Major General Timofey Strokach, chief of staff of the Soviet Ukrainian partisan movement, awards a young partisan during World War II.
In the photo from right to left: Deputy Chief of the Ukrainian headquarters of the partisan movement for sabotage Colonel Ilya Grigorievich Starinov (1900-2000), Commissioner of the 1st Ukrainian Partisan Division Major General Semyon Vasilyevich Rudnev (1899-1943), Secretary of the Central Committee of the Communist Party (Bolsheviks) of Ukraine Demyan Sergeevich Korotchenko (1894-1969), chief of the Ukrainian headquarters of the partisan movement, Major General Timofey Strokach (1903-1963), commander of the 1st Ukrainian partisan division Sidor Artemyevich Kovpak (1887-1967).
The photo was taken between April and July 1943 in the forests of Ukraine.
The photo source: warhistory.livejournal.com.
Location: Ukraine, USSR
Photo Time: 1943
Author: Georgy Ugrinovich