A meeting of Soviet soldiers in Minsk in May 1945
MINSK, 9 May (BelTA) – For Belarus residents Victory Day is not only a holiday but an occasion when they have an opportunity to bow low and pay the tribute of respect to the generation of true heroes, who gave their lives to bring the Victory closer over the course of 1,418 days and nights and then worked to rebuild the country from the ruins. They gifted us peaceful sky and May in bloom… The dreadful war and the Great Victory are in BelTA's archive photos.
An anti-tank cannon crew in combat, 1943
Partisans of the partisan brigade named after Chapayev get ready for a combat mission, 1943
78 years ago, 9 May 1945 marked the victory in the Great Patriotic War, which had lasted for 1,418 days and nights. The history of Belarus has not seen a battle crueler than the Great Patriotic War. There has been no heroic deed bigger than the feat of the Soviet soldiers who defended the Motherland and who saved the humanity from the Nazism.
A nurse patches up a wounded soldier in a battlefield, 1943
Partisans of the Minsk joint partisan command walk along streets of the liberated capital, 1944
The memory about the dreadful war and the Great Victory cannot fade away: it is forever inscribed into the history of the Fatherland and every Belarusian family. The past tragedy and the hard-won Victory are an eternal source of pain and bitterness, pride and glory of the Belarusian people.
The banner of Victory over the Reichstag building in Berlin, 1945
A parade of troops of the Minsk garrison in honor of the 60th anniversary of the Great Victory, 2005
Soviet tanks in Berlin, 1945
The Victory salute, 1945
A solemn procession in honor of Victory Day in Minsk, 2013
The soldier returns, 1944
Pilots of the Normandie-Niemen fighter squadron, 1944
A nurse rescues a wounded soldier from a battlefield, 1943
Festivities on the occasion of Victory Day in Brest, 2019
Polotsk has been freed. Residents of the city welcome the liberators, 1944
A meeting of comrades-in-arms during the celebration of the 30th anniversary of the Great Victory, 1975
The 65th anniversary of Belarus' liberation. Hero of the Soviet Union Nikolai Ivanovich Dolzhansky in Brest, 2009
The celebration of the 30th anniversary of the Great Victory in Minsk, 1975
Victory Day in Minsk streets, 2004
A military parade in honor of the 70th anniversary of the Victory in Minsk, 2015
Former partisans help rebuild the city of Bobruisk, 1944
The cleanup of ruins in Minsk, 1944
A voskresnik (Sunday voluntary labor day) in Gomel after the war, 1944
Victory Day in Grodno, 2019
This is how Belarusian peasants lived after the war, 1944
Bread for the front, 1944
A meeting of sisters in arms, 1975
Veterans of the 31st Army in Minsk, 1984
A meeting of former partisans of the Brest joint partisan command, 1989
The war veteran Grigory Obelevsky during the nationwide campaign Soldiers of Victory in Grodno, 2020
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