Defense of the Arctic

Winter 1941. USSR. Murmansk region. Fighter pilots of the aviation regiment of the Air Force of the Northern Fleet of the USSR Gennady Yakovlevich Shalnov and Vladimir Samoylovich Levitan (left to right) before a combat flight at one of the military airfields on the Kola Peninsula during the Great Patriotic War. The exact date of the photo is unknown. Evgeny Khaldey/TASS