



A hot air balloon is being driven down a Stalingrad street.
Documents are being checked on a city street.
City residents are receiving weapons.
Great Patriotic War, defense, siege
1942




Militiamen pass by.
Soldiers move a gun into position.
Members of the city defense committee at work.
Great Patriotic War, Stalingrad, siege




Residents of Stalingrad are digging defensive fortifications.
They're constructing concrete barriers.
Soldiers are installing and camouflaging guns.
Soldiers are camouflaging a dugout.
Great Patriotic War, defense, siege




Tank repairs at the Stalingrad Tractor Plant.
Tanks with soldiers on their armor roll out of the plant gates.
They are greeted by city residents.
Great Patriotic War, defense, siege, weapon




The Stalingrad Defense Committee.
General Eremenko and Khrushchev in the communications center.
The telegraph operator is working.
The signalman is pulling wire to the front lines.
Great Patriotic War, siege, connection, teletype
A.I. Eremenko - Soviet military leader
N.S. Khrushchev - Soviet statesman and political figure