Photo chronicle of the Great Patriotic War. How it was

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May 9, 1945 is moving further and further away from us, but we still remember at what cost our fathers and grandfathers got that day and every year we celebrate this wonderful and tragic holiday together with veterans.
The photographs capture the last moments of the war, happy moments and joyful faces of soldiers.

Soviet soldiers in a Berlin tram

Maria Timofeevna Shalneva, corporal of the 87th separate road maintenance battalion, regulates the movement of military equipment near the Reichstag in Berlin. May 2, 1945

Soviet soldiers with an accordion on a street in Berlin

Soviet soldier in Goebbels' apartments in Hitler's bunker under the Reich Chancellery

Soviet mortar soldier Sergei Ivanovich Platov leaves his autograph on the column of the Reichstag

A British soldier leaves his autograph among the autographs of Soviet soldiers inside the Reichstag

Lydia Ruslanova performs "Katyusha" in front of the destroyed Reichstag. May 1945

Return from the front of the pilot, twice Hero of the Soviet Union Nikolai Mikhailovich Skomorokhov (1920-1994). He made 605 sorties, conducted more than 130 air battles, shot down 46 enemy aircraft personally and 8 in a group, 7th result in the list of Soviet fighter aces. Skomorokhov himself was never wounded during the entire war, he was never shot down.

A photograph of a Soviet soldier hoisting a red banner over the Reichstag on May 2, 1945, which later became known as the Banner of Victory, is one of the symbols of the Great Patriotic War along with the famous Combat photograph. This is one of a series of photographs taken by Yevgeny Chaldei on the roof of the Reichstag. Yevgeny Khaldei said: “There were four of us [on the roof of the Reichstag], but I well remember Alexei Kovalev, a resident of Kiev, who was tying the flag. I photographed him for a long time. In different poses. I remember that we were all very chilled then ... He and I were helped by the foreman of the reconnaissance company of the Guards Red Banner Order of Bogdan Khmelnitsky of the Zaporozhye Rifle Division Abdulkhakim Ismailov from Dagestan and Leonid Gorychev from Minsk. This version was published in official Soviet sources in a retouched form: the contrast of the image was increased and the watch (according to another version, the compass) was removed from the officer’s right hand, which could give rise to the accusation of Soviet military personnel of looting.

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Residents of Leningrad on fireworks in honor of the Victory

Soviet soldiers drink for the Victory - on the general formation of the unit, Victory over Nazi Germany was announced on May 9, 1945

A Soviet cavalryman is talking to a Russian girl who was taken to work in Germany and is now returning home.

German unit on bicycles advances to the place of surrender

The British disarm the capitulating Germans in the city of Soest. May 10, 1945

Meeting of Soviet marshals G.K. Zhukov and K.K. Rokossovsky with British Field Marshal B. Montgomery at the Brandenburg Gate in Berlin

Chief of the General Staff of the German Ground Forces, General of the Infantry Krebs (left), who arrived on May 1 at the location of the Soviet troops in order to draw the High Command into the negotiation process. On the same day, the general shot himself.

Soldiers who stormed the Reichstag. Reconnaissance platoon of the 674th Infantry Regiment of the 150th Idritskaya Infantry Division. In the foreground is Private Grigory Bulatov. It is believed that it was he who first hoisted the red flag on the Reichstag. However, the version spread that the first were the now famous Mikhail Egorov and Meliton Kantaria.

Mikhail Yegorov and Meliton Kantaria go out on the roof of the Reichstag on May 1 to hoist the Banner of Victory there.

Poet Yevgeny Dolmatovsky with a sculpted head of Hitler in Berlin. May 1945

Evgeny Dolmatovsky reads poetry at the Brandenburg Gate

Soviet soldiers, resting on the steps of the Reich Chancellery, consider the German awards, which were never awarded. Berlin. May 2, 1945

Red flag on the quadriga of the Brandenburg Gate

Fireworks in honor of the Victory on the roof of the Reichstag. Soldiers of the battalion under the command of the Hero of the Soviet Union S. Neustroev

Courtyard of the Reich Chancellery shortly after the end of the battles for Berlin. This photo is interesting because it shows a rare armored car. In 1933, Wilton-Fijenoord manufactured three armored vehicles for the Dutch East Indies.

