Faces of war

The order-bearing crew from left to right: Sergeant G.P. Litvinenko, tank commander, twice order-bearer Sergeant G.I. Timofeev and the driver, senior sergeant M.P. Safonov. GAOPI. F.9306 Op.2 D. 902 .

Members of the Dmitrov underground district committee of the CPSU(b). 24th of March, 1942. Moscow region, Dmitrov. The unknown photographer.

Penza Komsomol members transfer military aircraft built on personal money funds of Penza district youth to the fellow countryman-pilot V.A. Kazichkin. 1943. From holdings of Penza region State archive (GAPO)

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

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)

Sharoikov Vasily Ivanovich, was born in Vandovka village, Kolyvan district, Novosibirsk region. Called up by the Kolyvan regional military commissariat of the Novosibirsk region. He missing in action in February 1943. 1942. Source: Department of Archival Service of the Kolyvan District administration, Novosibirsk Region, F. 1F. op. 1, file 1239)

Participated in battles for the liberation of the USSR.

Member of the Military Council of the Central Front, Brigadier General K.F. Telegin and the commander of the 2nd Guards Cavalry Corps, Brigadier General V.V. Kryukov

Yagodarov Ilya Vasilievich, participant of the Great Patriotic War. Private Soldier. Drafted into the Army in 1940. Got to the war on the front line. He was wounded and captured. Escaped from a concentration camp while unloading coal cars: "I buried myself in the coals and thus managed to escape". He fought as a tankman. His tank burned and he was captured again. Later he was released by the Americans. He returned to his Homeland in 1946. Immediately in the Military Commissariat he was sentenced to 10 years as a high traitor to his Motherland, an alleged "Vlasovite" (Vlasov Liberation Army). He returned home from the Stalinist camp in 1956 having served 10 years there. He passed away on December 25, 1985. Repressed, restored after death as a participant of the war.