Soviet Marines from the 2nd Separate Brigade of the Baltic Fleet of the Red Navy during Great Patriotic War against the Nazi Wehrmacht. The Eastern Front of the Second World War in Europe.
In the foreground is a Soviet Marine sergeant Granovsky Nikolai (killed in action February 2, 1944).
The famous WW2 photo of the Baltic Soviet Marines, which was made by a photojournalist from the newspaper “Leningradskaya Pravda” David Trachtenberg.
Time taken: 31 August 1941
Author: David Trachtenberg