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|image=RIAN archive 543 A battalion commander.jpg
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|title=''[[Kombat (photograph)|Kombat]]''
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'''''[[Kombat (photograph)|Kombat]]''''' (Russian for '[[Kombat (military rank)|battalion commander]]') is a black-and-white photograph by Soviet photographer [[Max Alpert]]. It depicts a Soviet military officer, armed with a [[TT pistol]], raising his unit for an attack during [[World War II]]. This work is regarded as one of the most iconic Soviet World War II photographs, yet neither the date nor the subject is known with certainty. According to the most widely accepted version, it depicts junior ''[[Political commissar|politruk]]'' Aleksei Gordeyevich Yeryomenko, minutes before his death on 12 July 1942, in [[Luhansk Oblast|Voroshilovgrad Oblast]], now part of Ukraine. The photograph is in the archives of [[RIA Novosti]], a Russian state-owned news agency.

|credit=Photograph credit: [[Max Alpert]]
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==See also==
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