To the 70th anniversary of the Great Victory: The exhibition of rare front photographs “War, as rolling along the roads…” in Kaliningrad

The museum "Fort №5" with the support of the Ministry of Culture of the Kaliningrad Region and the Russian Military and Historical Society hosts the exhibition "War, as rolling along the roads…" dedicated to the 70th anniversary of Victory in the Great Patriotic War. The exhibition features rare photographs from the collections of the front-line of the Military Historical Museum of Artillery, Engineer and Signal Corps (Saint-Petersburg). These pictures were taken by TASS correspondents in the fronts of the Great Patriotic War in the period from 1941 to 1945 both in the rear and at the front.

The exhibition offers visitors the works of the legendary Soviet photographers - Eugene Chaldea, George Konovalov, Max Alpert, Boris Utkin, Raphael Mazeleva and others. The pictures depict a front-line everyday - fighting scenes and rare moments of rest of Defenders of the Fatherland. Also the contribution of those who fought in the war on the home front is shown.

The Soviet photography of 1941-1945 - a unique phenomenon. During the four years of a large group of real professionals working on the theme of incredible scale. The chronicle was carried out day after day durinf the Great Patriotic War. The last of the war as a war correspondent Konstantin Simonov wrote: "The man who looks at life through the eye of the camera, always, in the end, looking over his story…".

The exhibition will run until the end of 2015.