Vasiliy Krysov as a cadet at the Chelyabinsk Tank School in 1941
Gunner Sergeant Major Mikhail Filippov (on the right) and loader Sergeant Aleksandr Shadrin.
Major Sergey Fetisov, chief of staff of the 1454th Self-propelled Artillery Regiment.
A 45-tonne KV-1 heavy tank advances, followed by infantry.
From left to right: unknown, Porshnev, unknown, Polivoda.
Loading shells for the 76mm gun of the KV-1.
Commanders of the 1454th Self-propelled Artillery Regiment, 1944. From left to right: Major Nikolay Perfoilev (chief of staff), Lieutenant Colonel Petr Melnikov (regimental commander), Major Mechislav Lavrinovich (deputy regimental commander).
Officers of the 1454th Self-propelled Artillery Regiment. Sitting, from the left: Captain Nikolay Polivoda (commander of operations), Platoon Lieutenant Konstantin Liamin, Captain Arkadiy Parsegov (chief of regimental rear services). Standing, from the left: Lieutenant Stepan Sobol (commander of recovery platoon), Senior Lieutenant Petr Glukhovtsev, SMERSH representative, Captain Kharlampiy Surzhakov (deputy of chief of artillery), Major Boris Avramenko (chief of staff), Senior Lieutenant Gennadiy Garshunov, Lieutenant Andrey Domashenko (deputy chief of staff, reconnaissance), Captain Ivan Zoz, Major Max Tasov (senior regimental doctor).
A 30-tonne SU-122 self-propelled howitzer moving forward at speed.
Sergeant Viktor Oleinik, driver and mechanic.
The crew of a KV-1, wearing protective headgear, prepare for action.
Sergeant Major Sergey Amalechkin and Junior Sergeant Mikhail Tvorogov.
Lieutenant Vasiliy Krysov (on the right) with K. Vaulin in 1944 after hospital treatment.
Residents of Yastrebnya village, from the left: G. Ryapetskaya, E. Pozdnyak, M. Ryapetskiy, M. Ryapetskaya.
Senior Lieutenant Vasiliy Krysov, 1944.
A group of SU-85 self-propelled guns behind the front.
Red Army infantry aboard an SU-122.
Captain Pavel Golubev, chief of staff.
A typical scene on the Eastern Front: SU-85s on the move in a snow-bound forest.
Officers and crew pose for the camera on an SU-85.
The article ‘Valeriy Korolev fights the Stalinist way. In 3 days he destroyed 8 Tigers’, as published in the 9th Mechanized Corps’ newspaper Forward to the West!, Issue number 186, from 20 December 1943.
