Destroyed cities of the USSR (1943-1945)

Panoramas of Soviet cities destroyed by Nazi bombs.

A panorama of destroyed buildings on a Moscow street.

People walk past the ruins.

Women draw water from a well with a monastery in the background.

Stalinist Empire-style sculptures near the ruins of the 2nd Moscow State University building.

A photograph of a child among rubble and debris.

A toy horse among the rubble.

The facades of bomb-damaged buildings.

The skeletons of buildings and fragments of architectural details hang from rebar.

Monument to Bohdan Khmelnytsky.

Rubble on Khreshchatyk.

Street names in German.

Ruins of the destroyed churches of the Kyiv Pechersk Lavra.

Graffiti on the wall of a building in Minsk.

View of destroyed buildings.

View of rubble from the bombings in Riga.

Skeletons of buildings in Vilnius.

View of church spires in Tallinn.

Damaged walls of the Novgorod Kremlin.

Weeping women and children among the ruins of their homes.

Buildings punctured by shelling and bombs.

Destroyed apartments.

A woman enters the room where she used to live, the ceiling is broken.

A plasterer repairs a wall.

Repair work is underway at St.

Isaac's Cathedral.

Repair workers are erecting scaffolding.

A military cameraman in a flying plane.

Filming the destruction of Stalingrad from an airplane.

Cinematographer Viktor Dobronitsky captures the destruction.

Machine gun belts on the bow of a boat on the banks of the Volga.

A gas mask hanging from barbed wire.

A line of carts loaded with belongings, people walking alongside.

Children in oversized clothes run after their parents.

Women pull a cart loaded with belongings and children.

A sign on plywood reads, "Mom!

We're all alive, we've gone to Beketovka.

Klava."