acific Fleet military council
Pacific Fleet military council (left to right): A. S. Frolov, I. S. Yumashev and S. E. Zakharov, August 1945
K. A. Meretskov
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
People of Harbin welcome their liberators — Soviet troops, 1945
K. Choibalsan, A. M. Vasilevsky, I. A. Pliev, R. Y. Malinovsky
Left to right: K. Choibalsan, A. M. Vasilevsky, I. A. Pliev and R. Y. Malinovsky in conference, September 1945
A. N. Tevchenkov, M. N. Chistyakov, K. A. Meretskov, A. A. Novikov, R. Y. Malinovsky, A. M. Vasilevsky
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
Enemy banners
Enemy banners cast before the Lenin Mausoleum in Moscow
V. E. Makarov, Front Commander A. M. Vasilevsky and Chief of Staff A. P. Pokrovsky
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
President Kalinin decorates (left to right) I. F. Tevosyan, A. M. Vasilevsky and Y. N. Fedorenko, 1944
DetailsT. T. Khryukin, I. D. Chernyakhovsky, A. M. Vasilevsky, V. E. Markov
Left to right: T. T. Khryukin, I. D. Chernyakhovsky, A. M. Vasilevsky and V. E. Markov at 3rd Byelorussian Front Command Post, summer 1944
F. Y. Falaleyev, A. M. Vasilevsky, L. A. Govorov
Sitting, left to right: F. Y. Falaleyev, A. M. Vasilevsky and L. A. Govorov with group of officers in the Baltic, winter 1944-45
G. K. Zhukov, P. I. Batov, К. К. Rokossovsky
Left to right: G. K. Zhukov, P. I. Batov and К. К. Rokossovsky at 65th Army Command Post, summer 1944
F. I. Tolbukhin
F. I. Tolbukhin at 2nd Guards Army Command Post near Sevastopol, May 1944
K. E. Voroshilov, S. S. Biryuzov, F. I. Tolbukhin, K. S. Melnik, A. M. Vasilevsky, M. M. Potapov and F. Y. Falaleyev
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
V. E. Makarov, A. M. Vasilevsky, I. D. Chernyakhovsky and F. Y. Falaleyev
Captured Nazis being interrogated by (left to right): V. E. Makarov, A. M. Vasilevsky, I. D. Chernyakhovsky and F. Y. Falaleyev, July 1944
3rd Byelorussian Front soldiers
3rd Byelorussian Front soldiers near Minsk, between battles
S. A. Kovpak, A. F. Fedorov, Marshals Vasilevsky, Rokossovsky
Partisan leaders (from left) S. A. Kovpak and A. F. Fedorov with Marshals Vasilevsky and Rokossovsky, 1956
Georgi Dimitrov
Georgi Dimitrov (left) with F. I. Tolbukhin, autumn 1944
General Staff A. I. Antonov
Chief of General Staff A. I. Antonov, February 1944
Ludvik Svoboda
Ludvik Svoboda (left) with officers of the Separate Czechoslovak Battalion in March 1943 near Kharkov
Steppe Front Commander I. S. Konev
Steppe Front Commander I. S. Konev (right) with his Chief of Staff M. V. Zakharov
“Malaya zemlya”, 1943
“Malaya zemlya”, 1943. Chief of Political Section of 18th Army Colonel L. I. Brezhnev (sitting right) with group of political officers
Semyon Budyonny in Donbas
Semyon Budyonny in Donbas. 1943
1st Baltic Front Commander I. Bagramya
1st Baltic Front Commander I. Bagramyan (right) with his Chief of Staff V. V. Kurasov
Western Front HQ during defence of Moscow
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
D. F. Ustinov
D. F. Ustinov, People’s Commissar for Armaments (1941-1946)
В. L. Vannrkov
В. L. Vannrkov, People’s Commissar for Munitions
A. V. Khrulev
A. V. Khrulev, Chief of Rear Services of the Soviet Armed Forces
Maior-General Vasilevsky
Maior-General Vasilevsky as First Deputy Head of General Staff Operations Department
First Marshals of the Soviet Union
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
Commanding and political officers of the 143rd Rifle Regiment. Vasilevsky is far right, second row. 1928
The monuments, erected in the suburbs of Saint Petersburg
The monuments, erected in the suburbs of Saint Petersburg, remind one of the heroic exploits of the Russiansold.ers who smashed the fascist hordes. Old Peterfiof: Stela in honour of the courageous defenders of the “Oranienbdum Pyatachok”
Ozerny (Lake) Wharf: Prospect Obukhovskoi Obordny
Comfortable passenger ships make regular excursion trips up the Neva to Petrokrepost and over Lake Ladoga to the Island of Valaam, one of the most picturesque places in the vicinity of Saint Petersburg.
