Battle for the Caucasus. The Unknown War №9 (1979)

B. Lancaster speaks on the shore of Tsemes Bay (simultaneously in English).

Black Sea.

Newsreel - Meeting at Hitler's headquarters.

Anti-aircraft gunners at an oil rig, an aerostat is raised above the rig.

A column of German motorcyclists passes by, German troops are moving.

Map of the German offensive in the Caucasus.

Street fighting in Rostov-on-Don.

Caucasus Mountains, a village in the mountains.

A woman rings a bell.

Militiamen pass by.

Men say goodbye to their families.

A train with soldiers departs from the station.

Construction of defensive structures in the Caucasus, a blockage on a mountain road.

German troops cross the Don.

Soviet guns fire.

The commander reads out the order of the People's Commissar No. 227. The soldiers listen.

Moments of a tank battle.

Newsreel - Fighting on the city streets.

Ashes.

German soldiers pass by.

Oil is burning in Maykop.

German soldiers on vacation.

The population of the Caucasus at rallies.

The military and elders are listening.

The commander is speaking.

Alpine and motorized units of the German troops in the foothills of the Caucasus Range.

Residents of villages are leaving their homes.

Soviet units on the march in the mountains.

Soldiers are dragging guns, a horse loaded with shells falls.

German Alpine riflemen in the mountains.

A moment of fighting in the mountains.

The summit of Elbrus, a German flag on the summit.

The city of Novorossiysk.

Sunken ships in the bay.

Sailors abandon ship.

The sailors say goodbye, waving their caps.

The boat sets sail.

The lighthouse in Novorossiysk Bay.

German guns are firing.

A German kicks down a barn door.

A moment of fighting on the streets of Novorossiysk.

German soldiers retreat.

Destroyed city.

Soldiers are accepted into the party.

Photo - L. I. Brezhnev presents party cards.

Battle in the Tuapse region.

Front-line printing house in operation.

Newspapers in Georgian.

Soviet soldiers in a liberated Caucasian village.

An old Georgian and a girl are dancing, soldiers are laughing.

Exploded oil storage facilities are burning in Maykop.

Defense of the city of Ordzhonikidze - command post, General Tyulenev.

Militiamen receive weapons.

Inscription on the wall: "Not one step back." Katyusha rockets and artillery guns are firing.

Soviet tanks and infantry advance.

A wounded man's head is being bandaged.

Newsreel - Wartime Moscow.

Monument to Minin and Pozharsky, Kremlin.

Meeting dedicated to the 25th anniversary of October. I. V. Stalin speaks, participants of the meeting applaud.

Destroyed German equipment in the area of the city of Ordzhonikidze.

Counteroffensive of Soviet troops near Stalingrad.

Residents of Pyatigorsk return to the liberated city.

A pianist performs in the street.

Soldiers talk to residents.

Partisans return to their native places.

Destroyed factory.

Ditch with executed civilians, women cry.

Residents of Rostov-on-Don greet Soviet soldiers who liberated the city.

Hoisting of the Soviet flag on the top of Elbrus.

Soldiers and women listen to the gramophone.

Residents on the ashes.

People bake bread in the open air, a tractor drives past the burnt houses.

Sowing of grain.

Battles on the Kuban bridgehead.

Newsreel - Fighting on the approaches to Novorossiysk on the Malaya Zemlya bridgehead.

German air force planes bomb Malaya Zemlya.

German guns fire.

Soviet commanders pass by, including L. I. Brezhnev.

Photo of L. I. Brezhnev with commanders.

Artillery positions on Malaya Zemlya.

Soldiers drag boxes of shells along the trench, dig the earth.

Female signalers work.

Photographs of soldiers defending Malaya Zemlya.

April 20, 1943 - Celebration of Hitler's birthday at the Berlin Philharmonic.

The Battle of Kuban - moments of the air battle, burning German planes fall, Soviet planes fly.

Headquarters of the 18th Airborne Army, led by General Lesilidze.

Members of the headquarters pass by, get into a car.

Soviet tanks overcome the water line.

Residents of the liberated Krymskaya station greet Soviet soldiers.

German troops are preparing for an offensive in the Kuban region - the Germans are loading guns onto a barge, dragging a cart, a cannon, a train with soldiers is leaving.

Newsreel - Reconnaissance soldiers hand in their party cards and combat awards before leaving on a mission.

Anti-aircraft gunners and paratroopers on a ship.

Headquarters representatives Marshal Timoshenko and General Petrov.

General Leselidze with staff members.

Freeze frame: L. I. Brezhnev among staff members.

Soldiers on a break listening to an accordion player.

A barge with Soviet paratroopers goes to sea.

Anti-aircraft gunners prepare a gun.

Admiral Kholostyakov with a group of soldiers.

Storming of Novorossiysk - the commander gives the command "Fire!", long-range guns fire.

Burning city.

Soviet boats with troops in Tsemes Bay, landing of troops.

Moments of the battle.

Attack of Soviet soldiers.

Soldiers hoist the Soviet flag.

Sailors rejoice.

German soldiers surrender.

Destroyed German equipment, German fortifications in Novorossiysk.

Soviet troops enter liberated Novorossiysk.

Destroyed city.

Soviet tanks advance.

Traffic controller at the sign.

Newsreel - Soviet planes in the air.

German train on the approach tracks at the pier.

Soldiers loading a barge.

German soldiers loading the cradles of the suspension railway.

A German observer signals the alarm from the tower.

German planes dropping bombs.

German vehicles in a ditch by the road.

Soviet tanks attack.

Tanks enter a destroyed village, soldiers throw down a swastika.

German corpses in the water.

A wrecked German ship, destroyed barbed wire fences.

The population welcomes Soviet soldiers.

Photos of soldiers, commanders, political workers.

Photo - Brezhnev with commanders.

Seagulls.

Novorossiysk (from a moving boat).

Sailors on a boat. L. I. Brezhnev on a boat.

Panorama from the shore to the observer L. I. Brezhnev.

A line of sailors on the deck of a warship.

Lighthouse, ships.

Ships in Novorossiysk port.