World War II photo: Soviet photojournalist Natalia Bode takes pictures on the armor of the T-28 multi-turret medium tank using the Leica III camera. Eastern Front.
The T28 is a three-turret Soviet medium tank of the interwar period. It was developed in 1930-1932. T-28 is the first in the USSR medium tank launched into mass production. Between 1933 and 1940, the Leningrad Kirov plant produced 503 copies of the T-28.
Natalia Bode (1914-1996) is a Soviet photographer, participant in the Great Patriotic War. She was born on December 17 (December 30), 1914 in Kyiv in the family of a technical school teacher Fyodor Fedorovich Bode (according to the birth certificate of Fyodor Fridrikhovich Bode) and an elementary school teacher Vera Aleksandrovna Kudritskaya.
Natalia Bode in 1934 worked as a photojournalist in the newspaper Kommunist. In 1938, she moved to the TASS Photo Chronicle for Ukraine. In 1941, she volunteered to work in the front-line newspaper of the South-Western Front “Red Army” and went with her until the end of the war. She filmed on the South-Western, Central, 1st Belorussian Fronts of the Red Army. She was constantly published in the central newspapers “Pravda”, “Krasnaya Zvezda”, the “Ogonyok” magazine and the foreign press (through the Soviet Information Bureau). She ended the war with the rank of lieutenant.
After the war, in 1945, Detizdat published a book of photographs by Natalia Bode, “On the Roads of War,” which received an award. Participated in many all-Union and international photo exhibitions. Since 1945 she lived in Moscow. She worked as a Moscow correspondent for the Ukrainian newspaper “Radyanska Kultura”.