Kalinin Front

KOR.1a Soviet troops enter the city of Kalinin (present-day Tver) on December 16 after a 63-day German occupation. Winter, the fighting of Soviet infantrymen in camouflage suits on the outskirts of Kalinin. Explosions. Red Army soldiers throw grenades, shoot from machine guns, load machine guns. Soviet soldiers are loading an artillery gun in the forest, shooting. Lieutenant General I.S. Konev and Lieutenant General I.I. Maslennikov stand at a wooden house. Film portrait of the commander of the 31st Army of the Kalinin Front, Major General V.A. Yushevich. Broken German equipment stands at the destroyed buildings. Soviet units enter the outskirts of Kalinin. Residents of the city are greeted by Soviet soldiers. Remaining on the posts German plates "KALINI 14.X.41", "MOSKAUER-5TR." Red cavalrymen ride through the city center past the surviving houses. The center of the city, the Red Army men are transporting a weapon, in the background are the Red Army men on horse carts. The Red Army soldier distributes newspapers to the townspeople on the street. Citizens read newspapers attached to the wall. Queue for newspapers. The commander distributes leaflets to the residents of Kalinin. Boarded up windows of the Fish store. COR. 1b. Lieutenant General I.I. Maslennikov stands among the Soviet military leaders who liberated the city of Kalinin. The formation of the Red Army on one of the streets of Kalinin, in the background - burnt houses. The commander of the 243rd Infantry Division of the 31st Army, Major General V.S. Polenov is planting the Red Banner on the roof of the building, the soldiers are saluting. Soviet commanders who liberated Kalinin, stand on the pedestal of the monument to V. I. Lenin at a rally, speak. Women talk to the Red Army soldiers in the street. German ammunition, equipment, abandoned during the retreat, in the street. Sappers are putting mines in an iron box. A German leaflet on a post near a destroyed house, a woman comes up, tears down the leaflet, tramples. A Red Army sentry guarding military equipment along the road. COR. 2 Broken German motorcycles are lying on the road. The Red Army soldiers inspect the downed German planes. Red Army soldiers in camouflage suits are running along the street of the destroyed village. Chimneys of burnt houses. The corpses of German soldiers are lying in the snow. View of one of the villages, preserved houses. Night burning house. The men are putting out the fire. Ashes on the site of a house in one of the villages; a woman stands on the ashes. The Red Army soldiers unload the belongings of the residents who have returned home from the back of a truck. The destroyed buildings of kindergarten No. 23, secondary school No. 22, Kalinin State Regional Drama Theater, a bridge across the Volga. Broken benches on the Volga embankment, a preserved street flowerpot. Disorder in the premises of the city hospital, scattered things in the wards. COR. 3а View of a destroyed village. The stove of a burnt house. Explosions, Red Army men run down the street past destroyed houses, shoot. The Germans leave the house with their hands up. Soviet officers talk with a captured German. Broken German vehicles on Kalinin Street. Fuel tanks. An abandoned German tank near a wooden house. The corpses of a German tank. A Red Army soldier rides a horse-drawn carriage, in the foreground is a German tank covered with snow. Power lines along the road. The women are dragging the surviving things into the basement left over from the house, with them a little girl. Soviet artillerymen are firing from guns on a snow-covered field. COR. 3b Pharmacy on the first floor of a brick building, in the foreground - women are walking, entering a pharmacy. The signboard "FISH", the windows of the fish store in the windows, the windows are sealed with paper. View of the apartment plundered by the Germans, books, magazines are lying on the windowsill. The chimneys of the stoves of the destroyed house, in the background - the ruins. The destroyed building of the regional library named after M. Gorky, children are passing by. The surviving plaque “CITY CENTRAL CHILDREN'S LIBRARY NAMED AFTER AS PUSHKIN ". Poster for the feature film "Tanker Derbent". Long queue at the cinema box office. Captured Germans in torn clothes drink water from a bucket. The captured German smokes. Red Army soldiers escort German prisoners along a rural road. The Red Army soldiers are leading a formation of captured Germans along one of the streets of Kalinin, the townspeople are watching them. German cemetery (crosses) in one of the city squares, in the background - a temple. Soviet officers take off their hats from the corpses of tortured Soviet citizens lying in the snow. Residents return to Kalinin, liberated from the German invaders. The central square, tram cars are standing, people with carts are passing by, in which things are lying, in the background is a temple. A military patrol checks passing trucks. A sentry guards the bridge over the Volga, in the background - the building of the river port. Trucks with Red Army soldiers are passing through the city. The traffic controller is on the street.

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1941