Stalingrad in the lens of the magazine Life. April 1947 (38 photos)

Pet "remesluhi." RW written on the belt - Vocational school.



2. The station Stalingrad-1, at the entrance. This Khalabuda stood beside dilapidated in the battles of autumn 1942 prewar station until 1952 did not build monumental handsome man with a spire, which has become one of the most beautiful stations of the Soviet Union.



3. The legendary fountain with children in the dance on the forecourt in April 1947 still standing. In the background - the ruins of the multi-storey pre-war buildings.



4. The building department in the basement which was the headquarters of the Sixth German Army and where 31.1.1943 was captured by Field Marshal F.Paulyus. As you can see, the building is well established, in contrast to the surrounding ruins (already partially demolished). It is fenced and will soon begin the rehabilitation and construction of a new ensemble. Right: wide avenue leading to the Volga, where five to seven years will be built monumental embankment.



5. The building department side. Please note that the huge pre-war shop windows laid, and instead put small. The basement was a lower level.





6. Remains of the pre-war monumental building near the ruins of the station (see. Picture 3). Right, probably adjuster movement.



7. Stand transported on a cart in the direction of the department store. Far worth triaxial truck like "Studebaker" or its equivalent.



8. On the right a stele in memory of the heroes of the defense of Stalingrad, delivered immediately after the war (she stands even today). Left accompanying Colonel leads a group of American correspondents, which was also layfovets.



9. Stalingrad boys - the same about this stele.



10. harnessed to a cart camel. It is clear that such a vivid story could not pass unnoticed by the Americans. In the background - a dilapidated station Stalingrad-1.



11. Against the background of the rear of the building department girls jumping rope.



12. Along the ruins. Perhaps, mother and daughter wander.



13. In this picture we see how much the roots in the bitterness of fighting destroyed the city. No single building.



14. drawn by two horses and cart. Obviously, went relatively smartly - horse legs a bit blurred. Near the ruins of the right - watchmaker.



15. In the center of the city. Someone brings the foot sewing machine - or rather its massive part to which it was put.



16. Another subspecies of draft animals - cow. The building in the background - this "southern Russian" brick style since Tsaritsyn. Of more than a dozen survived in the Voroshilov district, I have this report in the "Gateway to Asia" show.



17. Stalingradki living in mud huts. More precisely, there probably basement of the former capital of the house. The housing stock was destroyed in the fighting.



18. The picture on the site. Some women ...



German prisoners

19. This is also a building, but in the heart. German prisoners loaded the car with bricks. Correspondent caught the moment when "flying" just two bricks.



20. Captured German.



21. The column of German prisoners are somewhere to work. Perhaps the area of ​​"Red October", I think the pipes.



22. More German prisoners. Dismantled the stones.



23. Soviet soldiers, guards. Guard the construction site, where prisoners work.



24. Stalingrad Drama Theatre. Americans, of course, drew "tasty" piece of the auditorium - with the captain-order bearers in the foreground. See how many people in uniform, by the way.



Red October (Steel Works)

25. General view.



26. At the mill: the work goes!



27. Young people in the shop



Stalingrad Tractor Factory (STZ)

28. View of the finished product, in the assembly shop



29. In the workshop. The machine apparently captured German.



30. Build a tractor



31. The girl behind the machine.



32. Apparently, normirovschitsa or naryadchitsa.



33. Another woman, for the machine.



34. In kindergarten STZ. Children curiously look back at relieving uncle-foreigner with appliances.



35. Young Stalingrad, the model river steamer.



36. The Old Man.

37. Life still goes on.



38. The final picture: American correspondents in the spring of Stalingrad steppe. Pushing them to a dedicated bus :)