Restoration of Stalingrad (1943-1950)

An anti-aircraft gun among the remains of houses.

People approach a cart with a barrel of water.

An electrician on a pole.

A lesson in a destroyed school.

Children listen to the teacher and write.

Architect Alabyan discusses the Stalingrad restoration project with his colleagues.

He leafs through sketches of artistic solutions.

Marshals Eremenko and Chuikov, Alabyan, and his colleagues examine the Stalingrad layout plan.

The marshals are shown sketches and models of the buildings.

Artists at work.

A train carrying equipment and supplies for the restoration of Stalingrad.

Women pack clothes into a crate.

The inscriptions on the cars read "To Heroic Stalingrad."

Volunteers from Saratov disembark from a train in Stalingrad.

A panorama of the young people's faces.

Residents of Stalingrad chat with the new arrivals.

Volunteers carry furniture for temporary housing.

A column of volunteers passes.

Girls climb along the wing into the fuselage of a wrecked German plane.

A girl brushes her teeth among the rubble.

People at the market sell and buy food.

A camel pulls a cart loaded with belongings.

A tent city of volunteers.

Newsreel 1941-1945: The battle for Pavlov's house.

Sergeant Pavlov fires a machine gun.

Hero of the Soviet Union Ya.

Pavlov meets with A. M. Cherkasova and other construction workers.

Female construction workers reinforce window openings in destroyed buildings.

The inscription on the wall reads, "This house was defended by Guards Sergeant Yakov Fedorovich Pavlov." Women and girls with shovels, wheelbarrows, and other tools are helping to rebuild the buildings.

They plaster walls, haul bricks and mortar, and lay bricks.

The inscription on the wall reads, "We will rebuild you, our native Stalingrad."