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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: Before the fight. Political information
Image: The infantrymen under Orsha were carefully preparing to break through the defense, they were engaged together with the self-propelled guns
Image: At school before the breakthrough of the defense near Orsha
Image: Soldiers stubbornly master military knowledge in breaks between battles
Image: Bridge on the Vitebsk-Orsha highway, blown up by the Germans while retreating
Image: The village of Babichi (Vitebsk region), burned down by the German fascist invaders. The villagers were driven to hard labor in Germany
Image: Artillery Hero Battery Commander Captain Buts
Image: From Lieutenant to Lieutenant Colonel - such is the glorious combat path of Nikolai Ivanovich Rabichev - deputy commander of the 979th artillery regiment for combat units, who passed the entire combat path with the division
Image: The commander of the 1313th Rifle Minsk Regiment, Lieutenant Colonel Yarovoy Ivan Dmitrievich, who appears more than once in difficult moments of battle in the combat formations of his units
Image: The favorite of soldiers and officers, the division commander Colonel Zaitsev Mikhail Ivanovich Died of severe wounds on February 22, 1944.
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: Before the fight. Political information
Image: The infantrymen under Orsha were carefully preparing to break through the defense, they were engaged together with the self-propelled guns
Image: At school before the breakthrough of the defense near Orsha
Image: Soldiers stubbornly master military knowledge in breaks between battles
Image: Bridge on the Vitebsk-Orsha highway, blown up by the Germans while retreating
Image: The village of Babichi (Vitebsk region), burned down by the German fascist invaders. The villagers were driven to hard labor in Germany
Image: Artillery Hero Battery Commander Captain Buts
Image: From Lieutenant to Lieutenant Colonel - such is the glorious combat path of Nikolai Ivanovich Rabichev - deputy commander of the 979th artillery regiment for combat units, who passed the entire combat path with the division
Image: The commander of the 1313th Rifle Minsk Regiment, Lieutenant Colonel Yarovoy Ivan Dmitrievich, who appears more than once in difficult moments of battle in the combat formations of his units
Image: The favorite of soldiers and officers, the division commander Colonel Zaitsev Mikhail Ivanovich Died of severe wounds on February 22, 1944.
Image: Bridge on the Vitebsk-Orsha highway, blown up by the Germans while retreating

Image: Bridge on the Vitebsk-Orsha highway, blown up by the Germans while retreating

Image: Bridge on the Vitebsk-Orsha highway, blown up by the Germans while retreating

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