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
Original 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
Original 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
Original image: All that remains of the Orsha garrison that defended the city
Image: In the Belarusian village after the deadly battles
Original image: In the Belarusian village after the deadly battles
Image: Orsha is free! - Residents return from the forests to their hometown
Original 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
Original image: All that remains of the Orsha garrison that defended the city

Original image: All that remains of the Orsha garrison that defended the city

Original image: All that remains of the Orsha garrison that defended the city

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