The Great Battle on the Volga (1962)

Views of the Volga.

Reeds on the Volga bank.

Shell fragments on the coastal sand.

Rusty mortar fragments embedded in the sand.

A pierced soldier's helmet.

Vegetation on the Volga bank.

A branch of a blossoming apple tree.

A monument to the defenders of Stalingrad on Mamayev Kurgan.

A memorial inscription on a granite slab.

Monuments to Soviet soldiers on the Volga bank.

People at the monument on Mamayev Kurgan.

An inscription on the monument.

People lay flowers at the monument.

Women's faces.

People collect handfuls of earth on Mamayev Kurgan.

Members of an expedition to Antarctica brought a handful of earth from Mamayev Kurgan.

An old man sits at the foot of the monument.

Newsreel from 1942: a panorama of burning Stalingrad.

Smoke from the fires rises into the sky.

Map of the Soviet-German front line in the summer of 1942. Newsreel of 1942: Airplanes in flight.

Military operations in the Arctic.

Map of the siege of Leningrad.

Newsreel of 1942: View of the Peter and Paul Fortress in besieged Leningrad.

Anti-aircraft guns on the Neva embankment and on the streets of the city.

A German officer looks through a stereoscopic telescope.

German artillerymen fire at Leningrad.

Military operations of Soviet troops on the Leningrad front.

Artillery duel.

Map of the Northwestern Front.

Newsreel of 1942: Soviet troops fight in the area of Lake Ilmen.

Map of the front line near Moscow.

Newsreel of 1942: View of Red Square and part of the Moscow Kremlin.

People on the streets of Moscow in 1942. Anti-aircraft crew at their positions.

Transportation of barrage balloons along a city street.

Barrage balloons in the air.

Soviet artillery fires at the enemy, covering the approaches to Moscow.

Infantry and tanks go on the attack.

Map of occupied Belarus.

Newsreel of 1942: Nazi occupiers in Minsk.

German soldiers break into a house.

German patrols on the streets of Minsk.

Map of occupied Ukraine.

Newsreel of 1942: German troops move along the roads of Ukraine.

A train with food leaves for Germany.

German soldiers unload boxes of chicken eggs from cars.

Map of occupied Crimea.

Newsreel of 1942: view of part of Sevastopol Bay.

A warship is at the pier.

Soviet bombers take off.

Coastal batteries fire at the enemy.

Tanks go on the attack.

Commanders at the observation post.

Sailors rise to a bayonet charge.

The marines attack.

Map of military operations on the Soviet-German front in the summer of 1942. Newsreel from 1942: German motorized columns move along the roads.

German tanks and self-propelled guns move.

German motorcyclists ride.

Newsreel from 1942: German troops advance towards Stalingrad.

German infantry marches.

Faces of passing soldiers.

A German tank column moves.

Soviet artillerymen fire at German troops.

Combat operations in the South-Western direction.

German tanks and aircraft attack.

Soviet artillerymen fire at the enemy.

A burning German tank.

A Soviet tank changes its firing position.

German planes in the sky.

Burning wheat.

People leave a burning village.

A crying woman with a child in her arms.

Shepherds drive a collective farm herd.

Evacuation of agricultural machinery.

Refugees walk along the road.

View of a convoy of refugees.

Soviet troops fight defensive battles.

Artillery moves into position and opens fire.

Tanks attack in the Don steppe.

German planes fly.

View of the area from above.

German troops reach the banks of the Don.

German troops begin crossing one of the sections of the Don.

German soldiers disembark after crossing the Don.

German armored vehicles and motorized infantry move across the steppe.

A Soviet commander sends a rocket signal to a tank unit.

A rocket in the sky.

Soviet tanks and infantry in Kuban counterattack.

Soviet infantry attacks.

Soviet bombers fly.

A German plane drops bombs.

Soviet aviation bombs the enemy.

A wounded Soviet officer commands a mortar battery.

Leaflets from party and Soviet organs with an appeal to the residents of Stalingrad.

Newsreel from 1942: residents of Stalingrad build defensive fortifications.

Sappers build concrete defensive fortifications.

Construction of wood and earth firing points.

The gates of the Red October plant.

Workers in the plant workshop.

Tanks exit the gates of the Stalingrad Tractor Plant.

Map of the German offensive on Stalingrad.

Newsreel from 1942: battles on the approaches to Stalingrad.

German troops take up positions near the railway line.

German officers observe Stalingrad through binoculars.

Soldiers of the Stalingrad people's militia battalions move to combat positions.

A rifle unit marches along a city street.

Residents of Stalingrad see off tank crews into battle.

Soviet troops move to positions near Stalingrad.

Newsreel from 1942: German bombers before takeoff.

German bombers in flight.

Panorama of part of Stalingrad (from above).

View of the central square of Stalingrad.

