Views of Kamchatka

USSR. Kamchatka Region. The propeller of the plane in which Captain Ivan Vladimirovich Derkachev fought, at the foot of the Gorely volcano in the south of the peninsula. The plane of the squadron commander of the 888th fighter aviation regiment of the 128th mixed aviation division I. V. Derkachev was shot down by Japanese anti-aircraft artillery on August 18, 1945, during the Kuril landing operation of Soviet troops during World War II. Igor Weinstein/TASS