the unknown war

Boris Kudoyarov/ROSPHOTO

Siege of Leningrad in PHOTOS by Boris Kudoyarov

Aleksei German Junior/Metrafilms; Amedia Production, 2023

5 reasons to watch the new Russian drama movie ‘Air’, the Russian ‘Dunkirk’

Public domain

What Russia was like in 1944 (PHOTOS)

Evgeny Khaldei/MAMM/MDF; Sergei Pyatakov/Sputnik

Meet Maria Limanskaya, a.k.a. the ‘Victory traffic controller’ and the ‘Brandenburg Madonna’

Vladimir Chebotaryov, Alexander Bogolyubov/Mosfilm, 1985

What’s ‘lieutenant prose’ and how did it appear in the USSR?

Kira Lisitskaya (Photo: AP; Raymond D'Addario/The National Archives and Records Administration)

8 little-known facts about the Nuremberg trials of Nazi leaders

Georgy Zelma/MAMM/MDF/russiainphoto.ru

War & peace through the eyes of Soviet photographer Georgy Zelma (PHOTO)

Ruslan Shamukov/Tsarskoye Selo State Museum Preserve

Legendary Amber Room at Tsarskoye Selo imperial residence in detail (PHOTOS)

Russia Beyond (Public Domain; Wolfgang Weber/Getty Images; State Pushkin Museum of Fine Arts)

How the GOLD OF TROY became the USSR's war booty

Russia Beyond (Photo: Legion Media; S.Solarev/Sputnik; Archive photo)

How captured German field marshal Paulus lived in the USSR after WWII

Bettmann Archive / Getty Images

Why the Nuremberg trials were a nightmare for Soviet translators

Russia Beyond (Public Domain, Elizaveta Mikulina / Sputnik, Valentin Cheredintsev / TASS)

Why did the USSR return Raphael’s paintings and other Dresden masterpieces to Germany?

Valery Shchekoldin/MAMM/MDF/russiainphoto.ru

How Soviet WWII veterans celebrated Victory Day (PHOTOS)