The Second Ukrainian. Chronicle and Memories (1987)

Newsreel from 1945: view of Red Square during the Victory Parade on June 24, 1945, inspection of troops by Marshal of the Soviet Union Zhukov G.K. Troops of the Karelian, Leningrad, 1st Baltic, 4th and 3rd Ukrainian Fronts in parade formation with frontal standards.

Faces of soldiers and officers.

The first front commander, Marshal of the Soviet Union, the first front commander I.S. Konev in formation.

Front commander at the final stage of the war, Marshal of the Soviet Union R.Ya.

Malinovsky in parade formation near the front standard.

Malinovsky's face.

Faces of generals and officers standing in formation.

Pigeons on the asphalt.

A boy feeds pigeons, a veteran with orders on his tunic watches the boy.

Faces of veterans of the 2nd Ukrainian Front during another meeting.

Veterans examine an old tattered headquarters map during a tour of the battlefield.

Veterans enter a pillbox.

Newsreel from 1943-44: German rocket launchers fire.

Soviet tanks go on the attack.

Combat actions during the Battle of Kursk in July 1943. Burning houses.

Cattle rushing under fire.

Fascist bombers fly.

Soviet air defense systems fire at enemy aircraft.

A burning and falling aircraft.

Soviet officers at an observation post.

Map of German troops' plans to eliminate the Kursk salient, with Soviet fronts marked (animation).

Newsreel from 1943: Soviet tanks in a shelter in the forest.

A Red Army soldier smokes a cigarette.

A soldier in a trench.

Commander of the Steppe Front troops, Colonel General I.S. Konev and staff officers study the situation on the front line.

Konev's face.

The steppe grass bends in the gusts of wind.

Veterans at the tea table.

Veteran S. Yurko recalls past events and the interaction of various branches of the armed forces (synchronously).

Veteran I.S. Mudretsova shares her memories of serving in the infantry and participating in hostilities (synchronously and behind the scenes).

Newsreel from 1943: Red Army infantry during a battle, a medical orderly carries out a wounded soldier.

Red Army soldiers fire and throw grenades from trenches.

Infantry rises to attack from a trench.

Panorama of burning German equipment.

A German soldier digs a trench.

Faces of smoking German tank crews and infantrymen.

SS soldiers and officers in position.

German soldiers during a rest.

Field Marshal Manstein E. congratulates the soldiers.

Manstein walks along a trench accompanied by an officer.

Manstein observes the forward edge of the Soviet troops from a trench.

Soviet tanks on the streets of liberated Orel on August 5, 1943. City residents greet the liberators.

An elderly woman treats a wounded Red Army soldier with bread and milk.

A Red Army unit moves past a windmill.

Scheme of the front's offensive on Kharkov (animation).

Photo by Army General S.M. Shtemenko.

Newsreel from 1943: destroyed German tanks.

One of the German tank units on the march.

A German tanker observes the terrain while moving.

Himmler H. meeting at the airfield near Kharkov.

Himmler and his entourage during an inspection of Wehrmacht tank units.

Himmler talks to tankers, inspects combat vehicles.

Heavy German tanks move into position.

A German tanker in the turret of a tank.

German tanks fire.

Commander of the Voronezh Front, Colonel General N.F. Vatutin.

At the command and observation post.

Soviet tanks counterattack the enemy.

Konev I.S. at the command post.

Soviet tanks go on the attack supported by infantry.

German positions under artillery fire.

Steppe Front troops fight on the streets of Kharkov in August 1943. Panorama of the central part of liberated Kharkov on August 23, 1943 (top).

Red Army soldiers help small children get out of an underground shelter.

An officer holds children under his armpits, children's faces.

Residents of Kharkov give flowers to an officer sitting in a Willis.

Konev I.S., accompanied by officers, walks across the bridge.

Residents of Kharkov near one of the houses.

Konev gives orders to the headquarters officers.

Demonstration of Kharkov residents with a portrait of Stalin in honor of the liberation of the city.

A girl presents a bouquet of flowers to Marshal of the Soviet Union Zhukov G.K., standing on the podium of a ceremonial rally; the girl is picked up in the arms of a member of the Military Council of the Voronezh Front Khrushchev N.S. Faces of the rally participants.

Newsreel from 1943: a record is spinning on a gramophone.

Commander of the Steppe Front I. S. Konev clinks glasses with officers during a banquet to mark the liberation of Kharkov in August 1943. A unit of Soviet machine gunners marches along the main square of Kharkov.

Veterans Vedensky and Zavaliy talk during a meeting about the scale and nature of the front’s combat operations in 1943-1945 (synchronously).

Newsreel from 1943: Combat actions on the Steppe Front in October 1943. The face of a German pilot.

Bombing of ships on the Dnieper.

A burning village.

German infantry changes positions.

Panorama of a burning railway station.

Soviet artillery fires at the enemy.

Soviet troops crossing the Dnieper.

Front Commander I. S. Konev at a command and observation post.

Tanks attack the enemy with infantry support.

