Post-war restoration of the national economy in the Lithuanian SSR (1944-1948)

A crane clearing rubble.

Chimneys left over from houses during the battles for the liberation of the Lithuanian SSR, construction cranes working in the distance.

View of the ruins of houses overgrown with grass, a construction crane working.

People clearing rubble pass bricks to each other in a chain.

Transfer and sorting of bricks from the ruins suitable for new construction.

People pass bricks in a chain during a clean-up day to clear rubble.

A merchant navy officer works on a clean-up day.

Workers pave the street with new paving stones.

Erection of wooden rafters and roof frames for a new house, panorama of the construction of wooden residential barracks.

People work on a clean-up day to clear the remains of destroyed buildings, passing bricks to each other in a chain.

Loading construction waste into the back of a truck.

View of rubble on the river bank (above), people clearing rubble.

Views of the destroyed buildings of one of the industrial enterprises.

Delivery of bricks to a team of masons using a crane.

View of a building being restored and a construction site (above).

Hero of the Soviet Union, former partisan Bronius Kurtanavičius inspects a construction site.

Kurtanavičius listens to an engineer explaining.

Kurtanavičius in a partisan ambush.

Panorama of a section of railway track, a German military train moving.

Explosion of a German train.

Burning carriages thrown down a slope.

Kurtanavičius examining a design drawing during the construction of a house.

Work on the construction of a house.

Unloading bricks from a carriage, view of part of the railway station.

Workers are trying to lift a large steel profile with crowbars.

View of an industrial enterprise being restored, unloading large cargo from a railway platform.

Clearing rubble from construction waste on the territory of one of the industrial enterprises.

Girls are digging up a pile of earth with shovel shovels.

Workers from one of the enterprises are throwing broken bricks into a carriage standing on the rails.

Panorama of part of the city square with piles of broken stone and stacked bricks.

A team of masons laying bricks at the construction site of a new building.

Views of the bridge destroyed by the German occupiers.

Views of the bridge in scaffolding during restoration work.

Sappers carry wooden beams.

Women with shovels doing excavation work during the restoration of the bridge.

A sapper unit of the Soviet Army and local workers during the restoration of the bridge.

Views of the restored bridge.

Lieutenant General Makarov greets the Chairman of the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet of the Lithuanian SSR Yu. I. Paleckis and the First Secretary of the Communist Party of Lithuania A. Yu.

Sniečkus before the opening ceremony of the restored bridge to traffic.

Soviet soldiers in parade formation.

Makarov cuts the red ribbon, with Paleckis and Sniečkus standing nearby.

Makarov, Paleckis, Sniečkus and their entourage walk along the restored bridge.

A column of cars drives across the bridge.

View of the restored railway tunnel, participants of the ceremonial rally are standing near the entrance to the tunnel.

Lieutenant General Makarov presents awards to servicemen and builders who distinguished themselves in the restoration of the tunnel.

Faces of military and civilian builders - participants of the rally on the occasion of the launch of the tunnel.

The locomotive that opened traffic through the tunnel.

Two trains moving towards each other, at the entrance to the tunnel.