Photos WW2 Soviet Forces

[Иван Феоктистов]

 

[Иван Феоктистов]

 

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[Иван Феоктистов]

Guards artillerymen are firing at the Nazis.
July 1942
D. Chernov.

 

[Иван Феоктистов]

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A very curious photo. The lieutenant, most likely in blue breeches, apparently red cubes and a rifle emblem on the buttonhole. In addition, in a hat. The fighters have two very early PPDs with small slots on the casing, but at the same time they have SSh-39 or SSh-40. Maybe it's the Arctic or Karelia? Summer-autumn 1941

 

[Иван Феоктистов]

Soviet soldiers repress God... Real photo

 

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[Connaught Ranger]

I don’t understand these rifles at all, sorry

They are standard Ww1 and WW2 Lee-Enfields, but not exactly the same as the one with the Russians in your picture, did the Soviet Union modify them??

 

[Иван Феоктистов]

They are standard Ww1 and WW2 Lee-Enfields, but not exactly the same as the one with the Russians in your picture, did the Soviet Union modify them??

During the Civil War, the Red Army captured a wide variety of trophies, including Lee Enfield rifles. The main weapon we had was the Mosin rifle and I don't think that anyone was seriously involved in trophies. They just lay in warehouses and waited in the wings. And they waited. Perhaps the photo shows a Baltic modification of the rifles - for example, in 1924 Lithuania acquired a large batch of these rifles. In 1940, they also went to Soviet warehouses.

 

[Connaught Ranger]

During the Civil War, the Red Army captured a wide variety of trophies, including Lee Enfield rifles. The main weapon we had was the Mosin rifle and I don't think that anyone was seriously involved in trophies. They just lay in warehouses and waited in the wings. And they waited. Perhaps the photo shows a Baltic modification of the rifles - for example, in 1924 Lithuania acquired a large batch of these rifles. In 1940, they also went to Soviet warehouses.

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The rifle above looks more like a British Lee-Metford Rifle rather than a Lee-Enfield rifle.

Lee–Metford - Wikipedia

en.wikipedia.org

 

[Иван Феоктистов]

Excuse me, is this Mannlicher? Or what? I know almost nothing about foreign rifles

 

[Иван Феоктистов]

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Participant of the First World War and the Civil War, master of the model shoe factory T.S. Kutuzov (left) in a group of militias in the city of Leningrad. According to the Russian database, "Memorial" disappeared in October 1941, when his division broke through from the encirclement near the Svir River.

 

[Иван Феоктистов]

Leningrad schoolboy Andrei Novikov gives an air raid signal.

 

[Иван Феоктистов]

A Soviet bugler gives a battle alarm in one of the units of the 2nd Guards Cavalry Corps. Bryansk front.

 

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A Moscow firefighter shows his friend defused German incendiary bombs. On the left is a fighter in a canvas combat jacket. The fighter on the right is wearing a uniform for urban NKVD firefighters of the 1937 model, approved by NKVD Order No. 489 of November 17, 1937. One stripe on the buttonholes indicates the rank and file.

 

[Иван Феоктистов]

A Soviet soldier helps his comrade, wounded in battle, walk. Judging by the camouflage camouflage coats, the fighters in the photo are from the front-line reconnaissance unit, or from the engineer-assault unit. Photo taken during the battles for Rasseniai in August 1944

 

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Medical instructor of the 1447th Self-Propelled Artillery Regiment of the 5th Guards Mechanized Corps, Petty Officer of the Medical Service Elena Stepanovna Novikova (born 1915) helps a wounded soldier to walk near a damaged German self-propelled gun Jagdpanzer IV.

 

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Elena Stepanovna Semyonova (Novikova) after the war. She married a fellow soldier - the commander of the battery of the guard, Captain Ivan Iakimovich Semyonov (in the photo of the meeting of fellow soldiers - the Semyonov's wife in the center).

 

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