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70 years ago (67 pictures)
June 22, 1941, exactly 70 years ago, pre-dawn silence suddenly broke roaring explosions of shells. Since the war began. At that time nobody knew that in the history of mankind as it enters the bloodiest. No one guessed that the Soviet people have to go through inhumane tests to pass and win. Rid the world of fascism, to show everyone that the spirit of a soldier of the Red Army is not given to break the invaders. No one could not assume that the name of the hero-cities will be announced to the world that Stalingrad will become a symbol of steadfastness of our people, Leningrad - a symbol of courage, Brest - a symbol of courage. That, along with the male warriors, the land from the fascist plague heroically will protect the elderly, women and children.
1418 days and nights of the war.
Over 26 million lives ...
These photos are one thing in common: they are made in the first hours and days of the Great Patriotic War.
German soldiers cross the state border of the USSR.
Shooting time: 22.06.1941
Soviet border guards on patrol. Photo is interesting in that it was made for the newspaper in one of the outposts on the western border of the USSR June 20, 1941, that is two days before the war.
Shooting time: 20.06.1941
The first day of the war in Przemysl (today - the Polish city of Przemysl) and the first dead invaders on Soviet soil (the soldiers of the 101st Division legkopehotnoy). The city was occupied by German troops on June 22, but the next morning was liberated by the Red Army and border guards and held until 27 June.
Shooting time: 22.06.1941
June 22, 1941 near the bridge over the river near the town of San Yaroslav. At that time the river was the border between San German-occupied Poland and the USSR.
Shooting time: 22.06.1941
The first Soviet prisoners of war under the supervision of German soldiers are sent to the west across the river from the city of San Yaroslav.
Shooting time: 22.06.1941
After the failure of a sudden capture of Brest Fortress Germans had to dig. Picture taken in the North or the South Island.
Shooting time: 22.06.1941
Fight German shock troops in the vicinity of Brest.
Time taken: June 1941
Column of Soviet prisoners crossed the river at San Sapper bridge. Among the prisoners there is noticeable not only military, but also people in civilian clothes Germans detained and taken prisoner all the men of military age, so they could not be brought into the enemy army. City district Jaroslaw, June 1941.
Time taken: June 1941
Sapper bridge over the river near the town of San Jaroslaw, who ferried by German troops.
Time taken: June 1941
German soldiers photographed on abandoned in Lviv Soviet tank T-34-76 sample 1940
Place: Lviv, Ukraine, USSR
Time taken: 30.06. 1941
German soldiers inspect stuck in the field and abandoned tank T-34-76 sample 1940
Time taken: June 1941
Captured Soviet female soldiers in Nevel (now Nevel district of the Pskov region).
Shooting time: 26.07.1941
German infantry passes broken Soviet vehicles.
Time taken: June 1941
Germans visiting the Soviet tanks T-34-76 bogged down in the flood meadow. Floodplain Drut, under Tolochin, Vitebsk region.
Time taken: July 1941
Start of German dive bombers "Junkers" Ju-87 from the field aerodrome in the USSR.
Time taken: summer 1941
Red Army soldiers surrendering soldiers of the Waffen SS.
Time taken: June 1941
Soviet artillery destroyed the German light tank Pz.Kpfw. II Ausf. C.
Time taken: June-August 1941
German soldiers next to the burning of the Soviet countryside.
Time taken: June 1941
German soldiers during the battle in the Brest Fortress.
Time taken: June-July 1941
The meeting at the Leningrad Kirov Plant to go to war.
Time taken: June 1941
Place: Leningrad
Author: V. Tarasevich
Residents of Leningrad at the window LenTASS "Breaking News" (Socialist Street 14 - printing "Truth»).
Time taken: July 1941
Place: Leningrad
Author: Boris Utkin
Aerial view of the airfield Smolensk-1, made by the German aerial reconnaissance. Airfield with hangars and runways marked in the upper left portion of the image. In the picture also noted other strategic points of the barracks (bottom left, marked «B»), large bridges, anti-aircraft artillery battery (vertical line with a circle).
Shooting time: 23.06.1941
Place: Smolensk
Red Army osmarivayut stricken German tank Pz 35 (t) (LT vz.35) Czech production from the 6th Panzer division. Destinations RASEINIAI (Lithuanian SSR).
Time taken: June 1941
Soviet refugees walk past an abandoned tank BT-7A.
