Materials for the film "The Defeat of Japan" (1945)

Soviet tanks move through the thickets in the forest, infantry follows the tanks.

Movement of tanks with troops on the armor through the forest.

The infantry dismounts from the tanks on the move, breaks up into a chain.

Tanks and infantry comb the forest.

Tanks and infantry descend the forest slope.

Movement of tanks with troops on the armor.

The tank knocks down a tree trunk, skidding its tracks.

Tanks with troops on the armor drive across a stream.

Tanks with troops on their armor move through the forest, soldiers jump off the armor, form a chain.

The tank breaks trees in its path.

The soldiers walk, covered by the tank.

A tank column on the march during a forced stop, soldiers stand on the tanks' armor, one of the tanks fires at the enemy it has spotted.

A Red Army unit combs the forest.

Soviet tanks with troops on their armor cross a stream.

During a forced stop, the tanks fire at the Japanese troops.

The infantry crosses the stream, moves forward, deploying into battle formation on the move.

Views of hills and a road with tanks moving along it (from above).

A tank with troops on its armor fires at the enemy on the move.

The tank, breaking bushes, comes out onto the side of the asphalt road.

A Soviet tank column moves along the road.

Trucks of the pontoon bridge park overtake tanks.

Soviet armored vehicles move up the road.

Drivers try to force horses to climb a steep slope when crossing the Greater Khingan.

A rifle platoon passes by.

Infantry and artillery descend the mountain slope while crossing the Greater Khingan.

Soviet pilots at the airfield receive a combat mission.

Commander of the Pacific Fleet Air Force General Lemeshko P.N. sees off pilots on a combat mission.

Naval aviation pilots in the cockpits of aircraft before takeoff.

The pilot closes the canopy.

Soviet bombers in flight.

Soviet bombers of the Pacific Fleet approach their targets, view of the terrain from the bomb bay (above).

Bombs exploding on the target, panorama of enemy territory (above).

Bombs dropped from the aircraft, panorama of the territory (above).

Soviet bomber taking off from an airfield.

Soviet bombers and attack aircraft in flight.

Soviet bombers flying on a mission, view of the territory (from above).

View of the tail unit of the aircraft.

Bombers in flight.

A road bridge with a blown-up span, Soviet soldiers running onto the river bank.

Soviet infantry goes on the attack (panorama).

Soviet soldiers in trenches under enemy fire during one of the counterattacks.

Soldiers run past a burning building.

Faces of Japanese soldiers going into captivity.

A Japanese officer and his subordinates surrender to Soviet soldiers, soldiers lay down their arms.

Japanese prisoners of war surrendering their firearms.

Surrender of small arms by Japanese prisoners of war.

Arisaka rifles thrown in a pile.

Japanese soldiers who surrendered to Soviet captivity.

Monuments at the Russian Orthodox cemetery.

Soviet soldiers at the mass grave of Russian army soldiers who died during the Russo-Japanese War.

A monument at one of the graves at the Russian cemetery.

Open-pit coal mining using excavators.

Panorama of the open-pit mine (top).

A train of coal cars is moving (top).

Panorama of a section of the open-pit mine with access roads (top).

View of a section of the railway junction.

Panorama of one of the industrial enterprises in Manchuria.

Infantrymen and tankmen jump off the armor of tanks, go to the shore of the bay in the vicinity of Port Arthur.

Soldiers wash themselves near the shore.

An officer explains the subsequent combat mission to his subordinates, panorama of the bay.

Faces of tankmen and infantrymen (panorama).

Local residents clean the road wheels of Soviet tanks.

A boy wipes the tank armor with a rag.

Soviet tanks at a captured airfield.

Sea coastal landscape (panorama).

Tanks with landing troops on their armor move along the shore.

Tanks on the shore at the foot of a hill, tankers and infantry wash themselves at the water's edge (panorama).

View of a Japanese military town (panorama, from above).

Panoramas and views of a settlement and an old fortress in Manchuria (above).

A detachment of Red Army soldiers advances toward a mountain slope.

A Soviet artillery officer gives orders to open fire with the battery's guns.

Infantry, supported by tanks, attacks the enemy, the gun is in the battle formations of the advancing infantry.

A Red Army rifle unit goes on the attack, supported by a KV heavy tank.

Infantry attacks the enemy.

Gate at the entrance to the Russian military cemetery near Port Arthur.

Russian text carved on a stone slab.

Chapel at the Russian cemetery.

Inscription on the monument on the grave of the CER construction engineer V.I. Aleksandrov at the Russian cemetery in Harbin.

A cross with a crucifix on one of the graves.

Crosses on graves at the Russian cemetery.

Soviet servicemen lay a wreath on the grave of Russian soldiers who died during the Russo-Japanese War.

Soldiers with a banner kneel during the funeral ceremony.

Faces of soldiers.

Naval sailors during the funeral ceremony.

Soldiers and officers kneel during the funeral ceremony.