General photo of the Soviet delegation during the signing of the Act of unconditional surrender of all German armed forces. Marshal Zhukov in the center. May 8, 1945

The train "We are from Berlin!", on which Soviet soldiers return from Berlin to Moscow

Rest at the echelon "We are from Berlin!" with Soviet soldiers

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Meeting of victorious warriors at the Belorussky railway station in Moscow

Officers of the 3rd Belorussian Front take Germans surrendering along with armored vehicles, including from the 4th Panzer Division. Spit Frisch-Nerung, May 9, 1945

Soviet soldiers on the T-34-85 in front of the Brandenburg Gate in Berlin. The tank is covered with mesh screens that protect against hits from "faustpatrons"

The surrender of the Germans on the spit Frisch-Nerung, East Prussia. German officers accept from the Soviet officer the terms of surrender and the procedure for surrender

May 9, 1945 on Red Square

Soviet tankers on the IS-2 and T-34 rejoice at the Victory. Berlin, May 9, 1945

Soviet sailors, heroes of the storming of Berlin, pose for an American war correspondent

A soldier returning from the front kisses his son

Artillerymen of the 144th Rifle Regiment of the 49th Guards Rifle Division in German helmets

Fellow soldiers of the 88th separate heavy tank regiment at the Reichstag

American soldiers, who came to Berlin's Tiergarten garden to exchange watches, communicate with German girls. In the background is a group of Soviet soldiers. For the first time after the end of the war, the Tiergarten garden became a place for the barter exchange of goods.

American service girls salute a Soviet traffic controller in Berlin at the Brandenburg Gate

War-survivors of Polish citizens (residents of the city of Lodz, who were driven to forced labor in Germany) huddle along the railway tracks in Berlin, hoping that the British military will pick them up.

The son of the regiment Volodya Tarnovsky puts his autograph on the column of the Reichstag

Soviet artillerymen are fighting on the streets of Berlin. April 1945

Soviet assault group moves to the Reichstag

Soviet soldiers flee to a new position in the battle in Berlin. In the foreground, a killed German sergeant from the RAD (Reichs Arbeit Dienst, pre-conscription labor service)

Ivan Alexandrovich Kichigin at the grave of a friend Grigory Afanasyevich Kozlov in Berlin in early May 1945

A captured German soldier at the Reichstag. The famous photograph, often published in books and on posters in the USSR under the name "Ende" (German: "The End").

German prisoners of war on the streets of Berlin, captured by Soviet troops

A column of prisoners on the streets of Berlin. In the foreground "the last hope of Germany" boys from the Hitler Youth and the Volkssturm

A captured German is crying

Soviet fighters and the head of the medical service of the Berlin police, Major General of the medical service Karl Emil Wrobel (Karl Emil Wrobel). Captured May 2, 1945

German children playing with abandoned weapons (rifles, submachine guns) on a street in Berlin

Soviet medium tanks T-34 in captured Berlin

Soviet convoy on the street of Berlin

Soldiers distribute food to the people of Berlin. April 1945

Aerial view of the Brandenburg Gate in Berlin taken

German policemen of the post-war administration in Berlin

Victory parade. Soviet soldiers with the defeated standards of the Nazi troops. June 24, 1945

Victory parade. Marshal Zhukov in front of the troops. June 24, 1945

Hero of the Soviet Union Major General A.V. Gladkov with his wife at the end of the Victory Parade. Original title "The Joy and Pain of Victory"

Allied Victory Parade on September 7, 1945 in Berlin. Soviet soldiers on the spectator stand

Allied Victory Parade on September 7, 1945. Marshal Georgy Konstantinovich Zhukov inspects the troops

Allied Victory Parade on September 7, 1945. Column of Soviet tanks IS-3

Victory Monument in Berlin. July 1945

Soviet soldiers and an officer drink with the Americans for the Victory

Children of war.

General Susloparov signed the act in Reims at his own peril and risk, as he did not have time to contact the Kremlin and receive instructions. Stalin was outraged by the signing of the surrender at Reims, in which the Western Allies played a leading role.

Representatives of the allied command (from left to right): Major General I.A. Susloparov, Lieutenant General Walter Smith, Army General Dwight Eisenhower and Air Marshal Arthur Tedder. Reims, 7 May 1945.

