By the Bronze Horseman, Leningrad
Photo from the archive of Natalia SevastyanovaWoman with sheaf
Yevgeny Khaldey/MAMM/MDFA rest house in Irkutsk Region
Archive of Yulia AntonovaActress Lyubov Orlova
Archive of Olga Evgenievna Shitova-BelovaTwo days before the start of the war. Graduates of 1941
From the archive of Sergey NikonenkoConstruction workers
Vladislav Mikosha/MAMM/MDFConstruction of the Dnieper-Bug Canal. Women with shovels
Evgeny Khaldey/MAMM/MDF17-year-old nurse Nina Burakova bandaging a wounded soldier
Yevgeny Khaldey/MAMM/MDFAt a defense factory. Female "Stakhanovite" A.M. Maryashina at work
State Historical Museum of the Southern UralsGirl and soldier at a well
Mark Markov-Grinberg/TASSDemobilized women soldiers head home
Mark Markov-Grinberg/TASSPortrait of Evdokia Pasko, Hero of the Soviet Union and navigator of the all-female 46th Taman Guards Night Bomber Aviation Regiment
Yevgeny Khaldey/MAMM/MDF/TASS“My contribution”: an elderly woman knits socks
Arkady Shaikhet/MAMM/MDFMy grandmother Alexandra Gerasimovna Ilinykh (Salnik)
Photo from the archive of Elena BykovaDefender of the besieged Leningrad after the war
Photo from the archive of Marina KorotkovaClassmates in the streets of the ruined Minsk
Archive of Vladimir KarlovKomsomol girls at the XI Congress of the All-Union Leninist Young Communist League
Sergey Vasin/MAMM/MDFVacation in Crimea
Andrey Novikov/MAMM/MDFA riverside walk
Sergey Vasin/MAMM/MDFAnna Akhmatova at the home of Viktor Ardov
Yevgeny Khaldey/MAMM/MDFA rest house in Irkutsk Region
Archive of Yulia AntonovaWoman on board a steamship
Unknown author/MAMM/MDFArtek camp in Crimea. View of the Adalar Islands
Unknown author/MAMM/MDFActress Lidiya Smirnova
Viktor Ruykovich/MAMM/MDFIf using any of Russia Beyond's content, partly or in full, always provide an active hyperlink to the original material.
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