Main Directorate of Railways "Center" in Minsk (1942)

Comparison of the territories subordinated to the main directorates in Leipzig and Minsk on a map.

The building of the main directorate "Center" in the Lenin House in Minsk.

Facade of the building.

Entrance of the directorate.

German soldiers, railroad workers Germany.

Belarus.

View of the Minsk station, covered in snow.

Trains.

Locomotives smoking.

Snowdrifts between the tracks.

Trains.

Soviet prisoners of war and Jews clearing the station of snow Belarus.

Locomotive turning circle in Minsk.

Soviet FD locomotive damaged by a German bomb.

IS locomotive.

Clearing the tracks of snow and ice.

Clearing frozen switches.

Defrosting switches with a special device Germany.

Locomotive depot of Minsk station.

Frozen locomotives.

Cleaning locomotives from ice.

Installing shields to protect the locomotive from icing.

Special devices in the driver's cabin to prevent icing Germany.

Soviet prisoners at auxiliary work.

Defrosting locomotive water taps.

Defrosting water pumps

Germany.

Problems with freezing water.

Water is taken from the river.

Frozen river.

Pumping water with a pump.

A locomotive with two tenders to create a water reserve Germany.

Unloading coal from a wagon.

Loading it into a tender.

Sorting coal on a special conveyor.

Unsuitability for transporting small coal received from the Reich /from Germany/.

A wagon with coal that arrived from the Reich to Orsha Germany.

Replacing a rail burst from the frost.

A collection of burst rails in front of the camera Belarus.

Minsk station.

A train from Smolensk is expected to arrive.

Signals knocked together from planks Russian and German personnel at the Orsha locomotive depot.

A sleeping Russian stoker.

The return of a German engineer after an 85-hour shift.

German railroad workers.

Russian engineers.

Locomotives prepared for repairs.

German trucks with wheel sets.

Clearing the track from debris on the distance.

Cleaning broken rolling stock with tractors

Germany.

Snow plows and snow removal machines delivered from the Reich.

Russian and German patrolmen on the track.

Railroad crossing.

A car is driving through it Germany.

Belarus.

The city of Borisov.

Crossing the Berezina River.

Destroyed Russian tanks.

Highway /Minsk-Moscow/.

City walls of Smolensk.

Church of Peter and Paul near the station.

In the background is the cathedral.

Exterior of the cathedral.

Interior of the cathedral with an iconostasis USSR. Dilapidated Smolensk churches.

Ruins on the main street.

German commandant's office.

Railway directorate of the Smolensk track, heated by "bourgeois women" Germany.

USSR. German graves in the city center.

On the streets of Smolensk.

German drivers repair their cars

Germany.

USSR. Ruins in the lower part of Smolensk.

Market square.

Destroyed main railway station.

Ruins after the Soviet air raid on January 28. Broken carriages.

German employees clearing the ruins after the bombing on February 5. Smoking ruins.

Removing the bodies of the dead.

Restoring telephone communications.

Destroyed medical barracks.

Corpses of German soldiers.

Wounded German railway workers.

A train heading towards the front.

Engine driver.

A German railway worker in a quilted jacket.

An armored train departs from Smolensk station.

Mountains of sacks with military field mail.

Ambulances.

Unloading the wounded.

Sending trains with the wounded to the West.

Loading the wounded.

Minsk station.

Arrival of a train with the wounded / February 1942 /.

Wounded in carriages.

Unloading non-transportable wounded.

Distribution food for the wounded.

Ambulance train.

Driving stock