Battle of the Dnieper (1992)

Exploding houses.

View of a burning village.

A German soldier walks along burning houses during a retreat after the Battle of Kursk in July 1943.

Women at burning houses.

German-fascist troops are moving through burning settlements.

Cattle rustling.

A German infantry column is moving.

Panorama of part of the defensive structures on the western bank of the Dnieper.

Panorama of the Dnieper River.

Diagram of the Eastern wall on the western bank of the Dnieper (animation).

Construction of defensive structures and anti-tank ditches.

Soviet tank column on the march.

Landing units on the armor of tanks.

View of part of the Dnieper (from above).

The commander of the Sumy partisan unit, Major General Kovpak S. A., introduces the situation to the partisan commanders.

The face of a young partisan.

Kovpak accepts the report of one of the commanders.

Units of the Sumy partisan division on the march.

Partisans ferry artillery on rafts across the river.

Crossing of the partisans on the western bank of the Dnieper.

Dnieper landscapes.

Red Army units begin crossing the Dnieper River.

Hitler's soldiers in the trench.

German armored personnel carrier goes on the attack.

The calculation of the German anti-aircraft gun is firing.

Soviet troops cross the Dnieper River under enemy artillery fire.

A team of horses with sledges sails through the Dnieper.

Soviet troops during the crossing on various sections of the Dnieper.

The first Soviet units under enemy artillery fire approach the western bank of the Dnieper.

Soldiers of the 7th Guards Army of the Steppe Front land on the shore, begin to capture the bridgehead.

Map of the capture of the bridgehead in the area of Dneprodzerzhinsk (animation).

The landing of Soviet troops on the bank of the Dnieper.

The commander of the Voronezh Front, General Vatutin N. F. at the command and observation post.

Map of the captured bridgeheads in the area of Kiev (animation).

A German train car falling off the rails.

Machine-gun partisan calculation is firing at the enemy.

The wall of a burning locomotive.

The cars of the derailed German military train are burning.

German bombers throw bombs, bombs fall into the Dnieper.

Soviet artillery conducts fire support for troops entrenched on the right bank of the Dnieper, a panorama of the battery's firing positions.

Soviet anti-aircraft gunners are firing at enemy aircraft.

Dogfight.

A burning plane on the ground.

Map of one of the Red Army bridgeheads on the right bank of the Dnieper.

Crossing of artillery pieces across the Dnieper.

Crossing of troops across the Dnieper River on wooden pontoons.

Landing of Soviet troops on the right bank of the Dnieper under artillery fire, infantry attack.

Soviet troops attack German defensive positions.

Fighting on the outskirts of Kiev on November 6, 1943.

Panorama of buildings on one of the streets of Kiev during the battles for the city.

Residents of Kiev meet the Soviet soldiers-liberators.

Women greet Soviet soldiers riding on the armor of a tank.

Panorama of the destruction in Kiev.

A sign in German on the wall of one of the houses on Khreshchatyk.

People return to their homes, a panorama of destroyed buildings.

Views of the destroyed train station.

People carry their belongings and children on hand carts.

Types of destroyed Orthodox churches in Kiev.

Monument to Lenin V. I. in Kiev.

N. S. Khrushchev, a member of the Military Council of the 1st Ukrainian Front, and the soldiers accompanying him stand at the monument to Lenin, removing their hats.

Monument to Bohdan Khmelnitsky in Kiev.

An artillery crew passes through one of the streets of Kiev.

Soviet tanks are moving West.

Monument to St.

Vladimir in Kiev.

Panorama of a part of the city block (top).