The Soviet pilots of the Red Army Air Force reading newspapers on the airfield. 66th Fighter Aviation Regiment (Allenstein, Order of Suvorov III degree), field site Ashgabat-military (2 km from the city), where the regiment was based in 1946-1948.
In the background of the Soviet pilot is aircraft fighters of American production the Bell P-63 “Kingcobra”, supplied during the war in the USSR under the Lend-Lease act during World War II in Europe.
Location: Ashgabat city, Turkmenistan, Soviet Union
When the photo was taken: 1946