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Soviet Veterans with UK Connections
This collection brings together Soviet and Russian veterans who share a personal bond with the United Kingdom. Some are buried in British war cemeteries — Tidworth, Cannock Chase, Chester, Harrogate, Shaftesbury. Others were held in POW camps on British soil, or emigrated to the UK after the war. Many served together with British sailors on the dangerous Arctic convoy route. Their stories represent a living bridge between Russia and Britain, forged in the shared struggle against fascism.
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⭐Soviet
Asyamov Sergey Aleksandrovich
1907 – 1942
Major
746th Long-Range Aviation Regiment
⭐Soviet
Baranov Petr Ivanovich
1942
Military Engineer 2nd Rank
Soviet Military Mission in Great Britain
⭐Soviet
Shvetsov Boris Filippovich
1942
Major
Soviet Military Mission in Great Britain
⭐Soviet
Pugachev Grigory Petrovich
1942
Colonel
Soviet Military Mission in Great Britain
Diaspora Memory
Vlasov Philip Grigorevich
1911 – 1942
Junior Commander
8-я гвардейская дивизия
Manchester
Shiryaev Andrey Gavrilovich
1906 – 1943
Red Army soldier / Machine gunner
43rd Guards Rifle Division
Manchester
Kosilov Petr Ivanovich
1903 – 1943
Red Army soldier
362nd Rifle Regiment, 315th Rifle Division
Glasgow
🇬🇧RAF
Tkachenko Oleg Fedorovich
1919 – 1998
Senior Lieutenant
42nd Guards Fighter Aviation Regiment
Edinburgh
🇬🇧British
Grigoryan Georgy Arakelovich
1922 – 2009
Captain
89th Armenian Rifle Division
Glasgow
⭐Partisans
Portnova Zinaida Martynovna
1926 – 1944
Partisan Scout
Young Avengers Brigade
Manchester
⭐Soviet
Sudoplatov Pavel Anatolyevich
1907 – 1996
Lieutenant General
NKVD 4th Directorate
Liverpool
⭐Soviet
Safonov Boris Feoktistovich
1915 – 1942
Lieutenant Colonel
72nd Naval Fighter Aviation Regiment
Manchester
⭐Soviet
Gastello Nikolai Frantsevich
1907 – 1941
Captain
207th Long-Range Bomber Regiment
Leeds
🇬🇧British
Dmitriev Vasily Stepanovich
1913 – 1975
Major
62nd Army (later 8th Guards Army)
Southampton
⭐Partisans
Savchenko Maria Ivanovna
1925 – 2015
Private
Partisan Brigade "Avenger"
Liverpool
🇬🇧Royal Navy
Chernyshov Ivan Alekseevich
1915 – 1982
Commander 3rd Rank
Northern Fleet
Manchester
⭐Soviet
Orlova Galina
1923 – 2015
Sergeant Major
Soviet 39th Guards Rifle Division
Brighton
⭐Soviet
Zhukov Andrei
1920 – 1995
Guards Lieutenant
Soviet 2nd Guards Tank Army
Southampton
⭐Soviet
Belov Nikolai
1915 – 1989
Captain
Soviet Pacific Fleet
Nottingham
⭐Soviet
Dementiev Oleg
1923 – 2009
Guards Private
Soviet 150th Rifle Division
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