Pyatigorsk Is Soviet Again

North Caucasian Front, January 1943 Movement of units of the 37th Army under the command of Major General A.M. Kozlov in the mountains of the North Caucasus during an offensive operation. Artillery units are crossing the river (Kuma, Podkumok?) On a temporary wooden floor. View of the bridge blown up by the Nazis. The trucks are pulled by the ropes of the implements. Street view in the liberated city [Georgievsk]. A subdivision of one of the Red Army units is walking along the platform of the railway station in [Mineralnye Vody? Georgievsk]. View of the Hitlerite artillery battery destroyed by the tankers of Lieutenant Colonel Filippov. The entry of the Red Army units into Pyatigorsk. The population of the city meets their liberators. View of the burning building of the Pyatigorsk Secondary School No. 1, the "Eagle" monument, the destroyed buildings of the "Lermontov Gallery", the Balneological Institute. City meeting (January 11). A ditch with the bodies of the inhabitants of the city killed by the Nazis; residents of the city and surroundings at the moat Tikhon Ivanovich Sotsky at the bodies of his killed sons - 16-year-old Nikolai and Anatoly, whom he found at the site of the mass execution. General views of the destroyed building of the railway station in Minvody and the railway junction. Fascist cemetery on the outskirts of the city.

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