Sergeant Vasily Fedorovich Vyurkov (born in 1913) holds the Soviet PPS-43 submachine gun with a Red flag attached to it on the tower of the building of the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet of the Estonian SSR in Tallinn.
The photo was taken after the liberation of Tallinn from the Wehrmacht Forces.
Sources of information about the PPS-43 submachine gun photo:
- Newspaper “Krasnaya Zvezda” No. 228 dated September 24, 1944.
- pamyat-naroda.ru
Location: Tallinn, Estonia, USSR
Time in photo: September 1944
Author: Rafail Mazelev