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Image: Head of the Political Department of the Guards Division Colonel Kosachev Alexander Ivanovich, having burst into Minsk together with the vanguard, hoisted the Red Banner over the building of the Government of the Byelorussian SSR
Image: The division commander, Colonel Klimakhin Sergei Efimovich, under whose command the division was one of the first to enter the capital of Belarus - the city of Minsk
Image: All that remains of the Orsha garrison that defended the city
Image: In the Belarusian village after the deadly battles
Image: Orsha is free! - Residents return from the forests to their hometown
Image: Orphans in the village Tatarskaya (4 km. West of Orsha) Their parents were shot by the Germans
Image: Больше 2-х лет стоял этот плуг воткнутым в землю и ждал хозяина. Скоро снова, земля, поросшая сорняком при немцах, теперь уже освобожденная, будет возделана
Image: Victims of Nazi terror in the city of Orsha
Image: Blown up bridge over the Orshanka river
Image: After the capture of Orsha. Road signs and posters are written by a Red Army soldier - a sapper
Image: Belarusian collective farmers greeted their liberators with tears of joy. For two years their village was in the hands of the partisans, for two years they fought a fierce struggle with the Germans.
Image: Head of the Political Department of the Guards Division Colonel Kosachev Alexander Ivanovich, having burst into Minsk together with the vanguard, hoisted the Red Banner over the building of the Government of the Byelorussian SSR
Image: The division commander, Colonel Klimakhin Sergei Efimovich, under whose command the division was one of the first to enter the capital of Belarus - the city of Minsk
Image: All that remains of the Orsha garrison that defended the city
Image: In the Belarusian village after the deadly battles
Image: Orsha is free! - Residents return from the forests to their hometown
Image: Orphans in the village Tatarskaya (4 km. West of Orsha) Their parents were shot by the Germans
Image: Больше 2-х лет стоял этот плуг воткнутым в землю и ждал хозяина. Скоро снова, земля, поросшая сорняком при немцах, теперь уже освобожденная, будет возделана
Image: Victims of Nazi terror in the city of Orsha
Image: Blown up bridge over the Orshanka river
Image: After the capture of Orsha. Road signs and posters are written by a Red Army soldier - a sapper
Image: Belarusian collective farmers greeted their liberators with tears of joy. For two years their village was in the hands of the partisans, for two years they fought a fierce struggle with the Germans.
Image: Orphans in the village Tatarskaya (4 km. West of Orsha) Their parents were shot by the Germans

Image: Orphans in the village Tatarskaya (4 km. West of Orsha) Their parents were shot by the Germans

Image: Orphans in the village Tatarskaya (4 km. West of Orsha) Their parents were shot by the Germans

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