Battles for the Dnieper (1943)

Newsreel - Exploding houses.

View of a burning village.

A German soldier walks past burning houses during the retreat after the Battle of Kursk in July 1943. Women near burning houses.

Nazi troops move through burning villages.

Cattle rustling.

A German infantry column moves.

Newsreel - Panorama of part of the defensive fortifications on the western bank of the Dnieper.

Hitler's officers look across the Dnieper.

Newsreel footage of German defensive fortifications and anti-tank ditches being built.

Soviet prisoners of war working on them.

Newsreel - A Soviet tank column on the march.

Airborne units on the tanks' armor.

View of part of the Dnieper (from above).

Newsreel - Major General S.A. Kovpak, commander of the Sumy partisan unit, briefs partisan commanders on the situation.

Close-up of a young partisan.

Kovpak receives a report from one of the commanders.

Units of the Sumy partisan division on the march.

Newsreel footage: Partisans crossing a river on wooden planks, carrying ammunition and weapons.

Artillery guns are being transported.

A column of horse-drawn carts fords the river, a shell landing in the background.

Newsreel footage shows Soviet soldiers pushing large boats into the water.

Soldiers cross on a catamaran constructed from boats.

Newsreel - Nazi soldiers in a trench.

A German armored personnel carrier attacks.

A German anti-aircraft gun crew fires.

Soviet troops cross the Dnieper under enemy artillery fire.

A team of horses and drivers crosses the Dnieper.

Soviet troops crossing at various points along the Dnieper.

Newsreel: Boats carrying Soviet soldiers approach the western bank of the Dnieper under enemy artillery fire.

Soldiers from the 7th Guards Army of the Steppe Front land and begin seizing a bridgehead.

Newsreel footage shows soldiers disembarking from boats and rushing to the attack.

Voronezh Front commander General N.F. Vatutin at the command and observation post.

Newsreel footage of a derailed German train car.

A partisan machine gun crew fires at the enemy.

The coat of arms of the Third Reich is on the side of a burning locomotive.

The cars of the derailed German troop train are burning.

Newsreel - German bombers drop bombs on Soviet troops crossing the Dnieper.

Soviet artillery provides fire support to troops entrenched on the right bank of the Dnieper.

Panorama of the battery's firing positions.

Soviet anti-aircraft gunners fire at enemy aircraft.

Air combat.

A plane burns on the ground.

Newsreel - Soviet soldiers pull boats ashore.

Artillery guns ferrying across the Dnieper.

Troops ferrying across the Dnieper on wooden pontoons.

A sign reading "Give us Kyiv!"

Newsreel - Soviet troops landing on the right bank of the Dnieper under artillery fire, infantry attack.

Soviet troops cross German defensive positions and rush to the attack.

Newsreel - Fighting on the outskirts of Kyiv on November 6, 1943. Panorama of buildings on one of Kyiv's streets during the fighting for the city.

Newsreel - Kyiv residents greet Soviet liberating soldiers.

Women greet Soviet soldiers riding on a tank.

Newsreel - A panoramic view of a city street with explosion craters.

A sign in German on the wall of a building on Khreshchatyk.

A view of the destroyed train station.

People walk past the remains of buildings.

Newsreel footage shows people passing by, with and without belongings.

A panorama of destroyed buildings.

A sign on the wall of a house reads in German, "Sonderhaus fur SS u Polizei." People carry their belongings and children in handcarts.

Newsreel - Views of the remains of the Refectory Church and the Dormition Cathedral of the Kiev-Pechersk Lavra.

Newsreel - Monument to Taras Shevchenko in Kyiv.

Member of the Military Council of the 1st Ukrainian Front N.S. Khrushchev, Marshal G.K. Zhukov, and accompanying soldiers stand at the monument to Shevchenko, having removed their hats.

Monument to Bohdan Khmelnytsky in Kyiv.

Newsreel footage - An artillery crew drives down a Kyiv street.

Soviet tanks roll by, planes fly overhead.

The monument to St.

Vladimir in Kyiv.

A panoramic view of a section of the city block (from above).