City of Glukhov

1 box Central Front, Glukhov, August 31 - September 1, 1943 Panoramas of the city of Glukhov, views of streets, houses, churches of the Transfiguration of the Savior, Nikolaevskaya. Types of damaged buildings of the city library, pharmacy. The movement along the streets of Glukhov of trucks with soldiers, military cars, horse teams with cargo, artillery pieces, British armored personnel carriers "UNIVERSAL CARRIER" with soldiers on armor, a T-34 tank with soldiers on armor. Inhabitants of the city, a detachment of soldiers of the Glukhov partisan detachment, and a unit of troops are passing through the streets. Local residents, including young girls in Ukrainian national clothes, stand along the street along which the troops are marching, greet them, throwing flowers at their liberators. A resident of Glukhov - Timofey Vasilyevich Ignatiev gives the tankers bread and salt, talks to them. General view of a city meeting in the city center. Speeches of speakers at the meeting. Among the speakers is the Ukrainian drama theater artist Evdokia Lukinichna Rybkina, who emotionally talks about the atrocities of the Gestapo, as well as the deaths of the best theater artists - Oleg Boyko, Oleg [Mastepan], Mina [Maznya], Lev [Westfal], Vasil [Mazhugi]. In total, 19 people were shot on May 7, 1943 with civilians of the city and its environs. EL Rybkina, during her speech, shows the residents of the city a poster with the inscription “FOR THE HOMELAND! FOR STALIN! ", Which depicts V. Lenin, J. Stalin and children. During the rally, a young partisan from the Glukhovsky detachment, Kleshchenko, reads a letter to J.V. Stalin written on behalf of the detachment's soldiers. Among those present at the rally is the secretary of the underground district committee of the party, one of the leaders of the Glukhov partisan detachment of partisan detachments, Alexander Kharitonovich Rumyantsev. 2 box Glukhov, September 4, 1943. Funeral in the town of Glukhov of the commander of the 9th Panzer Corps, Major General of Tank Forces Grigory Sergeevich Rudchenko, who was mortally wounded on August 31 during the liberation of the city and died on September 1. General view of the central part of the city, filled with people. The military are carrying the coffin with the body of G.S. Rudchenko. Tank T-34 stands on the square. The military and the population of the city walk across the square to the burial place of G.S. Rudchenko. Ahead of the procession is a column of girls with wreaths. General view of the building of the Transfiguration Church. One of the officers carries a pillow with G.S. Rudchenko's military awards. The funeral procession behind the coffin is led by a group of commanders led by the commander of the 60th Army, Lieutenant General Ivan Danilovich Chernyakhovsky; among the commanders present, there may be the commander of the 9th Panzer Corps, Major General B.S. Bakharov, the commander of the 23rd Tank Brigade, Colonel M.S. Demidov, commanders and soldiers of the 60th Army, 9th Tank Corps, etc. . connections. Residents of the city of Glukhov throw flowers at the tankmen of the 23rd Tank Brigade, who were liberating the city from the Nazis. Speeches at the funeral rally during the funeral of Major General of Tank Forces G.S. Rudchenko, commander of the 60th Army, Lieutenant General I.D. Chernyakhovsky, deputy commander for political affairs of the armored directorate of the Central Front, Colonel Mikhail Grigorievich Kotenko (standing on the tank). view of the portrait of G.S. Rudchenko, mounted on the tank. A group of military men lower the coffin with the body of G.S. Rudchenko into the grave. Fireworks in honor of the commander of the 9th Panzer Corps G.S. Rudchenko. The tank gun fires several shots, then enters the burial site, where it will stand as a monument to the deceased Major General of the tank forces. The military and residents of the city put wreaths and flowers on the tank. G. Glukhov, August 31 - September 1, 1943 The return of a resident of the city of Glukhov - Gavrila Mikhailovich Rykov with family members to his house on Krasnaya Street: horses harnessed to carts stand at the gate of the house, G.M. Rykov and his wife are removed from carts of children. Members of the commission to investigate crimes committed by the Germans in the occupied territory stand at the dug hole with the remains of the bodies of the inhabitants of Glukhov and its environs tortured by the Nazis. Among the members of the commission present: Deputy Chairman of the City Executive Committee Timofey Timofeevich Nalivaiko, doctor Nikolai Vasilyevich Vorobyov, archpriest of the Nikolaev church in Glukhov Luka Filippovich Govitsky, teacher Elena Stepanovna Zagorodnyaya and Major of Justice. Members of the commission conduct a superficial examination of the remains of the bodies of the artists of the Glukhov Drama Theater, Komsomol and collective farm activists, and others, who were shot by the Nazis. Men, including a military lawyer, pull out half-decayed human bodies from the pit and lay them on the ground. Relatives and friends of the tortured people stand at the remains of their bodies. A military lawyer explains to those present how people were tortured before they were shot.

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