Defense of Leningrad (1941)

View of the Admiralty building in Leningrad in the summer of 1941. Panorama of the firing position of anti-aircraft guns on the territory of Leningrad in the first days of the Great Patriotic War.

Aiming the guns at a possible threatening direction.

Construction of one of the lines of defense (panorama).

View of the Triumphal Arch at the Narva Gate.

Construction of barricades blocking streets on the outskirts of Leningrad.

Leningraders at the construction of one of the defensive structures in the Narvskaya Zastava area.

Text of the appeal of the Leningrad Regional Committee of the All-Union Communist Party (Bolsheviks) to the residents of Leningrad, published in the newspaper "Leningradskaya Pravda".

Girls paste propaganda posters on the walls of buildings.

Concrete anti-tank structures on one of the outskirts of Leningrad (panorama).

Permanent firing points in the defense system, erected on the outskirts of the city.

Transportation of a barrage balloon on a car trailer along Nevsky Prospekt.

Raising the barrel of an anti-aircraft gun at the entrance to one of the bridges across the Neva.

Anti-tank fortifications on one of the streets of Leningrad (panorama).

Panorama of the building of St.

Isaac's Cathedral, the square and the building of the Astoria Hotel in the early 1970s.

Photograph of the commander of Army Group North von Leeb.

Hitler and von Leeb over a map of military operations.

Arrival of the Chief of the General Staff of the Ground Forces Halder F. at Hitler's headquarters.

Arrival of General Manstein at Hitler's headquarters, Hitler meets and greets him.

Soviet military leaders watch newsreels from the period of the Great Patriotic War in a cinema hall in the early 1970s.

Interview with Army General Shtemenko S.M. (synchronously).

Marshal of the Soviet Union Zhukov G.K. gives an interview about the defense of Leningrad to writer Konstantin Simonov in 1966 (synchronously).

Interview with Army General I. I. Fedyuninsky (synchronous).

Farewell to the Baltic Fleet sailors leaving their ships for the land front.

Interview with Admiral V. F. Tributs (synchronous).

A woman on a Leningrad street makes the sign of the cross over the Baltic sailors leaving for the front.

Interview with G. K. Zhukov about the Baltic sailors who fought near Leningrad (synchronous).

The Baltic Fleet marines rise to the attack.

Interview with Army General I. I. Fedyuninsky about the battles near Leningrad in 1941 (synchronous).

Continuation of the interview with S. M. Shtemenko about the breakthrough of the Leningrad blockade in January 1943 (synchronous).

A column of German tanks moves along a country road in the summer of 1941. Faces of German soldiers marching in formation.

Movement of Wehrmacht units invading the USSR in June 1941. A German cavalryman rides past a burning Soviet tank on the side of the road.

Movement of a column of German tanks.

German bombers in flight.

Pilot at the controls.

Dropping bombs from the bomb bay.

Bombs exploding on the target (top), shadow of the flying plane.

German motorcyclists advance supported by tanks.

German bombers approach the target.

Attack on a Soviet airfield.

A Soviet fighter on fire at the airfield.

Soviet tanks burning in a field.

Movement of columns of German armored vehicles in the summer of 1941.