Time taken: June 1941
Author: Baumann
German soldiers are considering burning Soviet tank T-34-76 sample 1940.
Time taken: June-August 1941
The Germans on the move at the beginning of the invasion of the Soviet Union.
Time taken: June 1941
Soviet airfield captured by the Germans. Wieden shot or exploded on the ground fighter I-16, in the background Biplane Po-2 and another I-16. Picture with a passing German car. Smolensk region, summer 1941.
Time taken: July 1941
Gunners of the 29th Division of the Wehrmacht motorizovanoy ambush was shot in the side of the 50-mm gun PaK 38 Soviet tanks. The closest to the left - T-34 tank. Belarus, 1941.
Time taken: summer 1941
German soldiers riding on the street along the destroyed houses on the outskirts of Smolensk.
Time taken: July 1941
Place: Smolensk
Minsk airport on the captured German soldiers considered bomber SB (or a training version of CSS, as seen little nose of the plane, which differs from the glazed nose SB). Beginning in July 1941.
Behind the visible fighters I-15 and I-153 "Chaika».
Time taken: July 1941
Soviet 203mm howitzer B-4 (sample 1931), captured by the Germans. No gun barrel, which is transported separately. 1941, presumably Belarus. German picture.
Time taken: 1941
City Demidov Smolensk region in the early days of the occupation. July 1941.
Time taken: July 1941
Padded Soviet tank T-26. At the tower, under the hatch seen a burned tanker.
Time taken: summer 1941
Soviet soldiers are surrendering to the rear of the Germans. Summer 1941. The picture is obviously taken from a truck in the German Colony, going on the road.
Time taken: summer 1941
A lot of broken Soviet aircraft: fighters-153 "Chaika" (to the left). In the background - the U-2 twin-engine bomber and Sat. Minsk airfield captured by German troops (in the foreground - a German soldier). Beginning in July 1941.
Time taken: July 1941
A lot of broken Soviet fighter "Seagull" I-153. Airfield Minsk. Beginning in July 1941.
Time taken: July 1941
German assembly point Soviet trophy equipment and weapons. Left the Soviet 45-mm anti-tank guns, and then a large number of machine guns "Maxim" and light machine guns DP-27, on the right - 82 mm mortars. Summer 1941.
Time taken: summer 1941
The dead Soviet soldiers captured in the trenches. This is probably the beginning of the war, summer 1941: a fighter in the foreground helmet NL-36 pre-war sample within such helmets in the Red Army are extremely rare and mainly in the Far East. It also shows that it is removed from the belt - probably the work of the German soldiers who captured these positions.
Time taken: summer 1941
German soldiers knocking at the house of local residents. City Yartsevo Smolensk region, beginning in July 1941
Time taken: July 1941
Germans visiting lined Soviet light tanks. In the foreground - BT-7, the leftmost - BT-5 (with a typical cutting tank driver), in the middle of the road - the T-26. Smolensk region, summer 1941
Time taken: summer 1941
Soviet artillery wagon with a gun. Shell or bomb exploded right in front of the horses. Destinations Yartsevo Smolensk region. August 1941.
Time taken: leto1941
The grave of a Soviet soldier. The inscription on the plate in German reads: "Here lies an unknown Russian soldiers." Perhaps a fallen soldier was buried their so at the bottom of plates can be disassembled in Russian the word "Here ...". Germans somehow made the inscription in his own language. German photo, shooting place - presumably Smolensk region, in August 1941.
Time taken: summer 1941
German armored personnel carrier, the German soldiers on it and the locals in Belarus.
Time taken: June 1941
Ukrainians welcomed the Germans in western Ukraine.
Time taken: summer 1941
Advancing Wehrmacht in Belarus. The picture was taken from a car window. June 1941
Time taken: June 1941
German soldiers in the occupied Soviet positions. In the foreground, a prominent Soviet 45-mm gun, then - the Soviet T-34 tank sample in 1940.
Time taken: 1941
German soldiers are suitable for just a black Soviet tanks BT-2.
Time taken: June-July 1941
A smoke crews tractor tractors "Stalinets." Photo dated summer 41st
Time taken: summer 1941
Soviet women volunteers are sent to the front. Summer 1941.
Time taken: 1941
Soviet girl-soldier among the prisoners.
