Alexander Brantman

 

Soviet front-line cameraman Alexander Brantman (1905-1983, left in the second row) with his comrades in Red Army uniform in a train freight car goes to the front line at the beginning of the Great Patriotic War of the Soviet Russia (June 22, 1941 – May 09, 1945). Eastern Front, World War II on the East.

In the foreground of the picture, from left to right: unknown, front-line cameraman Arkady Yulianovich Levitan (1911-2006), front-line cameraman Nikolai Alexandrovich Samgin (1907-18.09.1941, died in the area between the towns of Lokhvitsa – Sencha (now the Poltava region of Ukraine) being surrounded with units of the Soviet Army under the command of General Mikhail Kirponos), deputy head of the front-line film group Mikhail Grigorievich Yurkov (1905-09.1941), in the second row, from left to right: Alexander Brantman, front-line cameraman Boris Konstantinovich Makaseev (1907-1989).

 

Source of information about the photo: csdfmuseum.ru

 

 

Location: USSR
Shooting time: July 1941

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