In the Area of the City of Dubno

Cor. 1 Ukrainian SSR, Rivne region, March, 1944. Liberation of the region from the German occupation by the troops of the 1st Ukrainian Front. Fighting in the vicinity of Dubno. The infantry is off-road. A tank in tow is dragging a lorry. The mortarmen are loading their guns. Signalers are making a connection. Downed German plane, pilot's corpse. Lieutenant Colonel A.G. Caesar, deputy for combat units of the commander of the 112th cannon artillery regiment, Major Ivan Ivanovich Shablov at firing positions; at the compass - the commander of a platoon of an artillery division of a motorized rifle brigade Grigory Grigorievich Belyavsky. Commander of the 20th Motorized Rifle Brigade, Major General Pyotr Sysoevich Ilyin with representatives of the headquarters at the observation post; receives a report from private intelligence service Grigory Dmitrievich Kononenko. Construction of a pontoon bridge. A detachment of machine gunners under the command of Colonel Gabriel Iosifovich Pilinoga is walking along the street of the liberated city of Dubno. Orthodox church. Awarding the 112th Guards Cannon Artillery Regiment with the Order of the Red Banner. The commander of the 13th Army, Major General Dmitry Dmitrievich Kubeev at a solemn meeting read out the order, attaches the order to the Guards banner, presents it to Lieutenant Colonel Alexander Grigorievich Caesar. A.G. Caesar kisses the banner. NDP on the banner: "DEATH TO THE GERMAN INVADERS!" A poster on a tree with the NDP: "GLORY TO STALIN'S HEROES!" Portrait of I.V. Stalin. The soldiers in the ranks shout: "Hurray!" Excavation of the mass grave of the corpses of civilians and prisoners of war, destroyed by the Nazis during the occupation of the Rivne region. Removing and conducting a forensic medical examination of bodies under the guidance of a forensic expert of the Rivne region, a major of the medical service, a member of the Extraordinary State Commission for the Investigation of the Atrocities of the Nazis Nina Vasilyevna Rybakova. Cor. 2 Ukrainian SSR, Rivne region, March, 1944. Soldiers of the 1st Ukrainian Front in the vicinity of the city. People, equipment move off-road. Private intelligence service Grigory Dmitrievich Kononenko reports the situation to the Commander of the 20th Motorized Rifle Brigade, Major General Pyotr Sysoevich Ilyin. Forcing the river [Goryn] on rafts. On one of the rafts with fighters - cameraman Viktor Alekseevich Smorodin. Column of vehicles on the highway. Awarding the 112th Guards Cannon Artillery Regiment with the Order of the Red Banner. The commander of the 13th Army, Major General Dmitry Dmitrievich Kubeev, Lieutenant Colonel Alexander Grigorievich Caesar on the podium. Portrait of I.V. Stalin. The soldiers shout: "Hurray!" Excavation of the mass grave of the corpses of civilians and prisoners of war, destroyed by the Nazis. Removing and conducting a forensic medical examination of bodies under the guidance of a forensic expert of the Rivne region, a major of the medical service, a member of the Extraordinary State Commission for the Investigation of the Atrocities of the Nazis Nina Vasilyevna Rybakova. Members of the commission are present: B.T. Gotsev, priest of the city of Rivne Felix Savitsky, deputy of Western Ukraine Ulyana Vasilievna Efimchuk-Dyachuk, captain of justice L.S. Bogopolsky. A lot of human remains, including the bodies of Vera Zhibovskaya and her child. Resident of Rovno Zakhar Kondratyevich Dmitriev weeps over the body of his brother Sergei Dmitriev.

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