The career of General Susloparov was not very successful.
On May 11, he was summoned to Moscow. The head of the main intelligence department, Lieutenant General Ivan Ivanovich Ilyichev, ordered him to write an explanatory note addressed to the chief of the general staff, General of the Army Alexei Innokentyevich Antonov. Susloparov explained in detail why he put his signature, adding quite sincerely:
"The complete and unconditional surrender of the German armed forces meant the complete victory of our Red Army and allies over Germany and put an end to the war. This, voluntarily or involuntarily, turned my head, since not only we, military people, but all progressive mankind expected such an end to the war ".
Upon learning that his telegram with a ban on signing anything was late, Stalin said that there were no complaints against Susloparov personally. But in fact, the promotion of the general through the ranks stopped there. After returning to Moscow, he was appointed head of the Higher Courses for the Improvement of the Command Staff of the Soviet Army. In 1955, Major General of Artillery Ivan Alekseevich Susloparov was sent to the reserve for health reasons. He died on December 16, 1974, and was buried at the Vvedensky cemetery.
The signature that the general put on the act of surrender of the German army in May 1945 cost him his career, but forever preserved his name in history ...

The document signed at Reins came into force at 11 p.m. on 8 May. Many believe that due to the time difference between the USSR and Europe, it turned out that we celebrate this holiday on different days. However, not all so simple.
The fact is that, at the request of Stalin, the act of surrender was signed again. By the time President Truman and British Prime Minister Churchill announced Germany's surrender to Stalin, he had already scolded Susloparov for rushing to sign the act.

Stalin ordered that Marshal Zhukov accept a general surrender in the capital of the defeated state, Berlin, from representatives of the branches of the German armed forces.

On May 8 at 22:43 CET (May 9 at 0:43 Moscow time) in the suburbs of Berlin, Field Marshal Wilhelm Keitel, as well as the representative of the Luftwaffe, Colonel General Stumpf and the Kriegsmarine, Admiral von Friedeburg, signed the act of complete surrender of Germany again .

“I can’t help but brag,” photographer Petrusov later wrote. - It took a lot of effort for me to break away from the close-up shots of Marshal Zhukov, Keitel and others, to give way to the hard-worn seat at the very table, to go to the side, climb on the table and take this picture, which gives a general picture of the signing. I am rewarded - there is no such second picture.

Among other things, Stalin had another reason to demand the re-signing of the German Surrender Act.
The fact is that on May 7, the 1st division of the ROA (Vlasov army), under the leadership of General Bunyachenko, turned its bayonets against the German troops, and took the side of the rebellious citizens of Prague. During fierce battles, Prague was practically liberated by the troops of the ROA. At the end of the war, Stalin was very scrupulous about not only the purely military aspect, but also the political one. Therefore, at the time of the signing of the Act, Prague was to be liberated by the Soviet army, and the "Vlasovites" were to be arrested. It is unlikely that this moment was decisive, but it probably also influenced Stalin's decision.

However, all these details, which are of interest to researchers, in no way affect our attitude to the very fact of the Great Victory. And it doesn't really matter today when someone celebrates Victory Day. Common Victory.

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My friends, I congratulate you all on Victory Day! Let's bow to the soldiers of that Great War - our grandfathers and great-grandfathers. I wish everyone a new May 45th, when we again have to clear the Earth from fascism raising its head.

And for the Great Holiday, friends, a selection of photographs depicting the May days of the 45th, how our grandfathers and grandmothers, soldiers of the Red Army and the entire Soviet people met the Victory.

1. Solemn rally at the main base of the Northern Fleet in Polyarny, dedicated to the victory over the enemy in the Great Patriotic War. Destroyers of the "Town" type are moored to the berth: on the left - "Hot", on the right - "Burning", between them the destroyer of project 7U "Thundering", in the background - on the right - "Daring", on the left - "Worthy". 05/09/1945

2. A group portrait of soldiers and officers of the SMERSH counterintelligence department of the NKVD of the USSR of the 70th Army against the backdrop of the Reich Chancellery on Victory Day. 05/09/1945

3. Soviet soldiers in Berlin drink wine in honor of the Victory. 05/09/1945

4. Banner of Victory on the defeated Reichstag on May 1, 1945. The picture was taken by the war correspondent of the Pravda newspaper V.A. Temin from the Po-2 aircraft.

