Description of the combat path of the 173 rifle division for 1943-1945. - images

Image: This is what the Germans did to the handsome Minsk

Image: To Minsk! - And not knowing fatigue, the soldiers made a march with battles of 30-35 km per day

Image: Forward to Minsk! - and everyone was in a hurry to quickly rescue the capital of Belarus from German bondage

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: Before the fight. Political information