A photo from Andrei Vlasov's execution

[Rodrigo]

I found this photo in the web (http://www.vho.org/VffG/2000/1/Kovacs76-80.html). The text claim that this photo was taked by the NKVD/KGB.
Vlasov is at the right, but who are the others?

[David Thompson]

Rodrigo -- When Soviet authorities announced Vlasov's execution on 2 Aug 1946, they listed the names of 7 other Russian Liberation Army (Russkaya Osvoboditelnaya Armiya - ROA) officers who were hanged at the same time:

Buniachenko or Bunyachenko or Bunishenkov, Sergei K.
Korbukov, W.D.
Malyshkin, Vassily F.
Shatov, N.S.
Shilenkov, G.N.
Sverev. G.A.
Trukhin, F.I.

The photograph you posted probably shows two of those fellows.

[Gareth Collins]

The fellow on the left looks like Generalmajor Sergei Buniachenko the commander of the 600. (Russische) Infanterie-Division i remember seeing a photo. The one in the middle is a mystery.

[All-Seeing Eye]

Actually 12, not 7 officers of ROA were hanged on August 2th, 1946. They were:
Lt. General* A.Vlasov
Major General V.Malyshkin
Brigade Commissar G.Zhilenkov
Major General F.Trukhin
Major General I.Blagoveschensky
Major General D.Zakutny
Colonel V.Maltsev
Colonel S.Bunyachenko
Colonel G.Zverev
Colonel M.Meandrov
Lt. Colonel V.Korbukov
Lt. Colonel N.Shatov
The dead men on the photo must be Vlasov, Shatov and Korbukov.
*Ranks given are the last ranks held in the Red Army

[michael mills]

The method of hanging appears particularly primitive. Obviously they were not dropped through a trapdoor.

The victims must be hanging from a beam above the top of the photo. The nooses are not visible, so not the customary rope - piano wire?

Whatever the case, the NKVD obviously wanted to make the execution as brutal as possible.

[David Thompson]

From Andrew, Christopher, and Oleg Gordievsky, "KGB: The Inside Story", HarperCollins, New York: 1990, pp. 342-43; footnote on Vlasov's death to Nicholas Nyaradi, "My Ringside Seat in Moscow;" Crowell, New York: 1953, p. 155):

[The Desert Fox]

The West certainly has a lot to answer for over the question of the so called repatriation of those who fought for the Axis back to Russia. Most joined Vaslov to escape Hitlers camps and from a belief that Russia could be freed from the butcher Stalin. I hope both Stalin and Hitler burn in hell for the suffering they gave the people of Europe.
regards
the Desert fox

[Scrutograph]

Actually 12, not 7 officers of ROA were hanged on August 2th, 1946. They were:
Lt. General* A.Vlasov
Major General V.Malyshkin
Brigade Commissar G.Zhilenkov
Major General F.Trukhin
Major General I.Blagoveschensky
Major General D.Zakutny
Colonel V.Maltsev
Colonel S.Bunyachenko
Colonel G.Zverev
Colonel M.Meandrov
Lt. Colonel V.Korbukov
Lt. Colonel N.Shatov
The dead men on the photo must be Vlasov, Shatov and Korbukov.
*Ranks given are the last ranks held in the Red Army

I think the man in the middle is Trukhin.

[VtwinVince]

Don't forget the cowardly role that Sweden played in the forced repatriation of Don cossacks.

[Max Williams]

Which one is this?
Max.

[Semenov]

Hi,
In the middle on bottom foto is general Truchin. On Max foto he is too.

[james.tew]

Hello Max

Correction. It's not Generalmajor Schilenkov but General F.I. Trukhin as Semenov has mentioned above

James

[Scrutograph]

The left one is Malyshkin or Bunyachenko.

[Jonah89]

I see this photo top of post of Vlasov being executed, I could only find one referance that he was beheaded afterwards and his head was placed on a pole? I am not sure if this statement was true or where his head was displayed and what happened to it afterwards? Do we know of any other men of the ROA being executed or if there is a site in Russian that covers their last words and execution more in detail? I see Major General Mikhail Bogdanov, Major General Aleksandr Budykho, Major General Andrei Naumov dying on the same day 19.04.1950 where they executed? Also Major General Pavel Bogdanov on 25.04.1950?