Battle for Sevastopol (1944)

View from the Grafskaya Wharf in Sevastopol.

View of the monument to the sunken ships in Sevastopol Bay.

Monument to Admiral Kornilov.

Warship in Sevastopol Bay.

View of part of Sevastopol Bay (from above).

Panorama of part of Sevastopol after its liberation from the German occupiers in 1944. Monument to V.I. Lenin in Sevastopol.

Map of the Red Army offensive on the Crimean Peninsula in 1943-1944. Naval landing forces boarding ships.

Soldiers with anti-tank rifles pass by.

Landing units are about to board ships.

Artillery being raised aboard the ship.

Troops are boarding the ship.

A unit of marines is boarding the ship.

A searchlight operator is giving light signals.

Faces of the landing forces.

Soviet naval aircraft are flying by.

Torpedo bombers in flight.

The sea under the wing of an airplane.

German military transport on the horizon.

Soviet planes are flying.

View of the German ship (from above).

Planes in flight.

The face of a Soviet pilot.

The plane drops bombs.

Explosion on the German ship.

Planes are flying.

The German ship is burning.

The sea under the plane's wing.

Soviet troops begin to force the Sivash.

Red Army soldiers resting in the Kerch catacombs before the offensive.

Soldiers read newspapers and letters by the fires.

A soldier reads a letter by the light of a lantern.

Text of the letter.

A soldier reads a letter.

Text and a drawing in a letter.

A soldier reads a letter.

Colonel V.S. Aleksandrovsky and his officers are studying a map of the upcoming military operations.

An officer hands over the text to the signalmen for transmission.

Signalmen at the radio station.

An officer wakes up the soldiers.

Soldiers with torches walk along the catacombs.

Signal flares take off.

Soviet soldiers run along the bank of the Sivash.

The face of the artillery crew commander.

Soviet artillery fires at the enemy at night.

Sappers crawl toward the barbed wire.

Sappers cut the barbed wire and defuse mines.

Sappers move forward.

Artillery begins shelling the forward German positions.

Explosions at the German positions.

Infantry moves forward.

Airplanes fly.

View of the pontoon crossing over the Sivash.

Airplanes fly.

Soviet aircraft provide air cover for the crossing of the Sivash.

Soviet infantry moves through Perekop.

The infantry crosses the ramparts of the Perekop fortifications and enters the operational space.

Soviet attack aircraft are flying.

Tanks attack across the steppe, a medical orderly bandages a wounded soldier.

View through a tank embrasure.

The driver's face.

Tanks go into attack (view through an embrasure).

The driver's face.

Tanks go into attack.

Infantry advances under the cover of tanks.

Soviet attack aircraft attack ground targets.

Attack of Soviet infantry and tanks.

General view of the attacking troops.

A destroyed German observation post.

Corpses of German soldiers in a trench.

A destroyed artillery piece.

Corpses of Romanian and German soldiers.

Destroyed military equipment of the Nazis.

Columns of captured Germans move across the steppe.

Tanks of the Separate Primorskaya Army advance from the Kerch bridgehead.

Heavy artillery moves along the road.

Army Commander General A. I. Eremenko with staff officers.

Paratroopers take their places on the boats of the Azov military flotilla.

Officers give commands.

The boats cast off from the shore.

The boats go through the Kerch Strait.

Paratroopers on board the boat. K. E. Voroshilov on board the boat proceeds to the combat area of the Separate Primorskaya Army.

View of the bow of one of the boats.

Sailors take their places in the gun turret of the boat.

The boats are fired upon by the enemy, the boats return fire.

The boats lay a smoke screen.

Under cover of the smoke screen, the boats approach the shore of the Kerch Peninsula.

The landing force disembarks from the boats and barges.

Tanks and artillery move along the road.

Panorama of a part of liberated Feodosia.

Views of Feodosia.

Artillery and supply trains on the outskirts of Feodosia.

Soviet troops enter Yevpatoria.

People greet the Soviet troops.

A rifle unit marches down the street.

People greet the liberators.

A submachine gunner unit passes by.

A self-propelled artillery unit and tanks on the streets of Simferopol.

Tanks with infantry on their armor move further into the steppe.

Map of the advance of Soviet troops to Sevastopol.

Soviet submarines block German ships in the Black Sea.

Submarine commander Greshilov M.V. looks through binoculars.

Seascape.

The observer spots a target.

