20 photos of Moscow during World War II
Anti-tank obstacles, airships, military equipment, this is what the most brutal war in Soviet history looked like.
1. On June 22, 1941, the Soviet Union declared the beginning of the Great Patriotic War
2. September 1941, Moscow's main thoroughfare, Gokogo Street (now Tverskaya Street)
3. In 1941, gas masks were distributed in Mayakovskaya (now Triumph Square).
4. Airship on Pushkin Square in 1941
5. From October to December 1941 on the front line in Moscow, drive west along the Mozhayskoye Highway
6. From September to October 1941, anti-tank trenches were dug on the outskirts of Moscow
7. In 1941, a shot down German plane was on the square of Sverdloff (now Tearalnaya).
8. Air raid shelter inside Mayakovskaya Metro Station in 1941
9. Mayakovskaya Square (now Triumph Square)
10. 1941, unloaded supplies
11. Bicycle team of the People's Volunteer Army on the outskirts of Moscow, 1941
12. In 1941, the reserve went to the front
13. Anti-tank obstacles in the center of Moscow
14. Defend Moscow from enemy air raids
15. Grocery store on Gorkogo (now Tverskaya) Street
16. On November 7, 1941, the Red Square military parade commemorated the October Revolution
17. German prisoner-of-war column outside Belorowski station in 1944
18. 9 May 1945, 1:55 p.m., Declaration of Victory on Red Square
19. May 9, 1945, victory was celebrated
20. On June 24, 1945, Marshal Zhukov of the Soviet Union led the Victory Day military parade