The Soviet Union, which had seen Israel destroy or capture the jet fighters, tanks, and rockets it had supplied to the U.A.R. and Syria, then called for an emergency session of the 122-nation General Assembly to be attended by the heads of government. The Kremlin and the White House, using the Hot Line, conferred repeatedly…
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Cuba’s Fidel Castro and Soviet Premier Aleksei Kosygin converse through an interpreter, left, during a meeting of the two Communist leaders in Havana.
Chinese diplomats leave May Day ceremonies in Moscow, another sign of tense relations between Russia and Communist China.
Russia’s celebration of the 50th anniversary of the Bolshevik revolution began officially on November 3, with ceremonies in the Kremlin’s Palace of Congresses.
An audience jammed the Sports Palace in Luzhniki, Russia, to hear the internationally known poet, Yevgeny Yevtushenko, read from his works
A monumental hammer and sickle dominated the approaches to the Russian pavilion at Expo 67.
“I’ve covered many versts with Mikhail Sorokin in thirty odd years. He was at my side in the Byelorussian operation, the Baltic operation, in East Prussia and in the fighting against militarist Japan in the Far East.” Vasilevsky and Sorokin, 1973
We’ve been together now for forty years…” Yekaterina and Alexander Vasilevsky, 1973
“Awarded the Order of Lenin on my 75th birthday.” (Left to right); I. I. Gusakovsky, A. N. Kopenkin, A. A. Yepishev, Y. A. Vasilevsky, A.M. Vasilevsky, M. A. Yasnov, S. L. Sokolov, 1970
Kremlin Palace of Congresses on 50th Anniversary of Soviet Army (left to right): Kremlin Palace of Congresses on 50th Anniversary of Soviet Army (left to right): N. A. Shchelokov, A. M. Vasilevsky, A. A. Grechko and S. M. Budyonny
Front commanders in last stages of the war (silling, left to right): I. S. Konev, A. M. Vasilevsky, G. K. Zhukov, K. K. Rokossovsky, K. A. Meretskov (standing, left to right): F. I. Tolbukhin, R. Y. Malinovsky, L. A. Govorov, A. I. Yeryomenko and I. K. Bagramyan
Soviet statesmen and top commanders — members of the wartime General Staff HQ (left to right, from top):J. V.Stalin, A. I. Antonov, S. M. Budyonny, N. A. Bulganin, A. M. Vasilevsky, K. E. Voroshilov, G. K. Zhukov, N. G. Kuznetsov, V. M. Molotov, S. K. Timoshenko and В. М. Shaposhnikov
Yet another decoration. President Kalinin, Zhukov and Vasilevsky
Right to left: Stalin, Rokossovsky and Vasilevsky review a military parade from the Lenin Mausoleum
Pacific Fleet military council (left to right): A. S. Frolov, I. S. Yumashev and S. E. Zakharov, August 1945
1st Far Eastern Front HQ. K. A. Meretskov give instructions to Chief of Staff of Kwantung army Hiposaburo Hata on caritulation procedure
People of Harbin welcome their liberators — Soviet troops, 1945
Left to right: K. Choibalsan, A. M. Vasilevsky, I. A. Pliev and R. Y. Malinovsky in conference, September 1945
Soviet command in Far East (front row, left to right): A. N. Tevchenkov, M. N. Chistyakov, K. A. Meretskov, A. A. Novikov, R. Y. Malinovsky and A. M. Vasilevsky, August 1945
Left to right: 3rd Byelorussian Front military council member V. E. Makarov, Front Commander A. M. Vasilevsky and Chief of Staff A. P. Pokrovsky, February 1945
President Kalinin decorates (left to right) I. F. Tevosyan, A. M. Vasilevsky and Y. N. Fedorenko, 1944
Left to right: T. T. Khryukin, I. D. Chernyakhovsky, A. M. Vasilevsky and V. E. Markov at 3rd Byelorussian Front Command Post, summer 1944
Sitting, left to right: F. Y. Falaleyev, A. M. Vasilevsky and L. A. Govorov with group of officers in the Baltic, winter 1944-45
Left to right: G. K. Zhukov, P. I. Batov and К. К. Rokossovsky at 65th Army Command Post, summer 1944
At 4th Ukrainian Front Command Post (left to right): K. E. Voroshilov, S. S. Biryuzov, F. I. Tolbukhin, K. S. Melnik, A. M. Vasilevsky, M. M. Potapov and F. Y. Falaleyev, 1944
Captured Nazis being interrogated by (left to right): V. E. Makarov, A. M. Vasilevsky, I. D. Chernyakhovsky and F. Y. Falaleyev, July 1944
Partisan leaders (from left) S. A. Kovpak and A. F. Fedorov with Marshals Vasilevsky and Rokossovsky, 1956
Ludvik Svoboda (left) with officers of the Separate Czechoslovak Battalion in March 1943 near Kharkov
Steppe Front Commander I. S. Konev (right) with his Chief of Staff M. V. Zakharov
“Malaya zemlya”, 1943. Chief of Political Section of 18th Army Colonel L. I. Brezhnev (sitting right) with group of political officers
1st Baltic Front Commander I. Bagramyan (right) with his Chief of Staff V. V. Kurasov
Western Front HQ during defence of Moscow. Front Commander General of the Army Zhukov (right), military council member N. A. Bulganin (centre), chief of staff Lieutenant-General V. D. Sokolovsky
Maior-General Vasilevsky as First Deputy Head of General Staff Operations Department
First Marshals of the Soviet Union: (sitting) M. N. Tukhachevsky, K. E. Voroshilov, A. I. Yegorov, (standing)S. M. Budyonny and V. K. Blucher. 1935
Commanding and political officers of the 143rd Rifle Regiment. Vasilevsky is far right, second row. 1928
