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Archive footage filmed between September 1942 and February 1943 features Red Army servicemen participating in the defence of Stalingrad.
Footage features Soviet troops fighting inside damaged buildings as well in the city's streets.
Stalingrad (now Volgograd), a large industrial city stretching around 30 miles (50 km) along the banks of the Volga River, was strategically important for the invading German army, which reached the north of the city on August 23, 1942.
Preparations for the defenсe of Stalingrad began in October 1941 with lines of field fortifications erected around the city, but by the summer of 1942 they had not yet been completed.
Adolf Hitler's forces had conducted a massive aerial bombardment campaign, destroying the city's structures and roads, and killing as many as 40,000 civilians.
However, the Germans' push to take the city resulted in some of the most intense urban combat in history. Soviet leader Joseph Stalin was determined to defend Stalingrad at all costs and issued Order No. 227, known as 'Not One Step Back'.
On January 8, 1943, following a huge Soviet counteroffensive, an ultimatum was presented to the command of an encircled group of German troops in the Stalingrad area. The battle came to an end on February 2, 1943, when they surrendered.
Total Axis casualties (Germans, Romanians, Italians, and Hungarians) are believed to have totalled more than 800,000 dead, wounded, missing, or captured.
According to Russian military historians, 1,100,000 Red Army soldiers were killed, wounded, missing, or captured in the campaign to defend Stalingrad, while 40,000 civilians also lost their lives.
This archive footage is released as part of the '100 Key Events in Russia in the 20th and 21st Centuries', a project with the Russian State Documentary Film and Photo Archive (rgakfd.ru).
'Not One Step Back' - Red Army defends Stalingrad *ARCHIVE*
Archive footage filmed between September 1942 and February 1943 features Red Army servicemen participating in the defence of Stalingrad.
Footage features Soviet troops fighting inside damaged buildings as well in the city's streets.
Stalingrad (now Volgograd), a large industrial city stretching around 30 miles (50 km) along the banks of the Volga River, was strategically important for the invading German army, which reached the north of the city on August 23, 1942.
Preparations for the defenсe of Stalingrad began in October 1941 with lines of field fortifications erected around the city, but by the summer of 1942 they had not yet been completed.
Adolf Hitler's forces had conducted a massive aerial bombardment campaign, destroying the city's structures and roads, and killing as many as 40,000 civilians.
However, the Germans' push to take the city resulted in some of the most intense urban combat in history. Soviet leader Joseph Stalin was determined to defend Stalingrad at all costs and issued Order No. 227, known as 'Not One Step Back'.
On January 8, 1943, following a huge Soviet counteroffensive, an ultimatum was presented to the command of an encircled group of German troops in the Stalingrad area. The battle came to an end on February 2, 1943, when they surrendered.
Total Axis casualties (Germans, Romanians, Italians, and Hungarians) are believed to have totalled more than 800,000 dead, wounded, missing, or captured.
According to Russian military historians, 1,100,000 Red Army soldiers were killed, wounded, missing, or captured in the campaign to defend Stalingrad, while 40,000 civilians also lost their lives.
This archive footage is released as part of the '100 Key Events in Russia in the 20th and 21st Centuries', a project with the Russian State Documentary Film and Photo Archive (rgakfd.ru).
For news purposes only. Onscreen RGAKFD logo must remain visible and intact. No access news agencies
Archive footage filmed between September 1942 and February 1943 features Red Army servicemen participating in the defence of Stalingrad.
Footage features Soviet troops fighting inside damaged buildings as well in the city's streets.
Stalingrad (now Volgograd), a large industrial city stretching around 30 miles (50 km) along the banks of the Volga River, was strategically important for the invading German army, which reached the north of the city on August 23, 1942.
Preparations for the defenсe of Stalingrad began in October 1941 with lines of field fortifications erected around the city, but by the summer of 1942 they had not yet been completed.
Adolf Hitler's forces had conducted a massive aerial bombardment campaign, destroying the city's structures and roads, and killing as many as 40,000 civilians.
However, the Germans' push to take the city resulted in some of the most intense urban combat in history. Soviet leader Joseph Stalin was determined to defend Stalingrad at all costs and issued Order No. 227, known as 'Not One Step Back'.
On January 8, 1943, following a huge Soviet counteroffensive, an ultimatum was presented to the command of an encircled group of German troops in the Stalingrad area. The battle came to an end on February 2, 1943, when they surrendered.
Total Axis casualties (Germans, Romanians, Italians, and Hungarians) are believed to have totalled more than 800,000 dead, wounded, missing, or captured.
According to Russian military historians, 1,100,000 Red Army soldiers were killed, wounded, missing, or captured in the campaign to defend Stalingrad, while 40,000 civilians also lost their lives.
This archive footage is released as part of the '100 Key Events in Russia in the 20th and 21st Centuries', a project with the Russian State Documentary Film and Photo Archive (rgakfd.ru).