Time taken: summer 1941
German machine-gun crew rangers firing a machine gun MG-34. Summer of 1941, a group of armies "North". In the background calculation covers ACS StuG III.
Time taken: summer 1941
German column passes the village in the Smolensk region.
Time taken: July 1941
Wehrmacht soldiers watching the burning village. The territory of the USSR, the date of the picture - roughly summer 1941.
Time taken: summer 1941
Red Army soldier captured in the German light tank production Czech LT vz.38 (in the Wehrmacht designated Pz.Kpfw.38 (t)). In military operations against the Soviet Union was attended by about 600 such tanks that were used in the battle until the middle of 1942.
Time taken: summer 1941
SS soldiers have destroyed the bunker on the "Stalin Line". Fortifications, located on the "old" (as of 1939) the border of the USSR, have been preserved, but after the invasion of German troops, some fortifications used by the Red Army for defense.
Time taken: 1941
Soviet railway station after the German bombing on the tracks should train with tanks BT.
German columns pass carts with the Red Army, previously come under fire.
The dead Soviet tankers and tank landing soldiers at the gate of the frontier. Tank - T-26.
Time taken: June 1941
Refugees in the region of Pskov.
Time taken: July 1941
German soldiers the wounded Soviet sniper.
Time taken: summer 1941
The dead Soviet soldiers and civilians - women and children. Body dumped in a roadside ditch, like household waste; by on the road quietly moving dense columns of German troops.
Time taken: summer 1941
Cart with dead bodies of the Red Army.
Soviet symbols in the captured city Kobrin (Brest, Belarus) - T-26 tank and a monument to VI Lenin.
Time taken: summer 1941
A column of German troops. Ukraine, July 1941.
Time taken: July 1941
Red Army soldiers inspect the destroyed anti-aircraft fire and made an emergency landing a German fighter Bf.109F2 (from 3 Squadron / JG3). West of Kiev, in July 1941
Time taken: July 1941
Captured by the Germans banner 132 Battalion escort NKVD. Photos from the personal album of one of the soldiers of the Wehrmacht.
"Brest Fortress. Defense two months kept the guards and 132 th separate battalion convoy troops of the NKVD. Brest was hastily abandoned by the Red Army at 8.00 am 22.06.1941 after the fight with the enemy infantry, crossed by boat across the river Bug. In Soviet times, all remembered the inscription of one of the defenders of the Brest Fortress, "I'm dying, but do not give up! Farewell to the Motherland! 20.VII.41g. ", But few people know that it was made on the wall of the barracks 132 th Battalion escort troops of the NKVD.»
1418 days and nights of the war.
Over 26 million lives ...
These photos are one thing in common: they are made in the first hours and days of the Great Patriotic War.
German soldiers cross the state border of the USSR.
Shooting time: 22.06.1941
Soviet border guards on patrol. Photo is interesting in that it was made for the newspaper in one of the outposts on the western border of the USSR June 20, 1941, that is two days before the war.
Shooting time: 20.06.1941
The first day of the war in Przemysl (today - the Polish city of Przemysl) and the first dead invaders on Soviet soil (the soldiers of the 101st Division legkopehotnoy). The city was occupied by German troops on June 22, but the next morning was liberated by the Red Army and border guards and held until 27 June.
Shooting time: 22.06.1941
June 22, 1941 near the bridge over the river near the town of San Yaroslav. At that time the river was the border between San German-occupied Poland and the USSR.
Shooting time: 22.06.1941
The first Soviet prisoners of war under the supervision of German soldiers are sent to the west across the river from the city of San Yaroslav.
Shooting time: 22.06.1941
After the failure of a sudden capture of Brest Fortress Germans had to dig. Picture taken in the North or the South Island.
Shooting time: 22.06.1941
Fight German shock troops in the vicinity of Brest.
Time taken: June 1941
Column of Soviet prisoners crossed the river at San Sapper bridge. Among the prisoners there is noticeable not only military, but also people in civilian clothes Germans detained and taken prisoner all the men of military age, so they could not be brought into the enemy army. City district Jaroslaw, June 1941.
Time taken: June 1941
Sapper bridge over the river near the town of San Jaroslaw, who ferried by German troops.
Time taken: June 1941
German soldiers photographed on abandoned in Lviv Soviet tank T-34-76 sample 1940
Place: Lviv, Ukraine, USSR
Time taken: 30.06. 1941
German soldiers inspect stuck in the field and abandoned tank T-34-76 sample 1940
Time taken: June 1941
Captured Soviet female soldiers in Nevel (now Nevel district of the Pskov region).