5. Soldiers of the 150th Idritsko-Berlin Rifle Division, Order of Kutuzov, 2nd Class, near the Reichstag.

6. Salute of Victory over the Moscow Kremlin. 05/09/1945

7. Victory salute in Moscow. View of the Kremlin chimes. 05/09/1945

9. Fireworks in honor of the Victory on the roof of the Reichstag. Soldiers of the battalion under the command of the Hero of the Soviet Union S. Neustroev.

10. Victory salute in the village of Detershagen on the Elbe. 134 Rifle Verdinsky Order of Lenin Red Banner Order of Suvorov Division. Salute is made from 76-mm ZiS-3 divisional guns. 05/09/1945

11. Soviet submarine L-22 and light cruiser "Murmansk" at the Victory Parade in the Kola Bay. May 13, 1945

12. Workers canteen Arkhangelsk roll up a barrel of beer in honor of the Victory. Trinity Avenue. On the left is the Obelisk of the North. 05/09/1945

13. Arkhangelsk Bishop Father Seraphim at the celebration of the Victory. 05/09/1945

14. Residents of Arkhangelsk go to Trade Union Square for celebrations in honor of the Victory. 05/09/1945

15. Soviet soldiers with an accordion on a street in Berlin. The inscription on the wall of the house: "Berlin will remain German!" (Berlin bleibt deutsch!)

16. Soviet gunners listen to the accordion of his comrade on the streets of Berlin. In the foreground is a 122 mm M-30 howitzer. May 1945

17. A column of soldiers of the Soviet 5th shock army at a parade in the Lusgarten park in Berlin. May 1945

18. A column of soldiers of the Soviet 5th shock army at a parade in the Lusgarten park in Berlin.

19. Parade of units of the Soviet 5th shock army in the Lusgarten park in Berlin. May 4, 1945

20. Soviet soldiers applaud their dancing comrade at the Brandenburg Gate in Berlin. May 1945

21. Victory salute in Moscow. View of the Red Square. The fireworks began on May 9, 1945 at 22.00. Thirty volleys of a thousand guns followed into the sky, illuminated by searchlights. 05/09/1945

22. Officers of the 98th separate corrective and reconnaissance aviation regiment (from right to left), deputy commander of the guard regiment, Major Valery Aleksandrovich Verkholantsev (1916-2001), navigator of the guard regiment, Major Ilya Prokofievich Lesnoy (1920-1989), chief of staff Boris Misakovich Avzhiyan (1910- ) with fellow soldiers celebrate the Victory in the vicinity of the German town of Fürstenwalde. The photo was taken on the night of May 8-9, 1945, at 1:25. On May 15, 1945, Major Valery Alexandrovich Verkholantsev was awarded the title Hero of the Soviet Union.

23. Soviet submarine L-22 at the Victory Parade in the Kola Bay. May 13, 1945

24. Soviet tankers are photographed for memory against the backdrop of the broken Brandenburg Gate in Berlin, standing on the armor of a heavy tank IS-2. May 1945

25. A Soviet officer dances with an Austrian girl on the Karl-Renner-Ring square in Vienna. 05/09/1945

26. Soviet citizens congratulate the officer on the Victory in front of the Bolshoi Theater in Moscow. 05/09/1945

27. On the Spit of Vasilyevsky Island in Leningrad during fireworks in honor of the Victory. 05/09/1945

29. Group portrait of pilots of the 102nd Guards Vyborg Fighter Aviation Regiment. In the top row, fourth from the left (slightly behind) is Sergey Ivanovich Smirnov, Andrey Petrovich Bredik is sitting in the center.

30. Leningraders on Nevsky Prospekt listening to a message about the Victory over Germany. 05/09/1945

31. Soviet photojournalists and cameramen at the Reichstag building. From left to right, first row: G. Samsonov, A. Morozov, F. Kislov, L. Zheleznov, I. Shagin, O. Knorring; second row: S. Alperin, A. Kapustyansky, G. Petrusov, R. Carmen; third row: A. Arkhipov, M. Redkin, N. Finikov. May 1945

32. Fireworks in honor of the Victory on the roof of the Reichstag. Soldiers of the battalion under the command of the Hero of the Soviet Union S. Neustroev.

