Restoration of railway bridges in the liberated territories of the USSR and housing stock in defeated Germany (1944-1945)

German civilians clearing rubble after the end of hostilities.

A panorama of the ruins of a city block; residents working to remove rubble.

A view of part of a brick building under construction.

A team of masons at work.

Masons laying bricks.

Carpentry on the roof of a house under construction.

A view of a house under construction.

A view and panorama of a historic building covered in scaffolding.

Remaking the building's lost stone carvings.

Master stonecutters at work.

A view of a building damaged during the fighting; people working to improve the area.

Women clearing rubble; a view of a destroyed street in a German city.

Women help each other climb up the destroyed floor of a building to clear rubble.

A view of part of the city's ruins; rubble is being cleared.

Women clearing rubble.

Construction of a wooden bridge.

A view of a temporary bridge over a river.

A view of a blown-up railway bridge.

Panoramas of destroyed bridges.

A train crosses a river on a temporary crossing.

Restoring railway tracks.

Restoring railway crossings in liberated areas of the USSR. Installing one of the spans of the railway bridge.

Soviet soldiers inspect the destroyed bridge.

Panorama of the blown-up bridge.

Soviet officers assess the scale of restoration work, panorama of the damaged section of the bridge.

Restoration work on one of the railway bridges across the Dnieper in 1944. Soviet sappers at work.

A supply train crosses a temporary bridge.

Panorama of the remains of the railway bridge frozen into the ice.

Panorama of restoration work.

Panorama of the bridge under restoration.

Transporting a wooden structure during the construction of a railway crossing using a tracklayer.

Construction of a temporary railway crossing.

Laying rails on the crossing.

View of one of the surviving bridge trusses and part of the temporary crossing under construction.

View of the restored railway bridge.