Soviet female partisan Olga Mekheda (Tikhanovskaya) (also known as the Partisan Madonna) armed with a captured German-made M-24 hand grenade on the territory of Ukraine liberated from the Nazis. Eastern Front, World War II.
Source of information about the Olga Meheda photo: I. I. Yakubovsky. “Earth on fire” Military publishing house. 1975.
Location: Zhytomyr region, Ukraine, USSR
Photo date: 1944
Author of the photo: Arkady Shaikhet