Photos WW2 Soviet Forces

A 203 mm howitzer preparing to fire near Gdynia, spring 1945.

Red Army soldiers with girl in national ukrainian clothes, 1940

T-34 tanks and SU-122 self-propelled guns, manufactured by the Ural plant of transport engineering UZTM, on transfer to the Red Army in Sverdlovsk in 1943.

A Soviet 45-mm anti-tank gun, model 1942 (M-42), crushed by a German tank along with the crew. The crew fought the battle until half past. Eternal glory to the heroes!

Musicians touring between Soviet front line units examine a T-34 tank. Vicinity of Bryansk, October 1942


Soviet troops inspect captured vehicles and artillery, Rosenberg (now part of Mamonovo), March 1945.

Marshal Vasilevsky inspecting captured Japanese tanks. Harbin, 1945

Photo of Soviet snipers Fyodor Okhlopkov and Vasilij Kvachantiradze. However it was actualy Kuzma Danilovich Smolensky, with whom Kvachantiradze worked in tandem for a period.

Destroyed KV-1 model 1941 on city street

T-26 abandoned during the retreat of Soviet troops on the western outskirts of Stalingrad in 1942.

BravoZulu said:

Destroyed KV-1 model 1941 on city street
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Is this not Rostov-on-Don? There are many photos of the destroyed KV-1.

Friends, sorry for the offtopic. I can't help but share

Attack on the Dead

Development of the situation with the front line of the Leningrad Front in the area of the Telman village. On Friday, June 4, the commanders of the "Vysota" and "Kolpinsky border" search detachments and the deputy chairman of the Valor search association arrived on the lands of the Eureka company, where earthworks were again carried out. Right in front of their eyes, human remains fell from the dump of an excavator. In the pit under development, black traces of organic decay in large quantities were clearly visible, which gives an understanding of the presence of a large array of corpses below. The police and the investigative committee have been called. Together with the employees, citizen Y. Matsko and a support group in the person of "sports" bearded Caucasian appearance arrived. Ignoring the police officers, the "athletes" began to threaten the search engines and provoke in every possible way. On the demand of the police to show the documents, the "athletes" said that they had no documents with them. The tractor driver and the heads of the documents for the right to carry out the work could not present, the tractor driver simply left the car and fled. The search engines were sent to the police to testify.

Returning in the evening from the police through the place of work on the territory of "Eureka", they found that the work was continuing, and the place was cordoned off by "athletes". Late in the evening, at the scene of the incident, where all work was to be stopped, the soil was massively removed by dump trucks. On Saturday, June 5, the search engines filed an application with the Investigative Committee of the Leningrad Region on the fact of illegal construction and desecration of the remains of the fallen. The application was accepted, but it does not have a registration number since the office was closed, we are waiting for the number today.

On Sunday, a group of search engines with journalists from the "Russia-24" channel arrived at the scene. There was no dump at the site of illegal excavation work carried out on Friday, the pit was covered with fresh sand, and where the remains of the dead soldiers and commanders of the Red Army were supposedly located, a new pit was dug, there was no dump on it and was taken out. On the contrary, across the road, earthworks are being carried out on the field to remove the top fertile layer.

Under the fertile layer, the entire site is covered with small fragments of crushed human remains. Phalanges of fingers, crushed skulls and legs, ribs, mixed with soldiers' equipment and spent cartridges. Gas masks, pouches, spoons, pots are sticking out of the ground. They didn't want to give up their borders. Then the Germans were not given away, but the grandchildren had already raked up the dead. What the "fascists" could not do, they could do their own.

Unexploded shells and mines were found on the field: 105 mm, 80 mm, 50 mm, 76 mm - this is only with eyes without instruments. And in the center of the field is a soldier's grave dug! Where it is, or rather it was, on the attached diagram. Dug up by an excavator. The soldier, like garbage, was taken to the trash. At another ditch, a destroyed human skeleton was found in soldiers' boots. On the fact of the discovery of human remains and explosive objects that are in the open access of unauthorized persons, the 112 service was reported.

Help went on for 5 hours! Again, along with the police and the investigative committee, the "athletes" arrived, this time of Slavic appearance. Pretending to be guards, but not showing any documents, the "athletes" began to film the search engines' cars, their numbers and themselves on the cameras of their mobile phones. It should be noted that the territory is not fenced, there are no pointers or signs stating that this is private land, no one has provided documents on the right to ownership of this land. Employees of the Investigative Committee, having collected the horse remains, forbade them to go deep into the soil. Although it was clear from the position of the skeleton that during the excavation only part of the bones were pulled out, the rest was below.

- No, you can't, this is private land! - the representative's answer. That is, if a fresh corpse is found and one foot sticks out of private land, for example, a foot, then it will be cut off and taken away for examination, and the rest will be left to the owner of the land.

Having seized the remains, the law enforcement officers were going to leave the territory, in spite of the fact that there were explosive objects on it, only at the request of the journalist of the channel "Russia - 24", the officers called for a guard and remained waiting for him. And at this time, apparently awaiting the departure of the law enforcement officers, "athletes" were gathering to the place, making it clear to the search engines that the elder would come and there would be a conversation. We were waiting! But when they saw that the law enforcement officers remained, the "athletes", having made an "important" call to a friend, went in different directions.

So the "masters" of the new life make money on the bones of people who have died long ago. People who gave their lives for them.

Author: Sergey Machinsky

Иван Феоктистов said:

Is this not Rostov-on-Don? There are many photos of the destroyed KV-1.

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Not the same one mate

BravoZulu said:

Not the same one mate

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I see that these are different cars, don't worry. I mean the place itself - there are not very many combat episodes with the massive use of the KV-1, and there are a lot of photos for each of them. The Germans KV-1 were afraid and loved to take pictures.

BravoZulu said:

T-26 abandoned during the retreat of Soviet troops on the western outskirts of Stalingrad in 1942.
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It seems to me that this tank was not abandoned. Pay attention - it is brown and burned. The over-engine armor plate is ripped out by the roots - there is a gaping gap. I believe the tank was destroyed by the explosion, most likely in battle. It can be seen, by the way, that the sunflowers next to the tank burned down.

A T-34 tank in Konigsberg. A large inscription on its turret reads "To Berlin!"

MiG-3 fighters from the 7th Air Defense Fighter Aviation Corps over Leningrad in 1943

Participant in the battles on the Kursk Bulge - scout of the 325th "Dvinskaya" Rifle Division, Guard Senior Sergeant Alexei Grigorievich Frolchenko (1905-1967), awarded the Order of the Red Star. Belgorod direction. August 1943. Author: Anatoly Arkhipov

During the raid on Kalinin on October 17-18, 41, the T-34 tank with combat number 4 from the 21st tank brigade rammed the StuG III self-propelled gun of Lieutenant Tachinsky from the 660th assault gun battery. Both combat vehicles were out of order.

Judging by the photo, the Soviet tank damaged the gun and the ram was the only way out. The impact, apparently, killed the tank's mechanic and radio operator (they can be seen in one of the photos - the Germans threw their bodies into a ditch). A blow of such force undoubtedly led to the concussion of the surviving commander and loader. At the same time, they resisted and did not allow the hatch to be opened (they had to use crowbars). The tank commander, presumably Dmitry Lushchenko, was taken prisoner, there is no information about his fate.

I will attach a link to the investigation of this incident.

Soviet soldiers found hiding in an abandoned church amid the German advance, 1941-42.

Soviet cruiser Krasnyi Krim (Red Crimea) operating off Sevastopol during 1942