on the eve of the 75th anniversary of the Victory fans of military history received a wonderful gift. You can call it a huge electronic photo album called “Images of war”. Though the creators of the Russian military-historical society use a different designation – the first large-scale centralized collection of unique photos of times of the great Patriotic war.
In many countries there are publicly available historical fotoarchive relating to the history of the 2nd world war. But in Russia, nothing like this. Now this resource is developed. Our compatriots and anyone interested in the history, the opportunity to appeal to a new email Agency to make a thematic selection of photos of the war years – as the famous and unique.
the Project “Images of war” timed to the 75th anniversary of the great Victory and is intended to inform a wider audience evidence of unparalleled feat of our soldiers defended freedom and independence of the Motherland. This is the first in modern Russia such a broad and structured collection of works not only the most famous front-line photojournalists and many other photographers.
the Online presentation of this project held on 7 may, the Chairman of the Russian military-historical society Vladimir Medinsky.
“Most of us imagine real war only a few canonical pictures of those years – he said in his speech. For example, political officer, raising soldiers to attack anti-aircraft gunner on the roof of hotel “Moscow”, girl-traffic controller, hoisting the victory banner over the Reichstag… But it’s a photo chronicle of the great Patriotic contains tens of thousands of photos. This is the evidence of the war that reliably tell you about it.
That’s why the idea arose to create a public image Bank. Our experts collect photographs of the war years, attributeerror them – who took it, when, where, what is shown. Then carried out the most thorough scan, and then email the photo falls into one of the sections of the image Bank “Images of war”. Now this “album” is already included 2000 photos, and in the future we hope that the number of images will increase at least to 20 thousand.
All of these photos are available for online viewing, for non-commercial use. I hope that they will be very useful including school teachers, who can now accompany the lessons on the history of the great Patriotic war, with a screening of true stories from the front and rear of life. Will our project help everyone to better understand, see: how, what, and than fought with the Nazis our soldiers – what windowname and guns were going to attack some of the guns fired which tanks and planes were involved in fighting. Hope this ��will continue gradit us from such annoying bugs as of recent – with a poster in honor of the 75th anniversary of the Victory, which inadvertently turned out to be depicted instead of the red army soldiers of the Finnish army who fought against the Soviet Union.
In the future, we expect to involve in addition the Russian state archive of cinema and photo documents, Central Moscow museums small regional or local museums, which also contain photographs of the war years, and even individual citizens, who have similar photos. The only condition: must be know exactly who and what is depicted, when and where the picture was taken.
Vladimir Medinsky has illustrated his speech with several examples – showed photographs of “not replicated” episodes from the history of the great Patriotic war.
for Example, the several planes involved in the exploration of Stalingrad, about the use of such specific techniques, few people know. Another photo captured German tank T-4, which our soldiers preparing to attack against the Nazis in the North Caucasus. It turns out that the applications of these captured tanks were, and sometimes the German cars were not even covered the crosses on the towers to use them to sabotage operations. Interesting details are found when you look at another photo: heavy Soviet howitzer is shooting in the suburbs of Berlin. Medina was asked to pay attention to the fact that the instrument is in the open position and mounted for direct fire. So it was possible more accurately to hit the target – specific portion of the specific house, where the enemy soldiers were obradovali firing point. In the result of city development was applied to much less harm. But they Soviet artillery had undergone a very serious risk of dying from the bullets of the Nazis.
