48th Tank Division. Velikiye Luki. The military commissar of the headquarters of the 48th Tank Division battalion commissar Nikolai Zakharovich Mekhedov and acombat medic. The photo was taken on 7-18 July 1941. On 19 July 1941 Velikie Luki was occupied by the Germans, and on July 21 the city was liberated by the forces of the 22nd Army, mainly by the forces of the 48th Tank Division. Returning to the city, the tankers found that the Germans killed wounded soldiers who were in the divisional hospital and medical personnel. This girl was also killed; a star was carved on her. This story was told byk Mehedov in September 1941.October 18, 1941. Mekhedov missed in action. Source: home archive