Materials for the film "Marshal Rokossovsky" (1929-1966)

Views of buildings on Okhotny Ryad Street in Moscow in May 1941. People riding in a car.

Tankers standing by combat vehicles before the May Day parade.

Stalin I.V., Voroshilov K.E., Molotov V.M. on the mausoleum tribune.

People's Commissar of Defense of the USSR Timoshenko S.K. delivers a speech from the mausoleum tribune, Kalinin M.I. stands nearby.

Representatives of the high command in parade formation listen to Timoshenko's speech.

A radio operator in a dugout near a radio station during a communication session.

Panoramas of a part of the GUM publication with a slogan in honor of the 24th anniversary of the October Revolution.

Trucks with infantry drive along Red Square during a military parade on November 7, 1941. Artillery on automobile traction, gun crews in the back of trucks, a view of the mausoleum move along Red Square.

Panorama of the Kremlin wall and guest tribunes.

An air defense unit drives onto Red Square in trucks along Iversky Proezd.

Quadruple anti-aircraft machine gun mounts and mount crews drive along Red Square.

Stalin delivers a speech from the rostrum of the mausoleum.

Red Army soldiers in parade formation listen to Stalin's speech.

Trucks with infantry in the back drive along Red Square.

Stalin delivers a speech from the rostrum of the mausoleum.

A tank with a banner on its turret drives along Red Square.

Armored units drive past the mausoleum.

A woman carries a New Year's tree home on a street in Moscow.

A passenger car with Christmas trees on its roof.

A decorated New Year's tree is carried along the streets of Moscow in the back of a truck.

Red Army soldiers and commanders warm themselves by a fire at their positions.

Celebrating the New Year in one of the Red Army units at their positions near Moscow, Red Army soldiers dancing.

An accordionist plays, the Red Army soldiers applaud in time to the music.

A political worker delivers a speech in front of the formation in honor of the New Year and the development of a successful counteroffensive near Moscow, the Red Army soldiers listen to the political worker.

The Red Army soldiers applaud.

The face of one of the Red Army soldiers.

View of Red Square with a camouflaged mausoleum in October 1941. Transmission of messages at the front headquarters communications center.

Telegraph operators at work.

Residents of Moscow read the text of the State Defense Committee Resolution on the introduction of a state of siege in Moscow, which is red-hot on the walls of their buildings.

Text of the resolution.

Moscow workers enroll in the people's militia.

Militiamen are issued warm clothes, one of the militiamen tries on a quilted jacket.

Militiamen are issued weapons and grenades.

Construction of a defensive structure from sacks of earth on one of the streets of Moscow.

Machine-gun crews shoulder machine guns and machine guns removed from the machine guns.

Militiamen stand in formation, turn around, put their weapons on their belts, and begin to move.

A unit of the people's militia division marches along the streets of Moscow.

The position of an anti-aircraft gun on one of the streets of Moscow.

A sentry at the gun.

An observer on the roof of a building watches possible air targets through binoculars.

A sentry at a dugout on the front line.

A duty machine gunner in position.

An artillery spotter in a tree.

The fire control platoon commander transmits firing data by telephone.

Winter landscape, panorama of the front line.

Women chip away at the frozen ground during the construction of defensive fortifications on the streets of Moscow.

Residents of Moscow build defensive fortifications from bags of earth.

Trucks with towed anti-tank guns drive by.

People carry things to the barracks.

Views of the Moscow Kremlin.

A traffic controller on Red Square indicates the direction of movement to a rifle unit.

Generals during an operational meeting.

Sappers lay mines in the summer of 1942. Conducting political information at forward positions.

Installing antitank obstacles and barbed wire fences.

Views of tank factory workshops, the production process.

Manufacture of artillery ammunition.

Text of part of the Resolution of the Central Committee of the All-Union Communist Party (Bolsheviks) "On the organization of the struggle in the rear of enemy troops.

Tractors pass by, camouflaged by branches.

Hitler A. over a map during a report at headquarters.

Panorama of city blocks (above).

View of a railway bridge on the Soviet-German border at night in the summer of 1941. Sentry at the entrance to the bridge.

Giving a signal from a flare gun to begin the Wehrmacht offensive on the USSR. Columns of German troops march through Soviet territory.

German artillery fires at the locations of Soviet troops.

German tanks on the march.

An episode of a battle in a populated area on the western border of the USSR. A tank fires.

A German tank rams a brick fence.

German troops crossing the Bug, panorama of the eastern bank of the river.

Panorama of a field with burning Soviet tanks on it.

A burning Soviet tank on the side of the road.

German troops break into border settlements.

Panorama of a burning railway station captured by German troops, the station building is burning.

The courtyard of a burning village house.

German infantry on the offensive.

German soldiers in a captured village.

Bullets knock out chips on the wall of a barn.

A tank passes through a brick house.

German tanks on the march.

German infantry conducts combat operations, panorama of a burning village.

German artillerymen open fire.

Photographs of German soldiers and officers during combat operations.

German artillery open fire.

Officers and spotters at observation posts.

A stream from a flamethrower.

A tank passes by.

German soldiers pass by destroyed Soviet equipment.

Burning Soviet tanks.

View of a German supply column.

Knocked out and abandoned Soviet equipment and weapons on the roadsides.

Panorama of a destroyed and burning Soviet motorcade.

Episodes of the rout of an artillery column of the Red Army.

View of part of a destroyed Soviet pillbox.

Burnt trucks on the road.

German motorcyclists on the offensive.

Burning Soviet military equipment.

German armored vehicles on the march.

German infantry fighting, soldiers throwing grenades.

German soldiers near Moscow sorting through parcels with warm clothes collected in Germany, reading letters.

Soviet tanks and artillery pieces abandoned at railway stations.

Tractors and guns abandoned on the road.

Panorama of a railway junction bombed by the Germans, burnt carcasses of carriages.

Broken trains on the rails.

A Soviet rifle unit attacks with tank support in the fall of 1941. Soviet artillery fires at the enemy.

A Red Army ski battalion during the counteroffensive near Moscow in December 1941. Soviet troops attack one of the settlements.

