Tank troops

Officers receive money allowance in one of tank units

Workers of the Stalingrad tractor plant named after F. E. Dzerzhinsky during transfer of a column of new tanks to Red Army soldiers

Local people return to the city after the Battle of Berlin, Berlin, May 1945. Photo by Yevgeny Khaldei/TASS

Peasant women from the village near Carpathian Mountains liberated from the Nazi invaders during a meeting with Soviet soldiers

A US officer renders a salute as he meets Soviet soldiers, 1945. Photo by Mark Redkin/TASS

The photo shows the tank's crew commanded by senior lieutenant Vasily Andreevich Tretyakov (the photo was sent in 1944 from the city of Pushkino). On January 14, 1945, the entire crew was killed in a fierce battle in Poland.

Fyodor Nikolaevich Shestopalov, 1906 Senior Lieutenant at the 1st Baltic Front, in tank units as commander of the "T-34" tank, commander of the communications platoon. In battles with the German invaders he showed examples of personal heroism and courage, for which he was awarded the Order of the Red Star in 1944. He was awarded the medal "For the victory over Germany".

Hero of Soviet Union H.M. Mamedov receives tank column, constructed by the means of working people in Tataria. 1944

Konstantin Mikhailovich Shepelev. Tankist. In 1943 was seriously wounded. Fired from the current army with the rank of Major. has two Orders "Red Star", "Red Banner" and 43 medals. died 1974.

Kokhlyunov Mikhail Dmitrievich (left) with fellow soldiers in front of a tank

Local people released from German captivity thank Soviet soldiers for their rescue, Smolensk Region, August 1943. Photo by Mark Redkin/TASS

Самоходная артиллерийская установка Су-76М советского производства на параде Войска Польского

Soviet self-propelled guns SU-76M on the parade of the Polish Army

Captured German self-propelled gun StuG III (South-Western front)

Battalion Commissar of the tank unit M. L. Misak (second from the right) read messages of the Kirov plant team to the tankmen