78 documentary photographs of war, which

This year Belarus marks 70th anniversary of liberation from German occupation. Today we offer a look at photos, maps, charts, and pictures, which show the crucial events of September 1943 - July 1944. Some of photographic documents - are well known, and some - not previously published in the media.

78 photos.

The main sources of the presented documents and photos:

Belarusian State Museum of the Great Patriotic War.
Belarusian State Archive of Audiovisual Documents.
Russian State Archive of Film and Photo Documents.
National Archives of the Republic of Belarus.





Top of the liberation of Belarus in the autumn of 1943: Soviet soldiers set signpost on Loew - a town in the extreme south-east of the country.
Photo Natalia Bode.



In October 1943, she lived with the hope that the Smolensk operation "Suvorov" will lead to the complete liberation of Belarus.



Driving Smolensk operation "Suvorov".



The front seal on the events of autumn 1943, the Mogilev direction. Cutting from the newspaper of the 49th Army "for the Soviet Motherland».



Guerrillas squad number 7 Brigade. Parkhomenko artillery tractor A-20 "Komsomolets". Woodland area 1943



Guerrilla Tactics summer. Figures AF Pochebutova - Commissioner Detachment. Kirov Brigade. Ponomarenko Brest region.



Report Card-scheme of the Belarusian headquarters of partisan movement with data on railway sabotage in August - November 1943.



Satirical poster "and neither the amplitude, and no syudy" dedicated rail war. Text Kondrat Nettle artist Heinrich Valcke. 1943



Soviet tanks with troops occupy submachine Rechytsa. 1943



Street fighting in the suburbs of Gomel. 1943



Hero of the Soviet Union, Colonel Yemelyan Barykin - Chief of Staff of the Gomel partisan connections. Author James Davidzon picture. 1943



The crossing of the river Sozh. 1943



The evacuation of the wounded from the front. Vitebsk direction. January 1944
Photo by Mikhail Savin.



Partisans on-demolition task. 1943



Tanks go on a combat operation. Vitebsk direction 1943



Group mortar to the firing position. Vitebsk direction 1943



Lieutenant-General Paul Baht presents the Order of Lenin and medal "Gold Star" commander antitank guns Sergeant Ivan Spitsyna. Belorussian Front, Mozyr direction. January 1944



Fight Guards submachine in Rogachev. February 1944



MLRs ("Katyusha") 65th Army firing near Mozyr. 1944



Warriors Guard come under the cover of a smokescreen. Rogachev District. February 1944



The commanders of the 65th Army receive combat missions on the eve of the Kalinkovichi-Mozyr operation



Red Army units come in Kalinkovichi. 1944



Meeting at rokadnoy road. 1944



"Spring 1944". Artist Romanov, a veteran of the war.



A column of people liberated from a concentration camp Ozarichi troops of the 65th army, sent to their homes. March 1944



The child next to a dead mother in a concentration camp Ozarichi. March 1944 Author E. Podshivalov picture.



Driving Defense Polotsk-Lepel partisan zone. April-May 1944



Warriors connection Hero of the Soviet Union, Major-General Ghazaryan are fighting on the approaches to Bogushevskaya. June 23, 1944 Photo Basil Arkashev.



The position of the parties in Belarus by 1 June 1944 (a fragment of the original scheme).
Source: Collection of materials for the study of the experience of war № 18. Military Publishing House People's Commissariat of Defense. Moscow - 1945.
(In this diagram, in the instance of the collection number 1640 which is stored in the funds of the Belarusian State Museum of the Great Patriotic War, there is a handwritten note: "6 and 4 Ud.A gv.A swap».)



The commander of the air unit of stormtroopers Guard Lt. Col. George Starodumov puts pilots combat mission. 3rd Belorussian Front, 1944



German arrangement of troops on the eve of the Soviet summer offensive. 1944



Street fighting in Vitebsk on June 24, 1944



Station Zamostochie near Vitebsk has been prepared by the invaders for long-term defense. 1944



Soviet soldiers on the streets of liberated Vitebsk. 1944
Photo by L. Velikzhanina.



Broken German tanks near the station "Krynka" south-east of Vitebsk.
1944 Photo Basil Arkashev.

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German prisoners of war in the streets of Vitebsk. 1944



Meeting liberators in Vitebsk. 1944



Second Byelorussian Front, Mogilev direction: Battery Captain Shlygin fires. 1944



Soviet infantry on the banks of the Dnieper. 1944



Soldiers of 199th Infantry Division stormed in Mogilev. 1944



According to recapture Bobruisk. 1944



Soviet tanks and infantry in the battle of Orsha. 1944



The group of German prisoners captured in the battle of Orsha. 1944



Soldiers of the 90th Guards Rifle Division in Polotsk. 1944



Fighting in the streets of Polotska.1944



The Red Army liberated Polotsk. July 1944



Meeting liberators in Polotsk. 1944



In liberated Zhlobin.
The bridge across the Dnieper River, the Germans exploded. 1944



The soldiers read a list of characters that first broke in Zhlobin. 1944



In liberated Zhlobin. Burning house near the railway station. 1944



Column self-propelled guns in the center of the liberation of Minsk. 1944

Pay attention to the tanker with a cigarette, a cigarette in the trunk -ved cool, huh?



