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Sergeant Ivan Yakovlevich Razumny's mortar crew of the 434th Rifle Regiment in a firing position in a shell crater, late October to early November 1942. This scene was shot in the rear southeast of Sarepta when the division was in the second echelon. Razumn was killed in action on 20 October 1943.
Soviet submachine gunners advancing through Bolkhov
28th Army (Soviet Union)
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The 28th Army was a field army of the Red Army and the Soviet Ground Forces, formed three times in 1941–42 and active during the postwar period for many years in the Belorussian Military District.
Memorial stone to the 248th Rifle Division near Divnoe (Дивное) Stavropol Krai
War Memorial Cemetery in Warsaw, where soldiers of the 28th Army are buried