Brothers Gabriel and Beknu Khergiani, partisans, participants of removing of Nazi flags operation from Elbrus peak and installing Soviet flags there
The grave of a fascist huntsman on the saddle of Elbrus (5320 m)
The Battle for Elbrus has begun (A group of climbers on a snowy slope)
Captured weapons by Mount Elbrus (Hotu-Tau pass)
Soviet flag on the Western summit of Elbrus (5633 m)
Lieutenant Nicolay Gusak,  chief of the team that removed the German and installed the Soviet flags on the Western top of Elbrus
Members of the team which tore down the flags of Nazi Germany from the summit of Mount Elbrus, A. Griasnov, L. Korotaev, N. Persiyanov
A. Gusev and L. Kels, climbers, participants of the operation for planting Soviet flags on summit of Mount Elbrus
Georgy (Jury) Odnoblyudov, climber, participant of the operation for planting Soviet flags on summit of Mount Elbrus
Boris Grachev, Senior Lieutenant, participant of the operation for removing the flags of Nazi Germany from the peaks of the Caucasus and planting Soviet flags
Members of the mountaineering group before climbing to the peaks of Elbrus to install the flags of the USSR
Lieutenant Nicolay Gusak,  chief of the team that removed the German and installed the Soviet flags on the Western top of Elbrus
February 1943

Lieutenant Nicolay Gusak, chief of the team that removed the German and installed the Soviet flags on the Western top of Elbrus

Lieutenant Nicolay Gusak, chief of the team that removed the German and installed the Soviet flags on the Western top of Elbrus

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