In the battles for Belarus. 1944
Photo by Mikhail Savin



Borisov, July 1, 1944.
Photo by Mikhail Savin



Borisov, July 1, 1944.
Photo by Mikhail Savin



The infantry in the battles of Minsk. 1944



Guerrillas Minsk compounds are included in the liberated capital of the Byelorussian SSR. 1944



The meeting in Minsk. 1944



The meeting in Minsk. 1944



Aerial view of the Volodarsky street in Minsk. 1944



Gunner Lieutenant Boris Rukhadze in front of the Opera House in Minsk. 1944



Aerial view of the House of Government in Minsk. 1944



"July 3, 1944 - the day of liberation of Minsk».
Painting by Vladimir Volkov.



The rally and parade partisans devoted to the liberation of Minsk. July 16, 1944



Padded Tank PzKpfw V «Panther».

On board tank inscription in German: "Ludwig so brave.
He won 50 of the 60 collisions. "
July 1944
Author Mikhail Savin picture.



German aerofotosemka
German planes bombarded Minsk. June 25, 1941. Both images show Komarovskaya fork and river bends.



Captured photos

June 28th, 1941 the German fascist invaders took Minsk.

Burning the house down the street Bobruisk



Str. Soviet (now Prospect)
Minsk 1941



These two Wehrmacht soldier posing against the backdrop of the church of St. Roch standing on the bunker. Today, the entrance to the bunker (if he survived) is not visible at all.



Two photos of the Trinity suburb, made one after another.
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German soldiers march to the east by the Government House.



Soon planted a flag on the coat of arms of the SS.

Barber shop on the steps of Government House. Photographed by Walter Frentzen (Hitler's official photographer) in August 1941, accompanying Himmler.



Then the Soviet coat of arms on the building draped cloth, and then replaced with a new coat of arms. Please note that the SS flag fluttering on the flagpole, then just hangs over the old Soviet coat of arms. Rumor has it that he was hung for the arrival of Himmler, but I still can not understand why he is on the flagpole, then just like that.



Shortly after the invasion (but replace the coat of arms) Speel monument to Lenin and his remains will be photographed. Here Lenin still stands.



But he has already fallen. The exact date of the demolition of the monument is unknown. But, judging by the fact that the swastika at Government House is not yet hung, it happened in July. At least, during a visit by Himmler in Minsk August 15, 1941, Lenin on the square is no longer standing. Curious Fritz visiting deposed leader.



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Fritz looking for gold in the bowels of the party of Lenin's grandfather.



Near the intersection of Independence Avenue and the current street Yanka Kupala in the first days of the war it was razed to the ground.



Poster of the first days of release. 1944



Summary diagram of the Byelorussian operation in 1944

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The liberated Smorgon. 1944



Platoon Commander P. Reshetnikov with brother and a resident of the liberated Grodno. 1944



German prisoners of war. 1944



A member of the military council of the 1st Byelorussian Front Constantine Telegin (left) and front commander Konstantin Rokossovsky. 1944



The commander of the 2nd Byelorussian Front Georgy Zakharov (center). 1944



Soviet generals Alexander Vasilevsky (left) and Ivan Bagramyan. 1944



Planning Coordinator Byelorussian operation - the first Deputy Chief of the General Staff Aleksey Antonov.



Head of the Belarusian Partisan Movement Staff Peter Kalinin. 1944



Commander of the 3rd Belorussian Front Ivan Chernyakhovsky.
1944 Photo by Mikhail Savin.



Commander of the 1st Byelorussian Front Konstantin Rokossovsky (center) and senior officers inspect the trenches of Soviet soldiers. 1944



Hero of the Soviet Union, commander of the 35th Guards Tank Brigade of the 3rd Mechanized Corps of the 3rd Belorussian Front, Major-General Hazi Ahad oglu Aslanov (front row center) and officers of the brigade. Photo taken 23 June 1944 before the onset of near Orsha - Vitebsk.



The Belarusian leader Panteleimon Ponomarenko. 1944



I bow to our ancestors, who reported the victory in the Great Patriotic War!
We, the living, there is every reason to be proud of his homeland!
Special thanks to the employees of archives for historical photos.

All with the Victory Day!