Norway

Message from Soviet People’s Commissar of Internal Affairs L. Beria to Soviet People’s Commissar of Defence K. Voroshilov with the remarks of the Finnish military attaché in the USSR K. Somerto about the reception of the Finnish delegation in the Kremlin, mobilisation in Finland, and German policies

14 October 1939

Russian State Military Archive

Coll. 33987, ser. 3а, fold. 1240, ff. 83–86.

Original

Internal report from Chief of the 5th Red Army Directorate I. Proskurov to Soviet People’s Commissar of Defence K. Voroshilov with attached materials about anti-Soviet activities in the Baltic countries and the recruitment of Estonian volunteers for fighting in Finland

27 January 1940

Russian State Military Archive

Coll. 33987, ser. 3а, fold. 1306, ff. 50–58.

Report – original, attachment – certified copy

Norwegian volunteers in Finland

8 February 1940

Russian State Archives of Film and Photo Documents

Ser. 1, album 6441, № 3.

Photograph

Directive of А. Hitler for preparing a military operation against Norway (Operation Weserübung)

1 March 1940

Bundesarchiv

Original. In German.

Excerpt from the transcript of a conversation between Soviet Plenipotentiary Representative in Great Britain I. Maisky and British Under-Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs R. Butler on 22 February 1940 about the peaceful settlement of the Soviet-Finnish conflict and the conditions for attaining peace between the two countries

10 March 1940

Archive of Foreign Policy of the Russian Federation

Coll. 06, ser. 2, box 11, fold. 106, ff. 5–24.

Original

Peace treaty between Finland and the USSR

12 March 1940

Archive of Foreign Policy of the Russian Federation

Coll. 3а, ser. 1, box 44, fold. 277.

Original

Excerpt from the diary of Soviet People’s Commissar of Foreign Affairs V. Molotov: transcript of a conversation with German Ambassador to the USSR F. von der Schulenburg about the German invasion of Denmark and Norway, rumours of Anglo-Soviet trade talks, and current issues in Soviet-German relations

9 April 1940

Russian State Archive of Social and Political History

Coll. 558, ser. 11, fold. 299, ff. 45–50.

Certified copy

Debarkation of German troops in the port of Oslo

25 April 1940

Russian State Military Archive

Coll. 1511k, ser. 2, fold. 144, f. 27.

Photograph

British soldiers waiting to debark on the coast of Norway

26 April 1940

Russian State Archives of Film and Photo Documents

Ser. 1, album 540, № 4.

Photograph

Report from Soviet People’s Commissar of Defence S. Timoshenko and Chief of the General Staff of the Red Army B. Shaposhnikov to the Central Committee of the Soviet Communist Party about the basic principles of the strategic deployment of the Soviet Armed Forces in the West and East in 1940 and 1941

[July 1940]

Central Archive of the Ministry of Defence of the Russian Federation

Coll. 16а, ser. 2951, fold. 239, ff. 1–37.

Original