The Nazi Tide Stops Visual Essays

Zelma Photographs Stalingrad

Georgii Zel'ma was born in Tashkent in 1906, and came of age photographing Soviet Moscow in the 1920s. He is perhaps best known for his photos taken in the midst of the struggle for Stalingrad as staff photographer for Izvestiia.

Approaching the buildings, Stalingrad Assault, Stalingrad A Quiet Moment, Stalingrad Preparing for an Assault, Stalingrad Road of Death, Southern Front Seizing the building, Stalingrad Seizing the building, Stalingrad Tank (Rodina) Stalingrad Fighting for each floor, Stalingrad Flame-thrower, Stalingrad

Life in the City during Battle

Iakov Riumkin stayed in Stalingrad during the bitter winter of 1942-43, photographing Soviet citizens as they tried to stay alive amidst the fighting.

Finding New Quarters Gathering Firewood Crossing the Snowscape
1943

900 Days Battle of Kursk The Cult of Leadership Deportation of Minorities End of the Comintern Epaulettes Back on Uniforms Holocaust Katyn Forest Massacre Love and Romance in War The Nazi Tide Stops New National Anthem Orthodox Patriarch Appointed Partisans in the Forest The Strange Alliance The Vlasov Movement Wartime Evacuation Women in War Films