33. Soviet tank crews and soldiers celebrate the Victory. May 1945

34. Festive feast of officers of the 143rd mortar regiment on May 9, 1945. In the foreground on the left is Captain Skarupsky. 05/09/1945

35. First day of peace in Berlin. Soviet soldiers communicate with civilians. May 1945

36. Soviet soldier at the German banners captured in Berlin. The author's name of the photo is "Winner". May 1945

37. A group of political workers of the 385th Infantry Division, headed by the head of the political department, Colonel Mikhailov, near the Reichstag.

38. Soldiers of the 88th Separate Guards Heavy Tank Regiment are photographed at the Bismarck monument in Berlin. After the surrender of Germany was announced, fellow soldiers went for a walk around Berlin, and among the photographs taken there was a picture at the monument that was significant for Germany. 05/09/1945

39. Servicemen of the 88th Separate Guards Heavy Tank Regiment celebrate the Victory in a Berlin park. 05/09/1945

40. Victory salute in Moscow. View of the Red Square. The fireworks began on May 9, 1945 at 22.00. Thirty volleys of a thousand guns followed into the sky, illuminated by searchlights. 05/09/1945

41. Female snipers of the Soviet 3rd shock army. May 4, 1945

43. Soviet soldiers celebrate the Victory. May 1945

44. Soviet soldiers in a Berlin tram car. The author's title of the picture is "The first passengers of the Berlin tram". May 1945

45. Residents of Leningrad on fireworks in honor of the Victory. May 1945

46. Residents of Leningrad on fireworks in honor of the Victory. May 1945

47. Soviet soldiers on the streets of Berlin. May 1945

48. Soviet soldiers drink for the Victory - on the general formation of the unit, Victory over Nazi Germany was announced on May 9, 1945. Pours private Vladimir Alekseevich Milyutin - scout reconnaissance brigade of self-propelled guns of the First Ukrainian Front. V.A. Milyutin, born in 1914, has been at the front since June 23, 1941. Passed the military way from Moscow to Potsdam. 05/09/1945

49. Soviet soldiers and officers drink with the Americans for the Victory. 1945

50. Poet Yevgeny Dolmatovsky with a sculpted head of Hitler in Berlin. May 1945

51. Soviet soldier in Goebbels' apartments in Hitler's bunker under the Reich Chancellery. May 1945

52. The famous Soviet singer Lidia Ruslanova performs "Katyusha" against the backdrop of the destroyed Reichstag. May 1945

53. Soviet soldiers, resting on the steps of the Reich Chancellery, consider the German awards, which were never awarded. Berlin. May 2, 1945.

54. Soviet officers are sailing in a boat along the ruined embankment in Berlin.

55. A pile of Soviet trophies is a symbol of the defeat of Nazi Germany. Rifles, MP-40 submachine guns, machine gun, awards and banners. In the center is the standard of the SS division "SS Leibstandarte Adolf Hitler".

56. Soviet soldiers rest on the banks of the Spree River in Berlin. May 1945

57. Poet Yevgeny Dolmatovsky speaks at the Brandenburg Gate. 1945

58. A meeting of the Red Army at the Brandenburg Gate in Berlin. May 1945

59. Reconnaissance platoon of the 88th separate guards heavy tank regiment with its commander Vladimir Ivanovich Kuznetsov (third from right). As the caption on the back of the photo says, it was taken in Berlin in the Humboldt Park on May 8, 1945.

60. Reconnaissance platoon of the 88th separate guards heavy tank regiment with its commander Vladimir Ivanovich Kuznetsov (in the center with two orders). Berlin. 05/08/1945

61. Soviet military - private and lieutenant - with a banner in Berlin against the backdrop of the Brandenburg Gate. 1945

62. Soviet soldiers with an accordion on a street in Berlin. 1945

63. Red banners on the quadriga of the Brandenburg Gate. May 1945

64. Red banner on the quadriga of the Brandenburg Gate. May 1945

65. A column of German troops without an exact destination. The surrender of Germany has already been announced. Czechoslovakia, May 1945