Soviet troops are fighting near Moscow, machine gunners and artillerymen take up positions to fire.

Fighting in a village.

Corpses of civilians.

Crying women.

The crew of an anti-tank gun turns around from its wheels.

The artillery commander gives the command to open fire over the phone.

The artillerymen fire at the enemy.

Red Army soldiers approach the corpses of civilians tortured by the occupiers and take off their hats.

Fighting on the outskirts of a settlement in the Moscow region.

View of a destroyed building.

An icon in a burnt-out hut.

Panorama of a burning house.

The charred corpse of a civilian.

A Red Army soldier runs down the street during a fight.

Stiff, naked corpses in the entrance of a building.

Members of the commission investigating the crimes of the German occupiers take off their hats in front of the bodies of the dead.

The bodies of local residents killed by the Germans.

People mourn their dead relatives.

The faces of children and Red Army soldiers, the commander puts on his hat.

The bodies of civilians in the snow.

German soldiers surrender, climb out of cellars.

German prisoners of war walk to the assembly point with their hands raised.

Weapons and equipment abandoned by the Germans during their retreat.

Local residents meet and greet the returning partisans.

Residents of a city in the Moscow region greet passing tanks.

A meeting in a liberated village.

A Red Army soldier with a child in his arms.

The faces of the returning partisans and their relatives.

The text of the report in the Izvestia newspaper about the failure of the German offensive on Moscow, a portrait of Zhukov G.K. and Rokossovsky K.K. Fragment of the text of the order on the execution of cowards and panic-mongers signed by Rokossovsky.

Providing assistance to the wounded on the front line.

Evacuation of the wounded to field hospitals from the front line, a medical orderly wiping his face.

A boy in camouflage crawls through the snow.

Red Army soldiers run along a trench.

The face of an artillery commander.

Escorting German prisoners.

View of a column of German prisoners of war.

German prisoners of war being led to the rear.

Soviet tanks and artillery on the march.

Commander of the 16th Army K.K. Rokossovsky sets tasks for unit commanders at a command and observation post.

Attack of the Soviet cavalry.

Cavalry units during a raid on enemy rear areas.

Commanders with a map in their hands discuss a plan of further action.

Panorama of a populated area.

Reconnaissance tankers at the front line observe the enemy.

Tank commanders run to their vehicles.

Crews take their places in the tanks.

Tanks emerge from the forest.

German barbed wire entanglements.

Soviet tanks on the offensive.

Soviet tanks break into Volokolamsk.

Tanks on the streets of liberated Volokolamsk.

An artillery crew brings a gun into combat position at the edge of the forest.

A captured truck passes.

A rifle unit on the march.

Orthodox churches in Novo-Ierusalim and Istra destroyed by the German occupiers.

A sign above the entrance to the destroyed Moscow Regional Museum of Local History in Istra.

View of burning villages (above).

Panorama of part of the village destroyed by German troops, with the remains of stovepipes sticking out.

View of the destroyed Tchaikovsky House-Museum in Klin.

Furniture thrown out of the museum and a German motorcycle abandoned at the entrance.

A bust of Tchaikovsky and folders with scores thrown into the snow.

A museum employee picks up the bust, examines it, and carries it into the museum.

A motorcycle abandoned at the museum entrance.

Museum employees collect musical scores lying in the snow.

View of the railway bridge destroyed during the retreat.

View of part of the city captured by German troops and the surviving bridge across the river (above).

Echelon with German troops at the station, soldiers near passenger cars.

German soldiers crossing the border, Soviet border sign.

German unit crossing the bridge.

German cavalrymen leading horses by the reins.

German troops crossing the river in July 1941. View of a German tank column.

Map of offensive operations of German troops in Belarus.

German unit crossing the river.

Wehrmacht units advancing along the street of a populated area.

German armored vehicles on the march.

Map of the offensive on Smolensk.

Views of the destroyed building of the Station in Smolensk in October 1941. A Wehrmacht unit advances in dashes along one of the streets of Smolensk.

Episode of the battle for Smolensk.

View of part of a burning city block.

A burning car.

Remains of a concrete fortification.

German soldiers walk past a burning hut.

Burning cars at the entrance to a building in Smolensk.

Views of destroyed neighborhoods of Smolensk (above).

German troops are engaged in combat, a panorama of the battlefield, episodes of street fighting.

Unloading a train of horses and armored vehicles from a German echelon.

Assault artillery units are sent to the front lines.

German artillery fires at the enemy.

German infantry is engaged in street fighting, soldiers' faces before the attack.

Map of Smolensk coverage, German troops on the march.

Generals at a meeting at Hitler's headquarters.

Text of the directive with Hitler's signature.

German mechanics repair and service military equipment before the offensive on Moscow.

German soldiers smoke pipes.

A Soviet echelon with factory equipment goes East.

Broken and burning German echelons.

View of a burning railway junction.

Soviet artillerymen bring ammunition to a final state of readiness.

Front-line printing house in the forest.

Aircraft mechanic hangs a bomb under the wing of a secular bomber.

German troops on the offensive.

German convoy passes by a burning Soviet tank on the side of the road.

German infantry on the march, boots of German soldiers.

German tank columns move along the roads.

German fighters fly.

German soldiers during a pass in a winter forest.

Panorama of a winter forest.

Soldiers bathe in an ice hole and rub themselves with snow.

Front-line variety show performers in bathing suits roll in the snow.

A soldier puts on insulated camouflage uniform.

Commander of the 4-1 Army of the Western Front Rokossovsky K.K. at headquarters during the development of the plan of operations for the defense of Smolensk and Yartsevo in July 1941. Map of the front line in the Smolensk area, portraits of the commanders of the armies holding the front.

Panorama and views of the battlefield during the counterattack of the Soviet troops, Marshal of the Soviet Union Timoshenko S.K. observes the progress of hostilities.

A machine-gun crew fires at the enemy.

A Soviet motorcade on the march.

A Soviet light tank breaks into Volokolamsk during the counteroffensive near Moscow in December 1941. Soviet artillerymen and infantry during hostilities.