Greshilov raises his binoculars to his eyes.

A German ship on the horizon.

Greshilov gives the command to dive, the submariners descend into the hatch and close it.

Signal inside the submarine.

Sailors in one of the submarine's compartments.

View of part of the deck of the submerging submarine.

Greshilov M.V. observes the target through the periscope.

Giving the signal to launch torpedoes.

Explosion of the German vessel.

Torpedo boats return to Yalta after completing a combat mission.

A boat machine gunner at a machine gun.

View of the Yalta embankment, boats pass by.

Coastal landscapes of Yalta.

General view of a column of captured Germans.

Crimean partisans escort a column of captured Germans.

Columns of captured Germans are moving.

Corpses of civilians killed by the German occupiers.

Women cry over the bodies of the killed.

Captured Germans are walking.

Crying women.

People are standing over the bodies of those killed by the German occupiers.

A crying man.

Captured Germans are walking.

People are carrying out coffins with the bodies of the killed.

Women cry over the corpses.

People's faces during a funeral.

German prisoners of war are marching.

Soviet artillery is moving along the road to Sevastopol.

Heavy artillery tanks are moving.

Half-track tractors are towing howitzers.

View of part of an artillery column.

A column of rocket mortars is moving.

View of an artillery column (top).

Soviet troops are moving through the Baydar Gate.

An artillery gun crew is taking up positions in the Balaklava area.

View of part of the Soviet forward positions in the Balaklava area (top).

Army Commander Lieutenant General K.S. Melnik at the command post with binoculars in his hands.

Panorama of the command post and the adjacent area, officers at the command post.

Map of the Sevastopol region of the German defense.

Soviet bombers at the airfield before takeoff.

Bombs suspended from the wings of the aircraft.

Aircraft at the airfield before takeoff.

Wreckage of a German aircraft at the airfield, a Soviet bomber is taxiing past.

Captured German bombs.

Soldiers roll a cart with a captured bomb toward an airplane.

Planes take off.

Shadow of a flying plane on the ground.

Pilots in the airplane cockpit.

View of the terrain (top).

Soviet bombers and fighters in flight.

Navigator in the airplane cockpit.

View of a German transport (top).

Planes are flying.

Face of a Soviet pilot.

Dropping bombs on an enemy transport.

Face of a pilot.

Planes are flying.

Bombs are flying.

View of a sinking German ship (top).

Explosions on German ships.

Navigator observes targets.

Soviet fighters escort the bombers.

A German fighter is flying.

Air battle.

German plane falls into the sea.

Continuation of the air battle.

Soviet plane gets on the enemy's tail.

The burning Messerschmitt flies low toward the cliffs.

The Messerschmit crashes into the ridge of the cliff and explodes.

Continuation of the air battle.

German plane crashes into the ground.

A German pilot descends by parachute.

The burning wreckage of a German plane lies.

The commander of the 4th Ukrainian Front, General of the Army Tolbukhin F.I., Marshal Vasilevsky A.M., General Zakharov G.F. at the command post.

Panorama of the approaches to Sapun Mountain.

Heavy artillery at a firing position preparing to open fire.

Ammunition being supplied to the gun.

Artillery officers studying a target map.

Map of the operation to capture Sevastopol.

Soviet bombers are flying.

Officers at the command post.

Marshal Vasilevsky A.M. at the command post.

Bombers are flying.

The crew is in the cockpit.

Bombs are flying towards the target.

Bomb explosions at the German positions on Sapun Mountain.

Bombers are flying.

Explosions at the German positions.

Panorama of Sapun Mountain, explosions at the German positions.

A heavy gun is preparing to open fire.

An officer gives the command.

High-power artillery is firing at German positions on Sapun Mountain.

Shell explosions at the German positions.

View of a part of the heavy artillery firing position.

Shell explosions.

A heavy howitzer is firing.

Clouds of smoke and dust over the German positions.

The gun breech opens.

Smoke from the barrel after the shot.

Loading the gun.

The battery of heavy guns continues to fire.

Explosions at German positions.

Artillery officer gives the signal to open fire.

Howitzer battery opens fire.

Soviet artillery opens fire from all calibers.

Explosions and clouds of smoke over German positions.

Soviet planes are flying.

Panorama of Sapun Mountain (from above).

Soviet attack aircraft attack German positions on Sapun Mountain.

Flamethrower tank burns out enemy firing points.

Artillery opens fire.