66. Officers of the 3rd Belorussian Front take Germans surrendering along with armored vehicles, including from the 4th Panzer Division. Frisch-Nerung Spit, May 9, 1945

67. Soviet soldiers on the T-34-85 in front of the Brandenburg Gate in Berlin. May 1945

68. Fireworks in honor of the Victory on the roof of the Reichstag. Soldiers of the battalion under the command of the Hero of the Soviet Union S. Neustroev. May 1945

69. Soviet mortar soldier Sergei Ivanovich Platov leaves his autograph on the column of the Reichstag. May 10, 1945

70. Maria Timofeevna Shalneva (Nenakhova), corporal of the 87th separate road maintenance battalion, regulates the movement of military equipment near the Reichstag in Berlin. May 2, 1945

71. At the passenger car of the 88th separate heavy tank regiment. 05/09/1945 Thanks to the driver Tyutin, the car drove from Stalingrad to Berlin. On the windshield are the awards of the 88th separate tank regiment - the Order of Lenin, the Red Banner, Suvorov III degree, Kutuzov III degree, Bogdan Khmelnitsky II degree. From right to left: regiment commander P.G. Mzhachikh, driver of the regiment commander Tyutin, deputy. regiment commander F.M. Zharkoy, adjutant of the commander of the Molotkov regiment.

72. Command staff of the 88th separate guards heavy tank regiment in Berlin. The regiment took part in the storming of Berlin, and on May 9, after the surrender of Germany and the end of the fighting, the officers went on a tour of the city. From left to right: N.P. Romanchenko, deputy chief of staff of the regiment I. German, chief of staff of the regiment N.V. Wide, regiment commander P.G. Mzhachikh, deputy regiment commander F.M. Hot, deputy chief of staff of the regiment Komarovsky. Top left: Timchenko. 05/09/1945

73. Commander of the 88th separate heavy tank regiment P.G. Mzhachikh against the background of the Reistag, in the assault of which his regiment also took part. 05/09/1945

74. Fellow soldiers of the 88th separate heavy tank regiment at the Reichstag. 05/09/1945

2.Soviet soldiers in a Berlin tram car.

3. Maria Timofeevna Shalneva, corporal of the 87th separate road maintenance battalion, regulates the movement of military equipment near the Reichstag in Berlin on May 2, 1945.

4.Soviet soldiers with an accordion on a street in Berlin.

5.Soviet soldier in Goebbels' apartments in Hitler's bunker under the Reich Chancellery.

6. Soviet mortar soldier Sergei Ivanovich Platov leaves his autograph on the column of the Reichstag.

7. A British soldier leaves his autograph among the autographs of Soviet soldiers inside the Reichstag.

8. Lydia Ruslanova performs "Katyusha" against the backdrop of the destroyed Reichstag. May 1945.

9. Return from the front of the pilot, twice Hero of the Soviet Union Nikolai Mikhailovich Skomorokhov (1920-1994). He made 605 sorties, conducted more than 130 air battles, shot down 46 enemy aircraft personally and 8 in a group, 7th result in the list of Soviet fighter aces. Skomorokhov himself was never wounded during the entire war, he was never shot down.

10. A photograph of a Soviet soldier hoisting a red banner over the Reichstag on May 2, 1945, which later became known as the Banner of Victory - one of the symbols of the Great Patriotic War, along with the famous “Combat” photograph. This is one of a series of photographs taken by Yevgeny Chaldei on the roof of the Reichstag. Yevgeny Khaldei said: “There were four of us [on the roof of the Reichstag], but I well remember Alexei Kovalev, a resident of Kiev, who was tying the flag. I photographed him for a long time. In different poses. I remember that we were all very chilled then ... He and I were helped by the foreman of the reconnaissance company of the Guards Red Banner Order of Bogdan Khmelnitsky of the Zaporozhye Rifle Division Abdulkhakim Ismailov from Dagestan and Leonid Gorychev from Minsk. This version was published in official Soviet sources in a retouched form: the contrast of the image was increased and the watch (according to another version, the compass) was removed from the officer’s right hand, which could give rise to the accusation of Soviet military personnel of looting.

11.Official, retouched version.