A signalman in a dugout at a telegraph apparatus.

A motorcyclist-messenger sets off.

German soldiers before the rush.

A Soviet troop train passes a station.

Trucks on platforms.

Artillery limbers on railway platforms.

Artillery firing at the enemy.

Soviet and German troops are engaged in combat.

A Soviet heavy artillery unit is firing.

Refugees are passing by destroyed houses.

Refugees are walking along the road.

A Soviet rifle unit is in combat.

A horse artillery unit is marching to the front line.

A tank with troops on its armor is passing by.

Soviet infantry is advancing with tank support.

Soviet troops are in position.

German officers are at an observation post.

Red Army soldiers are disembarking from rubber boats.

A truck is approaching a fording crossing.

A heavy artillery piece is on the march.

Soviet tanks are counterattacking.

I-16 fighters are flying on a combat mission.

Soviet and German units are on the march.

Photos of Soviet artillerymen and snipers.

Soviet troops are engaged in combat, episodes of the battles.

The commanders of the armies of the Don Front during an operational conference in September-November 1942, including the commander of the 16th Air Army, Major General Rudenko S.I., member of the Military Council of the Front, Major General Telegin K.F. and the commander of the Front Rokossovsky K.K. Workers of Moscow enterprises enlist in the people's militia in October 1941. Women wave their hands at the Red Army soldiers driving in a truck through a populated area liberated during the counteroffensive near Moscow.

Tankers in a captured German armored car.

The trucks skid in the spring mud.

A tank drives through the forest.

A Soviet artillery crew opens fire.

Soviet tanks on the offensive during the Kharkov operation of 1942. View from the tank's observation slit.

German tanks open fire, view from the observation slit.

Combat operations of the Soviet troops, anti-aircraft artillery firing, faces of the anti-aircraft gun crew.

Downed German planes falling.

Bringing heavy guns into combat readiness.

Soviet artillery firing at the enemy during the offensive near Stalingrad, Rokossovsky at an observation post.

Tanks with infantry on armor during the offensive.

Cavalry takes a populated area.

Soviet troops on the march.

Anti-aircraft machine gun firing at an air target.

Oil spilled along the Volga burns in the summer of 1942. The face of the pilot of a German bomber.

Falling bombs.

Panorama of burning Stalingrad (above).

German pilot at the controls.

Troops advancing between the hills.

Rokossovsky and Telegin at an observation post (photograph).

German troops attack a populated area in the summer of 1942. Soviet artillery firing at the enemy, tanks during the offensive near Stalingrad.

German bombers are flying, anti-aircraft artillery is firing, downed German planes are falling.

View of the battlefield.

The command of the Don Front led by Rokossovsky.

Soviet troops are fighting in the streets of Stalingrad.

Fighting in the workshops of the Stalingrad Tractor Plant, Soviet infantry is moving forward.

A machine gunner takes up a position in the ruins, episodes of street fighting.

Soviet envoys are leaving for negotiations, waving a white flag.

A bugler sounds a signal.

The envoys are moving toward the enemy line.

The dial of a wristwatch.

The surrender of a Wehrmacht unit near Stalingrad.

The unification of troops of the Southwestern and Stalingrad Fronts in the Kalach area on November 23, 1942. Red Army soldiers and commanders embrace each other.

Soviet artillery is firing at the encircled German group.

A tank with a red banner on a street in Stalingrad.

Surrendering German soldiers exit the building with a white flag and raised hands.

An elderly woman cries near the ashes.

Military medics lead a crying girl by the arms.

People near destroyed houses.

A Red Army soldier repairs watches for local residents.

Red Army soldiers drink tea from a samovar.

A pilot from the Alexander Nevsky squadron accepts a gift from collective farmers and climbs into the plane.

Rokossovsky and members of the front headquarters accept gifts from collective farmers.

Boxes with gifts are brought to headquarters.

Kalinin M.I. presents awards to the military in the Kremlin.

Rokossovsky during the awards ceremony.

Night artillery preparation, rocket mortars firing.

Tank crews take their places in combat vehicles.

The tanks move off.

Commander of the Central Front K.K. Rokossovsky and Chief of Staff of the Front M.S. Malinin monitor the progress of military operations at an observation post during the Battle of Kursk in July 1943. Tanks begin their attack at dawn.

View of the battlefield (top).

Tanks attack, Soviet planes fly over.

View of a burning hut from the driver's hatch.

Explosion of a farm building.

A tank unit on the march.

Rokossovsky, Malinin, General Telegin and members of the Central Front headquarters discuss and analyze the current combat situation at an observation post; Rokossovsky gives orders to the commanders of armies and branches of the armed forces.

Malinin among the generals at an observation post.

The generals monitor the progress of military operations.

Smoke from exploding shells on the horizon.

Rokossovsky lights a cigarette.

Rokossovsky with the rank of Marshal of the Soviet Union during Operation Bagration in June 1944. Rokossovsky with staff officers and the commander of the front's aviation at the command and observation post inspect a sample of a German artillery round, inspect captured armored vehicles, among the generals Telegin and Malinin.

Rokossovsky examines a German combat vehicle, asks questions.

Rokossovsky's face.

Rokossovsky and members of the Central Front staff sit on chairs on the edge of the forest before the start of a photo shoot.

A Red Army unit marches through the streets of cities liberated during the Battle of Kursk, the population greets the Red Army soldiers.

Local residents present the tankers with bread and salt and hug them.

An open-air feast in honor of the Red Army officers.

The face of an elderly woman from a liberated village.

A girl picks flowers, a panorama of destroyed city buildings.

Old people and children left homeless sit on the side of the road.

Map of the front line in the Gomel area.

Soviet troops are fighting for Gomel.

Panorama of a destroyed city block.

German prisoners of war walk past the ruins.

Faces of partisans in a winter forest.

Meeting of partisan commanders.

Rokossovsky, Telegin and officers during a banquet in a saloon car.

Rokossovsky and members of the Central Front headquarters at a field airfield.

An airplane flies over the airfield.

Soviet bombers in flight.

