Kombat (photograph)

Kombat (Russian: Комбат, lit. 'battalion commander') is a black-and-white photograph by the Soviet photographer Max Alpert. It depicts a Soviet military officer armed with a TT pistol who is raising his unit for an attack during World War II. The work is regarded as one of the most iconic Soviet World War II photographs, but neither the date nor the subject is known with certainty. According to the most widely-accepted version, the photograph depicts a political commissar, Aleksei Yeryomenko, minutes before his death, on 12 July 1942 in Voroshilovgrad Oblast (now Luhansk Oblast), Ukraine.

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