Smolensk

1 box Western Front, September 25-26, 1943 Colonel with a pipe in his mouth and the Order of the Red Star talks to a nearby major, captured Germans pass by along the road. The commander of the 274th Infantry Division of the 5th Army, Hero of the Soviet Union Vasily Pavlovich Shulga in a car, signs documents, which one of the headquarters officers hands him, the car drives off. A Red Army soldier with a rifle escorting wounded German prisoners, who are being transported in a cart. Parts of the Soviet Army pass through the settlement burned by the Nazis. Civilians are returning to their homes: columns of carts with household belongings and people are moving along the road. Restoration of the destroyed bridge across the Dnieper. Restoration of a temporary crossing of the river. Troops are crossing the river on a temporary bridge. Soldiers help a stuck cart to get to the shore. A tractor pulls a heavy artillery gun along the crossing. General view of the destruction in Smolensk, the destroyed railway bridge. Troops are on the streets of liberated Smolensk. The commander of the 5th Army, Lieutenant General Vitaly Sergeevich Polenov and other commanders talk with civilians on the street of Smolensk. A group of gunners at the gun. The commander of the 392nd Krasnoyarsk-Smolensk corps-gun regiment of the 31st army, Colonel Andrei Alekseevich Sergeev at the gun. The gun fires. A group of commanders: smoking, laughing in one of the liberated settlements; Among those present: the commander of the 36th rifle corps of the 31st army, Major General Nikolai Nikolaevich Oleshev, the commander of the 215th rifle division, Major General Sergei Ivanovich Iovlev. N.N. Oleshev stands in a burka in the courtyard of one of the rural houses, smokes, talks, examines a map with a group of commanders. Tram cars stand at the fortress wall of the Smolensk Kremlin. A sign on the building "HOSTEL FOR LEAVING TO GERMANY". A column of carts stretching along the road with civilians returning to the city. People drive cattle along the road made of broken bricks, drag carts with household utensils, cross the bridge, walk through the city. View of one of the destroyed churches. People walk through the ruins of houses, sit among their belongings. One of the women is talking to a soldier in the ruins of a house. Lieutenant General V.S. Polenov with a group of commanders talk with residents of the city, pass along the street of the city; Among the commanders, the commander of the 31st Army, Lieutenant General V.A. Gluzdovsky and others 2 cor. General view of the Assumption Cathedral on Cathedral Hill. General view of the Dnieper River at the Assumption Cathedral on Cathedral Hill. General view of the monument to the defenders of Smolensk on August 4-5, 1812 in the city's Lopatinsky garden (by Antonio Adamini). View of the fortress wall of the Smolensk Kremlin, damaged by artillery shelling and the building of the Smolensk hydroelectric power station (1930-1938). A sign on the building with the inscription in German and Russian "TEE-KAFFE-VORSPEISEN E I SHILKINA AND K0" "TEA - COFFEE - SNACKS Zhilkina E.I. And K0 ". A crowd of civilians who have returned to the city stands at the fortress wall of the Smolensk Kremlin. View of the destroyed building "ZAPPOTREBSOYUZ (1930-1936)". A truck with soldiers drives through the square. View of the destroyed railway tracks at the station in Smolensk. Military on the Minsk highway. Tractors are carrying artillery pieces. Horse teams are transporting artillery pieces along one of the city streets. The destroyed building of one of the temples. The building of the Smolensk hotel, damaged by a fire. The smoke from the fires is over the city. The inscription on the facade of one of the buildings "KRASNOARMEYSKAYA PRAVDA" (1936). A crowd of civilians who returned to the city, and soldiers in trucks near the fortress wall of the Smolensk Kremlin. View from the destroyed bridge over the river to the city. Carts with civilians returning to the city on the Minsk highway. People carry carts with household belongings and children, cattle are walking alongside the carts. Men are trying to lift a fallen exhausted cow, which was carrying a cart with things.

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