Artillery

Red Army marines board boats on the Danube River, 1945

Soviet artillerymen after victory over Nazi Germany, Austria, May 1945

Abrosimov Ivan Aleksandrovich (1922-1989), Hero of the Soviet Union. Commander of the control platoon of the 320th Howitzer Artillery Regiment (25th howitzer artillery Svirskaya brigade, 7th artillery Zaporozhye Order of Suvorov, breakthrough division of the High Command Reserve, 46th army, 2nd Ukrainian Front), Second lieutenant

Potapov Mikhail Feofanovich (1921-1943), battery commander of an anti-tank artillery regiment, captain. Born in Baklanovskaya station. Participated in the defense of Stalingrad and the liberation of the Kursk region. On July 6, 1943, Captain Potapov's battery knocked out 18 tanks, including 7 "tigers", destroyed up to 150 Nazi soldiers and officers. On July 8, 1943 he died in a battle near the Ponyri station (Kursk region).

The photo shows Krivoshein Alexey Vasilyevich. He was born in 1925. Drafted in 1941 by the Kolmanskiy District Military Commissariat of the Altai Territory. He served in the 2nd Belorussian Front of the 10th Artillery Regiment. In 1944 he was wounded and treated in a hospital in Perm. He was awarded of the Order of the Patriotic War 2nd class, medals "For Courage", "For the Liberation of Warsaw", "For the capture of Berlin." Demobilized in 1949. After the war he worked in the Kolmansk general store. Then he moved to Ordzhonikidzevsky. Died in 2005.

Soviet serviceman V.Kunitsyn is at an anti-tank gun, Kerch, April 1944. Photo by Max Alpert, Yevgeny Khaldei/TASS

Anti-aircraft unit of the battery under the command of Lieutenant Filin on the position at the water line

First Lieutenant Barybin's anti-aircraft battery scouts observe the air space

The best gunner of the anti-aircraft gun crew of Sergeant Filippov - I.I. Zaitsev at his combat post

Gunner V.L. Chuzhikov at the moment of pointing the gun at the target

Anti-aircraft gunner of one of the batteries F. Dergalenko points the gun at the target

Soldier of the rangefinder squad of Sergeant S. Merkulov measures the altitude of the enemy aircraft

Anti-aircraft gun crew Commander, Sergeant Major N. Somov is monitoring the Nazi aircraft

Anti-aircraft battery Commander, Lieutenant I. Ternyak watching through binoculars after firing at German aircraft

Gunners of the anti-aircraft battery of Lieutenant V. Komissarov, who shot down 6 fascist aircraft at the "BI" device (binocular finder)