An anti-aircraft gunner watches the sky through binoculars.

An anti-aircraft gun crew prepares to fire.

Trucks on a city street.

A sailor from the Volga Flotilla watches the sky through binoculars.

Italian planes are flying.

Anti-aircraft gun crews begin firing.

Soviet fighters take off.

Pilot Baranov in the cockpit.

Air battle.

A shot-down German plane loses a wing.

German planes are flying.

Soviet anti-aircraft gunners are firing.

A burning plane crashes.

Wreckage of a German plane on the ground.

German bombers in flight.

Falling bombs.

A building explodes.

A window frame in a broken wall.

Firefighters put out a burning house.

A victim is carried out on a stretcher.

Firefighters put out a burning house.

German bombers dive.

Soviet anti-aircraft crew firing.

Burning German plane.

German plane burns out on the ground.

German planes continue bombing the city.

Bombs explode on the streets of Stalingrad.

The wall of a building collapses.

A burning truck.

View of part of a destroyed city block.

A sculptural group of dancing children on a square, buildings burning around them.

Anti-aircraft gunners firing.

A burning plane falls.

A bomber dives.

Anti-aircraft gunners firing.

Spilled oil burns.

Anti-aircraft gunners firing, burning planes fall.

View of an explosion on the bank of the Volga.

View of part of Stalingrad after an air raid (from above).

Burning blocks of Stalingrad at night.

Panorama of burning Stalingrad.

View of one of the destroyed streets of Stalingrad.

A musician carries a double bass out of the ruins of a house.

People walk across the square past destroyed houses.

People climb over the ruins, leaving the city.

A tugboat pulls a barge with troops and vehicles.

Soviet soldiers disembark from a barge onto the bank of the Volga.

Soviet troops go to the aid of Stalingrad.

Troops march through the streets of the city to their combat positions.

German troops advance towards Stalingrad.

German soldiers at a captured railway station.

German troops fight in the streets of Stalingrad.

Soviet soldiers launch a counterattack.

Street fighting in Stalingrad.

A German self-propelled gun is burning.

Hitler A. greets one of the generals at his residence.

Text announcing the capture of Stalingrad.

German medal for the capture of Stalingrad.

Soviet and foreign newspapers reporting on the battles in Stalingrad.

Newsreel from 1942: Soviet artillery fires at the enemy.

Infantry and tanks go on the attack.

Combat operations in the North Caucasus.

Street fighting in Krasnodar.

German troops on the streets of Krasnodar.

A burning building.

The Maikop oil fields are burning.

A German soldier against the backdrop of a fire.

Alpine rangers climb a mountain.

Alpine rangers conduct combat operations in the mountains.

Soviet troops fire at the enemy in the Caucasus Mountains.

View of Mount Elbrus.

View of part of the burning Stalingrad.

Street fighting in Stalingrad.

Soviet sappers lay mines in the street.

Newsreel from 1942: troops of the Soviet 62nd Army engage in street fighting in Stalingrad.

Map of the 62nd Army's defensive lines in the Stalingrad area.

Newsreel from 1942: dugouts of the 62nd Army headquarters on the banks of the Volga.

Army Commander General V. I. Chuikov holds a meeting with officers.

The commander of one of the units reports to the commander of the 13th Guards Division General A. I. Rodimtsev on the combat situation in his sector.

Signalmen in a dugout at a telephone.

Mortar men fire at the enemy.

General Rodimtsev receives a report from a subordinate at the command post.

Rodimtsev speaks on a field telephone.

Street fighting in Stalingrad.

Soviet soldiers fight in destroyed buildings.

Sniper A. Chekhov fires at the enemy from cover.

A German falls after trying to cross the street.

Chekhov reloads his rifle.

Artillerymen fire from firing positions on the street.

Armor-piercing gunners take up positions in a destroyed building.

Soldiers fire through window openings.

Street fighting, carrying the wounded out of battle and dressing them.

Ferrying the wounded to the other bank of the Volga.

Boats of the Volga Military Flotilla on the Volga.

View of "Lyudnikov Island".

Photograph of Colonel Lyudnikov during a conference with officers.

Map of the Soviet defenses in the area of the Barrikady plant.

Text of one of Lyudnikov's reports to the headquarters of the 62nd Army.

Newsreel from 1942: combat boats cross the Volga.

Soviet artillery crews at positions in Stalingrad.

Signalmen lay a communication line.

Infantry attacks a building with the support of flamethrowers.

Funeral of the fallen machine gunner Starodubtsev, comrades swear to fight to the death.

Starodubtsev's body.

The infantry fires at the enemy.

Portraits of Lieutenant Afanasyev, Sergeant Pavlov Ya.F. and the soldiers defending Pavlov's House.

Newsreel from 1942: street fighting in Stalingrad.

Portrait of sniper V. Zayzev.

Portrait of pilot Efremov.

