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

Civilians in Germany clearing and removing rubble after the end of hostilities.

Panorama of the ruins of a city block, residents working to clear rubble.

View of part of a brick building under construction.

A team of masons at a construction site.

Masons laying bricks.

Carpentry on the roof of a house under construction.

View of a house under construction.

View and panorama of a historic building in scaffolding.

Making lost stone carvings of the building.

Stonecutters at work.

View of a building damaged during the hostilities, people working to improve the area.

Women clearing rubble, view of a destroyed street in one of the cities in Germany.

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

View of part of the city ruins, rubble is being cleared.

Women clearing rubble.

Construction of a wooden bridge.

View of a temporary bridge over a river.

View of a blown up railway bridge.

Panoramas of destroyed bridges.

A train crosses a river on a temporary crossing.

Restoration of railway tracks.

Restoration of railway crossings in the liberated regions of the USSR. Installation of 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 the restoration work, panorama of the damaged part of the bridge.

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

A train with goods passes over a temporary bridge.

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

Panorama of the restoration work.

Panorama of the bridge under restoration.

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

Types of 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.