Scouts

On Reconnaissance

On reconnaissance. Kola Peninsula

Scout Fedor Volonchuk, a midshipman in the Black Sea Fleet

Friends-scouts, 1942

Mikhailenko Ivan Alekseevich, went through the war in SMERSH, participated in special operations. No photographs in military uniform kept

Maslov Mitrofan Makarovich served the whole war in intelligence, war correspondent, wrote poetry for a military newspaper. He was awarded of medals "Combat Service", the Order of the Red Star. The photo was taken in 1944

Camouflaged Soviet soldiers are in the battles of the Rybachy Peninsula, Murmansk Region, 1944.

Soviet scouts of the 1st Guards Mechanized Corps on a street of Vienna during an offensive

Combat crew changing disposition on the Rybachy Peninsula, Murmansk Region

Shlepenkov Ivan Ivanovich. Born in 1917, Lebyazhye village. Drafted into the Soviet Army in 1938, Mishkino village. Guard First Lieutenant, Deputy Commander of the Reconnaissance Company, Guars Mechanized Division No.6, Tank Army No.4. He died in the hospital in 11/17/1945. Buried in Hungary, Papa, military cemetery.

He got to the front in 1942 and was a scout during the war. He crossed the Dnieper. Was wounded and shell-shocked. Reached Berlin and left an autograph on the Reichstag walls. Awarded Orders and Medals.

Reconnaissance officer. He died during the liberation of the village of Cheremisinovo.

Reconnaissance platoon commander Foreman Nikolai Berezovoy during one of the partisan raids of Sergei Iovlev's detachment

Soviet soldiers of Iovlev's Special Unit prepare for a fight behind enemy lines near Ugodsky Zavod village during the Battle of Moscow, November 1941. Photo by Nikolay Sitnikov/TASS

Konstantin Petrovich Sherstyankin was born on December 10, 1916. He went to the front in July 1941. He was an intelligent officer, senior lieutenant of the 114th Guards Rifle Regiment of the 37th Guards Division, with which he reached Poland. After crossing the Narew River in September 1944. “On September 16, 1944, the reconnaissance platoon received the task of delivering a control prisoner. Comrade Sherstyankin himself became the head of the capture group. Imperceptibly, crawling the group reached the opponents. Imperceptibly we made his way into the cell and waited for the Germans there. After a while, the German entered the cell and Comrade Sherstyankin captured him. The tongue was delivered to the headquarters, says the award list.