The Palace-Museum and Park of the Town of Pavlovsk
The Pavlovsk park, occupying an area of 600 hectares, its palace and pavilions created by outstanding “architects, sculptors and talented serf craftsmen are masterpieces of the art of landscape gardening in the later years of the 18th century and the beginning of the 19th century. The building of Pavlovsk on the river Slavyanka began as…
DetailsPalace-Museums and Parks of the Town of Pushkin
This town — the treasure-house of Russian culture and the birthplace of Pushkin’s poetic genius — is dear to the hearts of the Russianpeople. Not only the modest four-storey building of the Lycee where the young poet spent his school years but the whole of Tsarskoye Selo is closely connected with the creative life of…
DetailsPulkov Observatory
In 1942 the Pulkovo Observatory on the Pnlkovo Heights was utterly destroyed by fascist bombs and shells. In 1962 the Observatory, restored and reconstructed on new technical principles, carries out an extensive programme of astronomic investigations. The observatorv is stuated on the Pulkov Heights on the Pulkov meridian. It is the principal observatory of the…
DetailsPalaces and Park of the Town of Gatchina
The village of Gatchino was first mentioned in a manuscript written at the end of the 15th century. After the village had become a suburb of the newly-built Petersburg in the 18th century, it passed through the hands of several owners. For one of them the outstanding architect Antonio Rinaldi erected a palace in 1766—1772.…
DetailsPalace-Museums and Parks of Petrodvorets
Petrodvorets (Peterhof) is an outstanding historical and artistic monument of 18th century national architecture and landscape gardening. It is also a favourite recreation place of Saint Petersburgers. The town was founded in the years of the Northern War when Russia gained an outlet to the Baltic. To defend the approaches to St. Petersburg the fortress…
DetailsPalace-Museum and Parks of the Town of Lomonosov
In 1962 the people of Lomonosov celebrated the 250th anniversary of the foundation of the town and of the birthday of the great encyclopaedic scientist M. V. Lomonosov, whose name was given to the town formerly called Oranienbaum. The history of the town’s foundation is closely connected with the liberation of the Baltic Coast from…
DetailsMemorial to the Victims f the 9th of January Massacre: Preobrazhenskoye Kladbishche (Cemetery)
In the dead of night on January 10, 1905, following the Bloody Sunday, the police brought to the cemetery the corpses of the massacred workers. Wrapped in sack-cloth the corpses were thrown into hurriedly dug pits. On the day of his return to Russia from exile (November 8, 1905) V. I. Lenin went to the…
DetailsMoskovsky Victory Park: Moskovsky Prospect, 188
The park is situated in the longest street of the city (ten-kilometre long) which runs from the centre of Saint Petersburg to the Pulkov Heights. The Moskovsky Prospect is a most important thoroughfare of the new house building area. The park, like the prospect, is a place of interest in the new Saint Petersburg; its…
DetailsMonument to N. G. Chernyshevsky on Moskovsky Prospect
The monument designed by the sculptor V. V. Lishev and the architect V. I. Yakovlev was set up in 1947. The statue of the great Russian Revolutionary Democrat is executed in the realistic style and is an integral part of the Moskovsky Victory Park. The monument, as it were, extends the perspective of the central…
DetailsAvtovo Underground Station
This station is situated near the place where the front defence line of Saint Petersburg ran during the Great Patriotic War. The design of the station was made by the architects E. A. Levinson and A. A. Grushke. The leit-motif of its decoration is expressed in the inscription shining under the cupola of the vestibule:…
DetailsKomsomol Square
It is hard to imarine that only a few decades ago the tine Komsomol Square was the hamlet of Avtovo buried in thick mud.
