Soviet women of the 1940s (PHOTOS)
By the Bronze Horseman, Leningrad
Photo from the archive of Natalia Sevastyanova
Woman with sheaf
Yevgeny Khaldey/MAMM/MDF
A rest house in Irkutsk Region
Archive of Yulia Antonova
Actress Lyubov Orlova
Archive of Olga Evgenievna Shitova-Belova
Two days before the start of the war. Graduates of 1941
From the archive of Sergey Nikonenko
Construction workers
Vladislav Mikosha/MAMM/MDF
Construction of the Dnieper-Bug Canal. Women with shovels
Evgeny Khaldey/MAMM/MDF
17-year-old nurse Nina Burakova bandaging a wounded soldier
Yevgeny Khaldey/MAMM/MDF
At a defense factory. Female "Stakhanovite" A.M. Maryashina at work
State Historical Museum of the Southern Urals
Girl and soldier at a well
Mark Markov-Grinberg/TASS
Demobilized women soldiers head home
Mark Markov-Grinberg/TASS
Portrait of Evdokia Pasko, Hero of the Soviet Union and navigator of the all-female 46th Taman Guards Night Bomber Aviation Regiment
Yevgeny Khaldey/MAMM/MDF/TASS
“My contribution”: an elderly woman knits socks
Arkady Shaikhet/MAMM/MDF
My grandmother Alexandra Gerasimovna Ilinykh (Salnik)
Photo from the archive of Elena Bykova
Defender of the besieged Leningrad after the war
Photo from the archive of Marina Korotkova
Classmates in the streets of the ruined Minsk
Archive of Vladimir Karlov
Komsomol girls at the XI Congress of the All-Union Leninist Young Communist League
Sergey Vasin/MAMM/MDF
Vacation in Crimea
Andrey Novikov/MAMM/MDF
A riverside walk
Sergey Vasin/MAMM/MDF
Anna Akhmatova at the home of Viktor Ardov
Yevgeny Khaldey/MAMM/MDFA rest house in Irkutsk Region
Archive of Yulia Antonova
Woman on board a steamship
Unknown author/MAMM/MDF
Artek camp in Crimea. View of the Adalar Islands
Unknown author/MAMM/MDF
Actress Lidiya Smirnova
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