The city of Kyiv in the first days of the war (1941)

The outskirts of Kiev.

The railway bridge across the Dnieper.

Bomb explosions near the bridge.

A burning oil storage facility.

A destroyed station.

Freight cars on the tracks.

Red Army soldiers clear the tracks.

Burning and destroyed houses.

Corpses among the rubble.

An unexploded bomb in a house.

Residents leave the destroyed houses.

The organization of self-defense groups.

Soldiers hand over documents to the commissar, soldiers in a trench.

Construction of fortifications in the outskirts of Kiev.

The Chain Bridge across the Dnieper near Kiev.

The advance of troops.

Air defense.

Checkpoints on the approaches to Kyiv.

Soldiers at an observation post.

Rubble, anti-tank "hedgehogs" on the streets of Kyiv.

Construction of fortifications.

Soldiers of the people's militia.

A report on Kyiv in the first days of the war.

Tanks and artillery crossing the pontoon bridge over the Dnieper.

Artillery advances through mud and washed-out roads.

Horses and guns get stuck in washed-out mail.

A bivouac of a Red Army unit in a field.

Rise and march along the road and across the field.

A command post in a trench among sunflowers.

The command monitors the battle in the outskirts of Kyiv.

Evacuation of the population from Ukrainian villages.

Residents travel along the roads.

Cattle theft, evacuation of agricultural implements.