Forcing water barriers by units of the Red Army (1943-1944)

Red Army units on the march.

Transporting the wounded by horse-drawn transport.

Artillery crews pass by destroyed houses.

A Red Army officer picks up a child in a liberated settlement.

A Red Army soldier talks to one of the local residents.

Sappers carry tree trunks to cross a river.

View of a broken pontoon crossing.

Personnel of a military engineering unit on the bank before repairing the crossing.

Red Army soldiers carry a boat on their shoulders.

Sappers tie rafts together from logs.

A Red Army unit crosses a river on rafts tied together from logs.

Red Army soldiers conduct training in landing on the shore from rafts.

A Red Army unit crosses a water obstacle on a homemade catamaran made of plank flooring and two boats.

Red Army soldiers cross the river in boats.

Trucks drive onto a homemade ferry.

Red Army soldiers in a boat push off from the shore.

Red Army units and armored vehicles cross the river on a temporary bridge-plank and on pontoons.

Red Army soldiers eat porridge from pots during lunch.

Personnel of one of the units sit on the bank waiting to cross.

Red Army soldiers in a boat approach the bank.

Vehicles and cavalry fording the river.

The general gives orders to the commanders of the units crossing.

View of a section of the river.

Red Army soldiers run along the bank to the crossing.

A Red Army soldier sleeping on the bank.

A detachment of infantrymen crosses in a boat to the opposite bank.