The Soviet Army in photos
Explore the photo history of the Soviet Armed Forces from their inception in 1918 to the collapse of the USSR in 1991.
Red Army soldiers in 1918.
Kremlin Regiment training, 1920s.
Soviet military skiers during the Winter War against Finland in early 1940.
Beginning of the operation to cross the Neva River near the village of Nevskaya Dubrovka, 1941.
Bryansk Front, 1942.
Soviet officers in Berlin, 1945.
Military parade in Moscow in honor of the 31st anniversary of the October Revolution, 1948.
Demobilized soldiers of the Group of Soviet Forces in Germany before leaving Dresden for home, 1956.
The crew of an Mi-2 helicopter handing over a route map to the commander of an armored reconnaissance and patrol vehicle during military exercises in 1966.
Soldiers rubbing themselves with snow during morning exercises, 1969.
Signalman of the Red Banner Black Sea Fleet, 1974.
A Soviet tanker in Afghanistan, 1980.
Exercise ‘Zapad-81’ (‘West-81’).
Pilots from the Red Banner Turkestan District, 1984.
Missileman during a field training session, 1985.
Withdrawal of Soviet troops from Afghanistan, 1988.
Paratroopers during a training battle, 1990.
Soviet Army soldiers voting in the elections of People's Deputies to the Supreme Soviet of the Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic, 1990.
