Nikolai Morenets, Lieutenant, instructor, mountaineer, participant of the operation "Elbrus1943" for removing Nazi flags from Elbrus and installing Soviet ones

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

Nikolai Morenets, Lieutenant, instructor, mountaineer, participant of the operation "Elbrus1943" for removing Nazi flags from Elbrus and installing Soviet ones

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

Soviet flag on the Western summit of Elbrus (5633 m)

Soviet flag on the Western summit of Elbrus (5633 m)

Soviet flag on the Western summit of Elbrus (5633 m)

February 1943

Soviet flag on the Western summit of Elbrus (5633 m)

Soviet flag on the Western summit of Elbrus (5633 m)

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