Photos WW2 Soviet Forces

[Иван Феоктистов]

Anti-aircraft gunners of the Baltic Fleet protect troops from enemy air raids. Leningrad front. Vyborg area. Summer 1944. Calculation of an automatic anti-aircraft gun 72-K, model 1940, 25 mm caliber, installed on a GAZ-AA truck.

 

[Иван Феоктистов]

 

[Иван Феоктистов]

In the weapons workshop of one of the units of the Karelian Front. On the right side of the photo, the Soviet commander at the 7.62-mm ShKAS anti-aircraft machine gun. In the background are soldiers with 50-mm company mortars.

 

[Иван Феоктистов]

 

[Иван Феоктистов]

 

[Иван Феоктистов]

A group of fighters and officers of the 313rd Infantry Division before the battle. Karelian front, 1942

 

[Иван Феоктистов]

Presentation of the battle banner to the best rifle regiment of the 313rd rifle division on behalf of the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet of the Ukrainian Autonomous Soviet Socialist Republic (Udmurt Autonomous Soviet Socialist Republic). Karelian front. 1942 year.

The banner is awarded to the 1072nd Rifle Regiment.

 

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[Иван Феоктистов]

Officer Kalashnikov leads his unit into battle with the support of heavy self-propelled guns ISU-152. Karelian Front, July 1944.

 

[Иван Феоктистов]

Padded Soviet self-propelled guns ISU-152 with hull number 1140. Side view. September 6, 1944.

The self-propelled guns were hit (according to Finnish data from a distance of 25-30 meters) and destroyed by an internal explosion during the battle at Tali-Ihantala on the Karelian Isthmus.

 

[Иван Феоктистов]

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[Иван Феоктистов]

Marines listen to a gramophone after the liberation of Horsen Island by Finnish forces. Author: Evgeny Khaldei.

 

[Иван Феоктистов]

Soviet vehicles abandoned and destroyed during the retreat in Karelia. 1941 year.

The picture shows Soviet trucks GAZ-AA, on the right side of the picture there is a Finnish soldier.

 

[Иван Феоктистов]

 

[Иван Феоктистов]

Infantry tanks "Churchill" Mk.IV from the 46th Guards Heavy Tank Regiment on Vyborg Street. Leningrad region, June 1944.

On the roof of the tower is the English machine gun "Bren"

 

[Иван Феоктистов]

 

[Иван Феоктистов]

A captured Red Army soldier is helping his wounded comrade. Finland, the village of Turja, August 4, 1941.

A Finnish soldier is in the background.

 

[Иван Феоктистов]

Soviet 76-mm divisional gun F-22 in a firing position, next to a dead member of the crew. Karelia, region of the village of Ilme, August 3, 1941.

 

[Иван Феоктистов]