Members of the mountaineering group before climbing to the peaks of Elbrus to install the flags of the USSR

Assault group of the Transcaucasian Front that installed Soviet flags instead of German ones on Elbrus peak.

Lieutenant A.V. Bagrov and Lieutenant A. A. Nemchinov with the flag of the USSR on the summit of Elbrus

Lieutenants A.V. Bagrov and N.N. Persiyaninov climbing Elbrus

A.I. Gryaznov, L.G. Korotaev and N.P. Persiyaninov, participants of the Battle for Elbrus, removing the flag of Nazi Germany and planting Soviet flag

A team of military mountaineers climbing Elbrus to remove German flag and to raise the Soviet one.

Guard Red Army soldiers, reconnaissance scouts of the 9th Infantry Brigade K.A. Kaditch and Yu. G. Dolubekov

Tuapse Defensive Operation. Reconnaissance scouts are moving into the enemy’s rear

Red Army soldiers defending the Caucasian passes listen to a Moscow radio broadcast

Paratrooper with a squeezebox. Novorossiysk. 1943

A team of military mountaineers climbing Elbrus to remove German flag and to raise the Soviet one.

A team of military mountaineers climbing Elbrus to remove the Nazi flags and plant Soviet ones. From left to right: V. Lubenets, Yu. Odnoblyudov, A. Gusev, N. Morenets, E. Smirnov, N. Persiyaninov, L. Kels, L. Korotaeva, V. Kukhtin; sitting: A. Bagrov, A. Gryaznov

17 February 1943

A team of military mountaineers climbing Elbrus to remove German flag and to raise the Soviet one.

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