Liberation of Ukraine and Crimea (1943-1944)

Airplanes in flight.

Soviet infantry supported by tanks attacks a Ukrainian village in the fall of 1943. Fighting in a populated area.

Burning ruins.

A German helmet and machine-gun belt abandoned on the edge of a trench.

Soviet soldiers attacking the enemy, the body of a German soldier on the edge of a trench.

Soviet troops fight in the streets of Kyiv.

Flames burst from the window of a building.

A woman on the sidewalk bows from the waist to Soviet soldiers.

Soviet tanks drive through the streets of Kyiv past the ruins and burning houses on November 6, 1943. Panoramas and views of destroyed buildings in Kyiv.

Exhumed bodies of victims of the Nazi invaders at the bottom of a ditch.

Remains of Soviet citizens shot by the Germans.

View of a part of a ditch filled with the bodies of the executed.

Marshal of the Soviet Union Zhukov G.K., First Secretary of the Central Committee of the Communist Party (Bolsheviks) of Ukraine Khrushchev N.S. and their accompanying persons go to a rally in honor of the liberation of Kyiv from the Nazi occupiers.

Zhukov G.K. speaks from the rostrum at the rally.

Applauding rally participants.

Artillery salute from Moscow in honor of the liberation of Kyiv.

Soviet troops on the streets of liberated Zhitomir in January 1944. Tanks with infantry on their armor are marching.

The infantry is attacking.

A tank is moving along the street of one of the Ukrainian villages.

German soldiers in a trench, with corpses of their comrades lying on the parapet.

German troops in the rear of the front line during the Korsun-Shevchenkovsk operation in 1944. Faces of German officers.

View of the battlefield with chains of attacking Soviet infantry.

Soviet artillery is firing at the enemy, gunners are at their sights.

Counterattacking German infantry.

An Il-2 attack aircraft is attacking a ground target.

Soviet bombers drop bombs on German positions.

Troops of the 51st and Primorskaya Armies storm Sapun Mountain on May 7, 1944. Il-2 attack aircraft attack a ground target.

The body of a German soldier.

Soviet troops fight in the streets of Sevastopol, infantry attacking through the ruins.

A medical orderly bandages a wounded officer.

Nurses carry a wounded man on a stretcher.

Fighting in the ruins of houses.

The body of a German soldier.

Faces of the crew of a Soviet aircraft.

German military equipment on Cape Khersones (top).

Il-2 attack aircraft drop bombs on German positions.

Burning wreckage of German equipment.

Marines raise the flag of the USSR Navy over Sevastopol.

German soldiers' service books float in the water near the shore.

German helmets and corpses of occupiers in the water near the shore.

Ships of the Black Sea Fleet, returning to liberated Sevastopol on May 9, 1944, dropping anchor.