Navy

Crew members of the submarine pose for a photo after the end of a mission during the Second World War. On the photo: Hero of the Soviet Union, commander and captain of the submarine Nikolai Lunin (front), political commander Sergei Lysov (C, 2nd row), major lieutenant Vladimir Uzharovsky (3r L, 2nd row), sergeant of the motorized group V. Sboyev (2nd L, 2nd row), July 1942. Photo by Yevgeny Khaldei/TASS

Sailors read newspapers delivered by the Red Army military mail service, 1942. Photo by Yevgeny Khaldei/TASS

Soviet anti-aircraft gunners have a brief meal aboard a warship during a military campaign at the Black Sea, 1943. Photo by Yevgeny Khaldei/TASS

Wounded soldiers rest on a deck of a steamer headed to the rear, 1942

Armored boats of the Amur Military Flotilla

Burnt-out body of DS-9 (LCI-554) on the beach of Shumshu Island

Vessels of the Pacific Fleet on operational tour

Landing site and sunk Soviet landing crafts on Shumshu Island

Loading of a torpedo on a Soviet "Shch" type submarine

Soviet soldiers on the deck of a transport ship during the transfer to Shumshu Island

Soviet landing craft DS-5 (LCI-525), hit by Japanese artillery fire. Shumshu Island

Escort ship "Metel" of the Pacific Fleet takes on board the troop of Marines

The wounded G. Gavrilov, who was being treated in evacuation hospital No. 3375 in Engels

Tsurkan Vladimir Nikiforovich

Shadrin Pavel Fedoseevich