Offensive operations in Italy being developed at Allied headquarters.

A British aircraft is flying.

Views of the terrain and a settlement in Sicily (above).

Allied airborne assault.

View of part of central Moscow in December 1943, children sledding.

People buying newspapers at kiosks.

Map of military operations on the Korsun-Shevchenkovskiy salient (animation).

Headquarters representative G.K. Zhukov, front commanders I.S. Konev and N.F. Vatutin during a joint meeting.

Diagram of the encirclement of Nazi troops on the Korsun-Shevchenkovskiy salient (animation).

German soldiers in a trench treat each other to cigarettes.

Soldiers and officers drink schnapps.

An officer gives orders to his subordinates.

Officers conduct observation from a dugout.

German infantry and tanks of the breakthrough divisions advance to the attack lines.

Scheme of the Soviet troops’ defense (animation).

A German officer standing on a tank turret surveys the area through binoculars.

The officer’s face.

German armored vehicles firing.

A burning windmill.

German soldiers in a trench, the soldiers’ faces.

German infantry attempting to break through their encirclement.

A burning windmill.

View of the Minin and Pozharsky monument on Red Square.

Interior views of the Headquarters.

Communications center at work.

Commander of the 2nd Ukrainian Front Konev at an observation post.

Tanks emerge from caponiers and rush to attack.

The infantry goes on the attack.

A salvo of rocket launchers.

The burning windmill collapses.

Panorama of a destroyed cemetery, a blizzard covering the graves.

A group of German officers going to surrender.

Konev in a trench on the front line.

Konev at a stereoscopic telescope at an observation post.

Konev with binoculars in his hands.

Sappers construct a crossing during the Uman-Botoşani offensive operation.

Red Army soldiers push a stuck truck with a heavy mortar out of the mud.

Faces of passing soldiers.

Heavy German tanks abandoned in the mud (panorama).

The body of a German soldier in a crater filled with water.

Soviet tanks with infantry on their armor are heading West.

Faces of captured Romanian soldiers.

A column of Romanian prisoners of war is running across a bridge to the Soviet rear.

Konev at a command and observation post.

Self-propelled artillery units and cavalry on the offensive.

Soviet troops on the offensive, map of the front's offensive with the crossing of the Dniester and an exit to the state border of the USSR (combined photography).

Newsreel from 1944: festive fireworks display over Moscow on March 26, 1944 in honor of the troops of the 2nd Ukrainian Front that reached the state border of the USSR, faces of Muscovites.

People's Commissar of Foreign Affairs of the USSR V.M. Molotov enters the press conference hall.

Journalists in the hall.

Molotov speaks at the press conference.

Romanian rural landscape.

Romanian peasant plowing the land.

Street views of pre-war Bucharest.

Street shoe shiners at work.

Horse-drawn and automobile transport on the streets of Bucharest, smartly dressed women in a carriage.

People sitting at cafe tables.

An orchestra playing.

The face and legs of a dancer.

Newsboys running down the street.

The Metropolitan blesses the Romanian King Mihai I. The Prime Minister of Romania Marshal Antonescu talks with German officers.

Antonescu presents Romanian orders to German soldiers.

Faces of Romanian soldiers.

Antonescu, accompanied by officers, visits a soldiers' cemetery; German helmets on grave crosses.

Musical notations on board a Soviet attack aircraft; a gunner cleans a machine gun; pilots sit near the plane with a guitar.

Faces of resting pilots.

Attacks on surface and ground targets with rockets from attack aircraft (above).

Romanian soldiers in a boat in the reeds under fire.

A Romanian scout dressed in women's clothing moves into the boat to join his comrades.

The radio operator begins transmitting.

Soviet tanks march in preparation for the Jassy-Kishinev Operation.

Soviet units secretly force a water obstacle.

A front-line cameraman, standing waist-deep in water, films.

Machine gunners cross to the opposite bank.

Veteran G.M. During the meeting, Khazanov recalls his participation in the transfer of troops during the Jassy-Kishinev operation and the occupation of prepared positions, about the secrecy of the operation's preparation (synchronously).

Newsreel from 1944: Soviet artillery fires at the enemy during the Jassy-Kishinev operation in August 1944. Infantry and tanks go on the attack.

Soviet troops on the streets of Iasi.

Residents of the city greet Soviet soldiers.

Red Army soldiers talk to peasants.

Peasants' faces.

A soldier helps a girl get water from a well.

The new front commander, Army General R. Ya.

Malinovsky, and staff officers over a map developing the next operation.

Scheme of the encirclement of the German-Romanian military grouping in the Chisinau area.

Soviet tanks on the line of attack.

Corpses of German and Romanian soldiers.

Portraits of King Mihai and Marshal Antonescu on banners.

The King and Antonescu get out of a car during a parade.

Faces of senior Romanian officials.

Queen Mother Helen of Greece on the podium during a ceremonial event.

Michael I walks to his place on the podium.

Face of King Michael.

King Michael and Helen of Greece on the podium under the awning.

Portraits of the king and Antonescu on banners.

