A German soldier examines a Soviet KV 2 tank with an MT-1 turret, stuck in the Zieduplis River, captured by the Nazis on June 24, 1941.
The turret and the mask of the KV 2 cannon bear a large number of small-caliber artillery shells.
The Soviet tank from the 2nd Tank Division of the 3rd Mechanized Corps of the 11th Army of the North-Western Front of the Red Army. This tank may have been lost in the area of the town of Seta, 17 km east of the city of Kedainiai in Lithuania.
This heavy tank was produced in July – August 1940.
The photo source: army.lv.
Sources of information about the photo:
1.grossgrisly.livejournal.com
2.kv1ehkranami.narod.ru
Location: Seta, Lithuania, USSR
Time in photo: June 1941