Russian civilians help soldiers in Moscow, Russia during World War II. Buildings in an area. Soldiers march with weapons. Military vehicles drive past on the streets. Civilians help the army in preparing for the war. Trenches are dug and sand-bag emplacements are erected. Artillery and barrage-balloons are towed through the streets. Civilians enlist as guerrilla fighters. Weapons are issued to the civilians. Women and old men work in a munition factory.
Russian soldiers advance towards the battlefield in Moscow, Russia during World War II . A map of Russia showing places. Joseph Stalin addresses a vast crowd in Red Square. Buildings in the area. Ski troops, cavalry and infantry units march from the square. Tanks and trucks loaded with infantry units roll through the city. Snow covered area. An armored locomotive and a freight train is removed from a camouflaged shed. Trenches are dug in the snow, barbed wire is strung and trees are chopped down to barricade a road. German planes hover over the city and bombard the city. Explosions and smoke from bombardment.
Funeral services at mass grave unearthed in Vinitsa, Russia. Civilians look at thousands of corpses, primarily of Polish dead, as they are unearthed. The commentator calls it another "Katyn massacre" by the Russian G.P.U. ("Gosudarstvennoye Politicheskoye Upravlenie of the NKVD of the RSFSR"). People look at a document. Several articles lying on a table. A clergyman conducts funeral services. People express their grief.
Architectural monuments of Uzbekistan. Mosques and minarets. Ruins of old buildings on cliffs in the desert. Domes, arches, and a mosque surrounded by pillars. Bricks arranged in various designs. The Ismail Samani Mausoleum. Elaborate stone calligraphy on top of the Jarkurgan minaret. Medieval print from the 14th century “Genghis Khan Enthroned” by Rashid al Din. Other prints depict the ancient history of Uzbekistan: kings, soldiers fighting on horseback, shooting arrows from towers.
The Kyzylkum Desert near Samarkand, Uzbekistan. A group of travelers approach the Shah-i-Zinda (or Shakh-i Zindeh) necropolis. Stone dome of a mortuary chapel mosque in the Shah-i-Zinda. Minarets and domes of buildings. People moving along narrow streets. People climb the steps of a mosque. Interior of the mosque showing its architecture. A man dressed in Arabic clothes comes out of the mosque.
Architectural monuments of Uzbekistan. People move on a road among ruins. A barren tree. Ruins of old buildings and minarets. Tourists visit the Bibi-Khanym Mosque. A camel outside the ruins of the Bibi-Khanym Mosque. The interior of a mosque showing its architecture. Medieval Persian prints show how the arches and domes of the Bibi-Khanym Mosque were constructed. A doorway in the mosque. Workers work on the restoration of a dome. A picture shows two guards at an entrance gate. Mongol conqueror Timur facial reconstruction from skull, by Mikhail Mikhaylovich Gerasimov.
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