Bombs exploding in enemy territory.

Tanks with troops on their armor before the attack.

Light tanks attack.

Infantry advances along a trench to attack.

Attacking Red Army soldiers run past a burning German tank.

Tanks move off.

The face of Marshal I.S. Konev.

Rokossovsky and members of the front headquarters greet guests from the rear at the entrance to the headquarters.

An artillery crew loads a howitzer.

A gun crew fires at the enemy on the street of a Polish city, a panorama of a burning building.

Soviet tanks on the streets of liberated Polish cities in the summer of 1944, people greeting Soviet troops.

Columns of Soviet troops cross a bridge.

A car with red banners drives by.

Faces of people greeting Soviet soldiers.

Units of the 1st Polish Army and detachments of Polish partisans march along the streets of the city, city residents greet them.

City residents greet the army commander General Bevzyuk V. driving by in a car.

Children bring flowers to the Minister of Defense of Poland Rokossovsky K.K. in 1949. Rokossovsky signs autographs.

Participants in the May Day demonstration in Poland carry portraits of Rokossovsky.

Views of the demonstration, construction equipment drives by.

A meeting of fighters of the 1st Polish Army on the streets of a liberated Polish city in the summer of 1944. Soldiers are given flowers.

One of the officers talks to a local resident.

Refugees are returning home, trucks with soldiers drive past them.

Refugees walking along the road.

Zhukov G.K. speaks from the rostrum during a ceremonial meeting.

View of the presidium, Rokossovsky in the uniform of the Polish Army applauds, standing in the presidium, among the members of the presidium is Berut B. The honor guard company of the Polish army in formation, Rokossovsky's arrival at the military unit.

Rokossovsky inspects the formation.

Rokossovsky and the Prime Minister of Poland Yu.

Cyrankiewicz among children.

Rokossovsky drinks from a glass during a ceremonial event.

Rokossovsky talks to Cyrankiewicz.

Commander of the Northern Group of Forces Rokossovsky on the rostrum accepts the parade of the Polish Army units in Legnica in 1945-1946. A tank passes by, a woman throws a bouquet of flowers on its armor.

Artillery units at the parade.

Rocket launchers and heavy guns pass by.

Residents of liberated Polish cities greet Soviet troops, tanks pass through the streets.

People greet soldiers of the 1st Polish Army.

Rokossovsky reviews a joint parade of units of the Polish Army and the Red Army in Legnica.

Polish and Soviet rifle units pass by, people greet them.

A girl presents Rokossovsky with flowers.

Rokossovsky and Polish leaders greet the passing troops from the tribune.

Rokossovsky, Soviet and Polish soldiers on the tribune during the parade.

Faces of the participants in the ceremonial event, troops pass in front of the tribune.

Views and panorama of part of the ceremonial event.

Views of the street and adjacent blocks during the parade (from above).

Laying flowers at the monument to those killed in the fight against the German occupiers.

Flowers and wreaths at the pedestal of the monument.

View of the monument after the laying of wreaths.

Views of the ceremonial event.

Rokossovsky, Soviet and Polish officers in the places for honored guests during one of the ceremonial events.

Representatives of the allied forces in the places for honored guests.

Polish soldiers stand in formation.

Faces of soldiers.

Leaders of the city party organization stand with a red banner.

Broken equipment thrown into the river.

German armored cars are moving.

Wehrmacht units on the roads of Poland in September 1939, a motorcyclist unit is moving along a forest road.

Surrender of Polish soldiers and officers, officers hand over their personal weapons.

Search of captured Polish soldiers.

Columns of Polish prisoners of war are moving.

A column of Warsaw residents is driven to the ghetto.

View of part of the Warsaw ghetto.

A column of prisoners after unloading from a train.

Boots of walking Polish prisoners.

Loading of Jews onto trains to be sent to concentration camps.

Views of the train station with people herded into it (from above).

Faces of soldiers of the 1st Polish Kosciuszko Division.

A political worker speaks to soldiers in May 1943 near Ryazan.

The swearing-in ceremony of the division's personnel, the ceremonial carrying out of the banner.

Parade of division units, infantry and tanks pass by.

Soviet and Polish units on the march to Smolensk.

Zhukov G.K. at the field command post listens to a report on the operational situation.

Rocket mortars at a firing position before opening fire.

View of part of the battlefield through the observation slit of a dugout.

View of part of Warsaw during the uprising in August-September 1944. Collapse of Warsaw buildings, German armored vehicles on the streets of the city among the ruins.

Street fighting during the Warsaw Uprising, carrying out the wounded on stretchers.

Bombing of Warsaw from the air, punitive units burn the city.

Capitulation of the uprising leaders.

The commander of the insurgents, Colonel Bur-Komorowski T. sits in a car after the capitulation.

Views of the destroyed neighborhoods of Warsaw (top), the face of a German pilot.

A man carries the body of a dead teenager out of the ruins in Warsaw.

The faces of children.

Fires in Warsaw, punitive forces burn city blocks.

Rebels conduct military operations.

Soviet motorcades during a night march to Warsaw.

Soviet troops conduct offensive military operations in Poland in the summer of 1944. Forcing water obstacles.

Local residents deliver watercraft to ferry Red Army units across the river.

A column of carts with wooden boats for the Red Army moves along the street of a populated area in Poland.

Polish soldiers and partisans in the back of a truck.

Rokossovsky K.K. and members of the front headquarters planning the next operation.

Zhukov G.K. and Rokossovsky K.K., accompanied by officers and generals, go to the field command post.

Zhukov and Rokossovsky discuss the details of the upcoming operation.

The faces of the generals.

Rokossovsky talks with the generals.

Rokossovsky's face.

A rifle unit of the Red Army on tracked tractors advances to the attack line.

The soldiers jump off the vehicles and take up combat positions.

A rifle unit during an attack.

Mortar men take up a firing position.

The attacking infantry, riflemen, and machine gunners fire.

The machine-gun crew changes position.

Artillerymen fire on the street of a Polish city in the summer of 1944. Attacking cavalry units.

Soviet infantry fords a water obstacle.

