Soviet sappers from the 611th separate sapper battalion of the 327th rifle division of the Volkhov Front of the Red Army.
Soldier Alexander Grigorievich Zubakin (born 1899) and squad leader Sergeant Mikhail Vasilyevich Kaminsky (right, born 1908) make passages in a barbed wire fence in the vicinity of Sinyavino station.
The photograph of Soviet sappers was taken during the first day of the operation to break through the Nazi siege of Leningrad (Operation Iskra).
Source: V. Levtov “Victory of Leningrad. From the blockade by the spring of 1945.
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Location: Leningrad region, USSR
Photo time: January 12, 1943
Photo by: Boris Losin