Shooting time: 26.07.1941
German infantry passes broken Soviet vehicles.
Time taken: June 1941
Germans visiting the Soviet tanks T-34-76 bogged down in the flood meadow. Floodplain Drut, under Tolochin, Vitebsk region.
Time taken: July 1941
Start of German dive bombers "Junkers" Ju-87 from the field aerodrome in the USSR.
Time taken: summer 1941
Red Army soldiers surrendering soldiers of the Waffen SS.
Time taken: June 1941
Soviet artillery destroyed the German light tank Pz.Kpfw. II Ausf. C.
Time taken: June-August 1941
German soldiers next to the burning of the Soviet countryside.
Time taken: June 1941
German soldiers during the battle in the Brest Fortress.
Time taken: June-July 1941
The meeting at the Leningrad Kirov Plant to go to war.
Time taken: June 1941
Place: Leningrad
Author: V. Tarasevich
Residents of Leningrad at the window LenTASS "Breaking News" (Socialist Street 14 - printing "Truth»).
Time taken: July 1941
Place: Leningrad
Author: Boris Utkin
Aerial view of the airfield Smolensk-1, made by the German aerial reconnaissance. Airfield with hangars and runways marked in the upper left portion of the image. In the picture also noted other strategic points of the barracks (bottom left, marked «B»), large bridges, anti-aircraft artillery battery (vertical line with a circle).
Shooting time: 23.06.1941
Place: Smolensk
Red Army osmarivayut stricken German tank Pz 35 (t) (LT vz.35) Czech production from the 6th Panzer division. Destinations RASEINIAI (Lithuanian SSR).
Time taken: June 1941
Soviet refugees walk past an abandoned tank BT-7A.
Time taken: June 1941
Author: Baumann
German soldiers are considering burning Soviet tank T-34-76 sample 1940.
Time taken: June-August 1941
The Germans on the move at the beginning of the invasion of the Soviet Union.
Time taken: June 1941
Soviet airfield captured by the Germans. Wieden shot or exploded on the ground fighter I-16, in the background Biplane Po-2 and another I-16. Picture with a passing German car. Smolensk region, summer 1941.
Time taken: July 1941
Gunners of the 29th Division of the Wehrmacht motorizovanoy ambush was shot in the side of the 50-mm gun PaK 38 Soviet tanks. The closest to the left - T-34 tank. Belarus, 1941.
Time taken: summer 1941
German soldiers riding on the street along the destroyed houses on the outskirts of Smolensk.
Time taken: July 1941
Place: Smolensk
Minsk airport on the captured German soldiers considered bomber SB (or a training version of CSS, as seen little nose of the plane, which differs from the glazed nose SB). Beginning in July 1941.
Behind the visible fighters I-15 and I-153 "Chaika».
Time taken: July 1941
Soviet 203mm howitzer B-4 (sample 1931), captured by the Germans. No gun barrel, which is transported separately. 1941, presumably Belarus. German picture.
Time taken: 1941
City Demidov Smolensk region in the early days of the occupation. July 1941.
Time taken: July 1941
Padded Soviet tank T-26. At the tower, under the hatch seen a burned tanker.
Time taken: summer 1941
Soviet soldiers are surrendering to the rear of the Germans. Summer 1941. The picture is obviously taken from a truck in the German Colony, going on the road.
Time taken: summer 1941
A lot of broken Soviet aircraft: fighters-153 "Chaika" (to the left). In the background - the U-2 twin-engine bomber and Sat. Minsk airfield captured by German troops (in the foreground - a German soldier). Beginning in July 1941.
Time taken: July 1941
A lot of broken Soviet fighter "Seagull" I-153. Airfield Minsk. Beginning in July 1941.
Time taken: July 1941
German assembly point Soviet trophy equipment and weapons. Left the Soviet 45-mm anti-tank guns, and then a large number of machine guns "Maxim" and light machine guns DP-27, on the right - 82 mm mortars. Summer 1941.
Time taken: summer 1941
The dead Soviet soldiers captured in the trenches. This is probably the beginning of the war, summer 1941: a fighter in the foreground helmet NL-36 pre-war sample within such helmets in the Red Army are extremely rare and mainly in the Far East. It also shows that it is removed from the belt - probably the work of the German soldiers who captured these positions.
