The beginning of the restoration of Stalingrad (1943)

Residents and their children are returning to liberated Stalingrad.

They carry belongings and pull carts laden with bundles.

A man passes by with a mine detector.

The sign "Dangerous passage." A shell explodes.

An unexploded shell lies on the ground.

A crane lifts and transports the shell.

Signs read "Don't cut down trees," "No crawler tractors allowed." Residents collect water from a barrel.

A man drinks from a bucket.

A woman carrying a yoke enters a ruined house.

Destroyed houses.

The inscription on the house reads: "Mom, we're all alive, we've gone to Beketovka.

Klava."

A post office.

A sign reads, "Letters delivered here on demand." A girl sorts through letters.

A postman delivers letters from the front.

A telephone exchange is in operation.

A radio loudspeaker is set up on the street.

People board a tram.

The tram travels through the city.

Children go to a destroyed school building.

Classes are in session.

The teacher reads to the children.

The children write.

Scrap metal collection.

People are loading German weapons and helmets into a mine cart.

Steelworkers are at work, steel is pouring.

Workers are pulling metal through.

Metal parts in a destroyed workshop.

Women cleaning the tractor factory workshop.

Workers at their machines.

Tractor assembly.

The sign reads, "The first tractor from the revived conveyor belt."

Trains bearing the inscription "To Heroic Stalingrad" pass by.

Women fold clothes and pack them into boxes.

A train car bearing the inscription "To the Hero City" passes by.

A meeting of volunteers who arrived to rebuild Stalingrad.

A panorama of the young people's faces.

Girls doing their morning toilette, by a mirror amid the ruins of a house.

Temporary housing in the fuselage of a German plane.

Girls walking along a wing with a swastika.

A group of girls walking across the square.

A tent city.

A boy at the ticket counter.

People are going to a concert.

An orchestra plays among the ruins, and people are listening.

Construction site.

Girls carrying bricks on stretchers.

Workers laying bricks.

New factory walls being erected.

People on metal structures.

A smiling girl.