Armed militiaman

 

An armed Soviet militiaman on July 3rd street (now Sadovaya Street) in Russian Leningrad city.
The weapon of the Soviet militiaman is the Canadian five-shot Rifle Ross Mark III rifle of the 1910 model (these rifles were purchased by the tsarist government of the Russian Empire for the army’s needs during the First World War).

 

 

Location: Leningrad, USSR
Date: 04 September 1941
Photo by Vasily Fedoseyev

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