Photos WW2 Soviet Forces

[BravoZulu]

Soviet bicycle troops with war dogs on parade, Moscow, Russia, 1 May 1938

 

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Soviet troops in US-built M3A1 scout car fighting in Vienna, Austria, April 1945

Soviet soldiers playing piano in a wrecked living room in Berlin, 1945

 

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Soviet troops with Chinese civilians, northeastern China, Aug-Sep 1945

 

[Иван Феоктистов]

Parachutist Nina Kamneva, 1st category parachuting instructor. 1936 year. During the war, Nina Kamneva trained Soviet reconnaissance paratroopers.

 

[SamWell]

Semyon Timoshenko(wearing white)soviet minister of defense at the time, with troops of Kiev Military District

 

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[SamWell]

grigori ryabkov commander of the partisan-unit

 

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[Иван Феоктистов]

Inside a light tank.

 

[Иван Феоктистов]

Padded German self-propelled gun "Ferdinand", view from the Soviet staff car. Kursk Bulge, 1943

 

[Иван Феоктистов]

 

[BravoZulu]

Tank commander Sr. Lt. Fokin and his Matilda tank. Fokin was awarded the Order of the Red Star

 

[Иван Феоктистов]

Senior sergeant, awarded the Order of the Red Star and the Patriotic War, as well as having a stripe for injury, and a soldier with the medal "For Courage". Both seem to have gone the hard way. The old uniform and the combination of buttonholes and shoulder straps allow us to say that this is 1943.

 

[Иван Феоктистов]

A division of the Red Army soldiers armed with SVT-40 rifles.
It is noteworthy that there are no universal ammunition bags in the picture, but only Mosin Rifle pouches.

 

[Иван Феоктистов]

Colonel Nikolai Aleksandrovich Bezzubov (1902-1943), commander of the 110th rifle division, inspects the soldiers of one of the division's divisions. June 1942, western front. It is noteworthy that apart from Bezzubov himself and the fighter in the background, everyone else is wearing boots with windings, some of them have a spoon peeping out of the winding. All present lack steel helmets, and equipment is limited. The arsenal is mainly represented by Mosin rifles, as well as two SVT and one DP-27 in the frame. Apparently, the unit is about to be nominated for a combat mission.

 

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[Иван Феоктистов]

 

[BravoZulu]

KV-1 tanks under construction, Chelyabinsk Tractor Plant, Chelyabinsk, Russia, 1942

 

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Soviet soldiers of 248th Separate Infantry Brigade greet Russian civilians of a kolkhoz (collective farm) west of Kursk, February 1943. (colourised)

 

[Иван Феоктистов]

Two soldiers of the Red Army from the crew of the 50-mm mortar RM-38, who died in battle. Next to the soldier in the foreground lies (apparently) a liter aluminum cork flask Model 1929. The picture also demonstrates the features of the arrangement of the mortar trench, the fighter in the foreground lies in the cell, which is the beginning of the message course, which was never completed.