Sending the 1st Separate Czechoslovak Infantry Battalion to the front (01.30.1943)

Soldiers and officers of the 1st Separate Czechoslovak Infantry Battalion, part of the Red Army, before boarding a troop train standing on the tracks at Buzuluk station on January 30, 1943. The soldiers unpack knapsacks from the supply sleds.

A female medical orderly checks a medical bag.

The face of a female medical orderly.

Personnel boarding the train cars.

Czechoslovak officers say goodbye to their wives and kiss them.

Battalion officers, commanders, and political workers of the Red Army at one of the train cars (panorama).

Battalion Commander Ludvík Svoboda receives a report on the battalion's readiness to leave for the front.

The face of L. Svoboda.

The face of the battalion bugler sounding the signal.

The face of one of the battalion officers waving goodbye.

The face of a Czechoslovak female soldier remaining in the rear.

Soldiers wave from the open door of the train car.

The train moves off, an officer climbs into the car to join the soldiers, and those seeing them off wave.