Heroes and feats

Vorovchenko Grigory Danilovich, Hero of the Soviet Union. From the photographic collection of the Central State Archive of the Kabardino-Balkarian Republic.

Busargin Nikolay Matveevich, Hero of the Soviet Union. From the photographic collection of the Central State Archive of the Kabardino-Balkarian Republic.

Baysultanov Alim Yusupovich, Hero of the Soviet Union. From the photographic collection of the Central State Archive of the Kabardino-Balkarian Republic.

Atamanchuk Grigory Klimentyevich, Hero of the Soviet Union. From the photo collection of the Central State Archives of Kabardino-Balkaria Republic.

Hero of the Soviet Union. From the photographic archive of the Central State Archives of Kabardino-Balkarian Autonomous Soviet Socialist Republic.

The photograph features Selev Pavel Ivanovich, born in Karakulin district, Udmurt Republic, in 1895. He was enlisted by the Sarapul military commissariat in 1942 and fought near Leningrad. He died from wounds on October 10, 1942, and is buried in Magnitogorsk.

The photo shows Dwinin Yuri Borisovich, born in Sarapul, Udmurt Republic, in 1925. His parents were civil servants: his mother was a teacher, and his father was an accountant. He attended secondary school No. 16. After completing seven grades in 1940, he enrolled in the Leningrad Hydromelioration College but studied there only for two months. Yuri then started working as an auxiliary worker in the first workshop at Ordzhonikidze Factory No. 203. Eager to go to the front line, he was drafted into the army on November 11, 1943. He trained at the Sverdlovsk Military Tank School. He was killed on October 5, 1944, and is buried in Latvia.

The photograph depicts Zamaraev Boris Aleksandrovich, a native of Sarapul city, Udmurt Republic. Born in 1922. Fell in battle on June 4, 1944.

Arslanov Vali Arslanovich, born in 1900, native of Raevka village, Ufa Province. Accountant at MTS (Metallurgical Technical Station). Enlisted for frontline duty in August 1941. Served under Marshal Rokossovskiy. Awarded Order of the Red Star, Medal for Courage, Medals for Liberation of Sevastopol, Stalingrad, Czechoslovakia. Finished the war in Prague. Died in 1947 due to wounds sustained during combat, at home.

Red Army soldiers on a friendly visit to the encampment site of a Polish detachment.

General Bolesław Kieniewicz with a group of soldiers from the Polish Army and Red Army during an excursion in Berlin.

Everyone complements each other: some have records while others have a phonograph, some had cans and others full flasks.

Self-Propelled Artillery Unit Heading Towards Berlin

Wehrmacht Prisoners of War in the Hands of Polish Soldiers. In the Foreground, Capt. Zygmunt Machnik.

People's Poland in the Pre-Congress Period through the Lens of WAF. Bridges of Warsaw.