File:Vasiliy Arsentevich Barabanov.jpg

Photo of Colonel Vasiliy Arsentevich Barabanov (Russian: Василий Арсентьевич Барабанов) (1900 - 1962), a Soviet NKVD officer and commandant of several labour camps.

Photo found on page [1], other pages with his biography use the same photo (probably from an encyclopedia). Photo is probably taken before the war.

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