Portraits of Red Army soldiers Vashchenko and Serdyukov.

Portrait of Red Navy sailors M. Panicacco, I. Kaplunov.

Text of a combat leaflet with a story about the feat of signalman M. Putilov.

Portrait of captain Ruben Ibarruri.

Portraits of female heroines of the Battle of Stalingrad: O. Kovaleva, G. Koroleva, N. Kachuevskaya.

Newsreel from 1942: Soviet soldiers read combat leaflets.

Presentation of party cards to soldiers at a firing position near a gun.

Infantry attacks the enemy through the ruins.

Warships of the Volga Flotilla fire at the enemy.

Landing of troops on the banks of the Volga.

A sailor gives signals using sailor caps.

The landing is landing on the shore.

Sailors of the Volga flotilla go on the attack.

Newsreel from 1942: German troops engage in street fighting near the Krasny Oktyabr plant.

Soviet soldiers take up a position near a destroyed wall.

Soviet soldiers advance.

Soldiers fight among the ruins of Stalingrad.

A machine gunner changes the machine gun disk.

A submachine gunner fires.

German soldiers watch from behind cover.

Street fighting in Stalingrad.

Panorama of part of a destroyed city block.

German planes fly.

Bombs explode on Soviet positions.

A German bomber dives.

View of part of a destroyed block.

A sentry at the gates of the Stalingrad Power Plant.

Interior view of the power plant's machine room.

A power plant worker hides in a special bomb shelter.

Entrance to the bomb shelter.

View of part of the power plant equipment.

General view of the damaged power plant building.

Tank repairs in the southern part of Stalingrad.

A tanker on a tank turret.

View of a workshop, one of the factories in the rear.

Workers making submachine guns.

Making artillery barrels.

Elderly workers at their machines.

Teenage workers at their machines.

Women and girls sewing soldiers' underwear.

Women working in factory shops and coal mines.

The face of a girl miner.

A girl at the helm of a ship.

A girl driver looks out of the cabin of a locomotive.

A girl drives a tractor.

A girl combine operator climbs onto the machine.

Harvesting grain with a combine in the rear.

Loading sacks of grain to be sent to the front.

Views of rear industrial enterprises.

Interior views of steelmaking and rolling shops.

Assembling tanks at a tank factory.

Interior view of an aircraft assembly shop.

Faces of aircraft factory workers.

Assembling new aircraft at an aircraft factory.

Shipment of finished artillery guns.

New tanks leaving the shop.

Tanks on railway platforms are sent to the front.

Anti-aircraft guns on railway platforms.

Tanks move toward the front line.

Horse artillery and infantry on trucks pass by.

Map of the combat situation on the Stalingrad Front as of November 1942. Newsreel from 1942: view of part of the Moscow Kremlin.

Views of part of Red Square.

Map of the operation to encircle German troops near Stalingrad.

Newsreel from 1942: signalman at the radio station.

Faces of soldiers.

Commander of the Stalingrad Front A.I. Eremenko presents awards to soldiers and officers who distinguished themselves in battle.

Faces of soldiers.

Eremenko presents an award to a female medical instructor.

Soldiers stand in formation.

Soviet soldiers in defensive positions before the offensive.

A soldier shaves a comrade.

A soldier makes lamps from shell casings.

A soldier repairs a wall clock.

Soldiers rest under the wall of a destroyed building.

Sleeping machine gunner.

Soldiers drink tea from a samovar.

Soldiers cook food on a fire, have lunch.

Newsreel from 1942: loading military equipment and ammunition onto ships to cross the Volga.

Explosions on the shore.

Trucks with infantry and ammunition drive ashore under fire.

A truck enters a ferry.

An officer supervises loading.

A barge with ammunition departs from the shore.

A self-propelled barge departs from the shore.

Tanks and artillery move toward the front line.

A cavalry unit moves toward the front line.

Infantry moves toward the front line.

Scouts observe the enemy.

Officers at an observation post monitor enemy positions.

Panorama of the forward edge of the Soviet defense.

Artillery begins shelling German troops before the offensive near Stalingrad on November 19, 1942. A salvo of rocket launchers.

Shells explode on German positions.

Soviet planes fly.

Bombs fall.

A pilot in the cockpit.

View of enemy territory (from above).

Tanks and infantry attack.

Tanks with infantry on their armor attack.

Infantry and cavalry attack.

Infantry attacks a destroyed factory and a railway station.

Soviet planes fly.

Tanks and infantry attack in the steppe.

Meeting of the advanced units of the Southwestern and Stalingrad Fronts near the village of Sovetsky.

Map of the encirclement of German troops near Stalingrad and the further offensive of Soviet troops.

Newsreel of November 1942: German planes fly.

Soviet anti-aircraft battery fires at enemy planes.

A burning German plane falls.

Anti-aircraft artillery fires.

