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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…

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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.
Stone Flower Fountain, Moscow
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Mark Markov-Grinberg took this atmospheric nighttime photograph after he lost his job at the Russian news agency TASS, during the Soviet campaign against Jews. He and other former Jewish…

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Mark Markov-Grinberg

Places:

Moscow, USSR (Moscow, Russia)

Date:

1953

Subjects:

Photography, Cities, Travel

Categories:

Visual & Material Culture, Photography
Photograph of a cornucopia statue in the left foreground silhouetted against a large fountain in the background. There are several people standing at the edge of the fountain looking away from the camera toward the water.
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.