Tank troops

Submachine gunners of the 1st Baltic Front during the fight in the town of Jelgava, July 1944

City residents giving a warm welcome to the Soviet tankmen. Bucharest. August, 1944

Soviet tanks with tank-borne infantry on the territory of the enemy on the outskirts of the city. Budapest, December 1944

Attack of a unit of the 303rd Rifle Division supported by tanks on enemy positions in the grove "Figurnaya" (North-West of Voronezh), August 1942

Attack of a Red Army unit on the positions of German-fascist troops in the area of the Voronezh Agricultural Institute. 1942

ANISIMOV VASILY KONDRATIEVICH (1912-1976) Born in 1912 in Dubovskoe village. He served on the fronts of the Patriotic War since February 1944. He fought on the 1st Belorussian Front. By January 1945, the tank crew of the guard first sergeant Anisimov knocked out over 20 guns, 7 tractors, 7 mortars, destroyed 12 machine-gun points, 9 steam locomotives, 150 carriages and 800 enemy soldiers and officers. He died on April 10, 1976 in Poltava.

The photo shows Tsymbalyuk Boris Porfirevich, driver of the T-34 tank.

Poet Yeugeniy Dolmatovskiy (standing on a tank on the right) during a speech to Soviet soldiers at a rally at the Brandenburg Gate after the capture of Berlin

At the Brandenburg Gate. May 1945

The "T-34" tank crew commander Vasily Sarafonov, Port Arthur Photo by The "T-34" tank crew commander Vasily Sarafonov, Port Arthur/TASS

E.F. Kramarev was a collective farmer of the Parizhskaya Kommuna agricultural cartel of the Kalacheyevsky District of the Voronezh Region, who bought a Red Army tank at his own expense (portrait with the crew of the S-172 tank). 1943

Assault group of the 18th Tank Corps is fighting for the grove "Figurnaya" in the North-West of Voronezh. August 1942

The tank crew is listening to the reading of the newspaper. Rostov region. 1942.

Yurin Alexander Sergeevich is a participant of the Great Patriotic War. Born in 1913, Karasi village, Yurgamysh region. Drafted into the Soviet Army in 1941, Mishkino. Corporal, tanker. Hos last battle was in February 1943.

Great-grandfather of Khromushina Varvara. Vasily Fyodorovich was sent to the front in 1941 as a tankman. In one of the battles his tank was knocked out, it caught fire, and great-grandfather was seriously wounded, miraculously survived. He reached Berlin.