Soviet soldiers of the 416 Rifle Division: Senior Sergeant Andreev and Sergeant Berezhnoy hoist the Red Banner of the Red Army Armed Forces at the Brandenburg Gate in Berlin.
About the Red Banner photo: “The author of the book Martyn Ivanovich Merzhanov during the Great Patriotic War was a correspondent of Pravda and was in the units of the active army. In this book, the records that he made on the eve and during the storming of Berlin were restored, during the historic meeting in Karlshorst, at which the act of surrendering Hitlerite Germany was signed”.
Location: Berlin, Germany
Time when the photo was taken: May 1945
Author: Evgeni Khaldei