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Stalingrad Attack
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Georgi Zelma’s photograph of soldiers charging up Mamayev Hill with their guns at the ready became one of the iconic photographs of Soviet heroism in the battle of Stalingrad. What draws the eye…

Contributor:

Georgi Zelma

Places:

Stalingrad, USSR (Volgograd, Russia)

Date:

1942

Subjects:

Photography, War, Cities, Violence, Military

Categories:

Visual & Material Culture, Photography
Photograph of soldiers holding guns as they approach ruins of a bombed city.
Leaving a Son to the Partisans, Leningrad
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Mikhail Trakhman was one of several Soviet photographers dropped behind enemy lines by Sovinformburo, the main Soviet agency for the distribution of war-related information, to report on partisans who…

Contributor:

Mikhail Trakhman

Places:

Leningrad, USSR (St. Petersburg, Russia)

Date:

1942

Subjects:

Photography, War, Politics, Family, Cities

Categories:

Visual & Material Culture, Photography
Photograph of mother kissing her son, who has a gun and a backpack, in foreground, while another soldier waits in the background on his horse holding the reins of another horse.