A Red Army soldier drinks water from a helmet.

Machine gunners in camouflage begin to ford the river.

View of log flooring.

Delivery of logs for the construction of crossings.

Trucks get stuck in the spring mud.

Red Army soldiers pull trucks out of the mud with ropes.

Trucks stuck on the roads due to the spring thaw.

Soldiers dig out the track with shovels.

Pulling cars out of the mud.

Trucks on spring front roads.

Artillerymen unloading ammunition.

Installing shell caps near a gun.

An artillery commander receives target designations by telephone.

An officer at a stereoscopic telescope.

Artillery and tanks during street fighting.

Soviet troops fight in urban conditions.

Burning and destroyed neighborhoods of one of the Polish cities.

A Polish artillery officer gives the command to open fire.

A Polish artillery crew opens fire.

A meeting of soldiers of the 1st Polish Army in one of the Polish cities.

Local residents near a tank.

A local government representative talks with a Soviet officer.

Residents of a Polish city greet passing troops.

Local residents read newspapers and leaflets of the Lublin government.

A self-propelled artillery unit passes by.

Residents of a Polish city greet a Soviet soldier.

Local residents greet the army commander Bevzyuk V. Residents of Polish cities greet passing Polish and Soviet units.

Providing medical care to the wounded.

Locals treat Soviet soldiers to local food.

A Soviet motorcade moves west past a column of returning refugees.

Warsaw residents clear away rubble after the city's liberation in January 1945. People ride in a horse-drawn trailer.

Views of Warsaw's ruins.

Faces of liberated concentration camp prisoners.

A medical examination of a child liberated from a concentration camp.

A medical orderly bandages a wounded soldier and helps him crawl to the rear.

A column of German prisoners of war marches along the street of a Polish city under escort.

Capture of German soldiers on the shores of the Baltic Sea in the summer of 1944. Attack of the Soviet cavalry and infantry.

Soviet troops on the streets of cities in Poland and Germany in early 1945. Advancement of Soviet units through a populated area.

Panorama of the central part of the city (top).

Photograph of tactical exercises on a terrain model with senior officers.

Photographs of soldiers in trenches and a moving tank column.

Tanks on the outskirts of a populated area.

A tank reaches the shore of the Baltic Sea.

Soviet units reach the shores of the Baltic.

A red flag on a sand dune on the shores of the Baltic.

Soviet soldiers take Germans prisoner on the shores of the Baltic Sea.

Soviet soldiers run up to the edge of the seashore, salute in the air, and wash themselves with sea water.

Tankers wash their faces and fill their mess tins with sea water.

A cavalry unit marches along the seashore.

Views of Konigsberg.

Commanders at an observation post.

Artillery firing.

Street fighting in Eastern Pomerania in April 1945. Tanks and artillery firing on the city streets.

Fires in the city, view of a burning building.

Generals and officers at the command post.

View of a railway junction (above).

Soviet troops fighting in the streets.

Photographs of combat operations by Soviet troops during the East Pomeranian Operation.

Photographs of columns of German prisoners of war.

Forcing a water obstacle in amphibious vehicles, tanks forcing rivers with troops on their armor.

Panorama of the firing position of an artillery battery firing at the enemy, view of a river being forced.

Amphibians with troops driving ashore, landing of troops from amphibians.

A machine gunner firing.

The landing party rushes into the attack.

The body of a German soldier.

An artillery battery fires.

Units of the 1st Polish Army entering Warsaw in January 1945. A heavy artillery crew on the streets of the city.

A poster warning against entry in German and Polish.

Polish units passing the ruins of Warsaw.

The Polish national flag hoisted over Warsaw, a panorama of a destroyed block.

Units of the 1st Polish Army on the streets of Warsaw.

A panorama of a part of a burning block.

Views of destroyed buildings and blocks of Warsaw.

Burning ruins.

Panorama of a square with destroyed buildings.

Views of destroyed Warsaw.

Soviet and Polish officers near a statue toppled from its pedestal.

A view of a part of the square, a sign in German with the name "Adolf Hitler Square".

A destroyed tram car with the inscription "For Germans only".

Fragments of the surviving statues.

The pedestal of the destroyed monument.

The walls of the destroyed Frederic Chopin Museum, a memorial plaque on the wall.

A surviving bas-relief depicting Chopin.

A homeless man sits on a pile of broken bricks.

A man's face.

People descending through the ruins.

A panorama of a completely destroyed Warsaw quarter.

A surviving damaged statue.

A parade of units of the 1st Polish Army in liberated Warsaw.

A panorama of a destroyed quarter.

A Polish soldier talks to a woman on the street.

Refugees returning to their quarters.

Views of destroyed Warsaw (from above).

A unit of the 1st Polish Army marches past the ruins along the street with an orchestra and banners.

A view of a section of a destroyed railway bridge, a chain of people in the distance crossing a river on the ice.

Refugees returning home, crossing bridges.

Returning refugees climb out of boats onto the shore.

A boat with people on board floats under the span of a damaged bridge.

Restoration of a destroyed railway bridge.

Dismantling damaged metal structures.

A view of a section of a bridge under repair.

A view of a restored industrial enterprise.

Welding and delivery of large-sized metal structures.

View of a road bridge across a river.

The bridge is collapsing under the pressure of ice drift.

Factory chimneys are smoking.

Polish military engineers inspect one of the destroyed bridges to determine the scale of restoration work.

Panorama of a destroyed railway bridge frozen into the ice.

Bridge debris in the water.

Abandoned field kitchens.

Sketch of a new bridge.

View of a restored bridge.

People riding in the back of a truck.

Women at a pharmacy kiosk in a tram car among the ruins.

Workers unload new equipment.

Panorama of Warsaw Station during restoration work.

Repair of tram cars.

Restoration of equipment of a destroyed workshop.

Soviet and Polish military engineers hold a working meeting.

Construction of new one-story houses for workers.

Manual unloading of a grain car.

Repair of telephone exchange equipment.

A Soviet soldier helps restore the telephone exchange.

People read a newspaper on a stand.

Text of an article about providing land to peasants.

