Liberation of Ukraine. The Unknown War №13 (1979)

Kiev.

Vladimirskaya Hill. B. Lancaster speaks (simultaneously in English).

The Dnieper River.

Newsreel - Moscow, the Moskva River embankment.

Moments of military action at the fronts - soldiers smoking, guns firing, tanks moving, planes flying.

German soldiers by the railroad, German tanks moving, German soldiers in the trenches.

German troops on the territory of Ukraine - a tank among sunflowers, guns firing, German soldiers and officers.

Field Marshal E. von Manstein gets into a car.

German mortars firing.

Battles for the liberation of Kharkov - Katyushas firing, planes flying, bombs falling, explosions, German soldiers running, shooting.

Soviet troops entering Kharkov.

Destroyed houses, tanks driving by, people waving their hands, Soviet soldiers being given flowers.

Fights for the liberation of Donbass - tanks are moving, Katyushas are firing, Soviet officers are at the map, guns are firing.

The inscription "Artemovsk" in German, soldiers are running, dead Germans.

Occupied Donbass - Donetsk mines, ruins, German soldiers are going down into the mine, lifting coal, carrying a mine cart with coal.

Germans are driving away cattle.

People are digging trenches.

German anti-aircraft guns are firing, a downed plane is falling. , ,

Newsreel - Soviet troops in the liberated Donbass: soldiers marching, a woman kissing a soldier, putting a wreath on a soldier, soldiers with children.

German retreat from the territory of Donbass - the Germans blow up a railroad, explosions in factory workshops, a shipyard in Nikolaev explodes, a house explodes, enterprises burn, ruins of factories, a destroyed bridge.

Bodies of dead miners are taken out of a mine, women cry near the dead.

Dead children.

A woman prays.

A priest performs a funeral service for the dead.

The advance of Soviet troops - guns are firing, tanks are driving, soldiers are marching.

Soviet military leaders - Zhukov, Vasilevsky, Konev, Malinovsky, Rokossovsky, Tolbukhin.

General Vatutin at an observation post.

Soviet tanks on the bank of the Dnieper.

Soviet troops force the Dnieper - crossing on boats and rafts, explosions on the water.

Airplanes drop bombs.

Wounded soldiers.

German guns, machine guns, tanks are firing.

Vatutin with officers at an observation post.

German planes are flying, explosions on the water.

Soldiers are running, German mortars are firing, shells are flying.

A nurse is bandaging a wounded man, a wounded man is drinking.

Soldiers are building a bridge, crossing the Dnieper, "Katyushas" are firing.

Newsreel - Military operations in the Kiev direction: tanks are advancing, soldiers are running, planes are flying, guns are firing, explosions.

German soldiers are on motorcycles, Germans are walking on water, a cart with Germans falls, Germans are running.

Soviet soldiers are running to attack.

The population of liberated Kyiv meets Soviet soldiers.

A destroyed city.

Babi Yar - people are standing by a ravine with the dead. B. Lancaster speaks at Babi Yar (simultaneously in English).

A monument to the fallen.

Streets of modern Kyiv, people are walking. V. Petrov, a participant in the crossing of the Dnieper, who lost both arms in the fighting, is walking down the street with his son. V. Petrov in his apartment. V. Petrov's manuscript, his diploma.

Newsreel - Marshal Zhukov and other military leaders are walking down a Kyiv street.

Zhukov is speaking from the podium, the people are applauding.

Festive fireworks in Moscow, in connection with the liberation of Kyiv.

Cavalry gallops, soldiers ride tanks.

Counteroffensive of German troops on the Kiev front - German tanks move, a German soldier smokes.

Soldiers in camouflage at a cannon, cars in a village, a house is burning.

Newsreel - Battles for Zhitomir: German mortars firing, burning buildings.

German soldiers in captured Zhitomir, German tanks and soldiers on the streets of the city, burning buildings, destroyed German equipment.

Soviet troops advance - guns firing, Germans in trenches.

Soviet tanks driving along the streets of liberated Zhitomir.

Liquidation of a fascist group in the Korsun-Shevchenkivskyi area - a German soldier looking through binoculars, guns firing, soldiers running, explosions, Soviet tanks advancing, battlefield, planes dropping bombs, destroyed German tanks, killed German soldiers.

Guns and Katyushas firing.

Soviet troops in liberated Ternopil.

The fighting of the Soviet troops for the liberation of Ukrainian cities - shooting, soldiers running, guns firing, tanks moving, burning buildings, destroyed streets, soldiers running out of the entrance of a house, dead Germans.

Soviet soldiers drag guns through the mud.

German soldiers walk through the mud, pushing stuck vehicles.

Destruction in the cities after the retreat of the Germans - ruins, burning grain, gallows, destroyed buildings.

People walk past a burning house.

Refugees returning to their homes - people pushing a cart with things, a woman stoking a stove in the street, a woman crying.

Newsreel - Restoration work in the regions of Ukraine liberated from occupation: people plough the land, sow grain, a boy walks behind a plough.

Men restore the railway, a train goes.

Work at the restored plant - steelmakers in the workshop, steel is poured.

The inscription on the mine cart "Donbass - to the front".

Children pass by with soldiers.

Storks fly.

The city of Romny.

Photograph of A. Derevskaya, who adopted 45 orphans during the war.

Photographs of A. Derevskaya's children.

Contemporary footage - the grave of A. Derevskaya, A. Derevskaya's children at her grave.

Newsreel - the offensive of Soviet troops on the territory of Ukraine: tanks are advancing, planes are flying, guns are firing, a soldier is feeding shells, Soviet soldiers are running to attack.

A nurse is providing assistance to a wounded man, wounded soldiers are passing by, getting into a car, a wounded man is lying.

Soviet troops on the bank of the Prut River near the state border of the USSR. Bell tower, the bell is ringing, soldiers are running across the bridge, cannons are firing.

Salute in Moscow.

Newsreel - Battles for the Liberation of Crimea: Soviet troops force the Kerch Strait: boats at sea, soldiers on a boat, German planes drop bombs, explosions on the water.

Soviet soldiers on the shore in trenches.

Soviet soldiers cross Lake Sivash - soldiers pull a cannon in the water, come ashore.

Germans in trenches.

A nurse bandages a wounded man.

The offensive of Soviet troops on the Crimean Peninsula in the spring of 1944 - tanks are advancing, soldiers are running, German soldiers are killed.

Sapun Mountain.

Members of the Soviet command.

Storming Sapun Mountain - cannons are firing, tanks are moving, soldiers are running up the mountain, a cannon is being rolled, soldiers are shooting.

Wounded soldiers are being carried, a nurse is bandaging a wounded man.

Soldiers are shooting on the streets of the city (Sevastopol?).

Planes are flying over the sea, bombing.

Columns of captured Germans are moving.

Soviet soldiers at roll call (synchronously).