A group of soldiers of reconnaissance Soviet scouts dressed in camouflage summer uniform of the 27th Guards Rifle Division from the Red Army Infantry Force during the Great Patriotic War of the Soviet Union (June 22, 1941 – May 09, 1945). The Eastern Front, Second World War.
The Soviet scouts stand from left to right: Merkulov was wounded; Vasily Zakamaldin; Senior Lieutenant Zhuravlev went to Officer’s school; Unknown; Leonid Kazachenko was wounded;
The scouts sit from left to right: Alexey Solodovnikov; Vorobyov the company’s medical officer, was wounded; Nikolai Pluzhnikov was killed in the Battle of Poland in the repulsing a Wehrmacht attack on the Russian headquarters of the Rifle Division; Unknown soldier was lost.
The photo of the scouts was taken in the Battle of Poland in the summer of 1944. From the personal war photo archive of Vladimir Fedorovich Buhenko, who also served as a scout in this Red Army Infantry division.
Place of photo: Poland
Date of the photo: 1944
Source information of the photo: the personal photo archive of Soviet comrade V. F. Buchenko.