Presentation of land titles to peasants in September 1944. Land plots being marked out.

View of a restored industrial enterprise, armed workers at their posts.

May Day demonstration in Warsaw.

Polish Defence Minister K.K. Rokossovsky speaks to an elderly woman on the platform. G.K. Zhukov and Rokossovsky among Polish officers before the award ceremony.

Zhukov and Rokossovsky shake hands with Polish party and state leaders.

The ceremony of awarding Zhukov and Rokossovsky with the Polish order "Virtuti militari", presentation of boxes with awards and order ribbons over the shoulder.

Polish President B. Bierut next to Rokossovsky.

Rokossovsky, Bierut and Zhukov, accompanied by Polish leaders, leave the palace after the award ceremony, walk along the red carpet.

The honor guard company of the Polish Army at the train station.

Rokossovsky is met at the train station in 1949. Rokossovsky shakes hands with the Polish generals and officers who are meeting him.

Rokossovsky and his entourage inspect the honor guard company.

Rokossovsky lays flowers at the monument.

Rokossovsky and his entourage inspect a district of Warsaw being cleared of rubble.

Restoration work in districts of Warsaw.

Rokossovsky talks to the mayor of Warsaw, listens to an officer explaining the restoration work.

Rokossovsky and his entourage at one of the construction sites.

Rokossovsky thanks the work manager and shakes his hand.

A British military band on a square in Berlin, the national flags of the USSR and Great Britain on flagpoles.

A unit of the British Army on the square near the Brandenburg Gate in the summer of 1945. Field Marshal Montgomery B. talks with Zhukov G.K. and Rokossovsky K.K. Montgomery presents Rokossovsky and Zhukov with the Knight's Order of the Bath.

Montgomery, Zhukov, British and Soviet soldiers on the platform greet the British troops passing in parade formation.

Montgomery, Zhukov, Rokossovsky descend from the platform.

Montgomery among the British soldiers.

Rokossovsky and Montgomery greet each other during another meeting.

Rokossovsky and Montgomery talk to each other.

Rokossovsky holds a portrait of Montgomery that was given to him.

Rokossovsky's motorcade arrives at Montgomery's headquarters.

Rokossovsky and Montgomery greet each other.

Montgomery's face, Rokossovsky and Montgomery talking.

British and Soviet soldiers on the porch of the villa, Rokossovsky and Montgomery talking.

Rokossovsky and Montgomery during the welcoming ceremony, the honor guard company marching in formation.

Faces of the Soviet soldiers who arrived with Rokossovsky.

Soviet and British soldiers at the table during the ceremonial banquet.

British security officers at the entrance to the villa.

A cameraman films the British honor guard company.

The British unit marches to the barracks, a cameraman with a camera.

Rokossovsky, Montgomery and their entourage go outside after the banquet.

Rokossovsky's farewell, farewell to Montgomery.

Photos of Rokossovsky with Montgomery.

Rokossovsky's farewell to Montgomery, Montgomery's face.

Rokossovsky and Montgomery chat as they walk during another meeting.

Photos of Rokossovsky during meetings with Montgomery.

Soviet and British soldiers and officers shake hands.

Montgomery sees off Rokossovsky's motorcade.

The motorcade passes the British honor guard company.

British troop posts along the motorcade's route.

Rokossovsky's motorcade travels along the roads of Germany.

Meetings of Soviet, American, and British soldiers on the contact lines in occupied Germany.

A joint march of the allies with the flags of the three powers.

General Patton shakes hands with a Soviet general.

The Bolshoi Theater building in Moscow, camouflaged from air raids, October 1941. Barrage balloons move into position along Gorky Street.

Muscovites building defensive structures.

One of the combined regiments marches past the mausoleum on Red Square during the Victory Parade on June 24, 1945. Rokossovsky greets the passing troops from the rostrum.

Military leaders on the mausoleum rostrum, including L.A. Govorov and I.S. Konev.

Rokossovsky greets the passing troops from the mausoleum rostrum, panorama to the left of I.V. Stalin.

Stalin and Rokossovsky greet the troops from the mausoleum rostrum.

The Battalion of Captured Banners marches across Red Square.

Soldiers throw captured German banners at the foot of the mausoleum.

Captured German banners thrown at the foot of the mausoleum.

The clock on the Spasskaya Tower shows 10:00. Victory Parade Commander Zhukov rides up to Rokossovsky and receives a report.

Panorama of Red Square during Zhukov and Rokossovsky's inspection of the troops.

View of part of the parade formation (top).

Zhukov and Rokossovsky ride around the troops lined up for the parade.

Rokossovsky delivers a speech from the Mausoleum tribune.

Panorama of Red Square with troops lined up for the parade (top).

Rokossovsky delivers a speech from the tribune, with N.M. Shvernik and L.M. Kaganovich standing nearby.

Artillery salute.

Parade participants shout "Hurray".

Stalin on the Mausoleum tribune.

Rokossovsky and Stalin greet the troops while standing on the Mausoleum tribune.

Victory Parade participants in formation.

Zhukov greets the troops during the inspection of the parade formation.

Parade participants shout "Hurray".

A Red Army soldier in a trench observes the enemy during military operations in the Far East in 1929. Commanders observe the enemy from a trench.

Horse riding and vine cutting exercises in one of the cavalry units of the Red Army.

A bugler gives a signal.

Parade of units of the Special Far Eastern Red Banner Army.

Red Army soldiers in formation throw their hats into the air.

A rifle unit in position on one of the hills.

Completed items of Rokossovsky's questionnaire.

Fragment of the 1920 order awarding Rokossovsky the Order of the Red Banner.

Marshal of the Soviet Union M.N. Tukhachevsky during maneuvers in Belarus in September 1936. Photograph of soldiers and commanders of the 5th Cavalry Division, which Rokossovsky commanded in 1919-1920. Cover and pages of Rokossovsky's personal file.

Tukhachevsky observes troop actions through binoculars during maneuvers in Belarus in 1936. Infantry attacks a simulated enemy with tank support.

A signalman in a dugout transmits commands by telephone.

