Oryol during the war years (1943)

A Soviet soldier throws a grenade.

Soldiers among destroyed houses.

A Soviet soldier sets a flag on a balcony.

Soldiers run along broken rails.

A house explodes.

A shootout, soldiers move along the streets, among destroyed buildings, shooting, explosions, a wall of a house collapses.

The city of Orel, the German inscription "Orel" on the building.

Soviet tanks and soldiers on the streets, the flag of the 17th Guards Tank Brigade on the lead tank.

Residents greet the liberators, throw bouquets of flowers to the tankers; two girls run towards the tank, put bouquets on the armor, run away to the sidewalk.

An elderly woman with a yoke in her hands.

Tanks drive down the street.

Soldiers walk down the street, the commander rides a horse, a child sits in front.

A soldier kisses a woman.

An old woman with an icon in her hands.

Tankers with bouquets of flowers.

A soldier hugs an old woman, kisses an icon.

A soldier with a flag in his hands climbs a ladder.

An elderly woman hugs a soldier.

A Soviet flag is hoisted on a building.

Soldiers take down German signs, tear up a fascist flag.

Orel, destroyed houses and rails, broken tram cars, a fallen electric pole, abandoned things.

Soldiers and a woman with a child at a table in the courtyard of a house.

Soldiers come up, the woman invites them to the table.

People are having lunch.

The woman treats the soldiers to vodka.