- akg-images / RIA Nowosti: figs. 2, 22, 23
- akg-images / ullstein bild: figs. 33, 34
- akg-images / Universal Images Group / Sovfoto: figs. 11, 12
- From the private archive of Artem Drabkin: figs. 10, 15, 41, 43
- From the private archive of Olga Golubeva-Teres: fig. 25
- From the private archive of Elena Lukina: fig. 19
- From the private archive of Nikolay Khalip: fig. 50
- From the private archive of Nikolai Menkov: fig. 51
- From the private archive of Stepan Mikoyan: fig. 37
- From the private archive of Evdokiya Pasko: figs. 20, 26
- From the private archive of Anna Skorobogatova: fig. 17
- From the private archive of Alexandra Vinogradova: fig. 24
- From the collection of the Gomel Museum of Military Glory, Belarus: figs. 5, 40
- From the collection of the Museum of War Glory of No. 1 Secondary School, Krasny Luch, the Ukraine: figs. 3, 4, 6–9, 13, 14, 16, 18, 27, 28, 32, 39, 44–48, 52, 54
- From the collection of the Russian State Archive of Film and Photo Documents: figs. 1, 21, 29–31, 35, 36, 38, 42, 53
- From the collection of the museum of the Tumanovo Secondary School, Smolensk province, Russia: fig. 49