Air battle.

View of a street in Stalingrad.

Soviet mortar men move to a position on a city street.

Street fighting in Stalingrad, Soviet troops attack.

Map with a plan for the encirclement and destruction of the German group near Stalingrad.

Newsreel of January 1943: Marshal of Artillery N.N. Voronov and General Rokossovsky K.K. during a meeting.

Soviet envoys signal with a white flag.

A bugler signals.

Envoys leave the trench.

Newsreel from January 1943: Soviet generals at an observation post.

Heavy artillery preparing to open fire.

General K.K. Rokossovsky at an observation post.

Soviet artillery opens fire on the enemy.

Soviet bombers are flying.

Falling bombs.

Rocket mortars are firing.

Soviet planes in the air.

A salvo of rocket mortars.

Artillery is firing.

Infantry on the offensive.

Soviet soldiers go on the attack.

Corpses of German soldiers.

Burning German military equipment.

Artillerymen are firing direct fire.

Infantry advancing through the ruins.

Machine gunners are firing.

Infantry advancing through the ruins.

A burning fascist banner with a swastika.

German soldiers with raised hands and a white flag are leaving the building.

German and Romanian soldiers surrender.

Soldiers of the Stalingrad and Don Fronts greet each other in Stalingrad.

Soldiers with a red flag climb the stairs of a destroyed building.

Soldiers secure the red flag on the balcony of the building.

Soldiers and officers congratulate each other on the victory.

An artillery crew fires a shot.

An artilleryman covers the gun barrel.

A red flag flutters on the turret of a tank.

Soldiers pet a cat.

Broken German cars on the streets of Stalingrad.

A red flag over Stalingrad.

A column of German prisoners is led along a city street.

View of a column of German prisoners.

German soldiers in parade formation in Germany in the 1930s.

Faces of German prisoners.

Awarding of German soldiers after entering Paris in 1940. German soldiers' cemetery in the Stalingrad area.

Parade of German troops in the late 1930s.

German prisoners are led to the rear.

A column of prisoners of war marches.

A captured German officer walks accompanied by Soviet officers.

Surrendered German officers and generals.

Commander of the 6th German Army, Field Marshal von Paulus after surrendering.

Paulus during the first interrogation.

A column of captured Germans moves to the rear.

Captured Germans walk.

Destroyed German military equipment.

View of a German airfield captured by Soviet troops (top).

View of the railway near Stalingrad (top).

View of part of the destroyed Stalingrad (top).

Panorama of the rally in honor of the liberation of Stalingrad.

Faces of officers and political workers.

Rifle units walk along the streets of Stalingrad.

Soviet soldiers on the roof of the Reichstag with a red banner in May 1945. Soldiers and officers salute by firing shots into the air.

White flags hung in the windows of buildings in Berlin.

Soviet troops on the streets of defeated Berlin.

Soldiers and officers celebrate victory on the streets of Berlin.

Soviet tankers at the wall of the Reichstag.

View of part of the damaged Reichstag building.

Inscriptions made by Soviet soldiers on the walls of the Reichstag.

Newsreel from 1943: views of the destroyed districts of Stalingrad (above).

Views of Volgograd.

A monument to Lenin in one of the squares of Volgograd.

Views of new streets and avenues of Volgograd.

Views of Volgograd squares.

People walking along a city street.

A monument to the tank crews who defended Stalingrad.

Entrance to the Volgograd Tractor Plant.

Tractors at the plant’s finished products site.

New tractors on platforms are being taken out of the plant’s territory.

A steamship sailing along the Volga.

People on the deck of the steamship.

The steamship passes through the Volga-Don lock.

Views of the Volga Hydroelectric Power Station.

View of part of the Volga embankment.

People on a street in Volgograd.

People lay wreaths at the monument to the defender of Stalingrad.

Wreaths at the foot of the monument.

People’s faces.

View of part of the monument.

Roses growing near the monument.

Text of the address of US President Roosevelt to the defenders of Stalingrad.

Newsreel from 1943: presentation of a sword to the defenders of Stalingrad from the King of Great Britain, the sword is accepted and presented by S. M. Budyonny.

Presentation of a combat shield from the Emperor of Abyssinia.

View of the shield.

Coat of arms of the English city of Coventry, presented to the defenders of Stalingrad.

Commemorative medal from the defenders of Port Said.

Tank on a pedestal on the bank of the Volga.

Members of the French delegation lay flowers at the monument to the defenders of Stalingrad.

Representatives of North Korea at the monument to the defenders of Stalingrad.

Members of the delegations of Yugoslavia and Tito I. B. lay wreaths at the monument.

The Indian delegation lays wreaths at the monument.

The face of Nehru J. Panorama of part of the Volga.

One of the monuments to the defenders of Stalingrad.

Statue of a worker.

Panorama of part of Volgograd.