Reconnaissance platoon of the 674 Infantry Regiment 150 th Infantry Division of Idritsa of the Red Army Forces after the defeat of the Nazi Wehrmacht and the end hostilities of the Second World War in Europe. The Eastern Front.
In the foreground of the Red Army Reconnaissance platoon is the Private of the Red Army Infantry Gregory Bulatov. It is believed that he first hoisted the Soviet Red Flag on the German’s Reichstag building. However, the official version of the distribution was received that the first was the famous Mikhail Yegorov and Meliton Kantaria.
Also in the Reconnaissance platoon photo: dressed in a leather jacket and cap platoon commander the Lieutenant Semyon Sorokin, on the left at the edge of the Order of the Patriotic War Sergeant Victor Provorotov, behind the Grigoriy Bulatov (from the stock) is Staff Sergeant Ivan Lysenko, the extreme right (with a flashlight on the jacket) Stepan Oreshko.
Photography Location: Berlin, Germany
Time taken: May 1945
Author: Alexander Kapustiansky