Mosin-Nagant Photographs | World War II Database


Finnish Army troops in position during war games, Finland, circa 1920s or 1930s	Simo Häyhä posing with his honorary M/28-30 rifle, 1939-1940

Soviet troops at Smolensk, Russia, 1 Jul 1941; note PPSh-41 and Mosin-Nagant weapons	Soviet sailors marching on Nevsky Prospect, Leningrad, Russia, 1 Oct 1941

Russian militiamen, Moscow, Russia, 10 Oct 1941	Soviet naval infantry signal troops setting up communication wires, Stalingrad, Russia, 1 Aug 1942

Russian soldier Vasily Zaytsev posing with his Mosin-Nagant sniper rifle, Stalingrad, Russia, Oct 1942	Soviet signal troops laying cables, Russia, Nov 1942

Byelorussian guerillas posing in a forest, circa 1943; note PPD-40 submachine gun, Mosin-Nagant M1891 rifle, and German bayonet	Ukrainian women of Sydir Kovpak's guerilla forces, Ukraine, 1940s; note Mosin-Nagant M1891 sniper rifles

Nina Lobkovskaya with Mosin-Nagant rifle with scope, 1940s	Nina Lobkovskaya with Mosin-Nagant rifle with scope, 1940s

Roza Shanina with a Mosin-Nagant 1891/30 rifle with 3.5x PU scope, 1944	Roza Shanina with her Mosin-Nagant rifle with PU scope, 1940s

Female Soviet snipers with Mosin-Nagant rifles, circa 1940s	Russian troops fighting in Berlin, Germany, circa Apr-May 1945; note Mosin-Nagant M1944 Carbine and Degtyaryov Pekhotny 'DP' light machine gun

Twelve of the top snipers from the Soviet Third Army, 1st Belarussian Front, May 1945. Note the modified Mosin-Nagant rifles and PU 3.5x series fixed power scopes.