Soviet-Japanese War (1945)

August 8, 1945. Soviet troops await the signal to advance.

Soldiers on motorcycles.

Airplanes at airfields.

Artillery.

Soldiers discussing their plan of action.

Marshal Meretskov, commander of the First Far Eastern Front, boards a plane.

Soviet tanks and artillery make their way through the taiga.

Japanese soldiers, artillery fire, explosions.

A Japanese soldier with a flamethrower.

Soviet soldiers climb a wooded hill.

They drag a wounded man along the ground.

A nurse bandages a soldier's head.

Artillery fires, explosions.

Katyusha rockets fire.

Soldiers throw grenades.

Commanders watch from behind the trees.

Soviet aircraft bomb Japanese positions.

Combat on the Second Far Eastern Front, Soviet warships at sea.

Sailors on deck.

A signalman.

Shots, explosions on the shore.

General Purkayev.

Rocket launches.

Landing troops.

Air strikes, the Japanese retreat, soldiers jump off a cliff, flee.

A blown-up bridge.

Crossing a pontoon bridge.

Panorama of swampy terrain.

Tanks in the swamp, soldiers pushing and dragging tanks and vehicles through the mud.

Soldiers with a cannon crossing a river.

Japanese soldiers.

Soviet troops advance, soldiers fording a river.

The soldiers emerge onto the bank, take off their boots, and empty them of water.

Soviet air force attack.

Combat operations of the Amur Military Flotilla: infantry and equipment are loaded onto ships, troops are transported by water.

Soviet military equipment and soldiers climb the mountains of the Greater Khingan Range.

Soviet troops on the Greater Khingan Ridge, ascending and descending.

Horses pull artillery pieces uphill.

Tanks climb along a caravan trail.

On the descent, the guns and equipment are lowered down on ropes.

Japanese artillerymen firing a machine gun.

A battle in the mountains, Soviet tanks and infantry are advancing, climbing up the slope.