Berlin (1945)

The commander of an artillery piece attaches a red flag to the shaft, sitting on the bed.

The gun commander sets a flag on the gun shield.

A flag on the shield of the gun, a view of the street with a destroyed building.

Soviet soldiers play captured accordions, sitting on the armor of an ISU-152 self-propelled artillery installation, after the end of hostilities in Berlin in May 1945.

Soldiers and officers dance at the tank to the accordion.

View of the broken bank building, there is a T-34 tank next to the bank, a panorama of the square with military equipment, soldiers listen to a gramophone.

Soldiers at the gramophone.

Mortar men listen to a gramophone mounted on a wheeled mortar carriage attached to a truck with trophies.

Soldiers and officers of the Red Army listen to the piano playing in a destroyed building.

Soldiers dance on the street near a destroyed building.

An accordion player performs a dance, a soldier in a leather jacket dances.

Tankers sit on the tank's armor and talk to each other.

The faces of the tankers.

A military barber cuts an officer's hair at the ruins of a building.

Shaving tankers.

A soldier shaves his comrade, smears his face with a brush with soap.

Shaving soldiers after the end of the fighting.

A soldier is playing an accordion, next to one of the soldiers is washing, another is sewing a collar.

Officers are cleaning their boots.

Cleaning the boot with a brush.

The sergeant adjusts his hair, holding a pocket mirror in his hand.

An anti-tank artillery gun on the street among the rubble of buildings, the soldiers of the calculation are resting nearby.

Resting gunners.

An officer reads a newspaper to the gunners, conducts political information.

An officer with a newspaper in his hands.

The faces of soldiers listening to political information.

Machine gunners in position on one of the streets of Berlin reading a newspaper.

The face of one of the machine gunners.

Tankers read the newspaper "Soviet fighter".

The newspaper is in the hands of one of the tankers.

An inscription in German on a wall damaged by bullets and shrapnel, a Soviet submachine gunner is sleeping on the sidewalk under the wall, covered with a raincoat tent.

Soldiers cooking food in a cauldron on a bonfire among the ruins of Berlin buildings.

A cook at a field kitchen, a panorama of a street with buildings damaged as a result of hostilities.

Soldiers and officers, standing at the propaganda radio van, listen to the sound recording of Stalin's speech.

The faces of the soldiers.

A rally of Soviet servicemen at the Victory Column on Bolshaya Zvezda Square in Berlin.

Panorama of one of the streets of Berlin with partially destroyed buildings.

Soviet officers pass by monuments to Prussian kings and generals.

View of one of the monuments, Soviet soldiers sitting at the foot of the monument.

View of the broken building of the Reichstag.

An officer sets a camera on a tripod in front of the Reichstag.

Officers approach the damaged statue in front of the Reichstag building, inspect it.

Soviet officers and soldiers read the inscriptions on one of the walls of the Reichstag.

Soldiers and officers talk to each other at the walls of the Reichstag.

Soviet soldiers and officers together with foreign war correspondents stand on the square at the Brandenburg Gate among the ruins, a view of the Brandenburg Gate (panorama).

The officer is taking photos.

Tankers pose, standing at the tank.

Soldiers and officers are photographed on a street in Berlin.

Soldiers at the foot of one of the monuments, a view of the monument.

Soldiers sit on the shoulders and heads of statues on the Avenue of Victories.

Soviet soldiers in the back of a departing truck.

A sign above the entrance to the Soviet military commandant's office of the Zehlendorf district in Berlin.

A sign at the entrance to the building of the Soviet military commandant's office in Berlin.

Officers enter the building of the commandant's office, a panorama of part of the building and the intersection.

Soldiers and officers enter a dilapidated building.

The commandant of Berlin, Colonel-General Gorbatov A.V., inspects the destruction on one of the streets of the city.

The face of Gorbatov, giving orders to his deputies.

The faces of the generals accompanying Gorbatov.

The Major General talks with the residents of Berlin.

The face of a major general.

Soviet officers on the streets of Berlin are talking to its residents.

One of the officers at the commandant's office explains to the Berliners the policy of the Soviet command in relation to civilians.

The faces of the officer and the Berliners listening to him.

View of one of the squares of Berlin with the surviving buildings.

The entrance to the metro on the square.

A woman with a suitcase and bundles comes out of the subway.

A patrol of the German People's Police on a street in Berlin.

Military traffic controller Lydia Spivak at the post on the square at the Brandenburg Gate regulates traffic and at the same time gives an interview about herself and her combat path (synchronously).

A broken German anti-aircraft gun in front of the destroyed Reichstag building in Berlin in May 1945.

View of the part of the Reichstag building damaged as a result of the assault by Soviet troops.

Statues of knights at the walls of the Reichstag.

Soviet tankman at the tank.

The faces of officers and soldiers walking in formation along one of the streets of Berlin past the broken building of the Reichstag.

Red Army units on the destroyed streets of Berlin.

A column of captured German soldiers moves along one of the streets of Berlin past a standing tank after the end of the fighting in May 1945.

Women with white armbands look at a passing column of German prisoners of war.

Soviet officers on one of the streets of Berlin look at German prisoners of war passing by them.

View of one of the columns of German prisoners of war passing through Berlin.

A burnt-out German military truck on the square near the Brandenburg Gate in May 1945.

View of the Brandenburg Gate, damaged during the storming of Berlin.

Panorama of the square with Soviet military equipment standing on it.

A broken German anti-aircraft gun in front of the destroyed Reichstag building in Berlin in May 1945.

View of the part of the Reichstag building damaged as a result of the assault by Soviet troops.

Soviet soldiers and officers dance on the square in front of the Reichstag in Berlin to the accompaniment of a military brass band.

The faces of Soviet officers in Berlin during the solemn formation after the end of hostilities in May 1945.

Tankers and infantrymen, sitting on the armor of a tank standing at the Victory Column, perform songs to the accompaniment of harmony, Lieutenant Goncharov makes a short speech in honor of the capture of Berlin (synchronously).

Soviet soldiers drink wine with Berlin girls and women on one of the streets of the city.

The face of one of the German girls.

Soviet soldiers drink wine with Berlin girls and women on one of the streets of the city.

The faces of Berlin residents talking to Soviet soldiers.