Marshal of the Soviet Union Timoshenko S.K. camouflages himself with spruce branches at an observation post during maneuvers in 1940. Signalmen at a communications center.

The offensive of Soviet troops during the Great Patriotic War.

Text of the telegram about Rokossovsky's dismissal from the ranks of the Red Army in 1937. Timoshenko at his desk in his office.

Text of the party character reference for Rokossovsky, signed by Timoshenko in 1940. Marshals of the Soviet Union Zhukov G.K. and Rokossovsky K.K. discuss a plan for an upcoming operation in the fall of 1944 at a frontline command post.

Rokossovsky greets the officers of the headquarters of the 1st Belorussian Front.

Rokossovsky in a trench studying the operational situation on a map during the Battle of Kursk.

Tanks attack in winter conditions.

Rokossovsky's face.

Red Army heavy artillery fires at the enemy.

A photograph of the ruins of a city block.

Rokossovsky's portrait.

An armored personnel carrier drives along the street of a burning city.

The text of Rokossovsky's order on the conditional sentence of a Red Army soldier by a military tribunal.

Photographs of Rokossovsky at different periods of his life.

Documents on Rokossovsky's appointments, handwritten texts of orders signed by him, a portrait of Rokossovsky.

Photographs of Rokossovsky from 1940-1941. Commander of the 9th Mechanized Corps, Major General Rokossovsky during exercises.

Rokossovsky and members of the corps headquarters greet the armor-piercing units passing in front of them.

The faces of Red Army soldiers passing by.

Ceremony of presenting the battle flag to one of the corps units in June 1941. A rifle unit with the flag in front begins to move.

Faces of Red Army soldiers standing in formation.

Rokossovsky and members of the 9th Mechanized Corps headquarters greet passing rifle units of the corps.

Presentation of awards and valuable gifts to soldiers and commanders of the corps who distinguished themselves during maneuvers.

Rokossovsky and members of the corps headquarters applaud.

Rokossovsky and Montgomery inspect the British honor guard company in 1945. Polish Defense Minister Rokossovsky talks to local residents during an inspection tour in 1949-1950. Central Front Commander Rokossovsky watches the progress of hostilities through binoculars at a command observation post during the Battle of Kursk in July 1943, with K.F. Telegin, a member of the Front Military Council, standing behind him.

Rokossovsky and Telegin discuss the progress of hostilities.

Rokossovsky among the officers of the Central Front headquarters.

Rokossovsky and Zhukov discuss the plan for the upcoming operation in September 1944, Rokossovsky's face in profile.

Rokossovsky at the Front headquarters discusses plans for operations to liberate Belarus.

Photos of Rokossovsky with members of his family in different years.

Commander of the Central Front K.K. Rokossovsky discusses the progress of military operations during the Battle of Kursk with the front headquarters officers, standing nearby is Member of the Front Military Council K.F. Telegin.

Rokossovsky in the Kremlin after being awarded the Order of Kutuzov in August 1943. Rokossovsky with officers of the Central Front headquarters.

Rokossovsky smokes a cigarette.

Rokossovsky, P.K. Ponomarenko, M.S. Malinin during the Battle of Moscow, photographs of Rokossovsky.

Photograph of Rokossovsky during the Victory Parade.

Rokossovsky on the presidium of the ceremonial meeting in the Knee Hall of the House of Unions in the early 1960s.

Faces of the meeting participants.

Views of the meeting hall.

The crew of a Polish submarine, lined up on the deck, greets the Minister of Defense of Poland K.K. Rokossovsky.

A boat with Rokossovsky on board inspects warships of the Polish Navy in 1949-1950. A boat moored alongside a ship.

Rokossovsky and Polish President Bierut B. walk along the line of sailors on the deck of the ship.

View of one of the warships of the Polish Navy.

Bierut and Rokossovsky at the side of the ship.

Seascape with warships on the horizon.

Photos of Rokossovsky during his time as Minister of Defense of Poland.

Polish armored vehicles during a parade, city residents greeting the troops.

A Polish military bugler climbs the bell tower and gives a signal.

Panorama of the central part of a Polish city.

Rokossovsky in a car drives up to the town hall.

Schoolchildren run to greet Rokossovsky.

Rokossovsky, Bierut, Bulganin N.A. and their entourage walk along the city square in June 1955. People greet the distinguished guests from their windows.

Rokossovsky, Bierut, Bulganin and their entourage walk along the streets, responding to greetings from local residents.

Awards on one of the Polish battle flags.

Rokossovsky is greeted at the Warsaw train station in 1949. Bierut, Rokossovsky and Cyrankiewicz J. among Polish youth.

Rokossovsky and Cyrankiewicz drop ballots into a ballot box during the elections to Polish government bodies.

Bierut, Rokossovsky and Cyrankiewicz during a meeting with Polish pioneers and schoolchildren.

Assembly of Warszawa cars at the Warsaw Automobile Plant in the presence of a delegation of Czechoslovak miners in 1951. Representatives of the delegation get into a new car and leave the workshop.

View of part of one of the plant buildings.

Bierut and Cyrankiewicz during a ceremonial reception in 1954. May Day demonstration in Warsaw.

Rokossovsky on the platform talking to an elderly woman.

Rokossovsky and Cyrankiewicz during a formal reception.

Guests rock Cyrankiewicz.

Rokossovsky dancing with women during the reception, dancing couples.

Portrait of Rokossovsky.

Faces of the reception participants.

Rokossovsky talking to a major general, sharing his memories of his participation in the military actions near Moscow, Rokossovsky's face.

Portrait of K.K. Rokossovsky in uniform with the insignia of lieutenant general.

Photograph of the area in the Velikiye Luki region, where, according to the questionnaire, Rokossovsky was born (photo panorama).

Rokossovsky at his dacha talks to a major general, shares his memories, view of part of the dacha, the face of Rokossovsky giving an interview.

Rokossovsky delivers a speech at a rally on the occasion of the burial of the remains of the Unknown Soldier in a grave near the Kremlin wall on December 2, 1966, with N.V. Podgorny standing nearby.

