Liberation of Soviet Lithuania (1944)

A woman runs across the street during the battles for the liberation of Vilnius.

A girl runs with a bag over her shoulder.

Residents of Vilnius with things in their hands and bags on their shoulders leave the shelling zone.

A panorama of one of the streets of Vilnius after the end of the battles for the liberation of the city, houses and a church building damaged as a result of street fighting.

Female refugees return to their homes.

An artillery crew of the Red Army drives past a destroyed building, soldiers in the back of a truck, a broken German anti-tank gun on a city street.

Cavalrymen drive along a city street past a burning building.

Views of the burning building.

Residents of Vilnius independently put out the fire using a hand pump.

Red Army soldiers carry a wounded man on a stretcher, they are helped by a resident of Vilnius.

The wounded man is placed on a German raincoat.

Carrying out the wounded on a raincoat.

Evacuation of the wounded on a stretcher.

Loading a wounded Red Army soldier into the back of a truck to be sent to the hospital.

View of a burning multi-story apartment building, people sitting on the street among things saved from the fire.

A family is sitting on a pile of bricks left over from an apartment building.

A woman with things is sitting by the wall of a house waiting for the end of hostilities.

Views of the old streets and buildings of Vilnius after the end of the battles for the liberation of the city.

Views of the church building.

A destroyed German anti-aircraft gun near the arch of an old castle.

A resident of Vilnius talks with Soviet officers.

Soviet soldiers and residents of Vilnius on the streets of the city.

Residents of Vilnius talk with tankers.

Residents of Vilnius talk with Red Army soldiers.

Soviet troops and convoys move through the suburbs of Vilnius, officers ride on horseback.

Girls pump water from a well for the Red Army soldiers.

The Red Army soldiers drink water, scooping it out of a bucket with mugs.

Women treat Soviet soldiers with milk and cheese.

Distribution of hot food to city residents from a field kitchen.

An elderly woman treats a Soviet machine gunner with milk from a can.

Orthodox monks at the entrance to a monastery.

Red Army soldiers talk to monks and parishioners at the entrance arch.

A soldier picks up a little girl.

First Secretary of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of Lithuania A. Yu.

Sniechkus, accompanied by Soviet officers, walks along the street of liberated Vilnius.

Sniechkus during a conversation with officers.

Panorama of the central part of Vilnius.

Panorama of a part of the suburbs of Vilnius.

View of a damaged railway bridge.

Panorama of a part of a wrecked train, burnt skeletons of carriages at a junction station.

Wrecked German military equipment on railway platforms (panorama).

Remains of cars on railway platforms that the Germans did not have time to evacuate.

Smoking ruins with protruding chimneys.

An anti-tank gun abandoned by the Germans on a street in Vilnius.

An abandoned German truck with artillery ammunition, a panorama of a destroyed building, a tracked tractor abandoned by the Germans near the wall of a building.

An anti-aircraft gun on one of the squares of Vilnius, abandoned by the Germans during their retreat.

The remains of a burned-out German truck on one of the city streets.

The face of a dead German soldier.

View of a half-ruined house in the suburbs of Vilnius, a woman walks by.

View of part of the city ruins, a crane clearing the ruins.

View of the ruins of part of a city block (above), people working on a clean-up day clearing the ruins.

Panorama of the only remaining wall of the house, view of the damaged administrative building.

Panorama of half-ruined buildings and a surviving residential building.

Burnt skeletons of freight railway cars at the Vilnius junction station (panorama).

Cows graze among heaps of bricks overgrown with grass.

View of a half-ruined building.

Flowers in one of the squares.

Views of destroyed industrial enterprises of the Lithuanian SSR. Burnt skeletons of railway cars.

People walk along one of the streets of Vilnius.

People on one of the streets, panorama of ruins next to the street.

Views and panoramas of damaged and destroyed historical buildings in Vilnius.

Military construction engineers inspect the destruction and assess the scale of the upcoming work, checking it against the pre-war plan of the destroyed enterprise.

Engineers walk around the ruins on the territory of the enterprise.

Battles for the liberation of Vilnius in July 1944. Residents of Vilnius greet Soviet soldiers.

Soviet troops march along the streets of liberated Vilnius.

Soviet artillery fires at the enemy during the battles for the liberation of the Lithuanian SSR. Lithuanian partisans leave for another operation.

Portrait of the heroine of the Lithuanian people, partisan Marite Melnikaite.

A machine-gun crew of the Red Army fires at the enemy from a trench.

Panorama of the firing position of a heavy artillery regiment conducting artillery preparation.

Commander of the 3rd Belorussian Front, General of the Army I.D. Chernyakhovsky at the front headquarters during the development of the next combat operation.

Panoramas of destroyed industrial enterprises, Catholic churches of Lithuania.

View of part of a city block during artillery shelling (above).

Heavy artillery fires at the enemy.

Soviet tanks and infantry advance.

Soviet infantry and artillery conduct combat operations on city streets.

Soviet tanks break into the suburbs of Vilnius.

Lithuanian partisans walk through the ruins.

Residents of Vilnius greet Soviet troops, throw bouquets of flowers to the soldiers.

A Red Army unit with a brass band enters Vilnius.

Faces of Vilnius residents greeting Soviet troops, faces of soldiers passing by.

Panorama of a destroyed German train, skeletons of burnt carriages at the Vilnius junction station.