FREE: SHIPS' ARTILLERY FIRE post card

Contents of the text translation on the postcard:

"SHIPS' ARTILLERY FIRE.

Great help for the landing in the battles for Seisin (Cheongjin) was the artillery of the ships of the Soviet fleet. From August 14 to 16, 1945, the destroyer "Voykov" (commander of the third rank, A.N. Abyzov, mine-guardian Argun (commander-captain of the third rank V.Y.Tulin), patrol ship "EK-9" (commander - captain-lieutenant V.V. Mikhailov) and other ships destroyed fire points and the enemy's living force with the fire of their guns.
Within three days of fighting, they destroyed up to 2 battalions of infantry, 8 bunkers, suppressed the fire of 2 anti-aircraft batteries, 13 artillery and mortar batteries and damaged the enemy's armored train. The patrol ship "EK-2" (commander- captain-lieutenant L.S. Mironov) and the minesweeper "T Shch-278" (commander - captain-lieutenant V.S. Peretyatko), approached close to the shore, fired a direct fire on the enemy from a distance of up to 600 meters. The effective fire of ship artillery in many ways predetermined the successful completion of the operation to seize the port of Seisin."

Paint-artist G.A. Sotskov, who drew this picture-illustration,or rather - this is his picture used for this card.
He was born in 1925 in Moscow. In 1953 he graduated from the Art School "Of Memory in 1905". In 1958 he graduated from the Polygraphic Institute. Full member of the Russian Geographical Society of the Russian Academy of Sciences. In 1997 he was elected Honorary Academician of the Moscow Economic University and he was awarded the Academic Star of the World. In 2002, he was awarded the title of full member of the Petrovsky Academy of Sciences and Arts. The works are kept in many Russian museums and abroad.
In 2006, the National Committee of Public Awards of the Russian Federation "for outstanding services and a great personal contribution to the development and strengthening of the Russian state" awarded him the Order of Peter the Great of the First degree. In 2009, the President of the Russian Federation, G.A. Sotskov was awarded the title of "People's Paint-artist of Russia". The artist continues to work actively, in 2009 an album "Our Volga" was published with illustrations of paintings by G.A. Sotskov, dedicated to the great Russian river. He died on March 25, 2011 at the 87th year of his life.

More facts from the biography of Sotskov
The study was interrupted in 1943 - Gennady Sotskov went to the front, served in the anti-aircraft artillery regiment, in free minutes drew.
  So he is a veteran of the Second World War
G.A. Sotskov was awarded the medal "For creative supervising work in the
border troops ", signs" For a long campaign "in the group of warships of the Pacific Fleet and" Excellent Navy "; he was given guards and the sign "Guard" in the Northern Fleet. He was also awarded the "Zhukov Medal", the medal "Admiral Gorshkov", the medal "100 YEARS OF UNDERWATER FORCES", the commemorative sign "100 years to the Admiral of the Fleet of the Soviet Union N.G. Kuznetsov", etc. He traveled extensively, was at BAM, Kamchatka, Kuril Islands and the Commander Islands, lived and worked for a long time on the Yenisei river, Lena river , Kama river and Volga river.