Back to
album
Anti-aircraft automatic cannon unit of Senior Sergeant A.I. Sidorov, awarded the Order of the Red Star.
Loader of the anti-aircraft unit that shot down five German planes, Private M. Kotolavidze loads the cannon with a clip of shells
Commander of Kalinin Front, Colonel-General M.A. Purkaev (left) and member of Military Council of Kalinin Front D.S. Leonov.
"Partisan cannon" 122-mm howitzer handed over by partisans to soldiers of the Kalinin Front.
2nd Rank Military Engineer Grigory Yakovlevich Klyatis, Deputy Commander of 31st Sapper Brigade (in the center) with local children.
Commander of 8th tank brigade, Colonel P.A. Rotmistrov (right) with the last tank under Rzhev.
Bodies of Rzhev local people brutally tortured by the Nazis.
Writer Ilya G. Ehrenburg (2nd from the right) and the American journalist Leland Stowe (3rd from the left) in the unit near Rzhev.
Writer Ilya G. Ehrenburg (right) and American journalist Leland Stowe during their stay in the unit near Rzhev.
Major General Ivan Prokofievich Repin (in uniform with awards), participant of the Great Patriotic War, defense of Rzhev
Guard petty officer I.D. Rasshchupkin conducts machine gun instructions with his crew; on the left Kashat Muzhikov, on the right Satar Omashev
Anti-aircraft automatic cannon unit of Senior Sergeant A.I. Sidorov, awarded the Order of the Red Star.
Loader of the anti-aircraft unit that shot down five German planes, Private M. Kotolavidze loads the cannon with a clip of shells
Commander of Kalinin Front, Colonel-General M.A. Purkaev (left) and member of Military Council of Kalinin Front D.S. Leonov.
"Partisan cannon" 122-mm howitzer handed over by partisans to soldiers of the Kalinin Front.
2nd Rank Military Engineer Grigory Yakovlevich Klyatis, Deputy Commander of 31st Sapper Brigade (in the center) with local children.
Commander of 8th tank brigade, Colonel P.A. Rotmistrov (right) with the last tank under Rzhev.
Bodies of Rzhev local people brutally tortured by the Nazis.
Writer Ilya G. Ehrenburg (2nd from the right) and the American journalist Leland Stowe (3rd from the left) in the unit near Rzhev.
Writer Ilya G. Ehrenburg (right) and American journalist Leland Stowe during their stay in the unit near Rzhev.
Major General Ivan Prokofievich Repin (in uniform with awards), participant of the Great Patriotic War, defense of Rzhev
Guard petty officer I.D. Rasshchupkin conducts machine gun instructions with his crew; on the left Kashat Muzhikov, on the right Satar Omashev
Commander of 8th tank brigade, Colonel P.A. Rotmistrov (right) with the last tank under Rzhev.

Commander of 8th tank brigade, Colonel P.A. Rotmistrov (right) with the last tank under Rzhev.

Commander of 8th tank brigade, Colonel P.A. Rotmistrov (right) with the last tank under Rzhev.

0 comment
Author
Unknown
Source
Victory Museum

2026 © Russian Military Historical Society Developed by Jetmix