The belorussian capitol of Minsk photographed by a soldier of the german tank spearhead on June 29th, 1941. The soldier wrote to this photo about the flashy difference of the concrete high-rise buildings of the communist party department in the back and the dingy wooden huts of the worker families, probably built in the tsar aera.

Minsk 1941

Stalingrad's fountain, 1942, by E.Evzrikhin

Stalingrad's fountain

Minsk in the summer of 1941. After the fightings had ended and the city was occupied by german forces civil life re-started soon again. In the background one of the many orthodox cathedrals of the town.