On 18 January 1943 the Red Army broke the total blockade of Leningrad.
 On photo: meeting of soldiers of the newly connected fronts: Lenigrad and Wolchowski in the suburbs of Leningrad - 18 January 1943
taken from my fbpage( Bartosz dera)

Two armies meet

Red Army soldiers firing their guns in the air to celebrate the liberation of the city of Sevastopol from German occupation during World War II.  It had been captured by the Germans in 1942, along with their Italian and Romanian allies but it was liberated by the Red Army on May 9, 1944 and awarded  the "Hero City" title a year later. 

Victory celebration

Soviet artillery on a street in Berlin; 1945.