View of the rally rostrum at the entrance to the Alexander Garden.

View of part of the rally.

Rokossovsky finishes his speech.

Rokossovsky among those carrying the coffin with the remains of the Unknown Soldier for burial in the grave, faces of Suvorov cadets and naval sailors standing in formation.

The face of a woman.

Photographs of Rokossovsky during an interview on the set of a film.

Rokossovsky being met at the Warsaw train station in 1949. Rokossovsky shakes hands with generals and officers.

Rokossovsky walks along the line of the honor guard company.

Commander of the Northern Group of Forces Rokossovsky during a parade of Soviet and Polish military units in the summer of 1945. A Red Army unit passes in front of the tribune.

A Polish military unit passes by (top).

Rokossovsky on the guest tribune.

View of the meeting hall of the Polish People's Sejm (top) in 1949. Rokossovsky takes his seat in the box before the meeting.

Polish President Bierut B. greets the Sejm deputies.

View of the meeting hall (top).

Rokossovsky takes his seat and signs the document presented to him.

The Chairman of the Sejm opens the meeting.

The deputies applaud.

Texts of reports in Polish newspapers about Rokossovsky's appointment as Minister of Defense of Poland.

Rokossovsky at the front in the summer of 1944. Rokossovsky greets the troops while standing on the Mausoleum tribune during the Victory Parade on June 24, 1945.

Views of the ruined forts of the Brest Fortress, with trains passing by the forts.

One of the underground corridors of the fortress.

Entrance to one of the gun casemates.

Interior view of a ruined casemate.

View of part of the ruined fort, with trees growing through the ruins.

Steps leading to one of the gun casemates.

A surviving wall overgrown with moss.

View of part of the railway line next to the fortress.

The light of a lantern in one of the basements.

The Kholm Gate of the Brest Fortress.

Ruined underground structures.

Grass grows through a soldier's punctured helmet.

Hitler and Mussolini during a visit to the Brest Fortress on August 26, 1941. An inscription on the wall of the Brest Fortress, left by one of its defenders.

Underground corridors and communication passages in the Brest Fortress.

View of a gun platform on one of the ruined forts of the fortress, with a train passing by.

Arrival of the train with the British delegation at the Belorussky railway station in Moscow in December 1941. The guard of honour company in formation on the platform.

Molotov V.M. and Maisky I.M. walk along the platform.

British Foreign Secretary A. Eden exits the carriage.

The face of a Red Army soldier from the guard of honour company.

Eden, Molotov and Maisky walk along the platform.

The guard of honour company on the platform.

Eden gives a military salute during the performance of the national anthems.

Eden greets the chief of the guard of honour.

The Soviet and British flags are waving, Eden, Molotov and Maisky walk along the platform.

Eden thanks the locomotive driver.

Eden, Maisky and those accompanying them go to inspect the sites of the defeat of German troops near Moscow.

A destroyed German tank.

Eden and members of the British delegation inspect destroyed German armoured vehicles.

The faces of Eden and Maisky.

The frozen corpse of a German soldier.

Eden and members of the British delegation inspect the battlefield.

The frozen corpses of German soldiers in a ditch.

Eden's face.

A destroyed German tank.

German artillery pieces captured by the Red Army.

Eden, Maisky and members of the British delegation walk along the road past the destroyed German equipment.

Stalin I.V., Tukhachevsky M.N., Molotov V.M., Kaganovich L.M., Voroshilov K.E., Rokossovsky K.K. among the members of the Red Army delegation at the 17th Conference of the All-Union Communist Party (Bolsheviks) in 1932 (photo).

Photos of Stalin with Voroshilov and Budyonny S.M. with Tukhachevsky, Voroshilov, Yegorov A.I. and Blucher V.K. Photo of Stalin and Molotov with foreign diplomats.

Stalin delivering a speech from the Mausoleum tribune during the parade on November 7, 1941. Churchill W. and Stalin during a meeting in the Kremlin in August 1942. Photo of the presentation of the sword to the defenders of Stalingrad from the English king.

Stalin, Voroshilov, Roosevelt F., Churchill, Molotov on the veranda of the palace during the Tehran Conference in 1943. Voroshilov during the Tehran Conference, Voroshilov's face.

Signing of an international treaty in the Kremlin, Molotov's face.

Panorama of the buildings and cathedrals of the Moscow Kremlin.

Entrance to one of the buildings.

Panorama of part of the facade of the building.

Views of the Moskva River.

Development of the next military operation in the General Staff, faces of generals and officers.

General Vatutin N.F. takes part in a meeting.

Photo portraits of Stalin I.V., Zhukov G.K., Vasilevsky A.M. Panorama of Stalin's office in the Kremlin.

One of the columns of the May Day demonstration moves along the bridge over the Moskva River.

The building of the General Staff of the Red Army during the war.

Interiors of the building, views of the main staircase.

Map on the table.

Views of the meeting room, interiors of the premises.

Marshal of the Soviet Union Zhukov G.K., his adjutant and writer Simonov K.M. walk along the path in the park at the dacha before the interview with Zhukov.

The director greets Zhukov and Simonov.

Zhukov's face during the interview.

Zhukov, his adjutant and Simonov are sitting in a room at a round table, Zhukov is giving an interview to Simonov.

Simonov asks Zhukov questions, Zhukov's face.

Zhukov continues his story.

Shvernik N.M. presents an award to Zhukov in the Kremlin.

Zhukov walks along a trench in the year of the war.

Marshal of the Soviet Union Vasilevsky A.M. during a meeting at the General Staff.

Military leaders at observation posts.

Rokossovsky K.K., General Telegin K.F. developing an operation plan.

Generals and officers at an observation post during the Battle of Kursk.

Cavalry commanders clarify the situation on a map during a raid behind enemy lines in December 1941. The commander of the 16th Army, Lieutenant General Rokossovsky, and Chief of Staff M.S. Malinin clarify the operational situation on the ground with members of the army headquarters.

Rokossovsky and Malinin, accompanied by their comrades, visit the battle sites of the 16th Army near Moscow in 1966. Photograph of Rokossovsky in 1941.