General Zakharov at the command post.

Assault group makes its way to German position.

Machine gun crew opens fire.

Machine gunner's face.

Infantry begins battle on the approaches to Sapun Mountain.

Machine gunner opens fire.

Soldier opens fire at enemy firing point with anti-tank rifle.

Providing target designations using smoke bombs.

Attack aircraft attack German positions.

Infantry rises to attack.

Attack aircraft are flying.

Artillerymen roll a gun.

Infantry climbs a hill.

Accompanying artillery fires direct fire.

Infantry climbs a hill.

Infantry occupies the first line of trenches.

Corpses of German soldiers in the trenches.

View of part of the summit of Sapun Mountain.

Destroyed German defensive fortifications.

Shattered artillery pieces.

A medical orderly bandages the head of a wounded soldier.

Lieutenant General Ya.G. Kreizer on Sapun Mountain.

Soviet tanks move into a breakthrough.

Soviet bombers are flying.

Infantry fights on the approaches to Sevastopol.

Shells explode on the outskirts of the city.

Infantry storms one of the city blocks.

Fighting on the outskirts of Sevastopol.

A machine gunner fires.

Infantry attacks through the ruins.

A medical orderly provides assistance to a wounded officer, medics carry a stretcher with a seriously wounded man.

Artillerymen fire at Germans entrenched in ruins.

Tanks on the city streets.

Infantry attacks through the ruins.

Tanks move past destroyed buildings.

A soldier fires from behind a piece of hay.

A dead man lies there.

Infantry advances through the ruins.

Germans emerge from the basement with their hands raised.

A tank rushes along a city street.

Soldiers take up positions among the ruins.

The body of a German soldier.

A Soviet machine gunner fires.

The body of a German machine gunner.

Soviet soldiers fight in the ruins.

Fighting near the destroyed building of the Sevastopol Panorama.

A Soviet soldier hoists a red flag on the dome of the Sevastopol Panorama.

Infantry occupies the city streets.

Red Army soldiers and sailors run out onto the Grafskaya Wharf.

Sailors climb the stairs to the pier gates.

Sailors raise the Soviet naval flag over the Grafskaya Wharf.

Sailors shoot into the air near the flag.

Soviet planes fly.

Soviet aircraft fly over the Black Sea coast.

View of Cape Khersones (from above).

Bombers in flight.

The crew in the cockpit.

Bombs fall on a German airfield.

Bombers are flying.

Bombs fall on a target.

Attack aircraft are flying.

Soviet tanks are attacking.

Airplanes are flying.

Soviet aircraft over Cape Khersones.

Attack aircraft attack ground targets.

Airplanes drop bombs.

Bombs explode at the location of German troops.

Pilot and navigator in the cockpit.

View of part of Cape Khersones (from above).

Wrecked German equipment.

Wreckage of German aircraft at the captured airfield.

Wrecked German vehicles and artillery guns.

Remains of the firing position of a German anti-aircraft battery.

German artillery guns captured by Soviet troops.

Corpses of German soldiers and officers.

Wreckage of a German aircraft on the seashore.

Wrecked staff car.

Corpses of German soldiers on the seashore.

German corpses in the coastal waves.

A German uniform in the water.

German soldier's books are floating on the water.

German helmets and small arms on the shore.

Faces of captured Germans.

Soviet soldiers lead a column of captured Germans.

A column of captured Germans is moving.

A column of Soviet artillery is moving along the road to Sevastopol.

Soviet troops enter liberated Sevastopol.

Soviet troops on the streets of Sevastopol.

Captured German artillery pieces collected in one of the city squares.

A tank drives past an old cannon.

The commander of one of the military units on the bastion presents awards to the Red Army soldiers of his unit.

View of the damaged monument to Totleben in Sevastopol.

Fragments of the monument.

Inscription on the monument.

Panorama of destroyed Sevastopol.

Panorama of one of the destroyed city blocks.

Panorama of a part of Sevastopol.

Naval officers on one of the piers.

Sea surf.

An officer and sailors take off their hats.

Waves run up the shore.

Faces of sailors.

Ships of the Black Sea Fleet enter Sevastopol Bay.

One of the ships drops anchor in the bay.

Escaping anchor chain.

Anchor falls into the water.

Ships of the Black Sea Fleet in Sevastopol Bay.

A sentry on the deck of a warship at sunrise.

View of the monument to the sunken ships at sunrise.