Photos WW2 Soviet Forces

Guardsman - P. Makarenko's armored gunner with a 14.5-mm anti-tank rifle Degtyarev PTRD-41 near the damaged Italian light tank L6 / 40. Stalingrad direction. Summer 1942.

Red Army soldiers inspect a captured German tank of Czech production Pz.Kpfw. 38 (t), September 1942. Most likely, the tank belonged to the 22nd Panzer Division of the Wehrmacht.

Imitation of the capture of a German pilot at Messerschmitt Bf.109G-2 (serial number 13689) from I./JG53 "Pik-As". Stalingrad, 1942.

The pilot of this aircraft, non-commissioned officer Gerhard Riess, was captured after a forced landing due to engine failure on September 8, 1942 in the Stalingrad region.

Captured Germans guarded on the banks of the Volga. Stalingrad area. 1942 year.

Soviet officers interrogate a captured German.

A group of captured Soviet soldiers near Stalingrad, September 1942.

Germans in Stalingrad near the bakery. In the background is the Pz.III medium tank. September 1942

View from the German StuG III to Krasnoznamenskaya Street in Stalingrad, September 1942

The commander of the 3rd battalion of the 42nd Guards Rifle Regiment E.A. Zhukov (right) listens to the report of his scout. Stalingrad, 1942.

An assault group of the 13th Guards Division liberates a house in Stalingrad occupied by German troops. 1942 year.

Soviet sapper Koshuba mines the entrance to a house during street fighting in Stalingrad, September 1942.

Commander of the 13th Guards Division, which took part in the defense of Stalingrad, Hero of the Soviet Union, Major General Alexander Ilyich Rodimtsev near the headquarters dugout. Stalingrad, September 1942


Since the beginning of the war, he was the commander of the 5th airborne brigade. The brigade under the command of Rodimtsev took part in border battles in Western Ukraine on the Southwestern Front. At the end of July 1941, she was redeployed to the Darnitsa area near Kiev, where during the Kiev defensive operation she fought fierce battles on the outskirts of Kiev for almost a month. In September, Rodimtsev's brigade was surrounded, fought defensive battles on the Seim River and at Putivl station, and, while maintaining its combat effectiveness, broke through from the encirclement. At the end of October, the 3rd Airborne Corps was transformed into the 87th Infantry Division, and Colonel Rodimtsev was appointed its commander. For the well-organized withdrawal of the division to the east, the courage and bravery of the soldiers and commanders in the struggle for the township Tim and Shchigry, the division was transformed into the 13th Guards division on March 27, 1942 and awarded the Order of Lenin, and the division commander himself, Rodimtsev, was awarded the Order of the Red Banner. In the summer of 1942, the division waged heavy hostilities in the Kharkov direction, and then retreated in the direction of Veydelevka, Kantemirovka and Vyoshenskaya. After receiving reinforcements in mid-September, the division was transferred to the 62nd Army (South-Eastern Front), after which it took part in defensive hostilities in Stalingrad, including the capture of Mamaev Kurgan. In May 1943, he was appointed commander of the 32nd Guards Rifle Corps, which in July of the same year was included in the 5th Guards Army and took part in hostilities in the Battle of Kursk and in the battle for the Dnieper, in Kirovograd, Umansko- Botoshanska, Lvov-Sandomierz, Vistula-Oder, Lower Silesian, Berlin and Prague offensive operations. By the decree of the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet of the USSR of June 2, 1945, Lieutenant General Alexander Ilyich Rodimtsev was awarded the second Gold Star medal for his skillful leadership of the troops during the crossing of the Oder River on January 25, 1945 in the area of the Linden settlement (Poland), personal heroism and courage (6049).

Militiamen of the Stalingrad Tractor Plant walk past a dilapidated workshop to the battlefield, September 1942.
The second soldier on the left has a DT-29 (tank) machine gun in his hands.

Author: Arkady Shaikhet

Workers of the Stalingrad Tractor Plant (STZ). In the foreground, a worker is armed with a DT tank machine gun.

Militia in the foreground in Budennovka (headdress). He may have served in the army in the 1930s.

Worker of the Stalingrad plant "Red October" with a DT-29 machine gun

Workers of the Krasny Oktyabr plant defending their native plant. Stalingrad 1942

German assault group on the ruins of the plant in Stalingrad.
October 9, 1942.