Battle of Oryol (1943)

The line of defense of one of the sections of the front.

Preparation of Hitler's troops for the offensive on the Oryol bridgehead.

Soviet sappers mine the approaches to the line of defense.

Attack of German tanks.

Soviet artillery shelling of advancing tanks.

Air battle.

Soviet troops go on the attack.

Medics carry the wounded from the battlefield.

Captured Germans walk along the streets of Kursk.

Concentration of strike groups on sections of the Bryansk Front.

Soldiers prepare for an offensive.

Artillery fire on enemy positions.

Airplanes bomb German fortifications.

Members of the Front's Military Council at a map.

Soviet troops crossing the river on pontoons.

Sappers clear the area of mines.

Tanks break through the Oryol bridgehead.

Air battle.

A damaged Soviet plane lands on the airfield.

The burning plane (German) falls down.

Soviet troops break through the German defense.

Soviet soldiers capture German dugouts and bring out German prisoners.

Troops liberate populated areas.

Local population returns to their native places from the forests.

Views of Mtsensk with destroyed city houses.

Views of Bolkhov after liberation from the occupiers.

Destroyed German dugouts, knocked out German tanks and guns.

Captured German soldiers.

The advance of the Central Front troops.

The commander of the Central Front troops, General of the Army K. K. Rokossovsky at the command post.

The advance of infantry and tanks.

The participation of the Steppe and Voronezh Front troops in the operation.

The city of Orel in flames.

The population of Orel greeting the Soviet troops.

The release of prisoners from fascist dungeons.

The ruins of city buildings.

Views of Belgorod after the liberation.

The funeral of Soviet soldiers who died during the liberation of Orel and Belgorod.

Fireworks in Moscow in honor of the liberation of Orel and Belgorod.