The Battle of Kursk and the Liberation of Ukraine (1943-1944)

A supply wagon of the advancing Red Army troops that has overturned in a ditch with melt water.

One of the motorcyclist units on the offensive.

Soviet tanks attacking the enemy during the Battle of Kursk.

The infantry goes on the attack under the cover of tanks.

Shell explosions on the battlefield.

Smoke from the explosions obscures the sun.

A battery of rocket launchers conducts night artillery preparation.

Burning steppe.

Anti-tank guns fire.

An artilleryman crawls to deliver ammunition to the gun.

The face of a female medical instructor bandaging a wounded man.

Lightly wounded Red Army soldiers are heading to the rear.

Shell explosions, faces of Red Army soldiers awaiting the enemy attack.

A battle runs through a swamp.

A signalman with a field telephone runs through a swamp.

The infantry lies down under enemy fire.

Signalmen climb out of the mud.

Soviet machine gunners are firing, the face of one of them.

Soviet machine gunners firing, the face of one of them.

Machine gunner firing.

Bodies of killed German soldiers on the front line (panorama).

Destroyed German convoy, corpses on a village street.

Medical orderlies and military doctors bandage wounded soldiers.

The wounded drink water from mugs.

View of a destroyed German convoy.

Knocked out German armored vehicles.

Panorama of wagons of a German convoy stuck in the mud and broken, abandoned horses standing nearby.

Corpses of German soldiers.

Pre-war parades of the Wehrmacht and SS units.

Buildings burning after German air raids.

German prisoners of war sitting on the ground.

Faces of prisoners of war.

The severed head of a German soldier lies on the side of the road.

Columns of German prisoners of war move along the roads to the east after the Battle of Kursk.

View of one of the columns of prisoners of war (top).

Commander of the 3rd Guards Tank Army, Lieutenant General P.S. Rybalko. at headquarters, giving orders to subordinates.

A column of tanks on a steppe road (panorama, from above).

Soviet tanks on the march.

Tanks attack the enemy.

Tanks and cavalry of the Red Army force a water obstacle.

Soviet armored vehicles before the offensive, officers clarify the combat mission.

Panorama of the battlefield.

Pilots running to the planes.

Fighters taking off.

Fighters, attack aircraft and bombers in flight.

The advance of the Soviet motorized infantry.

Combat operations in Ukraine during the Battle of the Dnieper in 1943. Soviet troops enter one of the liberated cities of the Ukrainian SSR during the Lvov-Sandomierz Operation.

City residents greet Soviet soldiers.

Mechanized columns of Soviet troops on city streets.

Infantry and tanks of the Red Army march through the streets of the city.

Tankers talk with local residents.

Rally to mark the liberation of the city.

Marshal of the Soviet Union I.S. Konev speaking at a rally in August 1944. Applauding rally participants.

A girl's face in her father's arms.

Women presenting flowers to Konev.

Panorama of part of the rally.

View of part of a city block (from above).

Soviet troops moving along the streets of Lviv, people greeting them.

Partisans from one of the detachments during a raid in the Carpathians.

The movement of partisan detachments along the slopes and forests of the Carpathians.

One of the commanders examines the terrain through binoculars, Carpathian landscape (panorama).

Units of the Red Army climbing the slopes of the Carpathians.

A cavalry unit moving along the road.

Local peasants greeting the Red Army.

The movement of one of the military columns along the roads of the Carpathians.

River landscape (panorama).