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Cavalry recon platoon before a combat operation. Political instructor S.V. Kozlov (left) and Lieutenant A.A. Vasilistov clarify the plan of the operation.
The anti-aircraft gun-layer Сorporal T.D. Goryachy, awarded with the Order of the Red Star, 1943.
Anti-aircraft gun-layer, Corporal I.M. Bessonov, awarded the Order of the Red Star
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.
Cavalry recon platoon before a combat operation. Political instructor S.V. Kozlov (left) and Lieutenant A.A. Vasilistov clarify the plan of the operation.
The anti-aircraft gun-layer Сorporal T.D. Goryachy, awarded with the Order of the Red Star, 1943.
Anti-aircraft gun-layer, Corporal I.M. Bessonov, awarded the Order of the Red Star
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.
Commander of Kalinin Front, Colonel-General M.A. Purkaev (left) and member of Military Council of Kalinin Front D.S. Leonov.

Commander of Kalinin Front, Colonel-General M.A. Purkaev (left) and member of Military Council of Kalinin Front D.S. Leonov.

Commander of Kalinin Front, Colonel-General M.A. Purkaev (left) and member of Military Council of Kalinin Front D.S. Leonov.
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