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Hero of the Soviet Union, Colonel Vasily Shcherbina, veteran of the Great Patriotic War

Major General of Medical Service Alexey Edel-Smolnikov (in uniform with awards), veteran of the Great Patriotic War

Double Hero of the Soviet Union, General of Army, Afanasy Beloborodov, veteran of the Great Patriotic War

Double Hero of the Soviet Union, General of Army, Afanasy Beloborodov (standing), veteran of the Great Patriotic War

Double Hero of the Soviet Union, General of Army Afanasy Beloborodov (in full dress uniform), veteran of the Great Patriotic War

Hero of the Soviet Union, General of Army Peter Laschenko (in full dress uniform), veteran of the Great Patriotic War

Hero of the Soviet Union, General of Army Ivan Shkadov (in full dress uniform), veteran of the Great Patriotic War

Marshal Georgy Zhukov holds up the parade of Victory. Moscow. 1945

Commander of the Northern Fleet Vice Admiral Arseniy Golovko. Severomorsk, 1942

Link-up on the Elbe.

Guards Captain of the Red Army O. Ivanov among the residents of the liberated Belgrade

Deputy commander of the 1st Belorussian Front, Soviet general Vasily Sokolovsky, general of the US Army Dwight D. Eisenhower, representative of the Supreme Command of the Red Army, Commander of the 1st Belorussian Front, Marshal of the Soviet Union Georgy Zhukov, Deputy People’s Commissar for Foreign Affairs of the USSR Andrey Vyshinsky (L-R) participate in the signing of the Berlin Declaration proclaiming the unconditional surrender of Germany and the assumption of supreme authority over Germany by the governments of the USSR, the United Kingdom, the USA and France, Berlin, June 1945. Photo by Yevgeny Khaldei/TASS

The division defended the city of Donskoy (Tula region) in November 1941. From left to right: (reclining) Kolesnik; Kolpakov, party’s instructor of personal records; Smirnyagin; (sitting) Dometiy Skurlatov, Chief of the Political Department; Gaik Martirosyan, Divisio Commander; Nikolay Rodionov, Division Commissar; Georgy Shchelbanin, Chief of Staff; (standing) F. Mikhailov, Secretary of the Communist Party Commission; Zatuchny, Editor of the divisional newspaper; A. Zabiyaka, Deputy Chief of the Political Department; Pereverzev; Kushnarev, adjutant of Division Commander; Troshkin, Evdokimov, Pastor

On the right: Commander of the division Colonel Porfirii Gudz. Units of the division on December 13, 1941 liberated the city of Donskoy (Tula region) from the German-fascist invaders

Commander of the 328th (31st Guards) Rifle Division, Colonel Porfiry Gudz (left) and the Divisional Commissar, Dmitry Malkov. The summer of 1942. Formations of the division on December 13, 1941 liberated the city of Donskoy (Tula region) from the German-fascist invaders