Transcaucasian Front

Transcaucasian Front, January 4-11, 1943 Tank movement, incl. American M-3 with armored fighters, trucks with artillery crews and guns, cavalry units of the 4th Guards Kuban Cavalry Corps under the command of Lieutenant General Nikolai Yakovlevich Kirichenko (close-up shot) along the roads, through the liberated settlements in the Stavropol Territory. Parts of the 9th Guards Cossack Cavalry Division pass through the village of Sukhaya Padina, communicate with local residents. The corpses of the Nazis near the village [Kirovo]. Destroyed school building. General view of the trucks, ammunition and other military equipment abandoned by the Germans during the retreat. A burning German tank (from German African tank units with the image of a palm tree and the sun on the hull), blown up by the Nazis during the retreat. View of the carts on which the bodies of those killed on January 6 in the battle near the Bobaninsky farm lie: the commander of the 34th Guards Regiment of the 9th Guards Cossack Division of the Guards Lieutenant Colonel Vartanyan and his deputy for combat units. January 10, 1943. Residents of the village of Vorontsovo-Aleksandrovskoye at the corpses of civilians in the village, shot by the Nazis. Among the bodies of those shot: Matvey Stepanovich Kipa from the collective farm "Bolshevik"; next to the body is the wife of the deceased - Ksenia Nikitichna Kipa; the wife of Alexander Ivanovich Cherednikov stands by the body of her husband, mourning him; the body of Tatyana Ivanovna Kornienko is in a coffin, two of her sisters are standing nearby. Settlement [Kirovo]. The mother is at the body of her 17-year-old son, whom the Nazis killed 2 days before the liberation of [Kirovo] by the Cossacks. The village of Otkaznoye. A group of Cossacks and residents of the village near the body of 79-year-old Vera Grigorievna Dolgova, who was shot by the Germans, who was shot by the Germans from a machine gun near her house on the eve of the liberation of the village on January 9, 1943. The daughter of Vera Grigorievna tells the Cossack about the murder of her mother, cries over the body of the murdered woman. Views of the village of Otkazny, liberated on January 10 from the Nazis. View of the house with a sign with the inscription: "BURGERMEISTERAMT OTKASNOJE. OTKAZNENSKAYA RURAL RULE". A group of commanders leaves the building of the former Otkaznenskaya German government. Among them: members of the Armed Forces of the Northern Group of Forces of the Transcaucasian Front, Secretary of the Central Committee of the All-Union Communist Party (Bolsheviks) of Azerbaijan Mirjafar Abbasovich Bagirov (in a cap) and Major General Alexander Yakovlevich Fominykh (wearing a fur hat and a dark coat), commander of the 44th Army, Major General Vasily Afanasyevich Khomenko , the commander of the 4th Guards Kuban Cossack Cavalry Corps, Lieutenant General Nikolai Yakovlevich Kirichenko, as well as his deputy for political affairs, Colonel Alexander Petrovich Ochkin and the chief of staff of the corps, Major General Nikolai Andreevich Pichugin, and others.

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