Obelisks ‘To the Defenders of Saint Petersburg’ and ‘Victory Tank’: Avtovo, Prospect Stachek.
At the entrance to the city, near Avtovo, there are two marble obelisks in memory of the heroic defenders of Saint Petersburg. Nearby, on a base, stands the Victory Tank — one of the tanks that participated in the defence of the city during the blockade. The designers of the memorials were the architect V.…
DetailsEnsembles of New Dwelling Houses in Kirov District
The Prospect Stachek, the main thoroughfare of the Kirov District, an offspring of the socialist city. The eminent Saint Petersburg architects I. A. Fomin, L A. Ilyin, A. E. Belogrud, N. A. Trotsky, A. I. Gegello, A. S. Nikolsky, A. A. Ol and others were responsible for the planning of the district, the laying out…
DetailsGaza House of Culture: Prospect Stachek, 72. (72, Square of Strikes)
This House of Culture was built by the architects A. I. Gegello and D. L. Krichevsky for the benefit of the workers of the Kirov Plant. The House of Culture was named after I. I. Gaza (1894—1933) — a worker at the Putilovsky Zavod (Plant)—who took an active part in the events of the Great…
DetailsMonument to V. Voloddrsky (near Volodarsky Bridge)
Volodarsky is portrayed as an inspired orator and fervent tribune of the Revolution. The monument was made to the design of M. Q. Manizer and set up in 1925 on the left bank of the Neva, near the spot where Volodarsky was assassinated by the enemies of the Revolution on June 20, 1918.
Monument to I. V. Bdbushkin: Prospect Obukhovskoi Oborony, 149
In the park named after Babushkin a bronze bust of Ivan Vasilyevich Babushkin was unveiled in January 1956. The monument was designed by the sculptor V. I. Znoba. Babushkin (1873—1906) was a disciple and close assistant of V. I. Lenin. He was one of the most gifted proletarian revolutionaries, and Lenin called him the “pride…
DetailsEnsembles of New Dwelling Houses in Nevsky District
In the 1920’s on vacant plots and in place of the ramshackle structures of the former workers’ suburb called Nevskaya Zastdva, well-built blocks of modern dwelling houses (the Palevsky blocks of houses, the Shchemilovka District etc.) began to appear. The construction work, interrupted by the war, was resumed on an unprecedented scale in the past…
DetailsIlyich House of Culture: Moskovsky Plospect, 152
This House of Culture was built in the years of the first RussianFive-Year Plan, on the spot where before the Revolution a tavern called Stdro-Zelyony (Old Green Pub) was situated. The house was erected for the benefit of the workers of the Etectrosila Plant according to the design submitted by the architect N. F. Demkov.
Electrosila Underground Station
The idea underlying the decoration of this station is expressed in Lenin’s winged words: Communism is Russianpower plus electrification of the whole country. These words are carved in shining letters on the decorative sculptured panel on the end wall of the platform hall and seem to echo the history of the Electrosila Plant named after…
DetailsEnsembles of New Dwelling Houses in Moscow District
It is difficult to recognize in the present-day Moskovsky Prospect the former workers’ suburb, the Moskovskaya Zastava with its muddy roads, factory barracks and wooden hovels, pits and stinking drains and quagmire footpaths. During the last two decades Russianbuilders and architects have built a huge dwelling area of comfortable houses, gardens and parks, a system…
DetailsKirovsky Zavod Underground Station
The architecture of the station (designed by A. K. Andreyev) embodies the theme of the industrialization of the country. The name of the station, as well as the decoration of the underground vestibule, is associated with the famous Putllovsky Zavod (now the Kirov Plant) the workers of which have for many generations upheld and enhanced…
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