12. Another option.

13. Residents of Leningrad on fireworks in honor of the Victory.

14. Soviet soldiers drink for the Victory - on the general formation of the unit, Victory over Nazi Germany was announced on May 9, 1945.

15. A Soviet cavalryman is talking to a Russian girl who was driven away to work in Germany and is now returning home.

16. The German unit on bicycles advances to the place of surrender.

18. Meeting of Soviet marshals G.K. Zhukov and K.K. Rokossovsky with British Field Marshal B. Montgomery at the Brandenburg Gate in Berlin.

19.Chief of the General Staff of the German Ground Forces, Infantry General Krebs (left), who arrived on May 1 at the location of the Soviet troops in order to draw the High Command into the negotiation process. On the same day, the general shot himself.

20. Soldiers who stormed the Reichstag. Reconnaissance platoon of the 674th Infantry Regiment of the 150th Idritskaya Infantry Division. In the foreground is Private Grigory Bulatov. It is believed that it was he who first hoisted the red flag on the Reichstag. However, the version spread that the first were the now famous Mikhail Egorov and Meliton Kantaria.

21. Mikhail Yegorov and Meliton Kantaria go out on May 1 to the roof of the Reichstag to hoist the Banner of Victory there.

22. Poet Yevgeny Dolmatovsky with a sculpted head of Hitler in Berlin. May 1945.

23. Evgeny Dolmatovsky reads poetry at the Brandenburg Gate.

24. Soviet soldiers, resting on the steps of the Reich Chancellery, consider the German awards, which were never awarded. Berlin. May 2, 1945.

25. Red flag on the quadriga of the Brandenburg Gate.

26. Salute in honor of the Victory on the roof of the Reichstag. Soldiers of the battalion under the command of the Hero of the Soviet Union S. Neustroev.

27. Courtyard of the Reich Chancellery shortly after the end of the battles for Berlin. This photo is interesting because it shows a rare armored car. In 1933, Wilton-Fijenoord manufactured three armored vehicles for the Dutch East Indies.

28. General photo of the Soviet delegation during the signing of the Act of unconditional surrender of all German armed forces. Marshal Zhukov in the center. May 8, 1945.

29. Echelon "We are from Berlin!", on which Soviet soldiers return from Berlin to Moscow.

30. Rest at the train “We are from Berlin!” with Soviet soldiers.

31. Girls-snipers.

32. Meeting of victorious warriors at the Belorussky railway station in Moscow.

33. Officers of the 3rd Belorussian Front take Germans surrendering along with armored vehicles, including from the 4th Panzer Division. Spit Frisch-Nerung, May 9, 1945.

34.Soviet soldiers on the T-34-85 in front of the Brandenburg Gate in Berlin. The tank was covered with mesh screens that protected from hits from "faustpatrons".

35. The capitulation of the Germans on the Frisch-Nerung Spit, East Prussia. German officers accept from the Soviet officer the terms of surrender and the procedure for surrender.

38. Soviet sailors, heroes of the storming of Berlin, pose for an American war correspondent.

39. A soldier returning from the front kisses his son.

40. Artillerymen of the 144th Infantry Regiment of the 49th Guards Rifle Division in German helmets.

41. Fellow soldiers of the 88th separate heavy tank regiment at the Reichstag.

42. American soldiers who came to the Tiergarten garden in Berlin to exchange watches, communicate with German girls. In the background is a group of Soviet soldiers. For the first time after the end of the war, the Tiergarten garden became a place for the barter exchange of goods.

43. American service girls salute the Soviet traffic controller in Berlin at the Brandenburg Gate.

44. Polish citizens who survived the war (residents of the city of Lodz, who were driven to forced labor in Germany), huddle along the railway tracks in Berlin, hoping that the British military will pick them up.

45. The son of the regiment, Volodya Tarnovsky, puts his autograph on the column of the Reichstag.

46. Soviet gunners are fighting on the streets of Berlin. April 1945.

47. The Soviet assault group is moving towards the Reichstag.

48.Soviet soldiers flee to a new position in battle in Berlin. In the foreground is a killed German sergeant from the RAD (Reichs Arbeit Dienst, pre-conscription labor service).

49. Ivan Alexandrovich Kichigin at the grave of a friend Grigory Afanasyevich Kozlov in Berlin in early May 1945.