Photos WW2 Soviet Forces

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Soviet troops enter the liberated city of Harbin, in Manchuria, August 21, 1945

Soviet tankers armed with PPS-43 SMGs in Mukden, Manchuria, 1946. Note the officer with an ex-Japanese Army tanker winter suit that he has installed shoulder boards on. Also note the bronze plaque behind them depicting T-34 tanks.

 

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Soviet officers and a Volkswagen, showing signs of wear and tear, in the ruins of Berlin in 1945.

 

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Mikhail Kalashnikov at a drawing board in the Soviet Union, Born in Fall 1919 he would grow up on his parents farm until enlisting with Red Army forces when World War II broke out as T-34 tank commander before creating world famous weapons such as the AK-47.

 

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T-34-76 of the early issues of the 5th Guards Tank Brigade (the specific tactical numbers of this brigade are visible on the towers of the vehicles, consisting of two two-digit digits, with the first digit "10"), Ukrainian SSR '42
Kharkov operation in 1942 / Second Kharkov battle. Kharkiv region, April 1942.
Author - Semyon Osipovich Fridlyand (1905-1964), Soviet photographer and journalist, born in Kiev in the family of a Jewish shoemaker Osip Moiseevich Fridlyand, during the Second World War - photo by the Sovinformburo correspondent.
from feldgrau.info

 

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Group portrait of the commanding staff of the 63rd Guards Chelyabinsk Tank Brigade on an American-made Harley-Davidson WLA 42 motorcycle (supplied to the USSR under Lend-Lease).
Deputy brigade commander Krishtal, brigade commander Mikhail Georgievich Fomichev, correspondent of the Chelyabinsk Rabochy newspaper M. Goldberg (died in the Lvov region), head of the political department of the brigade M. Bogomolov. Spring - summer 1944.
from feldgrau.info

 

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A puppy sleeping between two Russian soldiers in Prague, 1945.

 

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A Russian Woman Cries Reunited With A Soldier Returning After The War, 1945.

 

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Russian M4A2 76(W) Sherman Tank somewhere near Tangermünde Germany - May 1945
Written on the side of the Sherman is
"Russian always beaten the Prussians!"
(quote from Generalissimo A.V. Suvorov)
LIFE Magazine Archives - William Vandivert Photographe

 

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Soviet Red Army 120mm mortars during the battle of Kursk.

 

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A Soviet Project 1124 patrol boat during World War II. These ships were called Бронекатер or Bronekater which translates to armoured ship.

 

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Red Army photographer Yevgeny Khaldei (center) in Berlin with Soviet forces, near the Brandenburg Gate in May of 1945.

 

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Soviet soldiers on the march in northern Korea in October of 1945. Japan had ruled the Korean peninsula for 35 years, until the end of World War II. At that time, Allied leaders decided to temporarily occupy the country until elections could be held and a government established. Soviet forces occupied the north, while U.S. . forces occupied the south. The planned elections did not take place, as the Soviet Union established a communist state in North Korea, and the U.S. set up a pro-western state in South Korea - each state claiming to be sovereign over the entire peninsula This standoff led to the Korean War in 1950, which ended in 1953 with the signing of an armistice -- but, to this day, the two countries are still technically at war with each other.

 

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Red Army photographer Yevgeny Khaldei (center) in Berlin with Soviet forces, near the Brandenburg Gate in May of 1945.

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Another image at the same location and time:
IS-2 of the 7th Guards Heavy Tank Brigade (note white bear on the red star) at Branderburger Tor, Berlin

 

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BA-10 armoured car near Qazvin in northern Iran during Operation Countenance, August-September 1941

 

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Soviet Marines of the Baltic Fleet

 

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WWII. Russia. August 1943. Nerves of steel. Russian sappers neutralizing Tellermine 43 anti-tank mines left by the retreating Germans after their defeat at the Battle of Kursk.

 

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Boy soldier, member of the crew of the Soviet destroyer 'Tashkent' on guard duty, during the Siege of Sevastopol ca.1942.

 

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Red Army soldiers near Leningrad, Jan-Feb 1944.