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Tank driver Mikhail Sergeyevich Smirnov, after the fight. During the attack on the German positions, an anti-tank shell hit in the forehead of T-34 and killed all the crew members except Mikhail Smirnov. Smirnov burst with his T-34 into the German positions, crushed three anti-tank guns and destroyed another 30 enemy soldiers and officers from the machine gun. Picture taken January 17, 1944, in the Leningrad region. Mikhail Smirnov was killed in action six months later in Latvia, on July 29, 1944 Important! The facts are true but there was kind of compilation of 2 soldiers. On the photo is Mikhail Smirnov, tank driver and he wasn't killed. He ended the war with 21 years, 3 medals and 4 orders. Here is an article about him. It's in Russian but you can recognize him on the double portrait (left): www.oblgazeta.ru/media/newspaperpdf/pages/2011-09-10_og_3... And that story about 30 killed enemies is also true. But it is about liutenant Alexander Volodin, 1923: podvignaroda.mil.ru/?#id=34841407&tab=navDetailManAward This is the site of the Ministery of Defense with scans of authentic documents.