on location, 1950<br>Vsevolod Illarionovich Pudovkin (February 16, 1893 - June 20, 1953) was a Russian film director who developed influential theories of montage. <br>©RIA Novosti / TopFoto

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Mikhail Botashev<br>Alexander Khomich, Soviet soccer team goalkeeper, 1950.<br>©RIA Novosti / TopFoto

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Yakov Bosin<br>Samarkand Uzbekistan, 14th-15th century arch, 1950.<br>©RIA Novosti / TopFoto

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Viktor Tyukkel<br>Yak-18 planes in the air, 1958.<br>The Yakovlev Yak-18 (NATO reporting name Max) was a tandem two-seat military primary trainer aircraft. Originally powered by one 160 hp Shvetsov M-11FR-1 radial piston engine, it entered service in 1946.<br>©RIA Novosti / TopFoto

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Mikhail Ozersky<br>A winter day in Moscow, 1951.<br>©RIA Novosti / TopFoto

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Dmitry Chernov<br>Joseph Stalin's funeral in Red Square, Moscow, 1953.<br>Joseph Vissarionovich Dzhugashvili (December 18 [O.S. December 6] 1878[1] - March 5, 1953), better known by his adopted name, Joseph Stalin (alternatively transliterated Josef Stalin), was General Secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union's Central Committee from 1922 until 1953. Despite his formal position being originally without significant influence, and his office being nominally but one of several Central Committee Secretariats, Stalin's increasing control of the Party from 1928 onwards led to him becoming the de facto party leader and the dictator of his country.<br>©RIA Novosti / TopFoto

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Nikita Khrushchev addressing a public rally as a new Moscow Metro line is commissioned, Moscow, 1952.<br>Nikita Sergeyevich Khrushchev - surname more accurately romanized as Khrushchyov; April 17 [O.S. April 5] 1894 - September 11, 1971) was the leader of the Soviet Union after the death of Joseph Stalin. He was First Secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union from 1953 to 1964 and Chairman of the Council of Ministers from 1958 to 1964. He was removed from power by his party colleagues in 1964 and replaced by Leonid Brezhnev. He spent the last seven years of his life under the close supervision of the KGB.<br>©RIA Novosti / TopFoto

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Max Alpert<br>Schoolteacher, Dagestan, 1950.<br>©RIA Novosti / TopFoto

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Iosif Tolchan<br>Galina Ulanova as Juliet in Sergei Prokofiev's ballet, &quotRomeo and Juliet" - 1952<br>Galina Sergeyevna Ulánova (8 January 1910 (O.S. 26 December 1909} - 21 March 1998) has the reputation of the greatest Soviet ballerina. Her flat in Moscow is designated a national museum, and there are monuments to her in Saint Petersburg and Stockholm.<br>©RIA Novosti / TopFoto

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Boris Utkin<br>Comedian Arkady Raikin with his son Kostya in 1957<br>Arkadiy Isaakovich Raikin ((October 24 [O.S. October 10] 1911, Riga - December 17, 1987, Moscow) was a Soviet stand up comedian of Jewish descent who led the school of Soviet and Russian humorists for about half a century.<br>©RIA Novosti / TopFoto

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Vladimir Minkevich<br>First-grade school children, 1959.<br>©RIA Novosti / TopFoto

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Yakov Berliner<br>French movie star Gerard Philipe in Moscow, 1955<br>Gérard Philipe (December 4, 1922 - November 22, 1959) - prominent French actor.<br>©RIA Novosti / TopFoto

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Nikilai Kozlovsky<br>Hunting Trophy<br>©RIA Novosti / TopFoto

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Anatoly Kochetko<br>In the Antarctic, 1957<br>©RIA Novosti / TopFoto

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Dmitry Debabov<br>Drying polar fox pelts in Chukchi Peninsula, 1956<br>©RIA Novosti / TopFoto

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Vladimir Minkevich<br>Salmon drying in a Udeghe village<br>Khabarovsk Territory, 1958<br>©RIA Novosti / TopFoto

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Ivan Shagin<br>Muscovites welcoming Latin American delegates to the 12th International Youth Festival <br>©RIA Novosti / TopFoto

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Yakov Berliner<br>Torah recital in a Moscow synagogue, 1956.<br>©RIA Novosti / TopFoto

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Alexander Cheprunov<br>Paul Robeson at a Kremlin youth ball, 1959.<br>Paul Robeson (April 9, 1898 - January 23, 1976) was a multi-lingual American actor, athlete, bass-baritone concert singer, writer, civil rights activist, Spingarn Medal winner, and Lenin Peace Prize laureate<br>©RIA Novosti / TopFoto

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Mikhail Ozersky<br>Composer Dmitry Shostakovich, 1960.<br>Dmitri Dmitrievich Shostakovich (September 25 [O.S. September 12] 1906 - August 9, 1975) was a Russian composer of the Soviet period. He had a complex relationship with the Soviet government, suffering two official denunciations of his music in 1936 and 1948 and the periodic banning of his work. At the same time, he remained the most popular Soviet composer of his generation and received a number of accolades and state awards, and served in the Supreme Soviet.<br>©RIA Novosti / TopFoto

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Alexei Bushkin<br>Highland Morning, 1963.<br>©RIA Novosti / TopFoto

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Valery Shustov<br>Baikal at peace, Grand Prix at the Photomundi show, 1969.<br>Lake Baikal lies in Southern Siberia in Russia between Irkutsk Oblast to the northwest and Buryatia to the southeast near the city of Irkutsk.  The lake is the deepest and oldest lake in the world as well as the largest (by volume) freshwater lake.  It contains over one fifth of the world's liquid fresh surface water and more than 90% of Russia's liquid fresh surface water.  It is a World Heritage Site.<br>©RIA Novosti / TopFoto

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Vladimir Vdovin<br>Pears, 1960<br>©RIA Novosti / TopFoto

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Alexei Bushkin<br>Currants, Louis Lumiere silver medal winner at the 9th international art photography show in Bordeaux, France, 1957.<br>©RIA Novosti / TopFoto

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Alexei Bushkin<br>Grapes, Bronze winner at the 6th international art photography show in Ljubljana, Yugoslavia, 1956.<br>©RIA Novosti / TopFoto

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Alexei Bushkin<br>Thunderstorm, 1960<br>©RIA Novosti / TopFoto

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Boris Utkin<br>Pulkovo Observatory scientists watching the first man-made Earth satellite, 1957.<br>©RIA Novosti / TopFoto

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Max Alpert<br>Bratsk hydropower plant construction site, 1958.<br>©RIA Novosti / TopFoto

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Vsevolod Tarasevich<br>Harvesting in the Stavropol Territory, 1960<br>©RIA Novosti / TopFoto

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Max Alpert<br>Alpine meadow in Kabardino-Balkaria, North Caucasus, 1950.<br>©RIA Novosti / TopFoto

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Dmitry Sholomovich<br>Mountain climbers in the Tien-Shan, 1955.<br>The Tien Shan are a part of the Himalayan orogenic belt formed by the collision of the Indian and Eurasian plates in the Cenozoic era.  They are one of the longest mountain ranges in Central Asia.<br>©RIA Novosti / TopFoto

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