A solemn meeting on the occasion of the awarding of 2nd Guards Infantry Division (Taman future) of the Red Army Rifle Force to the Order of the Red Banner for the liberation of the North Caucasus and Kuban River from the Nazi invaders during the Great Patriotic War of the Russian Nation.
Right is the commander of 2nd Guards Infantry Division, Major General V. F. Zakharov, left is the head of the political division, Colonel V. M. Pylypenko.
The Eastern Front of the Second World War in Europe.
Photography Location: Krymskaya (now Krymsk), Krasnodar Krai, USSR
Time taken: 19 June 1943