The photo refers to the period of the Great Patriotic War, winter, spring 1945, when the corps was fighting to destroy 200 thousand encircled groups of German fascist troops in the Libava region (Baltic States). The tank of the regiment commander, Colonel Yablokov. On the right is the commander of the T-34 gun Vasily Petrovich Vinokurov, on the left is the radio operator of the given crew Vasily Vasilyevich Trusov.