Battles for Novorossiysk (1942-1943)

Medals and party membership cards are placed in a pile.

Reconnaissance soldiers hand over their documents and combat awards before leaving on a mission.

A soldier with a machine gun on a ship.

A paratrooper with a submachine gun whistles.

The landing force prepares to disembark.

Boats carrying soldiers depart from the ship.

In the Novorossiysk area, representatives of the Supreme Command Headquarters, Marshal Timoshenko and General Petrov.

General Leselidze with members of his staff. L.I. Brezhnev (present in a freeze frame) and staff officers reach a vantage point overlooking Tsemes Bay.

A view of Novorossiysk.

Soldiers are listening to an accordionist while resting.

A barge carrying Soviet paratroopers sets out to sea.

Anti-aircraft gunners prepare a gun.

Rear Admiral Kholostyakov, commander of the Novorossiysk Naval Base, with a group of soldiers.

Naval landing in the waters off Novorossiysk.

The assault on Novorossiysk.

A signal flare.

The crew commander gives the command, "Fire!" Long-range cannons and Katyusha rockets fire.

A view of Novorossiysk.

A Soviet artillery crew fires.

Numerous explosions ring out across the city.

Soviet boats carrying landing troops in Tsemes Bay are moving toward the landing site.

The landing force is in the boat.

The soldiers are disembarking.

An airborne assault with gun support.

Bandaging a wounded man.

The commander assigns troops.

A soldier loads a mortar.

The paratroopers run through the ruins.

Soviet soldiers run through the port area.

They raise the Soviet flag on the gates of the cement plant.

A sailor cheers.

The Navy flag flutters against the backdrop of Novorossiysk and the sea.

German soldiers surrender.

They emerge from ruined buildings, crawl out of underground shelters.

They walk along a ruined pier with their hands raised.

German concrete pillboxes on the streets of Novorossiysk.

Destroyed German equipment.

Soviet troops enter liberated Novorossiysk from the Cement Plant.

A Soviet military cameraman films.

A devastated city.

An old woman among the ruins of a house.

Driving through ruined streets.

A soldier helps a woman pull a cart.

A family walks through the ruins with the remains of their furniture.

Soviet sailors walk along the shore, one with a guitar.

Two units of Soviet troops advancing from Malaya Zemlya and Novorossiysk meet.

The lighthouse in Tsemes Bay, filmed from a passing ship.

The North Caucasus Front advances.

Soviet tanks roll across the field in a wide line.

A tank passes wrecked vehicles.

A traffic controller stands at a signpost for Taman, Anapa, Novorossiysk, and Krasnodar.

Soviet officers listen to a reconnaissance pilot's report.