Heroes and feats

Soldiers-liberators of Novgorod in the Novgorod Kremlin.

The destroyed St. Sophia Cathedral in Novgorod.

Forest settlement of residents of the village of Malye Berezitsy, Utorgosh District, in the zone of operations of the 5th Leningrad Partisan Brigade.

Refugees who left the echelons sent by the Nazis into German slavery came under the protection of partisans in the village of Zakhonye, Utorgosh district. The guerrillas give them the flour they have seized from the Germans.

Pavel Vladimirovich Antipov, commander of the partisan detachment of the 1st regiment of the 5th Leningrad partisan brigade.

Leningrad front. Luga direction. The villages are burning after the retreat of the Nazis. The photo shows one of the villages of the Batetsky district.

In 1942, nineteen-year-old Mikhail Khokhlunov was drafted into the army. After graduating from the communications school in the Kuibyshev division, he was transferred to Ulyanovsk, where he continued his studies at the tank school. He completed his combat path as a signalman and tanker. Awarded the Medal for Military Merit for the Battle of Yassy. In the war, there was nothing more precious than sending a photo to your family and friends. The fellow soldiers, knowing that Mikhail could take pictures, helped to get paper, reagents, cameras.

Celebrating liberation

while moving to the front line

The war is still going on, and young guys dream of a outside world. You are eager to take off your tunic and walk around European towns ...

For a long good memory to mom and dad from their son Michael from Europe.

Partisan intelligence on a mission, 5th Leningrad Partisan Brigade.

Pyotr Fedorovich Solovyov, head of the political department of the 7th Leningrad partisan brigade, later - deputy editor of the Novgorodskaya Pravda newspaper, head of the department of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of Kyrgyzstan.

From left to right: partisans, Heroes of the Soviet Union at St. Isaac's Cathedral in Leningrad: D.I. Sokolov, K. D. Karitsky, A.A. Vinokurov, V.V. Egorov, A.F.Tarakanov. Leningrad.

Equipment abandoned by the Germans in Novgorod near St. Sophia Cathedral.