Refugees at Irkutsk railroad station. People pass on by the railway platform. Policemen standing on the railway platform. Military funeral. Horse carts passing on by the street.
Russian citizens using horse-carts in commerce. Soviet women waiting in line for food. Russian soldier walking past the line. Child running. Street scene.
Soon after World War 1, a tugboat leads two ships through narrow open water channel in frozen Russian bay. Buildings and trees in the far background. View of area covered with snow. Children wearing warm clothes stand in front of ship on which is written: 'Margus Newark USA'. An American flag flutters on the flag pole of the ship. The children pose for photograph. A cinematographer hand cranks his movie camera on a city street. Other men stand with him. Buildings along the sides of snow covered street.
Soviet troops in fierce fighting with German forces at Stalingrad in World War 2. They fire numerous artillery field pieces. Soviet infantry stooping low as they advance. Soviet soldiers firing machine gun.Soviet infantry advancing in courtyard of apartment building, past body of fallen German soldier. German troops abandoning a concrete building behind one carrying a white flag of surrender. German Generals surrendering, walk past body of a fallen Soviet soldier on the frozen ground. German Lieutenant General Alexander Edler von Daniels, Commander of the German 376th Division, salutes as he surrenders. German Lieutenant General Werner Sanne, Commander of the German 100th Jäger Division, is seen in White winter gear, as he walks to surrender. Romanian Brigadier General Demetriou, Commander of the 20th Romanian Infantry, salutes as he surrenders. Five more German generals standing in a group. Closeup of German XIV Corps commander, General Helmuth Schloemer(Schlömer). Lieutenant General Max Pfeffer, Commander, German 297th Infantry Division. Lieutenant General Renoldi, Medical Chief of the 6th German Army. German Field Marshal Friedrich Wilhelm Ernst Paulus, commander of all Axis forces at Stalingrad, is seen stepping from a staff car and entering the wooden building headquarters of Soviet General N. Shumilov, commander of the 64th Soviet Army. He takes a seat at a table surrounded with by Soviet officers and listens as Shumilov reviews his record. Scene changes to regular German Wehrmacht (Army) troops, outdoors in the cold, along with some of their officers. Long lines of surrendered German soldiers making their way in the snow down slopes and up hills, on their way to POW camps. View of German prisoner lacking adequate footwear during the march. The Red Soviet flag being waved from balcony of a tall building, as line of German prisoners of war proceed below. The line extends as far as can be seen. (Note: At TC: 00:27-39 an apartment house and courtyard is seen in Stalingrad South. As of 2015, it is reported to be the House of Specialists for the Hydrolytic Plant, and still stands west of the intersection of Barrikadnaya & Rozlovskaya Streets.)
War scenes in the snow covered city Stalingrad. Nazi planes bombard the city. Ice gliders, rocket guns, flame throwers used during World War II. Soviet Russian troops mobilizes and fights with Nazi army outside the city. Map depicting how Axis power was tussled at Stalingrad. Scenes of ruined city as a result of war. Firing of last shot and waving of flag to mark the freedom of Stalingrad. Children play as spring arrives. German Generals such as Marshal Friedrich Paulus seen after German defeat. February 1943.
Battles fought by Russians fighting military invasion from Germany during World War II. Miserable condition of civilians of Leningrad, the city surrounded by Germans in harsh cold and snow of winter starting in 1941. Lack of food, water, oil and electricity during siege of Leningrad by German forces. German artillery fire heavy projectiles. Workers in munition factories. Soldiers in snowy battlefield alert on their positions. Civilians migrate on ledges through a frozen Lake Ladoga eastwards. Food, medical care, oil and supplies to the city through the lake. German bombers raid the supply lines. Trucks drive at night on road over ice covered lake delivering relief supplies. A railway track built over Lake Ladoga to restore supply. Wounded civilians board the trains returning back across Lake Ladoga. Soviet Russian Army attacks invading Germans. Supply trucks roll over thawing ice of Lake Ladoga in early spring. Children and people during spring as Germans retreat. Civilians on the roads. A stage performance after defeat of German army enjoyed by Russian soldiers aboard a warship. Arrested Nazi soldiers walk under rifle guards of Red Army as Soviet citizens jeer and heckle the German prisoners.