Copy of the Capitoline Wolf statue in Bucharest.

Panorama of part of the Royal Palace building with broken glass, a guard on duty at the fence.

Panorama and views of a communist rally in Bucharest in August 1944 (top).

Street clashes in Bucharest during the uprising prepared by the Romanian communists.

An ambulance drives along the street.

View of a destroyed building.

Rebels and Romanian soldiers who went over to their side on the streets of Bucharest.

Checking a truck driver's pass.

A Romanian officer and a self-defense unit commander at one of the barricades.

Self-defense unit fighters move to a position near one of the barricades.

View of part of the environs of Bucharest (from above).

Fire in the Ploiesti oil fields.

Soviet planes fly over.

Troops of the 2nd Ukrainian Front enter Bucharest.

View of the city square during the passage of Soviet troops.

Faces of Bucharest residents greeting the Red Army.

Residents of Bucharest greet Soviet troops.

Residents of Bucharest during a demonstration in support of Soviet troops.

Romanian communists gather at the airfield to meet their leader Gheorghiu-Dej Gh.

Faces of the meeting participants.

Romanian and Soviet soldiers during a rest.

Romanian artillerymen leave for positions to begin military operations against Germany.

Soviet and Romanian officers pass by.

Troops on the bank of the river before the start of the crossing.

Newsreel from 1944: Soviet troops overcome mountains.

Airplanes fly.

Troops of the 2nd Ukrainian Front advance across a swampy plain.

Combat operations of the Front's troops in Romania and Hungary.

Tanks on the offensive.

Views of Budapest.

Regent of Hungary Admiral Horthy at a parade.

Pigs are driven into a wagon.

Boxes of food are loaded into a wagon.

Echelons with food and fuel are sent to Germany.

Hungarian soldiers take the oath.

During a meeting, a veteran speaks about the importance of the Hungarian direction for the Wehrmacht command, relying on Keitel's data (synchronously).

Map of Hungary with territories occupied by Soviet troops as a result of the Debrecen operation (animation).

Newsreel from 1944: palace footmen and sentries at the entrance to Regent Horthy's chambers.

Meeting between Horthy and Goering.

German tanks on the roads of Hungary during the occupation of Hungarian territory.

German tanks on the streets of Budapest.

City residents talking to German soldiers.

Hungarian children near a German tank.

Presentation of awards to German tank crews.

German soldiers during a walk around Budapest.

Views of Budapest.

View of part of the Moscow Kremlin.

Horse patrol on Gorky Street.

People hitched to a trolleybus.

Checking documents of a soldier.

Awarded participants of the partisan movement walk along the street.

A company of cadets marches along the street.

Stalin I.V. gets out of the car.

Stalin greets British military attachés at the airfield.

Meeting of Stalin and Churchill at the airfield in October 1944. Stalin and Churchill during negotiations in the Kremlin, Molotov V.M. enters the room.

Faces of Stalin and Churchill during the conversation.

The face of the British Foreign Secretary Eden.

Map of Hungary with territories occupied by the Red Army.

Commander of the 2nd Ukrainian Front Malinovsky R.Ya. with staff officers develops another combat operation.

The crew of a German heavy gun brings the gun into combat position.

Firing from heavy guns.

German bombers approach the target.

Bomb explosions, results of the air raid.

A house collapses.

Map of the encirclement of Budapest by troops of the 2nd and 3rd Ukrainian Fronts (animation).

View of the streets of Budapest before the assault.

Soviet parliamentary officers Captain Steinmetz and Captain Astapenko killed by the fascists.

Funeral of Soviet parliamentarians.

Soviet artillery fires on the streets of Budapest.

Civilians flee from artillery shelling.

Corpses of civilians on one of the city streets, burning buildings.

Soviet troops change positions during street fighting.

View of Budapest in February 1945. Commander of the German group, General Pfeffer-Wildenbruch.

Soviet officer talks to Hungarian prisoners of war.

Pfeffer-Wildenbruch's face.

Soviet soldiers on the streets of Budapest after the end of the fighting for the city.

Panorama of Vienna's districts (top).

Arrival of the front commander R.Ya.

Malinovsky at headquarters in Czechoslovakia.

A Czechoslovak military brass band plays during a ceremonial rally in Brno to mark the liberation of the city.

Soviet officers during the parade.

Czechoslovak historian V. Peša talks about the actions of Soviet troops to liberate Czechoslovakia (synchronously and off-screen).

Newsreel from 1945: destroyed German artillery guns.

Bandaging the head of a wounded officer.

Czechoslovak peasants greet Soviet troops.

Soviet troops on the streets of Czechoslovakian cities, the population welcomes Soviet soldiers and officers.

Veteran Colonel General Seleznev speaks about the operations carried out by the 2nd Ukrainian Front (synchronously).

Newsreel: Hitler's personal standard on the cobblestones of Red Square during the Victory Parade on June 24, 1945. A combined regiment of the 2nd Ukrainian Front marches across Red Square.

Riflemen and machine gunners units march across Red Square.