Time taken: summer 1941
German soldiers knocking at the house of local residents. City Yartsevo Smolensk region, beginning in July 1941
Time taken: July 1941
Germans visiting lined Soviet light tanks. In the foreground - BT-7, the leftmost - BT-5 (with a typical cutting tank driver), in the middle of the road - the T-26. Smolensk region, summer 1941
Time taken: summer 1941
Soviet artillery wagon with a gun. Shell or bomb exploded right in front of the horses. Destinations Yartsevo Smolensk region. August 1941.
Time taken: leto1941
The grave of a Soviet soldier. The inscription on the plate in German reads: "Here lies an unknown Russian soldiers." Perhaps a fallen soldier was buried their so at the bottom of plates can be disassembled in Russian the word "Here ...". Germans somehow made the inscription in his own language. German photo, shooting place - presumably Smolensk region, in August 1941.
Time taken: summer 1941
German armored personnel carrier, the German soldiers on it and the locals in Belarus.
Time taken: June 1941
Ukrainians welcomed the Germans in western Ukraine.
Time taken: summer 1941
Advancing Wehrmacht in Belarus. The picture was taken from a car window. June 1941
Time taken: June 1941
German soldiers in the occupied Soviet positions. In the foreground, a prominent Soviet 45-mm gun, then - the Soviet T-34 tank sample in 1940.
Time taken: 1941
German soldiers are suitable for just a black Soviet tanks BT-2.
Time taken: June-July 1941
A smoke crews tractor tractors "Stalinets." Photo dated summer 41st
Time taken: summer 1941
Soviet women volunteers are sent to the front. Summer 1941.
Time taken: 1941
Soviet girl-soldier among the prisoners.
Time taken: summer 1941
German machine-gun crew rangers firing a machine gun MG-34. Summer of 1941, a group of armies "North". In the background calculation covers ACS StuG III.
Time taken: summer 1941
German column passes the village in the Smolensk region.
Time taken: July 1941
Wehrmacht soldiers watching the burning village. The territory of the USSR, the date of the picture - roughly summer 1941.
Time taken: summer 1941
Red Army soldier captured in the German light tank production Czech LT vz.38 (in the Wehrmacht designated Pz.Kpfw.38 (t)). In military operations against the Soviet Union was attended by about 600 such tanks that were used in the battle until the middle of 1942.
Time taken: summer 1941
SS soldiers have destroyed the bunker on the "Stalin Line". Fortifications, located on the "old" (as of 1939) the border of the USSR, have been preserved, but after the invasion of German troops, some fortifications used by the Red Army for defense.
Time taken: 1941
Soviet railway station after the German bombing on the tracks should train with tanks BT.
German columns pass carts with the Red Army, previously come under fire.
The dead Soviet tankers and tank landing soldiers at the gate of the frontier. Tank - T-26.
Time taken: June 1941
Refugees in the region of Pskov.
Time taken: July 1941
German soldiers the wounded Soviet sniper.
Time taken: summer 1941
The dead Soviet soldiers and civilians - women and children. Body dumped in a roadside ditch, like household waste; by on the road quietly moving dense columns of German troops.
Time taken: summer 1941
Cart with dead bodies of the Red Army.
Soviet symbols in the captured city Kobrin (Brest, Belarus) - T-26 tank and a monument to VI Lenin.
Time taken: summer 1941
A column of German troops. Ukraine, July 1941.
Time taken: July 1941
Red Army soldiers inspect the destroyed anti-aircraft fire and made an emergency landing a German fighter Bf.109F2 (from 3 Squadron / JG3). West of Kiev, in July 1941
Time taken: July 1941
Captured by the Germans banner 132 Battalion escort NKVD. Photos from the personal album of one of the soldiers of the Wehrmacht.
"Brest Fortress. Defense two months kept the guards and 132 th separate battalion convoy troops of the NKVD. Brest was hastily abandoned by the Red Army at 8.00 am 22.06.1941 after the fight with the enemy infantry, crossed by boat across the river Bug. In Soviet times, all remembered the inscription of one of the defenders of the Brest Fortress, "I'm dying, but do not give up! Farewell to the Motherland! 20.VII.41g. ", But few people know that it was made on the wall of the barracks 132 th Battalion escort troops of the NKVD.»
