Posts tagged: USSR
Crew of the Soviet 14,5 - mm antitank gun Degtyarev PTRD-41 at Stalingrad.
Repair of the KV-1 “Suvorov” in a factory in Moscow. Also on the left T-34 tank, behind BT.
This song is about “Road of Life”.
The Road of Life was the ice road transport route across the frozen Lake Ladoga, which provided the only access to the besieged city of Leningrad in the winter months during 1941–1944 while the perimeter in the siege was maintained by the German Army Group North and the Finnish Defence Forces. The siege lasted for 29 months from September 8, 1941, to January 27, 1944.
Grenadiers Division “Great Germany” in street fighting in the Rostov-on-Don.
The crew of the SU-76M fire support troops 123rd Infantry Division. Leningrad Front, Spring 1944.
Soviet infantry in defensive positions. Picture taken during the Soviet counterattack near Moscow.
Anti-aircraft cref of Sergeant Ivan Mikhaleva in the liberation of Smolensk, armed with large-caliber (12.7 mm) machine gun DShK. In the background are visible Cathedral Mountain and Cathedral of the Assumption.
“Tigers” from the 503rd battalion of heavy tanks at Kursk.
German soldiers in the flooded trenches, spread the food. October 1943
Red Army soldiers are fed a little girl.
