Photo by TASS "Mounted scout of Kireichikov on the Karelian isthmus", 1939

The original TASS photo is in excellent condition. The authors are Lev Khaykin and Mark Redkin. [Soviet-Finnish border, 30.XI.1939]. The size is 17*12 cm. A piece of thin paper with an editorial comment is pasted on the back. The stamp of the TASS Photo Repository. Very good preservation. Editorial comment: "Komsomolets — mounted scout Pyotr Kirillovich Kireichikov. Crossing the border, he was one of the first to discover a mined field on the approaches to the road and prevented the death of his comrades. 30.XI.39". Guarantee of authenticity.

Mark Stepanovich Redkin (1908-1987) — Soviet photojournalist, correspondent of the TASS Newsreel and the newspaper Frontline Illustration and other publications in the 1920s and 1930s, military photojournalist on the battlefields of the Great Patriotic War.